Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 18:26:36 +0000
The Tesla 4680 battery is struggling to get to the production levels needed to fulfill its promise of higher energy density and lower costs.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 15:00:41 +0000
Tesla plans to invest another $3.6 billion to expand the Nevada Gigafactory to make the Semi and 4680 battery cells.
Credit to Author: Iqtidar Ali| Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2023 00:47:19 +0000
A Tesla hacker who goes on Twitter by the name of “green” has shared a bunch of Tesla Semi diagrams on the social media platform. When I asked him how he obtained these pictures, he said he got them from the automaker’s online parts catalog website, aka EPC. So, I logged into my Tesla account […]
Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 09:05:47 +0000
How long does a Tesla battery last in Australia? This is becoming more of a common question now that Tesla has doubled its presence on Australian roads. Teslas are everywhere! Someone recently commented that they are becoming as common as cockroaches and cane toads. As these questioners appear to be genuine, I thought I would […]
Credit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 17:36:00 +0000
We were totally excited on October 22, 2019 when we drove our Tesla Model 3 Long Range away from the Tesla Salt Lake City Delivery Center. We’ve just passed our 3 year anniversary! Our odometer as I write this reads 80,821 miles. I wanted to determine how much battery degradation had occurred over that time […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:30:38 +0000
One of the big “gotchas” anti-EV people on social media like to pull out is the future of your battery. In their heads, an expensive EV battery pack isn’t going to last very long and is utterly unrecyclable. So, the thinking goes, an electric car isn’t very green, is it? Checkmate, libs! But they shouldn’t […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2022 03:43:57 +0000
Tesla has cut prices for all models produced in Shanghai significantly while the production of battery packs for the Cybertruck has begun.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2022 00:28:52 +0000
Ramping up production of the the Tesla 4680 battery cells is taking longer than Elon Musk hoped. 2023 seems like a realistic time frame.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2022 16:25:55 +0000
The order button has been removed from the Tesla Semi, webpage two months after it was added. Most specs remain the same.
Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2022 01:25:31 +0000
Tesla held its annual shareholder meeting today. (You can watch the whole thing on YouTube below.) Below are some highlights from the meeting. Overall, like Elon Musk likes to do with these and as I predicted earlier today, it was in large part a reflection on how far Tesla has come in the past decade, […]