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In July 2017, Tesla began production of their latest mass market electric car – the Tesla Model 3. At the end of last month, Tesla organized an event to distribute 20 of its production cars to its customers who had booked them well over a year ago. In total Tesla made 50 production cars last month out of which 20 went on for post production testing, and 30 were meant for the customers. This event was as usual hosted by the CEO of Tesla – Elon Musk.

Tesla Model 3

Tesla Model 3 is the world’s most affordable pure electric car with the longest range of 300 miles. It’s base priced model is priced at the US $35,000. Tesla is making two variants of the model 3. The Standard option will be the base variant that will have a range of 220 miles. It will go 0-60mph in 5.6 seconds and will have a top speed of 130 mph. On the other hand, the Long range variant will have 310 miles of range and an acceleration of 5.1 seconds. It will have a top speed of 140 mph.

The surprising fact of the Model 3 is that it will not have a driver instrumentation panel like that of the Model S. There will be a large 15-inch center infotainment screen that will display all the required information. Elon Musk says that the future cars will be more or less autonomous. Therefore, a driver doesn’t need to gaze upon the instrumentation panel constantly. All the speed, range, lane requirements will continuously be monitored by computers onboard in the car. The base version of Model 3 will come as a standard with autonomous hardware and fast charging capabilities.

Model 3 Production

Tesla is in plans to meet the initial production target of 5 thousand cars a week. They are hopeful that they can produce 10 thousand vehicles a week later on. In the event, Elon Musk emotionally thanked the customers who bought the Model S and the Model X. This helped them build the insanely cheap Model 3 for the masses. He also stated that if customers order a Model 3 now, they will get it within a year. But if they order a Model S or a Model X as of now,  they will get it in about 1 to 2 months.

What’s happening here in Nepal?

After the fuel crisis in 2016, sales of electric scooters started blooming here in Kathmandu. Now, as the crisis of gas is at its minimum, people have forgotten the misery of the crisis. The only electric car that is being sold here in Nepal is the Mahindra e2o priced at 25 lakhs. If the production of fuel declines in the world, developing countries like ours will be the first to get hit by the crisis. For a country which is trying to be independent in electricity, electric cars would be the best way to reduce the petroleum dependency to some extent at-least. For an electric car to run in Kathmandu, it doesn’t even require the range like that of Model 3. It is due to the fact that Kathmandu and all the other major cities are concentrated in a radius of 10 kilometers.

What do you think about electric car and scooters running here in Nepal? Also if you own an electric vehicle, how has it treated you? Write down your views in the comments below!

What AMD mean by “True Quad-Core” is that the Ryzen 3 offers four actual cores. Compare that to what Intel’s offering at the same price bracket with just two cores and four threads.

The Ryzen 3 series has two models — the 1200 and 1300X. Ryzen 3 1200 costs $109 (NRs. 11,500) whereas the 1300X will cost you about $129 (NRs. 13,500).

Ryzen 3 1200 has four cores with four threads with a base clock of 3.1GHz and boost clock of 3.4GHz. It has a TDP of 65W.

The 1300X also has four cores with four threads, but with a base clock of 3.5Ghz and boost clock of 3.7GHz. But with XFR the clock speeds go up to 3.9GHz, although you will have to shell out another $59 for Wreath Max cooler with RGB lighting. It also shares the same TDP of 65W.

Both processors are compatible with X370, B350 and A320 motherboards.

And both processors are based on the socket AM4 platform. The biggest downside of Ryzen processors is they also don’t come with onboard GPU.

These new processors from AMD will compete with Intel’s Core i3 processors (7100U), which are all dual core processors with four threads.

And both the processors are overclockable as well, though, only supported on the B350 motherboard. The i3s are overclockable too, but you will need a more expensive Z270 motherboard. So that’s another advantage for AMD.

Leaks are a big part of the mobile world. Almost all of the phones have once leaked before their release. Let’s look at some of the smartphone leaks that happened this week.

Samsung Galaxy Note 8

The Galaxy Note 8 leaks yet again, but this time it’s the camera in question. We have seen multiple leaks of Note 8 featuring dual camera setup. Now, new leaks hint at a dual camera with a telephoto lens capable of 3x zoom and now has augmented prediction.

One of the lenses is a 13MP sensor for wide angle and another with a 12MP sensor for telephoto — both with optical image stabilization.

Samsung has confirmed the release date of August 23 for the Note 8.

LG V30

The LG V30’s back panel leaks hint at a dual camera setup, a fingerprint sensor in the middle and the flash along side the camera. This time around the phone is rumored to have wireless charging.

Lg has confirmed the V30’s unveiling at IFA on August 31.

iPhone 8

The iPhone 8 is rumored to cost a lot, and we mean a lot. So what do you get for that type of price is very overwhelming. So, we have a few pictures of allegedly the final design for the iPhone 8.

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The iPhone 8 will have a 5.8-inch OLED display with 4mm bezels on all sides. As expected, there will be no headphone jack. And rumors say that even though the phone will be physically smaller than the 7Plus, the battery life is expected to improve. There is a cutout at the top of the screen for all the sensors and cameras. We are yet to see how that is going to work, including the placement of the Touch ID.

The iPhone 8 is expected to launch later than expected, i.e. delayed.

Nokia 8

Nokia 8 is the long rumored flagship phone from Nokia expected to release soon. The phone has leaked copper color, where we can clearly see a dual camera setup made with Zeiss Optics.

The phone is expected to go live on August 16.

Lenovo K7 Note

Quoting towards “ordinary performance” being a thing of the past, Lenovo’s Indian Facebook account has been teasing the hashtag #killerNote. They had previously shown the camera’s ability, and now the phone’s performance is the subject of discussion.

https://www.facebook.com/LenovoMobileIndia/videos/1401295933240961/

The K7 Note’s predecessor, the K6 Note had a mediocre Snapdragon 430, so beating that won’t be hard. But they have gone through extended tries to hype up this one. The phone is expected to sport either a Snapdragon 625 or a 652 or could be an Helio X20 as well.

A new contest has also started from – #MyNeedForSpeed. The winner of the contest will be awarded a K7 Note.