The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has not been kind to any industry – the automotive market included. CTVNews reports a significant downtrend in electric vehicle sales in Canada, with its instigators being the global lull caused by the pandemic and, more importantly, stunted supply of EVs in the region. Want to buy an electric vehicle? In some […]
Drone footage recently published on YouTube by Oneshot Creative gives us a visual account of the construction progress made on Nikola Corporation’s $600 million production facility in Coolidge, Arizona. Nikola Corp. broke ground on this project on July 23, 2020. Being built on a 430-acre chunk of land located off U.S Highway 87 on East Houser […]
In a recent YouTube video documenting the progress made in the construction of Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory, Giga Berlin revealed that contractors have now broken ground on an additional 5 hectares of land for a transformer substation. Construction on the Giga Berlin site, located some 20 miles south-east of central Berlin, is currently underway. Following in […]
A cluster of six giant Tesla batteries was used to supply power to British households for the first time in history, reports Bloomberg. The Holes Bay energy storage project in Dorset, U.K., consists of six of Tesla’s gargantuan Megapack batteries. The cluster of Megapack batteries can store energy generated by sources of renewable energy, and […]
After success in the electric car charging business in Norway and other parts of northern Europe, Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is now looking to make a move on the EV charging market in North America, reports BNN Bloomberg. Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Couche-Tard owns Circle K–a global chain of convenience stores. According to CEO Brian […]
Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, aptly dubbed Battery Day, takes place September 22, 2020, after being pushed back due to the ongoing pandemic. While there’s rampant chatter of new entry-level models and a revolutionary million-mile battery, both may be a ways away. Patrick Hummel, analyst at the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS), detailed what we can expect to […]
