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By Joey Klender Posted on March 26, 2021 Former Tesla executive JB Straubel’s battery recycling venture, known as Redwood Materials, has reached an exclusive partnership with Electronic Recyclers International, also known as ERI, to recycle batteries and solar panels. The recycling of solar panels has not yet been tackled by Redwood or ERI. ERI is

By Maria Merano Posted on March 25, 2021 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez is seeking federal funding to build a Boring Company transit system in his city from US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. “It would be wonderful if the federal government would involve itself in this project,” Mayor Suarez stated on Bloomberg Radio. “I’m not operating

By Joey Klender Posted on March 24, 2021 California solar panel owners who make money by selling excess electricity back to the grid have their biggest incentive in jeopardy. The state’s largest power utilities have asked California officials to reduce the amount of money homeowners can make by contributing electricity to the grid. If officials

By Joey Klender Posted on March 23, 2021 New permits reveal that Tesla is taking supplemental precautions to avoid fires at the Fremont Factory. Following a fire that affected the massive Giga Press machine at Tesla’s Northern California factory in mid-March, the automaker is presumably taking an approach to prevent this from happening again, especially

By Maria Merano Posted on March 22, 2021 Miami Mayor Francis Suarez paid a visit to The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop in Sin City over the weekend. “Today I had the opportunity to visit @boringcompany tunnels in Las Vegas. After seeing the innovative & outstanding work @elonmusk & his team have

By Maria Merano Posted on March 21, 2021 Tesla has started installing its IDRA Giga Press casting machines in Gigafactory Berlin, shortly after it received another early approval permitting machine installation at the production plant from the Brandenburg State Office for the Environment.  Drone operator, Tobias Lindh captured the installation process of Tesla’s Giga Press

By Joey Klender Posted on March 20, 2021 It is tough being Tesla. In a world where cars are becoming electric, just as the company initially intended when its mission began 18 years ago, Tesla is the top dog at the moment. Every car company in the world is nipping at its heels in an

By Joey Klender Posted on March 19, 2021 The Tesla hacker who attempted to infiltrate the company’s Gigafactory Nevada facility with malware, offering $1 million to an employee for help with the task, pleaded guilty to counts of “conspiracy to intentionally cause damage to a protected computer.” Egor Igorevich Kriuchkov pleaded guilty, according to a

By Eric Ralph Posted on March 18, 2021 For the first time ever, SpaceX has stacked a Super Heavy tank section to its full height, effectively completing assembly of the largest rocket booster ever built. While a good amount of work still remains to weld the two halves together and connect their preinstalled plumbing and

By Eric Ralph Posted on March 17, 2021 SpaceX has published a new 4K video recapping Starship’s first intact landing after a high-altitude launch right as the company is preparing the next ship for flight. On March 3rd, Starship serial number 10 (SN10) briefly became the first prototype to successfully launch to 10 km (6.2

By Joey Klender Posted on March 16, 2021 Tesla’s Battery Day and Volkswagen’s Power Day were two similar events that showed how the two automakers plan to combat electric vehicle prices within the next few years. Despite the similarities in the events, Wall Street reacted quite differently to both, with Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) seeing a

By Joey Klender Posted on March 15, 2021 Tesla Tequila is once again available for purchase for $250 on Tesla’s dedicated website for the premium liquor. For $250, you can scrape up the second batch of the electric car and energy company’s introductory booze product, shipping included. The company indicates on the site that deliveries

By Simon Alvarez Posted on March 14, 2021 The Tesla Semi is not like traditional long-haulers out there. It’s all-electric, so it does not pollute the air during its operations; it’s quiet, unlike the massive, loud diesel engines of conventional semis; and it’s amazingly quick, going from 0-60 mph in 5 seconds flat without a

By Joey Klender Posted on March 13, 2021 Volkswagen has a long and storied tradition of building world-class vehicles. While they have managed to make a legacy off of offering affordable, stylish, and effectively-performing models for 84 years, their next big challenge comes in the tall task of creating and engineering electric vehicles that are

By Joey Klender Posted on March 12, 2021 Rivian has begun notifying R1T reservation holders of the anticipated June 2021 first deliveries for its all-electric pickup truck. In a new company communication to reservation holders, Rivian outlined its appreciation for the patience that many future R1T owners have displayed in the past year. “As we’ve

By Joey Klender Posted on March 11, 2021 A newly proposed house bill from Rep. Jared Huffman of California would provide the United States Postal Service with $6 billion to replace more of its aging vehicle fleet with updated electric vehicles. The Postal Vehicle Modernization Act, which Huffman proposed, a member of the House Transportation

By Joey Klender Posted on March 10, 2021 Tesla sources many of its battery cells from third-party suppliers, like Panasonic, LG Chem, and CATL. Because of the massive rate at which Tesla buys these cells, it is paying significantly less per kilowatt-hour compared to its competitors, according to a new report from Cairn Energy Research

By Joey Klender Posted on March 9, 2021 Tesla’s 4680 battery cells could be produced by LG by 2023. According to sources, the cells, which will power Tesla’s all-electric vehicles, could be built in production sites that LG is considering in either the United States or Europe. While Tesla and LG have not yet agreed

By Joey Klender Posted on March 8, 2021 The Tesla Model Y crossover will arrive at customer driveways slightly later than expected after the company updated its delivery timeframe from 2-5 weeks to 7-11 weeks. Tesla’s United States Design Studio that is available on the automaker’s website now displays an updated timeframe. Interestingly, Tesla recently

By Eric Ralph Posted on March 7, 2021 The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has competitively awarded SpaceX an $8.5 million contract to “refine” the process of manufacturing “next generation” heat shield technologies. In a minor resurgence of Cold War-style arms races, multiple arms of the US military apparatus have rekindled hypersonic weapons research

By Simon Alvarez Posted on March 6, 2021 The idea of Teslas being connected to the internet through Starlink may soon before a reality, with SpaceX recently filing an application to the FCC to expand the satellite service to “moving vehicles, vessels, and aircraft.” The application comes not long after Musk gave the nod on

By Joey Klender Posted on March 5, 2021 Tesla is contacting owners of Model S and Model X vehicles to perform a repair of the MultiMediaCard (eMMC), which was recalled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, in January. Some owners who have already paid for the specific part and repair could be

By Joey Klender Posted on March 4, 2021 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock has experienced a slight pullback in the last few weeks, tanking to losses that equate to just under 16% since the beginning of 2021. Wedbush analyst Dan Ives believes the pullback is temporary, and that Tesla could still bring a reward to investors

By Joey Klender Posted on March 3, 2021 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) and Volkswagen are forecasted to be the most profitable players in the electric vehicle space for the next few years, according to UBS analysts headed by skeptic Patrick Hummel. UBS released a note to investors on Wednesday that indicated American electric car company Tesla

By Joey Klender Posted on March 2, 2021 Volvo is joining the growing list of automakers who have pledged to develop only electric vehicles by a certain date. Today, the Swedish car company insisted that it will no longer sell combustion engine cars by 2030, switching to completely electric powertrains by the end of the

By Joey Klender Posted on March 1, 2021 Tesla is not the only electric vehicle stock that Dan Ives of Wedbush believes could soar up to 50% this year. With the sector growing at an accelerating rate, Ives believes investors will be given the opportunity to diversify their portfolios with several companies that are showing

By Simon Alvarez Posted on February 28, 2021 Elon Musk’s companies have a pretty strong tendency to attract their own fair share of critics, including those in notable positions in their respective industries. This was the case with Tesla and its electric vehicles, and the same was true with SpaceX and its reusable orbital-class rockets.

Posted on February 27, 2021 A Tesla Model S with a Yoke Steering wheel has been caught in the wild, giving the public a first look at Tesla’s futuristic stalkless steering column. A Deep Blue Metallic Model S with a refreshed interior, including the wraparound wood door trim, revised instrument cluster display and horizontal center

By Joey Klender Posted on February 26, 2021 Tesla CEO Elon Musk has no respect for the SEC, but he hopes they look into his recent string of Dogecoin memes and tweets after rumors of a probe by the Commission was rumored to be coming soon. “I hope they do! It would be awesome,” Musk

By Joey Klender Posted on February 25, 2021 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has had a rare down streak of days during trading sessions in the final full week of February. As a result, short-sellers of the automaker’s stock have pocketed a $3.5 billion profit, but they’re still losing big in the grand scheme of things. For