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Tesla has the ambition of getting Autopilot advanced to Feature Complete Full Self Driving by 2020. At that point they seem to need a special sort of data collection, basically a way of testing Tesla Network Robo Taxi features with a safety driver in place on a massive scale. Waymo and others...

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/21/tesla-lawmakers/104826286/ The lawsuit in Federal Court advances by an important step.

It's a logical move. Would it be negative or perhaps by eliminating an uncertainty actually trigger higher prices?

Tesla’s battery cell presentation at the Gigafactory: ‘the output of this thing is going to be insane’ [audio of Q&A]

As Tesla AP advances toward L4 and L5, it will need a more sophisticated voice interface that's able to handle pretty much everything. If it's useful some functions might be interactive with the touch screen or a HUD displaying choices or relevant information. This is especially needed for use...

Elon Tweeted: 2h2 hours ago Elon Musk ‏@elonmusk Solar glass tiles can also incorporate heating elements, like rear defroster on a car, to clear roof of snow and keep generating energy ... and responded to a question that yes they could do this efficiently for significant net gains. This is...

New Lithium–Oxygen Battery Is Scalable, Cheap and Quite Promising A paper in Nature Energy and some buzz on the web from a couple weeks ago. New battery tech announcements aren't usually worth much attention but this one seems to come from pretty credible sources and cover most of the bases as...

Comparison of Tesla Auto Pilot with Mercedes new 2017 efforts. Not much of a contest. The War For Autonomous Driving: 2017 Mercedes-Benz E-Class VS. 2017 Tesla Model S

Nader: Technology not ready for fully autonomous cars His main argument is they'd be vulnerable to hacking. If he thinks it's too risky to build our society on technology that can be hacked he's a bit late with the warning. This favors versions that are as closed and vertically integrated as...

The new Tesla Plan emphasized the idea that Mobility fleets connected to Apps would let Tesla owners send their vehicles off to work for them earning the owner money when they don't need them allowing many more people to afford a Tesla. It also stated that when there aren't enough owners...

Michigan bills to permit fully autonomous vehicles and mobility apps. Michigan moves to lead driverless car testing Would make Michigan first state with full legal framework for autonomy, both testing and commercial operation.

The snake charger has often been seen as a silly extravagance if it's thought of as an amenity for a Tesla owner's garage. Instead it might be a solution to critical bottleneck in operating autonomous fleets. Snake chargers would allow Tesla's to charge themselves without human involvement when...

Will Model 3 be fully drive-by-wire including steering, brakes and accelerator? It makes sense that any vehicle that's ready for L4 Autonomous driving could also be fully drive by wire because any safety or redundancy arguments for mechanical linkages are moot if it's trusted and designed to be...

How about a section for Solar City? SCTY is often interesting to TSLA investors as the other public Musk company and it does have links to Tesla Motors. Tesla Energy batteries are sold through it. Solar City is part of the answer to critics concerns about charging with electricity from a dirty...

There's a French company that got a government contract to pave 1000 km of road with PV. Wattway by Colas | Paving the way to tomorrow’s energy This is a serious company with decades of experience in road building. This seems like a much more serious project and technology than the US couple...

As a speculative exercise, what do you think the global demand would be in the next couple years if current Model X was fully self driving? Based on the current business model for the auto industry of mostly selling to owner/drivers, there's a pretty limited demand for $80K + vehicles. Tesla...

While the snake charger is a nice toy for Elon's garage and I'm sure they could sell them even at pretty high prices it wasn't immediately obvious to me what serious purpose might be served by saving the 30 seconds or so it takes to manually plug the car into a charger. Later it started to seem...

There are several companies in the BEV Bus biz, among the most prominent are BYD and Proterra. None of them appear to have as good a solution as they'd have using Tesla battery packs and modified power train. City buses are a great vehicle category for disruption both as pure electrics and with...

The P85D is already in supercar territory in acceleration and handling. It's got limitations on maximum speed and especially sustained high speed that likely limit it's performance on the Nurburgring. Are there realistic modifications that could make a P85D Nurburgring Edition possible? Dual...

Tesla will hit the 200K ceiling for the current US tax credit either before or very soon after starting production of the Model 3, just when it would make the most difference to volume sales that are much more price sensitive. Why the Nissan Leaf is labeled even though 80 percent of it is...

I am noticing an increase in business articles picking up on Toyota, Kia and allies PR releases suggesting they will compete with Tesla using hydrogen fuel cell based vehicles. Since these are serious companies they are taken seriously. There also seem to be online fans who vigorously support...

Stuff meets Elon Musk | Stuff A British website interview with Elon Musk containing some often repeated comments but also some new stuff I was surprised by, including a suggestion for Google's self-driving car that got me to literally lol and some details about Tesla autopilot ambitions that I...

Formula e racing in it's current form is limited by it's battery tech. IMHO it makes a poor showcase for the performance potential of electric cars using the pretty lame device of having the driver switch to a different fully charged car when the power runs low. If they redesigned the formula...

There are probably other threads on this but I haven't seen them. Im wondering how adaptable the Model S platform is to pushing performance beyond the current top specs as a high end sort of Nurburgring edition. Clearly the platform can have AWD with a second motor as for the Model X. Does...

http://store.ferrari.com/en/ http://www.scuderiacollection.com/category_s/20.htm?gclid=CIzeysjgsrkCFSVgMgodhzUAGw What about Tesla greatly expanding (while still being selective about) it's licensing and sale of other merchandise? Ferrari is an interesting model. Ferrari like Tesla doen't do...

The last public offering by Tesla (accompanied by a major buy announcement by Elon Musk) was spectacularly successful in that it didn't halt the upward trajectory of the stock and may have helped by eliminating major issues (the federal loan, debt overhang, the pace and scope of the supercharger...

At the recent Shareholders meeting, a shareholder who self identified as Eric Gross asked Elon whether Tesla had a program to develop charging in the "hospitality industry". Elon responded that they had worked with a few hotels and that since it was overnight they didn't need a supercharger just...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rooftop_photovoltaic_installations With a 5 million square foot plant in a relatively sunny climate, Tesla is in a position to get some very positive coverage by becoming both the largest rooftop solar installation in the world and the only "solar powered...

It's often brought up that Tesla's direct competition has the technical capacity to produce model S and X killers and it's only a matter of time until Mercedes, BMW, Lexus crush the upstart american New kid. There's a social/organizational problem with that scenario though. I think it's not a...