According to a tweet from the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, Tesla is shifting their standard-range car batteries from lithium-ion to iron-cathode. Musk cites concerns with nickel and the challenges of scaling lithium-ion production as the reason for the move. Tesla already fits the Chinese-built Standard Range Model 3 with Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) batteries, which […]
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BMW CEO Oliver Zipse has responded to Tesla’s bold claims that it expects an average annual sales growth of 50%. The German exec threw doubt on the manufacturer’s ability to maintain its hold on the EV market at the DLD All Stars conference on Monday. “It won’t be easy for Tesla to continue at that […]
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Tesla’s share price fell 8.6% on Monday and has seen values fall at least 15% this week. The drop, which analysts report is at least partly down to CEO Elon Musk’s actions, has seen his personal value fall by some $15 billion. Monday’s stock price drop was the sharpest one-day fall since September and follows […]
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This morning, Tesla announced they purchased $1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin. During their filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), CEO Elon Musk justified the purchase as a way to have “more flexibility to further diversify and maximize returns on its cash”. After that, he went on to mention that the company might start […]
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Last week, Tesla revealed a comprehensive update for the Model S and Model X and if you can look past all the insane performance specifications of the Plaid and Plaid Plus models, it is the revamped interiors of the duo that have triggered the most headlines. The highlight is the yoke-style steering wheel of the […]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the much-anticipated Roadster won’t enter production until 2022, acknowledging that the electric supercar is delayed for roughly two years. When Musk revealed the Roadster in concept form back in 2017, he said that Tesla was going to put it into production in 2020. However, things obviously didn’t go as […]
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Many questions were raised by Tesla’s decision to give the updated 2021 Model S and Model X a steering yoke and whether that’s legal and safe, but apparently, the carmaker also had another option hidden inside their website’s code. And we say “had” because shortly after the discovery of a normal, round steering wheel option, […]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Thursday that he would be awarding a $100 million prize for the “best carbon capture technology.” Musk made the announcement on Twitter, following it with another tweet promising “details next week.” The tweets follow another last week, in which he asked for help in finding ways to donate his vast […]
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Tesla is looking to recruit someone that will handle “social media escalations” against chief executive Elon Musk. Ever since the electric car manufacturer killed off its PR department last year, Elon Musk’s official Twitter account has become the main channel that the company and Musk use to communicate with the public. Evidently, Musk can’t do […]
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Just because Tesla makes electric vehicles it doesn’t mean that Elon Musk didn’t have his fair share of ICE-powered cars. Besides his Teslas, he’s owned a BMW E21 320i, a Jaguar E-Type, and the Lotus Esprit submarine from The Spy Who Loved Me, to name but a few. The year is 1999, and the man […]
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