September 2021

Tesla Model Y production at Giga Shanghai surges to 1.6k units per day in Sept: report

It appears that Gigafactory Shanghai has achieved a notable milestone this September. As per recent local reports, Tesla’s China-based electric vehicle plant reportedly hit a production rate of 1,600 Model Y per day in September. This was a substantial increase from Giga Shanghai’s Model Y output in August, when the company produced 1,000 units of

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With Mercedes-Benz, Stellantis’ battery venture for Europe more than doubles

Mercedes-Benz announced Friday that it plans to join Automotive Cells Company (ACC), the venture between Stallantis and TotalEnergies, creating “a European battery champion for electric vehicles.” With the new stakeholder, ACC will aim for a 120-gigawatt-hour annual capacity, more than doubling the previous target, and boosting the… Source: Green Car Reports Read More

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Tesla suppliers halt production as China faces power issues

A number of key Tesla suppliers from China are temporarily halting their production as the country deals with an ongoing power crunch. The production shutdowns are part of the companies’ efforts to comply with Beijing’s tighter energy consumption policy, which is caused by surging coal and natural gas prices, rising energy demand, and the country’s

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SpaceX Crew Dragon to perform first space station “flyaround” in November

A member of a NASA safety advisory panel says that SpaceX’s second operational Crew Dragon spacecraft will perform the first International Space Station (ISS) “flyaround” in years. In the days of the Space Shuttle, similar flyaround maneuvers were extremely common as the US and Russia slowly but surely assembled the ISS from nothing in low

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