After Tesla’s watershed event, Battery Day, many wondered why Tesla was introducing their own battery cell? Why not work with their oldest battery partner Panasonic? Sure enough, Panasonic recently teased more information about how the company is working with Tesla on developing the new 4680 battery cell for mass production at Giga Nevada. The Japanese firm is stepping up. In the Financial…
Reviewers from the United States and Europe appear to position Tesla’s Autopilot behind rival carmakers such as Mercedes-Benz and General Motors’ other driver-assist systems. This has been clear in recent assessments by organizations such as Thatcham Research and the Euro NCAP, as well as in Consumer Reports. Autopilot beat solutions such as Super Cruise in…
Most of us sometimes fail to look around and remember how grateful we are to have what we have. In times of relatively high tensions focused on the current election, a pandemic, and a string of bad luck that we all seemed to accept during 2020, there are a few suitable moments that allow us…
During its latest earnings call, Toyota’s president, Akio Toyoda, had some thoughts about Tesla. He was hesitant, but in the end, he shared his opinion. “I am hesitant to say this — Tesla’s business, if you want to use the analogy, is like that of a kitchen and a chef,” he said. “They have not created…
Some fascinating behaviors from the advanced driver-assist system were revealed in recent videos of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta in motion. The videos showed FSD performing some almost-characteristically-human driving tricks while moving around tight spaces, such as momentarily folding the side mirrors. The limited FSD beta user Whole Mars Catalog caught the side mirror trick of…
French renewable energy company Neoen and Tesla will partner to install another one of the world’s largest lithium-ion batteries in Australia, Bloomberg has reported. The contract with the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) will allow Neoen to move to the next phase of its 300 MW/450 MWh Victorian Big Battery in Geelong, which will become one of…
On Tuesday, Massachusetts voters approved an extension of the state’s 2012 “right to repair” law, and that might place electric car manufacturers in an uncomfortable place. The legislation is intended to ensure that individual owners and independent repair shops have the same access as franchised dealerships to parts, equipment, and software. The new law extension…
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) fans were blamed by David Einhorn for damaging reinsurer Greenlight Capital Re Ltd. owing to short positions in Tesla, the performance of the fund decreased year after year, hurting the return on investment. The notorious Einhorn has been a Tesla bear for a long time. On Greenlight Capital’s third-quarter conference call, Einhorn…
Kenya is one of the best places to drive electric vehicles (EVs). Kenya’s grid is very green thanks to awesome geothermal, wind, utility-scale solar, and hydropower plants. All of these make up 93% of Kenya’s generation capacity. Kenyan organization Drivelectric has also shown over a year-long exercise that driving electric in Kenya is so much cheaper than driving a…
Elon Musk noted that, in a recent tweet, Tesla is making “minor changes” to the current version of the Cybertruck to make it “better.” Musk may have tweeted about the “minor tweaks” made to the Cybertruck’s design earlier this year by Tesla’s chief designer Franz von Holzhausen and his team. Musk recently responded to an…