Tesla

By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 24, 2020 The first footage of Tesla’s site for its Cybertruck Gigafactory in Austin, Texas seems to have been shared online, with resident @joesimmons79 posting a clip of the location on Twitter. The video was quite brief, but depicted a part of the massive 2,000 acre site. Based on

By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 24, 2020 Tesla Energy, together with tech infrastructure firm Switch and asset management firm Capital Dynamics, is involved in a massive sustainable energy project that’s poised to become one of the largest solar and battery installations in the world. The initiative, dubbed as the “Gigawatt 1” project, is expected

By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 United States President Donald Trump has extended his congratulations to Tesla and CEO Elon Musk after choosing Austin, Texas, for its new vehicle production facility known as Giga Texas. Trump sent the message to Tesla via Twitter, which received a response from the Tesla CEO just a

By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 The Tesla Model 3 Performance has turned many people who are skeptical over electric vehicles into true believers of the sustainable transportation movement. The unique design, coupled with world-class performance specifications, instant torque, and Autopilot capability changes the minds of skeptics almost instantly. Actor, comedian, and songwriter

By Dacia J. Ferris Posted on July 24, 2020 Lucid Motors, a luxury electric car startup based out of Silicon Valley, California, recently announced an independently-confirmed .21 drag coefficient (Cd) for its flagship sedan, the Air, making it the most aerodynamic electric vehicle in line for mass-market sale if true. Now, CEO Peter Rawlinson has

By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 Rivian has revealed the delivery dates for its R1T pickup truck and R1S Sport Utility Vehicle. Both of its all-electric vehicles will debut in Summer 2021, but the R1T truck will make its way to customers before the R1S SUV will. Rivian announced that the R1T would

By Joey Klender Posted on July 24, 2020 Tesla Giga Berlin will have a battery cell production facility, and the question just comes down to when. Appropriately enough, when the company finds the help it needs to get the cell production portion of the facility underway, Tesla will start manufacturing batteries. The real shortcoming is

By Dacia J. Ferris Posted on July 24, 2020 NASA’s Perseverance rover destined for Mars next week has completed another step in preparation for launch – installation, and activation of its nuclear power source. “The #MarsPerseverance MMRTG [multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator] is installed and doing well. This Red Planet dune buggy is fueled and ready

By Dacia J. Ferris Posted on July 25, 2020 It’s always good to poke a bit of fun at yourself for a somewhat literal pick-me-up, especially when the world is upside down, and that’s exactly what Taylor of YouTube channel EVlectric recently set out to do. In a video named “Different Types of Tesla Owners,”

By Simon Alvarez Posted on July 25, 2020 There are times when small gestures could mean the difference between a company that cares and a company that simply treats its customers as numbers on a balance sheet. Just recently, Tesla proved that it is an example of the former, with CEO Elon Musk notifying a

By Joey Klender Posted on June 4, 2020 Tesla and other electric vehicle manufacturers who have a presence in Germany are poised to benefit from the country’s new stimulus bill that is worth €130 million. The bill offers specific incentives for sustainable vehicles, while no benefits are provided for cars equipped with the internal combustion

By Joey Klender Posted on June 3, 2020 It appears that the first sections of Tesla’s first European production facility, known as Gigafactory Berlin, will be overlaid with concrete soon. Recent photographs from Tesla enthusiast Tobias Lindh show a mixer truck on the excavated property that’s currently overlaid with gravel. With Tesla receiving preliminary permits

By Joey Klender Posted on June 2, 2020 SpaceX and NASA’s Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch on Saturday was the most-watched online event in the history of the American aerospace organization. Amid the madness on Earth, differences were set aside to watch two Aerospace entities launch astronauts into space. Approximately 10.3 million people tuned in to

By Joey Klender Posted on June 1, 2020 Tesla has submitted a patent that describes a new, more effective cooling process for manufacturing high-strength aluminum components to be used in its product line. The patent entitles, “System and Method for Facilitating Pulsed Spray Quench of Extruded Objects”, describes a quenching process that aims to increase

By Eric Ralph Posted on May 31, 2020 Less than 19 hours after liftoff and almost 10 minutes ahead of schedule, SpaceX has successfully docked NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for the first time in history, officially returning that capability to the space agency after nearly nine years without it. Demo-2’s docking

By Joey Klender Posted on May 30, 2020 A Tesla Model 3 owner recently tested Autopilot’s abilities on the long and winding roads of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. The 45.9-mile trip lasted 79 minutes, giving the driver a fair amount of insight regarding Autopilot’s performance with update 2020.16.2.1. In a later comment

By Joey Klender Posted on May 29, 2020 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) recently received an optimistic outlook from Goldman Sachs analysts, with the Wall St. firm maintaining a “Buy” rating on the electric car maker. The updated price target on the company was posted by Goldman Sachs analyst Mark Delaney, who raised TSLA stock’s target from

By Simon Alvarez Posted on May 28, 2020 The Mercedes-Benz EQC, a vehicle once considered as a potential “Tesla Killer” and a legitimate threat to the Model X, has reportedly sold less than 700 units in its home country since it was launched. This was according to data from Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority, which

By Joey Klender Posted on May 27, 2020 Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) received a higher price target from Dan Ives of Wedbush Securities on Wednesday morning, with the analyst putting his estimates at $800 a share. His previous mark was roughly a third less than his updated price target. Ives’ increase in the price target for

By Joey Klender Posted on May 26, 2020 Tesla will not be challenged by any automaker in electric vehicles, according to Sandy Munro, who sang high praises of the electric automaker during an hour-and-a-half Question and Answer session on the Munro Live YouTube channel. Munro has spent the last two months uploading a teardown series