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Bridie Schmidt

Bridie Schmidt is associate editor for The Driven, sister site of Renew Economy. She has been writing about electric vehicles since 2018, and has a keen interest in the role that zero-emissions transport has to play in sustainability. She has participated in podcasts such as Download This Show with Marc Fennell and Shirtloads of Science with Karl Kruszelnicki and is co-organiser of the Northern Rivers Electric Vehicle Forum. Bridie also owns a Tesla Model Y and has it available for hire on evee.com.au.

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Next steps for Tesla FSD: busy city intersections and roundabouts

  • May 8, 2020
  • Bridie Schmidt
red traffic light
Elon Musk tweets possible next steps to be rolled out to Tesla electric vehicles with the Full Self Driving package: city intersections and roundabouts.
applied electric vehicle
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  • 3 min
  • Autonomous Vehicles
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Driverless solar car startup wins $2 million in ARENA funding

  • March 10, 2020
  • Bridie Schmidt
Driverless car designed to generate 60% of energy needs from integrated solar roof to take next step towards production with $2m in funding from ARENA.
Mark Reuss, GM president, announces Detroit-Hamtramck will be GM’s first fully-dedicated, electric vehicle assembly plant, producing electric trucks, SUVs and the Cruise Origin. Supplied
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  • Autonomous Vehicles
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GM to build electric ute and autonomous shuttle at EV-only Detroit plant

  • January 28, 2020
  • Bridie Schmidt
GM decides against closing Detroit plant, and will instead invest $A3.26 billion to produce its first electric ute and an autonomous electric shuttle.
tesla smart summon
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  • Autonomous Vehicles
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Tesla full self driving price will rise in Australia once Smart Summon is available

  • October 31, 2019
  • Bridie Schmidt
The price for Tesla's Full Self Driving package goes up in November, but not in Australia until Smart Summon is available, Musk says.
Tesla Autonomy
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Musk’s radical rethink of electric transport, and the value of Tesla and its cars

  • May 6, 2019
  • Giles Parkinson
Musk puts future focus on shared autonomy, saying it could lift value of Tesla 10-fold, and double the value of cars.
Source: Twitter/Bosch Australia
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Victoria and NSW give green light to autonomous vehicle future

  • January 22, 2019
  • Bridie Schmidt
Victoria taps Bosch to conduct high-speed automated trials and NSW announces plan to formulate connected autonomous vehicle policy.
Jim Hackett, president and CEO, Ford Motor Company, and VW chief Herbert Diess. Source: Ford
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  • 3 min
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Ford partners with VW, plans 16 all-electric models – including “big surprise” in 2020

  • January 16, 2019
  • Bridie Schmidt
Ford reveals plans to go electric and a partnership with VW will likely revolve around EVs and autonomous cars.
Volvo 360C
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Volvo’s newest 360c concept car is electric, autonomous – and you can sleep in it

  • September 7, 2018
  • Bridie Schmidt
Swedish luxury carmaker Volvo has announced its new 360c concept this week, and is billing it, not as an electric car, but as a mobile living and workplace.
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  • 4 min
  • Electric Cars
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Will self-driving cars be better for the environment?

  • July 6, 2018
  • 10 comments
  • Bridie Schmidt
Will self-driving cars mean a decrease in carbon emissions overall?
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