Autonomous Driving Systems Slash EV Driving Range by 25 Percent
The powerful computer and sensors necessary for autonomy draw a surprising amount of energy. The microprocessors, cameras, lidars, and radars needed to let cars drive themselves consume so much electric power that they can trim the driving range by one-fourth. “The compute [power] just to run the algorithms to make all the decisions to drive the car could take 25 percent of the electric range off an electric car,” stated Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley during an interview posted on Hagerty’s YouTube channel. “That’s how power-hungry the human-equivalent of our brain decision-mak...
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