Electric vehicles (EVs) are increasingly seen as viable grid assets. Managed charging through time-of-use rates and demand response programs is known as vehicle-grid integration and is a hot topic of conversation among utilities around the world. The potential benefit of a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) exchange is the balancing capacity that will emerge when fleets of EVs…
Tesla has lost another one of its top attornies this morning after Lynn Miller, who held the title of Deputy General Counsel Litigation/Regulatory/Privacy Counsel at the company, left for Plus, an autonomous trucking startup. Miller has been with Tesla for 7 years and 4 months, according to her LinkedIn page. In March 2014, she joined as…
The Tesla Model 3 has been described by European car hire company Virtuo as a vehicle that everyone wants to drive. Thanks to the pervading demand for the all-electric sedan from its user base, the car hire firm decided to add several dozens of Tesla Model 3s to its fleet. Virtuo allows people to hire…
Lucid Motors has released new details regarding the production of the Air sedan, along with plans of an upcoming flagship studio in New York City and some minor updates on the Gravity SUV that it announced late last year. Lucid and Churchill Capital Corp IV filed new details with the SEC, stating that the company has completed…
While Gigafactory Shanghai has been producing electric vehicles for the local Chinese market for over a year now, Tesla China’s operations have so far been focused on the company’s electric car business. If recent teasers from Tesla are any indication, however, it appears that the company is now preparing to launch its residential energy products…
Revel, a startup that unveiled its plans to launch a Tesla Model Y-based rideshare service in New York back in April, recently met a rather bizarre roadblock — one that could result in the company actually buying 50 gas cars before it could deploy its EV fleet. The aspiring Model Y taxi service expected to win approval…
Recently, Tesla China announced the opening of the longest Supercharger station route along the country’s historic Silk Road. The Supercharger route spans a little over 3,100 miles (5,000 kms) with 27 stations. Tesla China announced the opening of the route via its official Twitter account. https://twitter.com/teslacn/status/1406277513517494272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Tesla’s video about China’s longest Supercharger route depicts travelers…
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock is just one of eight companies poised for a rally over the next twelve months, according to analysts who see major upside for some of 2021’s slowest movers. Tesla, along with Penn National Gaming, Etsy, Mosaic, Mohawk Industries, Under Armour, Enphase Energy, and Freeport-McMoRan, is one of the stocks that has…
Tesla’s Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, detailed the automaker’s self-driving Supercomputer that will era in Dojo. Dojo is Tesla’s 4-dimensional Autopilot training program and was first discussed in 2020 by CEO Elon Musk. Karpathy gave a 40-minute presentation regarding Autonomous Vehicles at the 2021 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2021).…
It appears that Gigafactory Berlin is starting to awaken, as hinted at in recent flyovers of the facility’s expansive complex. Based on new videos and images from the site, it appears that the first Model Y test bodies are now running through the paces in Gigafactory Berlin. The images of the Model Y bodies were…