October 2022

Tesla Optimus to be featured in 5th China International Import Expo: report

It appears that Tesla is going all-in when it participates at the 5th China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai from November 5-10, 2022. As per recent reports, it would not just be the company’s electric vehicles that would be making an appearance at the event. Tesla’s humanoid robot Optimus will also be present at […]

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Twitter to revise user verification process

Changes are coming to Twitter’s user verification process. The update was confirmed by Elon Musk in a tweet on Sunday.  Musk was active on Twitter this weekend, with numerous reports closely following his team’s current activities on the social media company. Amidst Musk’s weekend Twitter session, spaceflight photographer John Kraus brought up the issue of

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Tesla Cybertruck & Model X make cameo appearances in Halloween episodes of The Simpsons

The Simpsons released special Halloween episodes this week, and two Tesla vehicles made cameo appearances. The Tesla Cybertruck is one of Tesla’s most highly anticipated electric vehicles. Tesla’s progress with production has been well documented, and the futuristic all-electric truck was sighted in an interesting place. While watching The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror XXXIII,  a

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Tesla has mulled over buying 20% stake of mining giant Glencore

Tesla has talked with Glencore about buying stake of the Swiss mining giant.  Sources close to the matter told Financial Times that Tesla and Glencore held preliminary discussions last year. Talks between the company continued until March 2022. Glencore’s chief executive Gary Eagle visited Tesla’s Fremont Factory in March.  Tesla planned to buy a minority

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SpaceX still an option for future Amazon internet satellite launches, says Senior VP

An Amazon executive says that the company could still call on SpaceX to launch some of its Project Kuiper internet satellites after two of the three unproven rockets it purchased announced launch delays days apart. Amazon began work on Project Kuiper in 2018. When SpaceX CEO Elon Musk fired several senior employees overseeing the company’s

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Twitter to roll out paid verification model, staff given hard deadline: report

Elon Musk has reportedly provided Twitter’s employees with their first hard target. They must change Twitter Blue into a revamped subscription service, or they could leave the company.  Recent reports have indicated that Musk is initiating a number of changes on Twitter just days into his ownership of the social media company. These include a

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Tesla battery partner Panasonic to start building Kansas factory next month

Tesla battery partner Panasonic has stated that it intends to start the buildout of its Kansas, US plant this November. With such an aggressive timeframe for the facility, Panasonic is reportedly looking to start mass production at the plant by March 2025.  With its Kansas plant, Panasonic is making a serious play for the United

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Comau to build battery module production line for Stellantis/Mercedes JV in France

Automotive Cells Company (ACC), a joint venture between Stellantis, TotalEnergies/Saft and Mercedes-Benz, has selected Italian automation specialist Comau (which is owned by Stellantis) to design and develop a battery module production line in France. As a first step in the multi-phase project, the joint engineering team will deploy a pilot line at ACC’s plant in

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Researchers create electrode with high energy capacity from nanosheets

A team of researchers has fabricated thick electrodes from two-dimensional materials in order to design an electrode for faster charging and higher energy capacity in lithium-ion batteries. “Two-dimensional materials are commonly believed [to be] a promising candidate for high-rate energy storage applications because it only needs to be several nanometers thick for rapid charge transport,”

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