According to a report from Electrek, Hawaii is building a massive new battery energy storage system (BESS) on the island of Oahu using 158 Tesla Megapacks. The project will replace the state’s last remaining coal-burning power plant. Dubbed the Kapolei Energy Storage (KES) facility, the project will store excess solar power generated during the day […]
Volkswagen on Monday unveiled a concept for its first all-electric limousine, the ID. AERO, in China. The car will be the German automaker’s first global, fully-electric sedan and the sixth member of the ID. family after the ID.3, ID.4, ID.5, ID.6, and ID. Buzz. “With the ID. AERO show car, we are revealing a preview […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday sat down for an interview with CleanTechnica‘s Johnna Crider (@JohnnaCrider1) at the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. The interview was for Crider’s podcast, Getting Stoned, and will be released “soon.” “Getting Stoned is a podcast about gems, minerals, and fun conversations that may go off-topic,” reads the podcast’s description on […]
Polish developer Michał Gapiński (@mikegapinski)’s hacky workaround for bringing Apple CarPlay to a Tesla, dubbed the ‘Tesla Android Project,’ has announced a new update with improvements and support for more Tesla cars. The update, version 2022.25.1, offers “100% functional CarPlay integration for any Tesla.” According to Gapiński, version 2022.25.1 also comes with an abundance of […]
According to the latest statistics from elbilstatistikk.no, Tesla’s Model Y has dominated new passenger car sales in Norway so far this month and this year (via InsideEVs). The all-electric crossover had a lull in sales for the past couple of months, but it appears to be rebounding. As of June 25, Tesla has sold nearly […]
Volkswagen Group of America has lost two key electric vehicle executives, ahead of the company’s plans to ramp up production of its ID.4, reports Automotive News. VW Group of America’s vice president for e-mobility, Matt Renna, has departed the company. He has since become head of hardware for autonomous delivery vehicle company Nuro in March, […]
The Vision EQXX electric vehicle (EV) from Mercedes-Benz has set a new record for range, travelling 747 miles (1,202 km) from the company’s home base in Stuttgart, Germany to the Silverstone racetrack in the U.K. on a single charge — reports CNET. Mercedes’s Vision EQXX toppled its own previous record, which was 626.3 miles (1,007 […]
According to recent reports from Tesla enthusiasts Tobias Lindh (@tobilindh) and Troy Teslike (@TroyTeslike), the company’s Gigafactories in Texas and Berlin, Germany, have both started producing the Long Range trim of the Model Y. Up until now, both plants were only producing the Performance variant of the all-electric crossover. Lindh noticed “at least two rows” […]
SpaceX has filed applications to deploy six new Starlink ground stations in the United Kingdom to improve coverage and help meet user demand in the nation — reports SpaceNews. Starlink is a high-speed broadband internet service from SpaceX powered by a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). The service is designed to provide […]
According to The Intercept, the office of U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) at the Pentagon exploring SpaceX’s Starship as means to quickly deploy military reaction teams anywhere in the world. The intel comes from documents the publication obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request. USTRANSCOM partnered with SpaceX in 2020 to assess Starship’s viability for logistics. […]
Here’s a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up across the globe this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing June 14, 2022 Hotellplan 2, Gäddede, Sweden 3 250 kW Tesla June 14, 2022 Hai’an St, Budai Township, Chiayi County, […]
Tesla, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to appear at this year’s Qatar Economic Forum in Doha, Qatar. The Qatar Economic Forum is an annual gathering of world leaders and entrepreneurs organized by Bloomberg. For this year’s event, the organizers settled on the theme “Equalising the Global Recovery.” The event will run from June 20 […]
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta continues to roll out to more testers, and now we’re seeing the test software expand to owners with Safety Scores as low as 93. Canadian Tesla owner @RonMadison11, who has a Safety Score of 93, received the 2022.12.3.20 firmware update that brings FSD beta 10.12.2 on Sunday. The Model Y […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a Saturday tweet that the company is changing the default Wi-Fi network name for its Starlink user terminals to “Stinky.” Starlink is a high-speed broadband internet service from SpaceX that connects to a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit (LEO). SpaceX intends for the service to provide affordable […]
SpaceX has achieved yet another feat in the space travel and logistics space by successfully pulling off a total of three missions aboard its Falcon 9 rockets in less than 48 hours. Company CEO Elon Musk on late Saturday evening congratulated SpaceX staff on hitting the milestone. Congrats to SpaceX Falcon team for executing 3 […]
