XPRIZE officially launched the $100 Million XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. In honor of the launch, XPRIZE founder Peter H. Diamandis sat down with Elon Musk, who is funding the competition through the Musk Foundation. In February, the Tesla CEO announced he was teaming up with XPRIZE to manage the $100 million carbon capture prize he was donating…
For the first time in history, SpaceX has sent astronauts into space inside a reused Crew Dragon space capsule with the help of a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket booster, kicking off a new era of flight-proven human spaceflight. Aside from NASA’s Space Shuttle, whose orbiter and solid rocket boosters were routinely refurbished for three decades,…
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) announced that The Boring Company’s Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop is operational and expects to welcome its first visitors in June 2021. According to a press release shared with Teslarati, the LVCC Loop will be transporting people attending the World of Concrete event, holding exhibits at the Las Vegas…
On March 30, Elon Musk announced he would donate $20 million to Cameron County schools and $10 million to the City of Brownsville for downtown revitalization. The Musk Foundation has been releasing portions of Musk’s donation to Texas school districts over the past few days. Point Isabel ISD was one of the first school districts…
Tesla owners affected by the failure of the Multi-Memory-Card (eMMC) are receiving refund checks as a part of the terms the automaker outlined to replace the part. In January 2021, the NHTSA requested that Tesla repair 158,000 Model S vehicles built between 2012 and 2018 and Model X vehicles from 2016 to 2018. The reasoning for the…
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GM has entered the premium all-electric crossover SUV market, and its flagship vehicle is the rather eye-catching Cadillac Lyriq. Poised to hit the roads in the first half of 2022, the Lyriq will be entering a market already saturated by formidable opponents like the Ford Mustang Mach-E and the best-selling Tesla Model Y. With the…
Consumer Reports claims to have shown that Tesla Autopilot can be “easily tricked” into driving without anyone in the driver’s seat. The test process was extremely bizarre and required certain items that most drivers would never have in their vehicles. CR released a report on April 22nd entitled, “CR Engineers Show a Tesla Will Drive…
The Tesla Powerwall 2 battery is about to get significantly more impressive, with CEO Elon Musk recently noting that the residential energy storage unit is poised to receive a free software update in the near future. This update, which could roll out sometime next month, would allow some Powerwall batteries to have a power increase…
In recent comments on Twitter, Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s Solar Roof and traditional solar panels would now be sold only as an integrated product with the Powerwall, the company’s popular residential battery system. Tesla would start selling the bundled residential energy products beginning next week. In a later tweet, Musk mentioned that having an integrated…