Tesla celebrates China-Made Model 3 at Shanghai Gigafactory Delivery Ceremony

Less than a year since Tesla CEO Elon Musk participated in Gigafactory 3’s groundbreaking ceremony, the first batch of Made-in-China Model 3 were delivered to their owners. The event is a milestone for Tesla, as it showed that the company is capable of meeting Elon Musk’s own ambitious targets, and perhaps even exceeding them.  The […]

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SpaceX’s Elon Musk works through holidays on Starship’s “most difficult part”

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he has been working through the holidays at the company’s Boca Chica facilities to get Starship’s “most difficult part” ready for the next-generation spacecraft’s next prototype and flight tests. Known as tank domes or bulkheads, Musk says that the hardware is the most difficult part of building and assembly Starship’s […]

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Tesla owner gets surprise ‘preview’ of traffic pylons while on Autopilot

A Tesla Model 3 owner recently received a pleasant surprise when his vehicle started displaying tube pylons while operating on Autopilot. The new visuals became evident as the car was passing through a section of the highway that was laid with both traffic cones and pylons.  According to Model 3 owner and r/TeslaMotors subreddit member […]

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Tesla activates Trans-Canadian Supercharger route


This may not be as momentous an occasion as the 1869 opening of the Transcontinental Railroad – but almost. Tesla’s Trans-Canada Supercharger route, which has been under construction for over a year, is now operational, allowing Tesla drivers to take the northern route from coast to coast. Most of the locations are equipped with Tesla’s… Read more »

Nexeon acquires 24 patents for silicon anodes


Silicon anode specialist Nexeon has acquired three sets of patents relating to the use of silicon in lithium-ion battery anodes. The 24 patents cover the manufacture and use of nano-scale silicon particles, alone or combined with graphite, as well as methods for coating carbon particles with silicon using vapor deposition. The patents have global coverage,… Read more »