SpaceX appears to have successfully fired up a Starship and Super Heavy booster hours apart, testing a total of three new Raptor 2 engines on the two rockets. SpaceX says it completed a two-engine static fire with Starship 24 less than three hours after the company successfully ignited a Raptor 2 engine installed on a…
Xiaomi CEO, Lei Jun announced the company’s CyberOne humanoid robot at its launch event in Beijing on August 11th. The debut is ahead of Tesla’s AI Day which many are anticipating a working Optimus Bot prototype. It will be interesting to see the two robots side by side. According to Xiaomi, the CyberOne robot has arms,…
Saxo Bank included Tesla ($TSLA) in its top 10 most traded stocks of July. According to the analysis emailed to Teslarati, the S&P 500 posted the “most bullish monthly performance in almost 24 months.” Notably, the U.S., UK, and Asian economies are flirting with recession. Elon Musk has spoken about this noting that things are seeming to…
SpaceX has successfully launched its 3000th Starlink satellite as part of Falcon 9’s 54th dedicated mission for the low Earth orbit (LEO) internet constellation. After high upper-level winds forced SpaceX to call off a launch attempt three hours prior, Falcon 9 lifted off from NASA Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Launch Complex 39A at 10:14 pm…
Redwood Materials, a battery recycling company founded and led by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel, will begin its production of copper foil his year. Among the recycling company’s first customers is something very familiar to its founder — Gigafactory Nevada, which Tesla operates with Panasonic. In a post on Twitter, Redwood noted that its recycled copper…
A few Tesla reservation holders from New Zealand have told Teslarati that they expect to accept their Model Y deliveries later this week. Teslarati readers informed us that Model Y and Model 3 units have arrived in New Zealand. Brendan Mckee spotted Model Y and Model 3 cars arriving at the port in Wellington. Another reader, David, saw car…
A set of Form 4 SEC filings have revealed that Tesla CEO Elon Musk had sold about 7.9 million TSLA shares worth approximately $6.9 billion after the company’s 2022 Cyber Roundup (annual shareholder meeting). Musk has since explained the reason behind his TSLA stock sale. According to the CEO, he is done selling TSLA for now. He…
It appears that the Tesla Semi’s release is actually closer than expected. As per recent comments from CEO Elon Musk, the Tesla Semi 500-mile variant will start shipping this year, followed by the Cybertruck next year. Musk shared the update on Twitter as part of a series of posts about his Master Plan, Part Deux,…
ChargePoint announced today it has officially installed the first-ever electric vehicle charger at Starbucks as the companies’ partnership, which includes Volvo, has officially taken off. The partnership, first announced in March, will have various Starbucks Coffee locations allocating 60 charging locations at 15 different franchises along a 1,350-mile route between Denver and Seattle. The chargers are supplied…
Autonomy, the electric vehicle subscription company, announced it ordered 23,000 new cars from seventeen automakers worth $1.2 billion to expand and diversify its fleet beyond Tesla. Autonomy said it ordered cars from BMW, Canoo, Fisker, Ford, General Motors, Hyundai, Kia, Lucid, Mercedes-Benz, Polestar, Rivian, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, Vinfast, Volvo, and Volkswagen. The vehicles range…