SpaceX accepts delivery of NASA’s DART asteroid impact spacecraft

NASA says that the Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) impactor spacecraft has arrived at SpaceX’s Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) facilities for a launch later this month. After being carefully packaged for shipment from Maryland’s Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab (JHUAPL) on September 29th, the small 690 kg (~1500 lb) spacecraft was transported by […]

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Tesla partner Panasonic tackles 4680 battery cell mass production

After presenting the new, potentially revolutionary batteries to the public last month, Panasonic is preparing to mass produce its 4680 cells next. The 4680 cells are pivotal to Tesla’s plans to become a legitimate mass manufacturer of quality electric vehicles. “In terms of product development, the technological goals have largely been achieved. The new batteries have […]

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Tesla’s cloud-synced driver profiles to bring custom settings across multiple cars

Hints of Tesla’s cloud-synced driver profiles were sprinkled in the code of its latest over-the-air update, version 2021.40. A new feature labeled “Cloud Profiles” was spotted Under Driver Profiles. It gave drivers the option to “Enable Vehicle Sync.”  According to Notes Tesla App, Cloud Profiles isn’t quite ready yet. However, the UI of Cloud Profiles in Tesla’s […]

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UK: More plug-in vehicles to be registered in 2021 than the whole of the last decade

New plug-in vehicle uptake rates have accelerated so rapidly that more will join Britain’s roads in 2021 than during the whole of the last decade, according to the latest forecast from SMMT. A total of 271,962 new battery electric and plug-in hybrid ve…