Starting this Wednesday, Tesla’s electric cars will be available for Uber drivers in London who are looking to purchase or lease a sustainable vehicle. The program is part of the ride-hailing giant’s incentive scheme that’s designed to foster the use of electric cars. Uber is ushering in an electric vehicle adoption wave among its drivers. Since introducing…
New US military confirmation of a third SpaceX Falcon Heavy contract means that the world’s most powerful operational rocket has five launches firmly scheduled next year. On October 30th, a US Space Systems Command spokesperson confirmed to SpaceNews that the military’s USSF-67 contract with SpaceX – announced in August 2020 – is for a Falcon Heavy launch directly to…
Materials for Tesla’s 4680 cell were recently delivered to Gigafactory Texas, hinting that the EV maker may already be preparing to start test production of its custom batteries for next year. In drone operator Jeff Roberts’ recent video, two truckloads of battery production equipment entered the storage area of Tesla Giga Texas. The boxes were labeled Cathode…
Recent footage of the Fremont Factory has revealed what appears to be freshly-produced units of Tesla Model S and Model X at the company’s electric vehicle production facility in California. A quick skim through a recent Fremont Factory video shows that Tesla is as busy as ever. The footage revealed a fleet of Model S…
SpaceX has won a contract to launch Skynet on a Falcon 9 rocket in 2025. Instead of a self-aware, apocalyptic AI, though, “Skynet” refers to the United Kingdom’s planned Skynet 6A spacecraft – part of a family of military communications satellites that far predate their science fiction namesake. It will be the 15th such satellite…
Tesla has added a new home wall charger for electric vehicles, and it is not exclusive to Tesla. The new J1772 Gen 2 Wall Connector from Tesla now is compatible with any electric vehicle, aligning with the company’s recent decision to launch a Supercharging pilot program in Europe that offers EV charging capabilities to any…
Lucid Group kicked off initial customer deliveries of its initial electric sedan, the Air Dream Edition, this past weekend on October 30th with an invite-only delivery event in California. After several years of development and just a month after the initial production of the Air Dream Edition sedan, Lucid has passed off the early-stage manufacturing units…
It might not look like much today but SpaceX has begun assembling what is set to become Starbase’s largest Starship manufacturing facility. The structure, which has generally come to be known as Starbase’s ‘wide bay,’ was first teased by CEO Elon Musk in July 2021 and will be the fourth permanent assembly ‘bay’ constructed at Starbase –…
Tesla Giga Shanghai gave a brief inside look of its paint shop in a recently released video. The video reveals Tesla’s focus on paint, which has increased since talk about Giga Berlin’s advanced paint shop started. Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai’s paint shop video shows the step-by-step automated painting process that all MIC Tesla vehicles go through…
Tesla officially opened its Supercharger Network to non-Tesla EV owners in the Netherlands on November 1st. Non-Tesla EV owners have already started sharing their experiences with the Supercharger Network online. Hyundai Ioniq owner Inse van houts shared his experience at a Tesla Supercharger station at Tilburg, the wool capital of the Netherlands, located in the southern province of…