Tesla Gigafactory Texas may still be following a deliberate ramp, but work in the facility is still ongoing at a rapid pace. As the factory continues to produce Model Ys, preparations at Giga Texas’ staging area are hinting at the volume of vehicles that will be coming out of the recently-opened plant when it hits…
Tesla has announced that it will be expanding its virtual power plant in Australia to New South Wales, southeast Queensland, and the Australian Capital Territory with the Tesla Energy Plan. The update was announced on the company’s official LinkedIn page. While Tesla did not provide many details about its Australian virtual power plant expansion, its LinkedIn…
SpaceX has successfully completed its second astronaut launch in less than three weeks, sending a batch of professional NASA and ESA astronauts on the way to the International Space Station after ferrying the first all-private astronaut crew to and from the same orbital outpost in the weeks prior. Shrugging off a 12-day delay caused by…
Tesla adjusted delivery estimates of select Model Y variants in the United States. The Pearl White and Midnight Silver base Model Y Long Range with 19” Gemini wheels is sold out for the remainder of 2022, with delivery estimates expected between February 2023 and May 2023. Base Model Y LR variants in Deep Blue, Solid…
On Tuesday, April 26, the opposition to legislation that would allow direct sales of electric vehicles discussed the ongoing efforts to pass the so-called “Tesla bill” in Connecticut. The proposed bill would conflict with Connecticut’s franchise law which requires car manufacturers to sell their products through third-party dealerships. The United Auto Workers (UAW) union, CT…
Twitter and two of Elon Musk’s “X Holdings” companies will officially merge by October 24 after the Tesla CEO and the social media platform came to terms on a $44 billion deal yesterday. A new 8-K filing from Twitter through the SEC reveals Twitter and Musk’s parent company, which is known as “X Holdings I, Inc.” and…
Tesla shares (NASDAQ: TSLA) were down over 10 percent by noon on Tuesday following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter, which was announced yesterday. Other tech stocks, like Apple, Amazon, and Google, were also hit between 2 and 4.5 percent at just after 1:30 PM on the East Coast. Tesla lost over $100 billion in market cap…
Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal has assured the social media company’s employees that while he did not have concrete answers about what would happen once Tesla CEO Elon Musk fully acquires the platform, there are no planned layoffs as of now. Agrawal reportedly shared the news during an all-hands call on Monday. Following a back and…
Following Elon Musk’s acquisition of social media platform Twitter yesterday, Amazon founder and former CEO Jeff Bezos pondered the potential hoops Tesla, Musk’s automotive company, may have to jump through as a company operating in China. Due to Musk’s purchase of Twitter, Bezos questioned whether China gained “a bit of leverage” over the platform’s censorship,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently accommodated a delegation from Indonesia in Gigafactory Texas. Images and insights from the meeting were shared by some of the Indonesian officials following their conversation with Musk. The group reportedly discussed a number of topics, among them being Indonesia’s nickel deposits, which would be valuable for Tesla and its battery production…