Tesla and other American electric automakers are set to benefit from President Joe Biden’s plan to make the Government fleet fully electric, he said in a White House Press Conference on Monday. Biden, a supporter of sustainable energy, laid out his plan to rebuild America’s economy through jobs through manufacturing on Monday. Among his many…
A Tesla Model Y engineer, who suggested the heat pump’s inclusion, has left the company after ten years, his LinkedIn account said. Joseph Mardall served as the Engineering Director for Tesla from April 2018 to January 2021 but has held several other roles with the electric automaker since joining the company in February 2011 as…
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has a new bull in Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, who bought a substantial sum of the automaker’s stock, new government filings show. Pelosi, originally from Baltimore, Maryland, and now a California-based Democrat, bought 25 call options on December 22nd, one day after joining the S&P 500. The calls have a…
In response to a CleanTechnica story about Waymo CEO John Krafcik’s interview with German business publication Manager Magazin, Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave his thoughts on Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle project. “To my surprise, Tesla has better AI hardware & software than Waymo (money),” he tweeted. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1353564655088619520?s=20 In the interview, Waymo CEO John Krafcik said Tesla is not a competitor to Waymo. …
The Boring Company’s Vegas Loop doesn’t have an opening date. But when it does, CEO Elon Musk is preparing a Fallout-themed opening party for the event, launching a new age of Las Vegas tourist transportation. On Sunday afternoon, Musk tweeted a photograph of him and his three children from the loading dock of the Vegas…
Tesla has referred to “Semi-Truck production lines” at Gigafactory Nevada in a new job posting – hinting at actual production of the Tesla Semi electric truck at the factory. Tesla Semi When launching Tesla Semi in 2017, the automaker said that the production versions of Tesla Semi, which are class 8 trucks with 80,000-lb. capacities,…
The new Refreshed Tesla Model S and its new features were seen in new photos from the Tesla Fremont Factory obtained by Teslarati, confirming the long-standing rumors that the company’s flagship sedan will be updated nine years after its initial release. Slight cosmetic changes were applied to the vehicle to improve aerodynamic performance in a…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has successfully delivered 143 spacecraft to orbit, snagging a world record for most satellites launched in one go that’s likely to remain unchallenged indefinitely. Marking the second polar launch from the US East Coast in half a century and SpaceX’s second such launch overall, the Transporter-1 is likely first of…
Pity the poor, unloved auto dealerships. If they disappeared, who would mourn their passing? Car buyers certainly wouldn’t miss the pushy salespeople, byzantine pricing, or overpriced repairs. Automakers would surely cry some crocodile tears, but they would probably be glad to adopt Tesla’s direct sales model, which gives the California carmaker complete control over how…
Tesla is suing a recently hired software engineer who the company claims has stolen critical automated software from its WARP Drive ERP system. Tesla WARP Drive While most automakers use commonly known enterprise software from third parties like SAP, Tesla instead decided to build its own from scratch. Tesla’s longtime chief information officer Jay Vijayan,…