Tesla

By Simon Alvarez Posted on November 27, 2021 Tesla paid its $465 million loan from the US Department of Energy nine years early, and by doing so, the company had to pay an “early repayment penalty.” This was mentioned recently by CEO Elon Musk in a comment on Twitter.  Musk’s remark came as a response

By Joey Klender Posted on November 26, 2021 A Tesla Model S Plaid ran a sub-9-second 1/4-mile for the first time at Maryland International Raceway in the United States. The Model S Plaid is Tesla’s crown jewel of performance. It is the fastest vehicle currently offered in Tesla’s lineup of vehicles and is currently the

By Simon Alvarez Posted on November 25, 2021 Earlier this month, renewed discussions about the objections critics have concerning Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin were completed. The discussions, which covered about 800 objections, were already a repeat of online meetings held back in October. Environmental groups against the electric vehicle production plant accused Brandenburg’s Office of the

By Joey Klender Posted on November 24, 2021 Tesla is offering free Supercharging rates during off-peak hours during the Thanksgiving holiday to avoid congestion at its stations. Thanksgiving is commonly known as the holiday that provides the most traffic on American roadways due to excessive traveling. As a result, gas stations, EV charging stations, and

By Eric Ralph Posted on November 23, 2021 SpaceX is firmly on track to launch NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission – sometimes half-seriously referred to as the first spacecraft designed to avenge the dinosaurs – at 10:21 pm PST, Tuesday, November 23rd (06:21 UTC 24 Nov). Weighing about 622 kilograms (1370 lb) at

By Maria Merano Posted on November 22, 2021 The latest round of Tesla Giga Berlin discussions ended on Monday. Brandbenburg’s Economics Minister Jörg Steinbach (SPD) remains confident that Tesla’s Germany-based Gigafactory will produce its first Model Y vehicles before the year ends.  Now that another round of discussions has come to a close, Brandenburg gets

By Maria Merano Posted on November 21, 2021 Recent aerial footage from Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai has revealed that the facility’s holding lot is reaching maximum capacity as production rolls full steam ahead in the last few weeks of the fourth quarter.  Footage dated November 19 from drone operator Wu Wa showed that Giga Shanghai’s holding

By Joey Klender Posted on November 20, 2021 Tesla is moving closer to starting the manufacturing of its all-electric vehicles at its new facility near Austin named Gigafactory Texas. Production could begin extremely soon as new filings with the Texas Appraisal Review Board (ARB) reveal the imminent completion dates of each project, along with its

By Joey Klender Posted on November 19, 2021 Ford made several leaps forward in its push toward electric vehicles today. Ford CEO Jim Farley stated that the automaker has now doubled its electric vehicle production goals to 600,000 units by 2023. Ford also signed a non-binding contract with GlobalFoundries, a global leader in feature-rich semiconductor

By Eric Ralph Posted on November 18, 2021 For the first time, SpaceX has teamed up with researchers from NASA and several other US institutions to publicly discuss how it plans to use Starship to build Mars Base Alpha. Save for a handful of comments spread around the periphery of SpaceX and CEO Elon Musk’s

By Joey Klender Posted on November 17, 2021 Volkswagen’s lineup of ID. electric vehicles has hit a week-long production speed bump due to the global semiconductor crisis. Volkswagen will temporarily halt ID. family production lines at its Zwickau and Dresden, Germany vehicle manufacturing facilities due to the global semiconductor shortage. It is the first time

By Eric Ralph Posted on November 16, 2021 For the first time in about a year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to present an official update on the company’s next-generation Starship rocket. The venue: the National Academies’ first virtual Space Studies Board. Vaguely titled “SpaceX Starship Discussion,” the CEO’s presentation – scheduled at 6pm

By Joey Klender Posted on November 15, 2021 A Tesla Semi was spotted charging at the company’s newly-installed Megachargers at the Giga Nevada production facility near Sparks, Nevada. Photographs of a Tesla Semi charging at Giga Nevada were shared by @hwfeinstein on Twitter, who stated that a friend of theirs saw a unit of the

By Simon Alvarez Posted on November 14, 2021 Tesla is currently being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after several of its electric cars crashed into stationary emergency vehicles while Autopilot was engaged. The premise of the investigation itself is enough to whet the appetite of every Tesla skeptic since the idea

By Simon Alvarez Posted on November 13, 2021 The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop has been operating for some time now, and so far, the underground transport system has had its victories and challenges. But while the system still seems to be in the process of hitting its stride, one thing seems

By Joey Klender Posted on November 12, 2021 Lordstown Motors (NASDAQ: RIDE) reported its Q3 2021 Financial Results on Thursday and reported that it will delay the Endurance all-electric pickup once again. Additionally, Lordstown Motors confirmed the sale of its Lordstown, Ohio factory to Foxconn. “The third quarter marked a significant strategic shift for Lordstown

By Maria Merano Posted on November 11, 2021 Tesla Giga Shanghai is preparing to send another round of Model Y and Model 3 units to foreign territories. The next batch of exports bound for abroad should contribute to Tesla’s last quarter this year, closing 2021 out strong.  Pictures of Model Y and Model 3 vehicles

By Joey Klender Posted on November 10, 2021 Tesla CEO Elon Musk has officially some of his Tesla holdings following a notorious Twitter poll that was published last weekend. Tesla officially filed an S-4 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) earlier today that confirmed Musk’s stock sale. The documents indicate that Musk sold

By Maria Merano Posted on November 9, 2021 Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) has priced its initial public offering (IPO) at $78 per share, valuing the company at $77 billion on a fully-diluted basis. These results were well above the company’s raised expectations. Filings from Rivian suggested that the company was aiming for a valuation above $65

By Joey Klender Posted on November 8, 2021 General Motors’ Cadillac brand is set to eliminate around 40% of its U.S. dealerships and roll out a new electric SUV, hoping to ease into a more-committed adoption of electric vehicles. GM is one of the largest automotive brands globally and has been involved in the development

By Eric Ralph Posted on November 7, 2021 In just a few days, SpaceX’s next Starlink mission has gone from a complete mystery to a firm launch date. Set to be SpaceX’s first Starlink launch in almost two months and first East Coast Starlink mission in almost half a year, the launch effectively came out

By Joey Klender Posted on November 6, 2021 Elon Musk has decided to launch a 24-hour Twitter poll that will determine whether he will sell 10% of his Tesla holdings to pay for taxes on unrealized gains. “Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10%

By Joey Klender Posted on November 5, 2021 Germany has set a new electric vehicle registration record, as one of every three new vehicles registered in the country in October was electric, according to new data from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). In October, electric vehicles accounted for 30.4 percent of new

By Eric Ralph Posted on November 4, 2021 While specific details of the decision are likely a few weeks away, the US Court of Federal Claims has denied an infamous Blue Origin lawsuit, upholding NASA’s decision to award SpaceX a contract to create a Starship-derived Moon lander. The ruling ends almost seven months of delays

By Joey Klender Posted on November 3, 2021 A 2019 automobile accident that claimed the life of a 50-year-old man has resulted in a trial that will call Tesla CEO Elon Musk and National Highway Traffic Safety Advisor Missy Cummings as witnesses. The trial will dial in on Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance system, which Banner’s

By Eric Ralph Posted on November 2, 2021 SpaceX has won a contract to launch Skynet on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2025. Instead of a self-aware, apocalyptic AI, though, “Skynet” refers to the United Kingdom’s planned Skynet 6A spacecraft – part of a family of military communications satellites that far predate their science fiction

By Joey Klender Posted on November 1, 2021 Rivian is set to launch its initial public offering next week with a proposed valuation of just over $60 billion, according to a new report. Rivian will disclose its target valuation in an updated regulatory filing later today, according to The Wall Street Journal. Rivian will begin pitching

By Maria Merano Posted on October 31, 2021 Not long after the Cybertruck was unveiled, Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter that Tesla would be offering a matte black option for the all-electric pickup truck. What has been relatively unknown until today was that Tesla seems to have created such a vehicle, or at least a

By Simon Alvarez Posted on October 30, 2021 Mainstream electric vehicles have been around for some time, and they are only getting more and more ubiquitous. Yet despite this, incidents of non-electric cars — whether unintentionally or intentionally — blocking EV charging stations (a practice known as ICE-ing) still happen on a relatively regular basis.

By Joey Klender Posted on October 29, 2021 Malaysian government officials are petitioning and working toward making electric vehicles exempt from taxes, including import and excise duties, as well as road taxes. During his address to Parliament earlier this week, Malaysian finance minister Tengku Datuk Seri Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz cited the reduction of pollutants