Tom Raftery's newsletter - Issue #13

Issue 13? Awesome, I've only ever had good luck with the number thirteen, so on with the lucky newsletter :)

The Internet of Things (IoT)

GE and HPE announced a partnership for big IoT stuff. Basically GE will supply their Predix cloud platform for IoT Big Data, and they'll recommend HPE hardware

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and GE are teaming up on the Internet of Things — www.recode.net The pair will jointly go after business in the aerospace, energy and automotive industries.

AT&T are teaming up with SunPower to connect up SunPower's solar panels so owners (and SunPower) can track how they are doing, and AT&T will give SunPower access to the AT&T customer base for sales leads

AT&T and SunPower bring IoT solar monitoring partnership to residential customers — electrek.co Tesla Model 3 exclusive leaked specs: 0-60 under 4 sec fast and 300+ mile range options (Update: Base 6 sec 0-60 and 215 mile range)

Energy

Apple have created a new company called Apple Energy so it can trade the surplus energy it creates on the wholesale market. This is similar to what Google did in 2009 when it created Google Energy

Apple has so much electricity it just became a power company — www.cultofmac.com Apple has quietly created a subsidiary dubbed “Apple Energy,” which will allow it to sell the excess electricity it generates from its solar farms.

Solar is on a roll in the UK (the UK? I know, right?). Well, to be honest, it is also in large part because coal is in serious decline there too. Still awesome

UK solar eclipses coal power over month for first time

Solar power in the UK produced more electricity than coal across the whole of May, the first ever month to pass the milestone, according to research by analysts at Carbon Brief. Solar panels generated 50% more electricity than the fossil fuel across the month, as ...

CleanTech/Misc

Tesla's brand is on the rise, while Volkswagen's is in decline - in large part due to their lying to customers and regulators about their cars' emissions

Tesla knocks VW out of the top 10 car brands – now valued at $4.4 billion — electrek.co Tesla Model 3 exclusive leaked specs: 0-60 under 4 sec fast and 300+ mile range options (Update: Base 6 sec 0-60 and 215 mile range)

And newcomer to the autonomous car space, comma.ai are building a kit for cars which they hope to sell to owners of modern cars for under $1,000 to make any modern car autonomous

On the road with George Hotz’s $1,000 self-driving car kit — www.theverge.com Sitting in an Aria Hotel penthouse suite with views of the Las Vegas Strip and the vast Mojave Desert beyond, George Hotz was ready to bury the hatchet with the Elon Musk. "I’m an Elon Musk fan,"...

Climate

While, on the climate front, more bad news from the arctic. The lowest ice extent there ever for the month of May, by a long shot. And there are still three more months of melt to come. Expect more records to break in coming months

‘We’ve never seen anything like this': Arctic sea ice hit a stunning new low in May It's the fourth monthly record, five months into this year.

Finally

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