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By Joey Klender Posted on May 2, 2022 The Biden Administration made a massive push toward the eventual domestication of the electric vehicle supply chain in the United States on Monday. The Administration announced it will launch a $3.16 billion plan to boost U.S.-based EV battery manufacturing, a small part of a much larger push

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 30, 2022 Back in 2017, the drag strip was haunted by a dual-motor all-wheel-drive electric car that was capable of humbling supercars on the quarter-mile. That car was the Model S P100D with Ludicrous Mode, Tesla’s flagship sedan at the time, whose violent acceleration was enough to spawn a

By Joey Klender Posted on April 30, 2022 For a long time, Teslas have been the standard of electric vehicles, especially in range measurements. It was only until last year that Lucid Group was finally able to derail Tesla as the company with the longest-range EV on the market, and while cars vs. cars is

By Joey Klender Posted on April 29, 2022 Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold $8.5 billion worth of his electric automotive company’s stock following his acquisition of social media platform Twitter this week. Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission reveal Musk sold around $3.3 billion worth of Tesla stock on Tuesday and another $654 million

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 28, 2022 Germany vice-chancellor Robert Habeck, who made headlines earlier this year by stating that the country must transform its power system “at Tesla speed,” is now calling for significant efforts to reduce the country’s reliance on Russian gas. Gas is among Germany’s most important energy sources, and about

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 27, 2022 Tesla has announced that it will be expanding its virtual power plant in Australia to New South Wales, southeast Queensland, and the Australian Capital Territory with the Tesla Energy Plan. The update was announced on the company’s official LinkedIn page.  While Tesla did not provide many details

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 26, 2022 This coming May is shaping up to be quite interesting, at least for those who are following updates on Tesla CEO Elon Musk. As per recent reports, an upcoming television documentary on Musk, Tesla, and its Autopilot program is poised to be released this coming May.  The

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 25, 2022 Following a meeting on Sunday morning, Twitter’s Board of Directors reportedly met with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk to discuss the executive’s acquisition offer for the social media platform. The negotiations between Musk and Twitter were reportedly extensive, as the discussions lasted into the early hours

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 24, 2022 During an interview with TED’s Chris Anderson, Elon Musk remarked that his brain-machine interface startup, Neuralink, would be solving brain and spinal injuries “for probably a decade.” Musk noted that the startup’s technology could even address health conditions like morbid obesity.  Experts have now stated that while

By Joey Klender Posted on April 22, 2022 Video of a Tesla crashing into a $2 million Cirrus Vision jet at an aircraft event while operating on the “Summon” feature has been circulating through several Reddit communities. Initially shared in the r/flying subreddit, the video shows that was apparently captured by security cameras shows a

By Maria Merano Posted on April 21, 2022 Tesla China’s battery supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) won a bid for exploration rights to a lithium clay project located in Yichun through its subsidiary Yichun Contemporary Amperex Resources Limited. The bid cost RMB 856 million (about $134.8 million). The lithium clay project is located in the

By Joey Klender Posted on April 20, 2022 Tesla’s (NASDAQ: TSLA) accomplishment of opening two new production facilities in 2022 marked a doubling in the automaker’s number of active automotive production facilities. Despite this accomplishment, which saw the company’s long-awaited Berlin and Texas Gigafactories become active with both production and deliveries, Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai in

By Joey Klender Posted on April 19, 2022 Tesla fans, owners, and enthusiasts are among the most bonded to their brand, a new study shows. Ranking only behind Disney, Tesla was second in the new study, conducted by MBLM, which assessed how consumers bond with the brands they use and love. Disney, Tesla, and Apple

By Joey Klender Posted on April 18, 2022 Elon Musk’s comments regarding the SEC’s investigation of his 2018 “funding secured” Tweet have prompted a new reaction from Tesla shareholders, who said in filings on Friday that a Federal Judge ruled the CEO’s communication as “false and misleading.” In 2018, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was considering

By Joey Klender Posted on April 16, 2022 Riz Nwosu was inspired when he went to the Tesla Cybertruck unveiling in 2019. After snagging some pictures with the newly-revealed Cybertruck and company CEO Elon Musk, Riz developed a backpack inspired by the futuristic pickup he saw in Hawthorne, California, in late 2019. By December 2021,

By Joey Klender Posted on April 16, 2022 Tesla is normally confronted with plenty of interesting and challenging metrics from competitors, especially in terms of range and speed. With the Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX accomplishing a major feat of over 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) driven on a single charge earlier this week, many may wonder if

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 15, 2022 During an all-hands meeting yesterday, Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal highlighted that the social media platform was not being “held hostage” by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s offer to purchase the company for over $40 billion. Musk had made his intentions clear with Twitter on Thursday, noting in a

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 14, 2022 Twitter has acknowledged Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s $43 recent billion acquisition offer, which was outlined in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. A press release from the social media company featured a rather interesting section, with Twitter specifically describing Musk’s offer as an “unsolicited,

By Eric Ralph Posted on April 13, 2022 After restarting work on the project a few months ago, SpaceX appears to have gotten back up to speed and begun to make rapid progress on the construction of Starship’s first Florida launch pad and tower. Located at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39A facilities,

By Maria Merano Posted on April 11, 2022 Tesla released update 2022.12.1 and returned bottom bar customization to the infotainment system, among other improvements.  According to the release notes of the Tesla 2022.12.1 update:  “[Drivers] can now add vehicle controls such as defrost, windshield wipers, and seat heaters to the bottom bar. Long press any

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 10, 2022 Tesla’s Cyber Rodeo featured a number of the company’s upcoming vehicles, though the Cybertruck evidently stole the show. From its arrival at the facility to its display in the hours prior to Elon Musk’s address to its appearance later during the night with Design Chief Franz von

By Joey Klender Posted on April 9, 2022 Tesla is among several companies lobbying for the Chinese government to ease transport restraints as COVID-19’s presence in the country continues to increase. Several major businesses, including Tesla and Covestro, have been permitted by Shanghai’s local government to continue transporting needs with a “closed-loop system,” the South

By Eric Ralph Posted on April 8, 2022 A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft have successfully begun the first all-private astronaut mission to an orbital space station Following a string of delays from late 2021, February 2022, March 2022, and the first week of April 2022, Axiom-1 lifted off as planned on

By Joey Klender Posted on April 7, 2022 The first looks inside the Tesla “Cyber Rodeo” event at Gigafactory Texas are beginning to appear as attendees make their way to the event, located just outside Austin. Tesla is holding a 15,000-person event at its new production facility in Texas to launch the opening of the

By Joey Klender Posted on April 6, 2022 Tesla has announced it will transition all Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in the European and Middle East markets to the camera-based Pure Vision approach starting this month. The “Tesla Vision” approach is void of radar and only uses the vehicle’s eight exterior cameras to perform

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 5, 2022 Recent videos of the Fremont Factory suggest that Tesla is currently benchmark testing the Lucid Air in its California-based facility’s test track. This is quite impressive for Lucid, seeing as Tesla seems to be taking the Air sedan very seriously.  For the longest time, the Tesla Model

By Simon Alvarez Posted on April 4, 2022 Twitter stock is soaring on Monday’s premarket after news broke that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had taken a substantial stake in the company. Musk’s stake was revealed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in a 13G filing released on Monday.  As per the SEC filing,

By Joey Klender Posted on April 2, 2022 Tesla, Inc. announced this morning that it delivered 310,048 vehicles during 2022’s first quarter, marking yet another record for deliveries in a three-month span. “In the first quarter, we produced over 305,000 vehicles and delivered over 310,000 vehicles, despite ongoing supply chain challenges and factory shutdowns,” Tesla

By Joey Klender Posted on April 1, 2022 Following Joe Biden’s invoking of the Defense Production Act yesterday, nickel expert Trent Mell is commending the President’s decision to surge the domestic production and sourcing of electric vehicle materials. Speculation early in the week indicated President Biden was considering using the Defense Production Act for the

By Maria Merano Posted on March 31, 2022 In its 10-K filing on Thursday, March 31, Rivian stated that the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has impacted its business and operations. Rivian noted that its ability to develop and manufacture vehicles of sufficient quality on time and at a large scale is still unproven. The