🚗 Ford plans to release a $30,000 all-electric vehicle within 2.5 years. 🧑🔬 The new affordable EV is being developed by Ford’s autonomous “skunkworks” team. 🇨🇳 The upcoming EV is expected to compete with Chinese automakers like BYD and Tesla’s next-gen platform. ⚡ Smaller electric vehicles are highlighted as crucial for profitability. 📉 Large EVs,…
🚗 A Model X owner is grateful to Tesla’s safety focus after a tool fell 10 stories into his vehicle. 📸 The incident involved a stone chisel falling from a construction site in Coral Gables, Florida. 🔨 The chisel hit the roof where a child’s car seat was, but the Model X’s roof withstood the…
🚚 The first deliveries of the Tesla Cybertruck with Tactical Grey interior have started. ⚠️ The Cybertruck Foundation Series will soon be retired, making these units rare. 📷 The Cybertruck Owners Club forum was the initial place where images and videos of the Tactical Grey interior were shared. 👌 A customer named DoberManPin-Sure praised Tesla’s…
🏭 Tesla’s Lathrop Megafactory is focused on Megapack production as Q2 2024 ends. 🚁 A recent drone flyover by Met God in Wilderness revealed 264 Megapacks at the facility. 🔋 The Megapack is designed for grid use, with 2-hour and 4-hour variants available. 💰 The 2-hour Megapack is priced at $983,370, and the 4-hour Megapack…
🚛 Tesla Semi with LiDAR spotted near Gigafactory Nevada 📹 Video of the Semi shared initially on r/teslamotors subreddit 🔍 Sensors on the roof resemble those on previous test vehicles 🤖 Tesla uses LiDAR for data collection and validation, despite Musk’s criticism 📄 Tesla patent allows use of LiDAR for training machine learning models 🛡️…
🌍 Panasonic Energy is developing a new battery plant in De Soto, Kansas, using lessons from Tesla Giga Nevada. 🏭 The Kansas facility aims to be the largest battery manufacturing plant in the world. 🚗 Panasonic and Tesla have been partners in battery cell production since 2017 at Giga Nevada. 🔋 The Kansas facility will…
🚀 The next hearing on Elon Musk’s pay package is on July 8, 2024. 📝 The hearing will not consider the TSLA shareholder vote supporting the 2018 pay package. 📊 Tesla shareholders recently voted to reapprove Elon Musk’s 2018 pay package. ⚖️ Tesla’s legal team is prompting Judge McCormick to consider the shareholder vote’s significance.…
🏭 Tesla’s Giga Berlin site had a World War 2 bomb discovered nearby. 💣 The 250-kilogram bomb will be detonated in a “controlled manner.” 🌲 The bomb was found in a forest next to the Tesla factory. 📰 German media outlet RBB was the first to report the finding. 🚧 Safety is a top concern…
🚒 A trailer caught fire outside Tesla Giga Texas, leading to a brief evacuation. 📸 Drone images showed the fire aftermath and firetrucks arriving. 🚛 The fire was in the west side General Assembly 1 area, involving a garbage trailer. 👷 Employees were evacuated and reentered the facility after the fire was extinguished. 🧑🚒 Firefighters…
🚗 Hyundai Motor officially unveiled the sub-compact Inster electric vehicle (EV). 🇰🇷 The Inster will first launch in South Korea before expanding to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia Pacific. 🚀 The unveiling took place at the 2024 Busan International Mobility Show. ⚡ The Hyundai Inster offers fast charging and has a range of up…