Tag: Elon Musk

Tesla is continuing its Chinese expansion, this time opening a Supercharging station in Chengdu, China. Festivities were held on site at the Chengdu Yingtai Centre, where six Supercharging stations opened, according to Teslarati. Commercial real estate developer Yintai Holdings, known for its luxurious Chinese shopping malls, helped complete the deal. This is Tesla’s breakthrough into western China. The company already

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The first (as far as we know) Tesla Model S convertible was recently spotted on the streets of San Francisco. And now, thanks to a perhaps-a-bit-nosy someone, we can take a gander at it too (thanks to the photos they took). 🙂 Hard to know what to make of the vehicle, especially when you consider the money that went into

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Tesla Model S owners, rejoice! Another software update recently made its way over the air, giving owners further personalization options and a number of new features/tweaks. The Software v6.0 over-the-air update also introduces a new traffic-based navigation system which provides real-time advice on possible travel routes, as well as a number of other new features. Some of the other interesting

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Tesla Motors will decisively, even state by state if necessary, win its ongoing war with the car dealership associations, according to a recent op-ed by a prominent industry journalist. The most that the dealership associations can hope for with their lawsuits is a short delay to Tesla’s expansion and growth — a delay that won’t stop the turning tide, according

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Editor’s Note: If you caught Elon Musk and JB Straubel’s Norway town hall in February, you might recall Elon stating that it was “likely” Tesla would bring the first autonomous car to market. That was before Google unveiled a fully autonomous prototype electric car, of which it is building approximately 100 for testing. It seems from other statement that Elon

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Last week an area outside of Reno, Nevada was chosen as the site of the first Tesla battery Gigafactory. In addition to bringing 6,500 much-needed jobs and a cutting-edge manufacturing facility to Nevada, Elon Musk has also promised to power the Gigafactory using only its own, green energy sources. Can it be done, and if so, how? It is no

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Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA)’s Elon Musk said the electric-car maker may form another partnership with Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), as the companies conclude an initial vehicle project that met with mixed results.“If you look out maybe two or three years from now, I would not be surprised if there was a significant deal with Toyota and Tesla,” Musk, Tesla’s chief

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Lots of electric-car news today. Elon Musk hints at a possible second collaboration between Tesla Motors and Toyota, California now has more than 100,000 plug-in cars on its roads, and the Saleen Foursixteen shows exactly what it can do in a new video. All this and more on Green Car Reports.California has hit a plug-in car milestone. There are now

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The new factory, which is anticipated to double the global capacity for lithium-ion batteries and is 20 times as large as the biggest battery factory now in production, will be used to principally supply hundreds of thousands of new generation Tesla electric cars but several market analysts are questioning the viability of the investment. Nevada was selected after offering a

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One of the primary obstacles to EV ownership in China has been a total lack of charging stations, which has spurred both private and public enterprises to resolve the problem. As China’s government is readying a $16 billion investment in EV charging stations, Tesla has announced plans to install 400 of its own charging stations in 120 Chinese cities. Bloomberg

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