SpaceX borrows Tesla’s tent factory strategy for new Starship production HQ

Confirmed yesterday morning by CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX has copied Tesla’s approach to factory expansion and is building a giant tent to upgrade its South Texas Starship production facilities. A big step towards more traditional aerospace-style manufacturing facilities, SpaceX has contracted the same company used by Tesla to create a fourth general assembly line (GA4) […]

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk to join volunteers in end-of-year deliveries at Fremont

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is committed to ensuring the electric car maker meets its guidance of delivering 360,000 to 400,000 vehicles this year – so much that he’ll be assisting on vehicle deliveries on New Year’s Eve at the Fremont factory delivery hub. Coming from a busy weekend in Boca Chica, Texas with the SpaceX […]

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Tesla China-Made Model 3 has reached over 1,500/week production level

Tesla Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai plans to increase its current production by gradually ramping up to two shifts per day. At the moment, the facility is producing 280 vehicles per 10-hour shift or more than 1,500 vehicles per week on a six-day workweek. The facility will likely hit more than 3,000 Model 3 a week […]

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Elon Musk’s ‘Teslaquila’ may still be coming, after undergoing a few tweaks

Tesla CEO Elon Musk brought back to life the idea of a distilled, pure agave liquor aptly called Teslaquila, an obvious portmanteau of the Tesla electric car brand and the popular Mexican drink. And while interacting with his social media followers, Musk also seemed to have revived one of his older, fun projects — the […]

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Tesla Cybertruck on Mars: Elon Musk playfully ponders sending a pickup to the Red Planet

Tesla owners welcomed the news that Disney+ is coming to their in-car entertainment system and they can soon enjoy the popular Star Wars series The Mandalorian, but no one can deny that the force is also strong with this one — a Tesla Cybertruck aboard the SpaceX Starship during its initial mission to Mars. One […]

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SpaceX’s Elon Musk reveals schedule for Crew Dragon’s astronaut launch debut

On the heels of a brand new animation simulating the spacecraft’s next orbital launch milestone, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has revealed a tentative schedule for Crew Dragon’s astronaut launch debut. Known as Demo-2, short for Crew Dragon’s second orbital demonstration mission, the launch could make SpaceX the first commercial company in history to send astronauts […]

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