Tesla stock (NASDAQ:TSLA) is maintaining its gains during Tuesday’s early morning trading, closing in on the $300 per share mark amidst a rather surprising acknowledgement from one of the company’s most prominent skeptics after the reveal of a highly-anticipated rival to the Tesla Model X — the Audi e-tron. UBS Group AG is not a […]
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SpaceX is set for a surprise event that is expected to revolve the announcement of a newly-contracted launch planned to send a private individual around the Moon with BFR, potentially queuing up a true race (back) to the Moon between SpaceX and NASA sometime in the early to mid-2020s. Alongside the official announcement and a […]
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When Elon Musk revealed the specs of the Model 3 Performance on Twitter, he noted that the electric sedan would be able to outperform iconic high-performance cars like the BMW M3 around the track. In true Tesla tradition, the Model 3 Performance is a beast when it comes to acceleration, with the electric sedan being […]
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It is easy to develop an attachment for Tesla’s electric cars. Fast, sleek, and fun to drive, the company’s vehicles have a pretty good penchant for being memorable. For NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal, his Tesla Model S P85 is one such vehicle. Having an estimated net worth of $400 million as of this year, Shaq […]
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Porsche has been very vocal about its aim to ensure that the Taycan, its first all-electric car, would be at home on the racetrack. Porsche’s gasoline-powered cars are famed for their performance and their “soul,” and the company has maintained that the Taycan would be no different. This means that the upcoming electric four-door sedan […]
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In a decision with no obvious empirical explanation, JPL’s Opportunity Mars rover project manager John Callas was quoted in an August 30th press release saying that the NASA field center would be “forced to conclude” that the dust storm-stricken rover was effectively beyond saving if it fails to come back to life 45 days after […]
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The European Space Agency (ESA) has published perhaps the best footage yet of SpaceX’s storied Cargo Dragon spacecraft, in this case taking the form of an exceptionally well-produced, simple, and blindingly high-resolution series of timelapses of the most recent vehicle’s early-August departure from the International Space Station. Placed in orbit in late June 2018 atop SpaceX’s […]
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There are several legacy automakers coming up with vehicles designed to compete against Tesla in the premium electric car segment. Among them, the company that appears to be putting the most effort into its EV push is Porsche, as the automaker is now setting the stage for the release of its first all-electric car — […]
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For a variety of reasons both clear or otherwise, a significant number of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches initially scheduled near the beginning or middle of the second half of 2018 are all slipping right into October, November, and December. While communications satellite Telstar 18V’s two-week slip to NET September 8 and SAOCOM-1A’s […]
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Tesla is expected to release the first features of its Full Self-Driving suite with the rollout of Software Version 9. The company teased some of these capabilities in the Q2 2018 earnings call, when Elon Musk and Stuart Bowers, a member of the Tesla Autopilot development team, discussed some of the features that would likely […]
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