Tesla China President Tom Zhu addressed many aspects of the electric car maker’s operations and ambitions in the country during a recent interview with Chinese state media outlet Xinhua Net. The widely awaited $25,000 compact electric car, which will be designed in a dedicated R&D center in Gigafactory Shanghai and sold worldwide, was among the…
The $100 million reward from Elon Musk’s gigaton carbon reduction competition will be handled by XPrize, a charitable organization that designs and hosts public competitions aimed at improving humanity through creativity. Musk revealed that last month he would donate $100 million as a reward for the best carbon capture technology, which was funded by the…
In Fremont, California, a Tesla Model S refresh was recently spotted performing road tests ahead of its planned volume launch. The car appeared to be de-badged and tinted, stopping viewers from getting a glimpse of its new interior. In its front intake area, the Model S included some Model 3-esque parts, showing that it was…
Clark County Nevada shared some photographs of the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) Loop project from The Boring Company (TBC). The images showed the progress TBC has made at one of the LVCC Loop stations, where a stream of convention center guests will come and go once Elon Musk’s people mover is operational. The LVCC…
Xbox executive, Aaron Greenberg saw that Elon Musk revealed that Halo was his favorite console game and saw the potential for his “dream collaboration” with Tesla. With Elon Musk and Tesla, Greenberg hinted at a potential IRL Cybertruck warthog project. “Sure feels like a Tesla x Halo collab needs to happen at some point!?” Greenburg…
The universe can at times be exhausting. A look at news stories around the world would suggest that there are a ton of things wrong in the world. Every so often, though, something happens that restores one’s faith in humanity. Although far in between, these instances prove that, in the end, there is always good…
It appears that Tesla is indeed serious about encouraging customers to use Bitcoin to buy their vehicles in the future. This was suggested in a recently submitted Form 10-K that Tesla filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The electric car manufacturer announced in its filing that in January it had…
Tesla is looking to hire a team of data labelers to feed images to help train its Autopilot neural nets at Gigafactory New York in Buffalo. Labeling data for self-driving Tesla is often said to have a massive lead in self-driving data thanks to having equipped all its cars with sensors early on and collecting…
Conference calls have become a regular in the lives of many people as COVID-19 continues to spread through parts of the world. Elon Musk claimed in the midst of last year’s pandemic that video conferencing inside a Tesla would “definitely [be] a future feature.” Well, Angel Munoz, owner of Tesla Model S and CEO of…
The dominance of the electric vehicle industry by Tesla continued in 2020, with the Silicon Valley-based EV producer responsible for almost a quarter of worldwide sales of electric vehicles. This was despite the company’s Fremont and Shanghai plants experiencing shutdowns due to the pandemic, as well as the fact that the company’s highest-volume vehicle, the…