Tesla aims to start ramping 4680 cell production at Gigafactory Texas by the end of Q3 2022. By the end of the year, Tesla hopes the battery factory in Austin can exceed the Kato line’s weekly output. Tesla Giga Texas already produced its first 4680 cells. Tesla has started “commissioning its first car sets of…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the Cybertruck and other “future products” that the company is not ready to announce will have even more simplicity through various manufacturing improvements. During Tesla’s Q2 2022 Earnings Call on Wednesday, Musk detailed new manufacturing improvements that are present in the company’s new factories in Berlin and Austin. “We made a…
On Monday, SpaceX was spotted loading some of the first Starlink V2 satellite prototypes into a custom mechanism designed to refill Starship’s magazine-like payload bay. While it’s not the first time SpaceX has used the dispenser, the photos captured by photographer Kevin Randolph are the first to clearly show real prototypes of the next generation…
Tesla’s V4 Supercharger appeared in new project plans for a site in Danvers, Massachusetts, with a design that is strikingly similar to the company’s 72 kW Urban Supercharger. However, project details outlined in blueprints for the Danvers Supercharger seem to indicate this is Tesla’s next big development in its next-gen charging posts, but some questions…
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is holding its second-quarter earnings call after markets close today, July 20, 2022. As in previous quarters, Tesla investors have voted for the top questions that they want the company’s executives to answer at the upcoming Q2 2022 earnings call. As noted by Say, the questions that Tesla investors have submitted for the second…
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is poised to report its second-quarter earnings after markets close today. Following a challenging quarter that saw the company’s primary vehicle export hub, Gigafactory Shanghai, get halted for over three weeks, all eyes are now on the company’s Q2 results to see if it could maintain its profitability. Tesla is currently facing a…
Tesla dominated the used vehicle market in June 2022 with its Model Y mid-size SUV. The fasted-selling used vehicle was the Model Y last month, in a list ruled by electric vehicles and hybrids. According to an iSeeCars study, the average used car took 52.1 days to sell in June 2022–a little longer compared to May, when…
NASA has chosen SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket to launch its next major space telescope, a wide-field observatory that should directly complement the brand new James Webb Space Telescope. Originally known as the Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST), NASA recently renamed the mission in honor of Nancy Grace Roman, a foundational force behind the Hubble…
Twitter and Tesla CEO Elon Musk will head to trial for five days in October, Chancellor Kathaleen St. Jude McCormick ruled this morning during a virtual hearing. The Delaware Court of Chancery ruled that the trial between the Tesla frontman and the social media platform must be expedited to avoid additional irreparable harm, USLaw said, who live…
Recent reports suggest that one of the founding members of Elon Musk’s Neuralink, Paul Merolla, has left the company in recent weeks. Merolla is reportedly the most recent executive who has departed from the brain implant startup. Merolla helped launch Neuralink in 2016, and he contributed greatly in the company’s chip design program. Prior to…