Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk reportedly told attendees at an auto industry event that the automaker’s fourth Gigafactory will be built just outside Berlin, Germany. Musk was receiving the Golden Steering Wheel Award from German auto publication Auto Bild Tuesday when he made the announcement. Musk has been talking about building a factory in Europe for…
SpaceX lofted 60 satellites Monday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket being used for the fourth time. The satellites will be used for SpaceX’s Starlink planned broadband network. The company now has 120 satellites in orbit and plans for thousands that will beam high-speed Internet signals from space. The Falcon 9 departed Cape Canaveral at 9:56 a.m….
The Tesla Model Ys are out for testing, as motorists continue to see the all-electric crossover on public roadways. The sightings are leading to a few possible new details about the vehicle, including badging that hints at a performance version and wheels that look a lot like the set shown on the prototype Model 3….
Tesla is set to debut the “Cybertruck” on Nov. 21 in Los Angeles. Chief Executive Elon Musk has said the much-anticipated all-electric pickup is the company’s “best product ever.” Musk tweeted the event details Wednesday. The truck has long been teased as a completely different style of pickup than what is offered by the leading…
Tesla owners who have experienced trouble with the car’s self-driving Smart Summon feature have discovered that there’s a way to update the maps used for routing. TMC member Armee_1 discovered that Tesla seems to be using Open Street Maps (OSM) for parking lot mapping. What’s more, owners can create an account with the open source project…
Tesla is reaching out to Roadster owners about a new dedicated channel for service and a trade-in program. Several TMC members have reported receiving such a note. An example was shared by dhrivnak, which says: According to our records, we believe you own Roadster 5XXXXXXB881000255. We appreciate your support for Tesla and its first product. We…
Images of the Model Y in the wild have been streaming in. Now, we have video footage. It’s pretty cool to see Tesla Model Y pre-production prototypes out driving on public roads, not only in California, near the automaker’s Fremont factory, but also in areas much further away from the Tesla home base. We’ve shared…
Panasonic said this week in its earnings report that it is ramping up battery production at Gigafactory 1, its joint venture with Tesla. “We are quickly ramping up battery production (at the Gigafactory), but improvements in production efficiency have been delayed,” Chief Financial Officer Hirokazu Umeda said in a briefing Thursday. Umeda added that Gigafactory…
Tesla’s solar business got some shine last week when the company reported an increase in deployments and the launch of a new version of its solar roof. “So all in all, the roadmap for energy products from solar, Solar Roof, Powerwall to Megapack is super exciting, and I expect Tesla Energy to become a larger…
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