At Chattahoochee Technical College in Marietta, Georgia, a 12-year-old boy named Caleb Anderson is about to complete his first college degree. His goals go far beyond college degrees, however. Someday, he wants to be an intern for Elon Musk. Caleb’s mom, Claire, realized at a young age that he was going to be a special…
Green Mountain Power (GMP) has announced that its growing energy storage network in 2020 would reduce the cost of all GMP customers by approximately $3 million. This network involves Powerwall home batteries, Tesla Powerpack batteries at solar sites on a utility scale, and carbon-reducing equipment such as smart chargers for electric vehicles. Green Mountain Power…
Some fascinating information about the vehicles that Tesla will be manufacturing at Giga Berlin have been verified by Elon Musk. The Model Y that will be manufactured at the facility will use the company’s 4680 cells and structural battery pack, according to the Tesla CEO. Gigafactory Berlin will also use single-piece front and rear castings…
Last week, Elon Musk announced that Tesla plans to manufacture 20 million electric-powered vehicles by 2030. His bold growth target dovetails with California Governor Gavin Newson’s announcement that he will propose that his state require all new cars and trucks to be non-gasoline powered by 2035. The impetus is clear: Global warming is threatening our planet, and…
It appears that Tesla Energy and Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s 730 MWh battery installation at Moss Landing in Monterey, California, is progressing well. The first batch of Tesla Megapacks was successfully installed enabling the project to take a step towards its goal of starting operations in the second quarter of 2021 as noted in…
According to a memo seen by Bloomberg News, Tesla is warning employees at its auto plant in Fremont, California, that an employee allegedly “maliciously sabotaged” part of the factory last month and was fired after an internal investigation. According to an email sent Monday by Al Prescott, Tesla’s vice president of legal and acting general…
Apparently, Tesla has a new plan for dealing with journalists: don’t bother with them at all. The electric car company has reportedly disbanded its global public relations unit, leaving the press at the world’s most valuable automaker with no formal point of touch. According to Electrek, the decision to disband the department was confirmed “at…
SpaceX won a $149 million contract to develop missile-tracking satellites for the U.S. Military Space Development Agency (SDA), according to a financial document released by the Pentagon Department of Defense on October 2nd. SDA Director Derek Tournear told SpaceNews that SpaceX “came in with an extremely credible proposal” to build the Starlink bus design-based satellites….
In the debut episode of BBC’s Top Gear Season 29, the Tesla Model 3 was recently featured with the car competing in what the show dubbed as a 24-hour endurance test. The show’s hosts, Chris Harris Freddie Flintoff and Paddy McGuinness, ended up thoroughly appreciating the Model 3 over the course of the test, both…
For a durability test, a Tesla owner recently acquired a rare “V1” sample of Elon Musk’s Boring Company brick. Dan Markham was able to get his hands on two Boring Bricks from YouTube channel What’s Inside and had some fun conducting a drop test to equate its durability with possible rivals in the market. Thanks…