Tesla’s ‘Roadrunner’ facility gets a neighbor working on tech beyond the million-mile battery

As the wait for Tesla’s Battery Day continues, more and more speculations are abounding about what the electric car maker might reveal during the highly-anticipated event. Elon Musk has stated that Battery Day’s announcements will be mind-blowing, and based on apparent clues recently observed by the Tesla community, it appears that the CEO may be […]

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SpaceX’s reusable rockets snag two more launch contracts

SpaceX’s reusable Falcon 9 rocket has secured another two launch contracts, this time from longtime customer and prolific satellite communications provider SES. In 2016, SES acquired satellite operator and communications provider O3B Networks, inheriting a network of 12 O3B satellites that it would later shepherd into a full 20-satellite constellation. Built by contractor Thales Alenia […]

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‘Daily driver’ Tesla Model Y achieves near-supercar lap times around Laguna Seca

One of the best things about Tesla’s electric cars is the fact that they could transition from being practical family haulers to high-performance vehicles without any effort at all. Take the Tesla Model Y, for example. Just recently, a Model Y with Unplugged Performance parts achieved near-supercar lap times in Laguna Seca, despite being a […]

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Tesla (TSLA) bear refuses to change his $87 price target

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock has a healthy combination of both bulls and bears, enthusiasts and skeptics, long-holders and short-sellers. However, Gordon Johnson of GLJ Research is sticking with an $87 price target for the electric automaker, and he refuses to change it until the end of 2021. Johnson is CEO of GLJ, and he is […]

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Tesla expands Powerwall Coordination in new update amid CA outages

Tesla is releasing a wide rollout of its Powerwall Coordination feature with Model Y vehicles in a new software update as California residents are experiencing power outages and rolling blackouts. Software Update 2020.32.3 first appeared on a Tesla Model Y LR AWD on Saturday, August 22, 2020, according to TeslaScope, and included several rollouts for […]

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Porsche Taycan takes on the Moose Test and bows down to Tesla Model 3’s record

The Porsche Taycan is arguably one of the best-handling vehicles today, electric or otherwise. The vehicle is the German automaker’s flagship all-electric car, embodying the experience gathered and refined by Porsche through its decades of experience in vehicle production and design. The Taycan is a stellar vehicle, the Taycan Turbo S even more so. But […]

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Tesla (TSLA) gets 71% increase on bull case from Wedbush

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is poised for a possible 71% spike in stock price, according to a new note from Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, who increased his bull case for the electric automaker’s stock to $3,500 from $2,500. Ives, who handles TSLA’s evaluation for Wedbush, bases his new increased bull case on the company’s upside […]

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Tesla’s ‘Roadrunner’ cell production facility is taking form ahead of Battery Day

Tesla’s Battery Day is only a few weeks away, and as the electric vehicle community eagerly waits for the highly-anticipated event, the company’s pilot battery production line appears to be well on its way to being completed, and perhaps even ramped. This was hinted at by a recent drone flyover of Tesla’s building at Kato […]

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Tesla Gigafactory Berlin accelerates as mysterious tent gets set up onsite

The construction of Gigafactory Berlin continues to accelerate, and while the site appears to be quiet during Sundays, the progress of the site’s ongoing construction has been nothing short of phenomenal. Recent flyovers and images taken of the Giga Berlin complex have even shown something familiar that has been recently set up on site: a […]

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SpaceX’s second Starship hop imminent after Raptor static fire test

SpaceX has successfully fired up a new Starship prototype’s Raptor engine, putting the company on track for its second Starship hop test as soon as this week. The milestone comes not long after SpaceX Starship serial number 6 (SN6) completed its first cryogenic proof, a pressure test with liquid nitrogen (LN2) used to safely verify […]

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