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Tesla’s Model Y factory in Shanghai could be start production in November. The Q3 earnings report showed that the megacasting and other production equipment appears to be mostly installed. Above there two main buildings in the Tesla Shanghai picture. The …
Tesla model 3 and model Y have been given 10-31 miles of increased driving range in the latest update. This is likely due to about 5% improvement in Panasonic batteries. Rob Mauer at Tesla Daily summarized the changes in range …
Tesmanian reports that the Tesla Berlin factory will have eight giant casting machines for the manufacturing of Model Y. Giga Presses are the largest high-pressure die casting machines in the world, with a clamping force of 6,100-tonne-force (60,000 kN) die …
Sandy Munro explains how Tesla’s Big Cell glued onto the cooling plate will be manufacturing and serviceability wins. Sandy Munro has a company that for decades has been engineering and reverse engineers cars. He takes apart and studies every component …
There are several important things that were mostly overlooked in what Elon Musk said yesterday at Battery Day. Elon Musk stated that 2020 car deliveries will be 30-40% over 2019. Tesla had 367,500 cars delivered in 2019. This means Tesla …
Jordan Giesige of the Limiting Factor has described how Tesla will announce progress to the Terawatt-hour factories. He describes going from 150 Gigawatt-hours of batteries per year from a fully built out Nevada factory to a Terawatt-hour. Increasing energy density …
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 …
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 …
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 …