Hyperdrive

Autonomous Electric Vehicles Will Guzzle Power Instead of Gas

Limiting the battery drain associated with highly automated computing hardware will be a key challenge for car engineers.

A touch screen inside a Tesla Model S electric vehicle.

Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg

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During last month’s Tesla earnings call, Elon Musk gave a vague and somewhat rambling update on the progress of Dojo, the carmaker’s effort to build a supercomputer aimed at bolstering development of self-driving software.