California officially sold 1 million electric vehicles this month, according to the California Energy Commission (CEC) Chair David Hochschild. California is home to many EV automakers, including Tesla, the leading pure electric car manufacturer in the market today. “We just hit this month a very significant milestone, reaching 1 million electric vehicles sold in California,”…
Tesla Megapacks will power two new 50MW battery storage projects in the United Kingdom for Australian clean energy producer Tag Energy. The two Tag Energy projects Tesla will provide Megapacks for are the 49.5M/99MWh Chapel Farm battery project near Luton in England and the 49MW/98MWh Jamesfield Farm battery project near Abernethy in Scotland. The Australian energy provider…
The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has ditched an investigation into a fatal Tesla crash that occurred in California in 2020. In 2020, a Tesla Model 3 driving in Saratoga, California, crashed and killed a 75-year-old driver and his wife. The vehicle struck a minivan and then exited the highway it was traveling…
The first report of an accident involving a vehicle that uses Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta is being looked at by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The accident is currently not under a formal investigation by the NHTSA, but the agency did state that it is “gathering information” related to the incident. A Tesla…
Tesla is being sued by JP Morgan Chase in a massive $162 million lawsuit over stock warrants linked to CEO Elon Musk’s infamous “funding secured” Tweet from 2018 when Musk hinted toward taking the company private at $420. Court filings made public on Monday and reported by Barron’s showed JPMorgan Chase is alleging Tesla of branching a…
Ford has not been shy about the idea that the Mustang Mach-E GT is its most fun electric vehicle to date. Quick and powerful, the Mach-E GT promised zero-emissions fun behind the wheel. But in recent tests from auto review site Edmunds, it appears that the premium all-electric crossover features a weakness — one that could…
It appears that Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has been getting some attention from institutional investors in recent months. As per SEC disclosures, over 200 hedge funds and asset management firms added new positions in Tesla last quarter. Prolific hedge funds such as Renaissance Technologies, Aristides Capital, and Adage Capital Partners in particular grew their Tesla holdings by…
Not long after an updated Tesla Semi prototype was sighted charging in the Gigafactory Nevada complex, the Class 8 all-electric hauler was spotted alongside the battery factory’s regular fleet of trucks. This suggests that Tesla’s testing of the updated Semi is still ongoing, and it is already putting its new prototypes to work. The new…
Tesla Giga Berlin has received two more early approvals, announced Brandenburg’s Ministry of the Environment. Another round of repetition discussions about Giga Berlin’s full permit approval is scheduled to start on Tuesday. Giga Berlin’s latest set of preliminary permits allow Tesla to construct more parts of the factory’s wastewater pretreatment plant and install technical equipment in the…
A Tesla Semi was spotted charging at the company’s newly-installed Megachargers at the Giga Nevada production facility near Sparks, Nevada. Photographs of a Tesla Semi charging at Giga Nevada were shared by @hwfeinstein on Twitter, who stated that a friend of theirs saw a unit of the Semi charging outside of the factory, where Tesla…