Tesla has released a paid Acceleration Boost upgrade for the Model Y Dual Motor AWD. The upgrade, which could be purchased for $2,000 through the “Upgrades” tab in the Tesla mobile app, improves the 0-60 mph performance of the all-electric crossover from 4.8 seconds to 4.3 seconds. That’s about 10% quicker than the vehicle’s initial […]
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The hearings for Gigafactory Berlin’s opposition have begun, and things are off to a rather rocky start. About an hour after the meeting began on Wednesday, the proceedings were interrupted due to a petition alleging that officials have a pervading pro-Tesla bias. Earlier this month, Ulrich Stock, the head of the technical environmental protection department […]
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It appears that the first roadblocks to Tesla’s plans to produce its own lithium are beginning to emerge, with critics noting that the electric car maker’s initiatives may very well be mired in several challenges. These include a potentially exhausting permitting process, as well as pervading questions about the company’s planned lithium-producing technologies. During Tesla’s […]
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In a recent interview with a German auto publication, battery expert Maximilian Fichtner remarked that Tesla could move far beyond the reach of its competitors, even if it fails to achieve all of the goals that were presented during Battery Day. This, according to Fichtner, is partly due to competitors not doing enough to further […]
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During Tesla’s Battery Day event, Elon Musk and Drew Baglino announced that its pilot Roadrunner cell production line would be capable of producing about 10 GWh worth of batteries per year. The facility’s output was almost spoken as an aside, with both executives simply stating its target as a given. A closer look at the […]
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Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) effectively changed the electric car game with its Battery Day event by outlining a path towards an annual output of 20 million vehicles and a battery cell production output of 3 TWh by 2030. That’s undoubtedly impressive, and it gives a great glimpse at what is to come for Tesla’s electric cars and […]
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The announcement of the Plaid Model S during Tesla’s recently-held Battery Day showed that the electric car maker is now at a place where it could offer a four-door family sedan that is capable of accelerating from 0-60 mph in less than 2 seconds while traveling over 520 miles per charge. The vehicle is undoubtedly […]
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This year’s Annual Shareholder Meeting will be one for the books, partly due to the fact that it’s followed immediately by Battery Day, a highly-anticipated event that’s been more than a year in the making. Both events are incredibly important for the company, though the hype surrounding Battery Day has been quite extraordinary. Part of […]
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The auto market has come to a point where it’s now difficult to deny that electric vehicles will be the dominant form of transportation in the near future. With companies like Tesla pushing the envelope for what electric cars can do and events such as Battery Day previewing technology that could bring EVs even closer […]
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With Battery Day just a few hours away, Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears to have decided to set some expectations for the upcoming and highly-anticipated event. In a series of tweets, Musk clarified that the innovations which would be announced on Battery Day will be affecting Tesla’s long-term production, with the technology not reaching serious […]
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