Chinese motoring outlet Pacific Automotive Network was recently granted limited access to the Phase 2 area of Gigafactory Shanghai, which produces the Model Y. Over the course of its exclusive tour, the media outlet observed several interesting tidbits about the state of the electric car maker’s Model Y production line. One of these is the fact that…
SpaceX appears to be continuing a streak of NASA launch contract awards, winning $98.8 million to launch a galaxy-mapping spacecraft known as SPHEREx in 2024. Designed to perform surveys of hundreds of millions to billions of stars and galaxies across a vast swath of the universe, SPHEREx’s primary scientific goal is to better understand and…
Tesla is now at a point where the company is on the verge of becoming a mainstream automaker. Its Model 3 sedan is currently one of the world’s best-selling electric cars, and the Model Y, its newest EV, is poised to become an even more popular vehicle. Amidst this momentum, all Tesla needs to do…
Tesla Model 3 is still the best-selling electric car in the world, and no other vehicle program is even coming close. Automakers other than Tesla are going to have to invest more in high-volume electric vehicles. Tesla Model 3 The Model 3 was the true first high-volume electric car program, and it is still on…
In the United States only about 1.3 percent of all vehicles sold last year were battery powered. And about 90 percent of those sales were by one company — Tesla. What has Tesla done right and where have other electric vehicle makers gone wrong? Electric vehicles cannot succeed without developing a nationwide network of fast-charging…
Tesla has released a new video of one of its new Giga Press casting machines in action producing a giant single-piece rear body casting for Model Y. Tesla is literally going big on casting In recent years, Tesla has been focusing on casting technology to produce larger parts of its vehicles in bigger pieces. We…
SpaceX has successfully kicked off the first of two Starlink launches scheduled in the same 28-hour period and reused a Falcon 9 booster faster than ever before, cutting a 35-year-old NASA Space Shuttle record in half. As previously discussed on Teslarati, SpaceX unexpectedly revealed that Falcon 9 B1060 was assigned to launch Starlink-18 just hours…
The Boring Company’s underground tunneling projects are widely-appealing to Transit Departments and Authorities across the United States. Because of the sustainable tone of Elon Musk’s Boring Company, along with the efficiency of an Express-based system, agencies responsible for solving the issue of public passenger transportation are considering underground options more often than ever before. Above-ground…
Tesla’s new updated Model S Plaid is becoming the quickest car ever made, and it set the stage for an even more insane new Roadster coming next year. Tesla Model S Plaid Tesla dropped so much news at the same time last week that it was hard to digest, including the fact that Tesla launched…
Sandy Munro recently made a visit to the Gateway to Mars — also known as Boca Chica — and had a one-on-one interview with Elon Musk. You can watch the video below, but following the video are some quick takeaways in text format. Before getting started, Munro gave a special mention to John from Silicon…