31/03/2023

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The walls and roof for the first factory building at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin are done. There appear to be four main buildings and several smaller ones. Tesla has published plans which show four main buildings and about eight smaller …
Mark Twain said history does not repeat but it often rhymes. This will likely be the case with the future of lithium-based battery storage having a dominance like silicon was dominant for decades for computer chips. The silicon chip was …
India had 35 million motorized vehicles in 2019 and this is expected to triple by 2035. 12% were cars but a third were two-wheel scooters and another third were motorized rickshaws. The top-selling two-wheel scooter is the Honda Activa with …
This article will start with a financial comparison of Amazon in 2017 and 2018 with Tesla today and a financial projection for the third quarter and the fourth quarter. The article will also briefly review expectations and financial impact of …
The scale of Tesla’s near term and future dominance tricks you into thinking it is hype. You think that people who are trying to tell you about it are Elon Musk fans or people who have drunk the Tesla Koolaid. …
NASA plans to launch the Psyche mission to explore a metal-rock asteroid that is also called Psyche. The critical design review is done and construction has started. They plan to launch August 2022 on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. The asteroid …
Tesla ended the day at a valuation of $352 billion, while Walmart (tenth biggest in SP500) is worth $384 billion. This has made Elon Musk the fourth richest person in the world. He is behind Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and …
Rob Mauer of Tesla Daily provided a bull case for Tesla to Northwestern University Masters Students. Tesla has grown revenue over the last four years by 250% but only increased operating expenses by 85%. The cumulative electric vehicle targets of …
Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke with Automotive News Publisher Jason Stein in the first of a three-part interview. Elon said that today car factories have a speed of 0.2 meters per second. Walking is five times faster than the speed …
Tesla Berlin Gigafactory has modular walls and many pillars built. This is three months faster than the first walls being put up at the Shanghai Gigafactory. If Tesla builds Gigafactory Berlin at the same speed as Shanghai then there will …