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 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…
Tesla rolled out a new Adaptive Air Suspension widget display on the Instrument Panel of the Model S sedan and Model X SUV Instrument Panel. The addition came with the 2020.36 Software Update, which was released to owners on August 29th, 2020. Tesla announced enhancements to the Adaptive Suspension system in mid-August by introducing a…
Lucid Motors has released details on the powertrain it will use for its first electric vehicle, the Air. Lucid will be fitting the top configuration of the vehicle with a Dual-Motor, All-Wheel-Drive powertrain capable of 1,080 horsepower. The Air has also been able to complete consecutive quarter-mile runs in less than 10 seconds. Since 2016,…
Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission disclosed that, at the end of August, Edinburgh-based investment house Baillie Gifford, one of the largest institutional investors in Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA), cut its stake in the firm by 5 percent. What happened was a “enforced” reduction because of the sharp spike TSLA stock has witnessed in recent…
Tesla has started sending invites to a select number of investors for its 2020 Annual Shareholder Meeting and Battery Day event. Images of the invites began making the rounds online Tuesday, revealing that a randomized mechanism was used by the company when choosing which shareholders could attend the highly awaited event. Following is Tesla’s message. …
During the Q2 2020 Earnings Call, Tesla CEO Elon Musk pledged a ‘giant contract’ to a nickel supplier. The problem is that the company will have trouble finding an efficient and environmentally friendly nickel mine, and this could prove to be the biggest challenge Tesla has ever faced. Nickel is a crucial metal in batteries…
Initially, when Elon Musk said that Gigafactory Berlin will be developed in the same speed or even faster than Gigafactory Shanghai, many were suspicious, and some critics even took it upon themselves to ridicule the ambitious timetable for the facility by the CEO. As construction began on the vast plot of land and buildings began…
Tesla is building a new video game, software, and user interface team out of Austin, according to new job listings. With Gigafactory Texas under construction, Tesla has dozens of job listings in Austin related to building the new factory. However, Electrek has found several job listings unrelated to the factory showing that Tesla is building a new…
A proverbial bomb dropped on Tesla last year after CTO and co-founder JB Straubel revealed he was moving into an advisory role and walking away from his day-to-day duties within the company. Although Straubel told investors in his final earnings call that he was not “disappearing” from Tesla, after his departure he stayed notably under…