It’s safe to say that Tesla has its plate full right now. There’s the construction of three gigafactories simultaneously on three different continents. Then, there’s production prep for the company’s forthcoming Cybertruck, Semi, and Roadster. There’s a 5-for-1 stock split, (possible) S&P inclusion, and Battery Day. Nevertheless, it’s fun to speculate what we don’t (yet) know. Perhaps the biggest question is: what will be the next Tesla…
Sandy Munro worked in the automotive industry for decades before starting his consulting firm Munro & Associates. In recent years, the firm has made a name for itself with its unique insights into Tesla’s vehicles. Initially, Munro was extremely critical of Tesla’s shortcomings, but as Tesla has continued to improve over time, he has become…
“To accelerate the world’s transition to sustainable energy” A lot of us are familiar with this sentence, particularly for Tesla owners and investors. That’s right, that’s the mission statement for Tesla. In addition to being an American electric car and renewable energy manufacturer, Tesla also leads the way in cutting-edge software development. The company was…
Tesla started working to improve energy storage years ago in order to deal with the foreseeable rise in intermittent renewable energy production. Alongside scaling up battery production for electric cars, Tesla got to work scaling up battery production for stationary energy storage, which complemented each other both technically and economically. This work has been done…
If you have ambitions of working for Tesla, now would be a good time to apply. The company is on a hiring spree that could boost the number of its employees to about 65,000 by the end of this year, which would represent a 35% increase from the reported headcount at the end of 2019….
With Tesla’s share price now above $2,000, those who claimed just about half a year ago that the company was overvalued when it rose to $420 will probably have irritated eyes after so much rubbing them in ever-mounting disbelief. If they were also engaged in short selling, all they have left to do is to buy a pair of red…
A sweet animated video of the Tesla Semi’s drivetrain, from 2018, found its way to me and inspired this piece on the Tesla Semi and how electrifying semi trucks and other large vehicles will help our environment. The video is two years old, but it’s still a fun video to watch especially now that we are much…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has long spoken about the electric plane. He also said that he has a proposal for an electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (VTOL), but he never went into details of plans to bring it into service. Musk said it’s important to increase the specific energy of the batteries in…
Auto & Motor Insurance is a big industry in the US and Europe According to this site, State Farm is the #1 auto insurer in the US since 1942, ranked #36 on the 2019 Fortune 500 based on revenues, and has 44 million auto policies in force. From State Farm’s 2019 financial results: “The State Farm auto…
\n Elon Musk’s brain-machine interface company, Neuralink, is scheduled to hold an event later this week to update the public on its progress since the presentation last year. Although the agenda is largely speculative, one goal is a live demonstration of neuron activity. \n\n\n\n “Will show neurons firing in real-time on August 28th. The matrix…