As Tesla reaches new heights and Wall Street firms start acknowledging the electric car maker’s potential, CEO Elon Musk has blazed the trail for a new breed of billionaires across the globe. Interestingly enough, Musk and his fellow billionaires are making their fortune not through non-sustainable commodities like fossil fuels. Instead, they are creating empires…
Tesla’s Shanghai Supercharger production plant has gone online, the company announced today. “Today, with the strong support of Shanghai governments at all levels and Tesla’s rapid advancement, the Tesla Shanghai Supercharging Pile Factory was officially completed and put into production, representing the industry’s leading third-generation Supercharging pile (V3) was officially off the assembly line,” Tesla’s…
New photos of the SpaceX Starship program’s first Super Heavy confirm that the booster prototype – known as Booster Number 1 (BN1) and set to become the largest rocket booster ever built – is already halfway complete. Set to be the world’s tallest, heaviest, and most powerful liquid rocket booster ever built, Super Heavy is…
Several Tesla models, including the yet-to-be released Cybertruck, offer a Tri Motor All-Wheel Drive powertrain option. Choosing this platform often provides the most horsepower and top speeds for respective models, though they inevitably come with a significantly higher cost. For some, the bump in performance alone will be worth the expensive price tag. For others, it might be…
A recently leaked image from the Fremont Factory has provided what could very well be the first look at the Tesla Model S and Model X refresh’s front “megacastings.” Provided that the leaked images are accurate, it would appear that Tesla’s updated flagship vehicles would feature some of the company’s most advanced casting technologies. The…
A new Tesla Semi with a white paint job, updated window design, smoked headlights, and updated tail lights was spotted in Sacramento, California. While the vehicle’s sighting seemed brief, the images suggest that Tesla has implemented some notable changes to the Semi’s design. The new Semi images were shared by Tesla owner The Kilowatts, who was…
SpaceX and financial company Shift4 have revealed what could become the world’s first private orbital astronaut launch – and two of Crew Dragon’s four seats are up for grabs in a public raffle for charity. The venture has been deemed Inspiration4 and is closely related to the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and charity, spearheaded…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk convinced Robinhood frontman Vlad Tenev to “spill the beans” regarding spontaneous trade restrictions on stocks during a Clubhouse meeting on Sunday evening. Tenev has been under heavy fire from retail investors who use the Robinhood platform for trading ever since subreddit WallStreetBets has caused several publicly traded companies to skyrocket in…
Elon Musk recently used Clubhouse, a drop-in audio chat service, to talk about a number of interesting topics. The CEO of Tesla and SpaceX spoke during the session about the Mars ambitions of SpaceX, aliens and UFOs, cryptocurrency, Neuralink, use of Lidar, and more. When asked about the SpaceX Mars project, Musk noted that he…
nThe installation of Tesla Gigafactory Texas’ first Giga Press has made significant progress. Parts of the mammoth Giga Press IDRA Group made for Tesla’s Model Y single-piece castings were spotted in the Giga Texas complex the week before the company’s earnings call, and this weekend, one of the machines has already taken form. nnnnThe Model Y Giga…