Tesla’s battery partner, Panasonic, appears to be planning for a huge ramp in Gigafactory Nevada, with an executive announcing that the Japanese company will be carrying out a significant expansion of its operations on site. These involve installing new equipment and recruiting more staff, enabling Giga Nevada to manufacture battery cells at higher rates than…
A Chinese Tesla Model 3 has just gone where no other Model 3 has ever gone before. The White Tesla Model 3 Dual Motor AWD began a long journey from Shenzhen all the way to the Mt. Everest base camp on an epic 5,500 km (3,400-mile) road trip. What’s more surprising was that, considering his…
Tesla’s highly anticipated ‘battery day’ is less than three weeks away and much like a Model 3, the internet has begun to hum with pent up energy. These sort of events briefly lift up the curtain at Tesla and offer the public insight into the technologies evolving behind the company’s gigafactory doors. While CEO Elon Musk has hinted…
Tesla and Volkswagen have established themselves as unlikely allies in the world of turning vehicles toward electrification. The two firms didn’t always see eye to eye, but the tides definitely shifted. Proof of this comes just one day after Elon Musk took an unexpected stop to see Volkswagen Chairman Herbert Diess in Western Germany. Years…
Tesla manufactures the world’s most coveted electric cars and is in heavy competition with internal combustion powered vehicles. Demand for Teslas is growing every day, which means that the company must expand. Europe is one of the fast growing markets for the EV manufacturer. Therefore it should come as no surprise that the production of…
Tesla’s ambitious South Australia Virtual Power Plant project has entered its third phase, with the program now planning to add another 3,000 public housing assets to the developing solar and home battery network. With 3,000 home solar and Powerwall-equipped properties added to the scheme, Tesla’s VPP may begin offering grid support services equal to a…
We have yet another hint that Tesla has grander plans beyond manufacturing and selling electric cars — the company continues to flirt with the possibility of becoming an electric utility provider. The automaker has acquired a license to trade electricity in Western Europe according to a Reuters report. It also applied for a similar license…
Tesla will use its plant in Germany, to demonstrate a radical overhaul of how its cars are built, as well as making electric car battery cells and battery packs, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. Musk made the comments to bystanders in Grünheide, near Berlin, where the automaker is constructing their new European factory. Tesla plans…
Elon Musk has arrived in Brandenburg, Germany, and is taking his first visit to Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin. It is Musk’s first visit since the future production plant has started construction in January 2020. Musk is in Germany for the week for a series of meetings, but one item on his agenda is to check out the…
Tesla will officially open its first V3 Supercharger in Berlin next week. The expansion of the new-gen Supercharger network in the broader country, however, is already underway. Tesmanian’s good friend Marcel Münch/Twitter told Tesmanian that he had received an invitation to an event to officially unveil the first V3 Supercharger in the German capital. The event will take…