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Tesla secures order from Wal-Mart for its new Semi trucks
Customers are starting to place orders for Tesla Inc.’s new all-electric Semi truck, with retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. preordering for both its U.S. and Canadian units. “We have a long history of testing new technology — including alternative-fuel trucks — and we are excited to be among the first to pilot this new heavy-duty electric vehicle,” Wal-Mart spokesman Kory Lundberg said in an email. “We believe we can learn how this technology performs within our supply chain, as well as how it could help us meet some of our long-term sustainability goals, such as lowering emissions.”
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Tesla Unveils Its Electric 'Semi' Truck, And Adds A Roadster
Elon Musk unveiled the Roadster's return toward the end of an event that was supposed to be all about Tesla's new Semi trucks.
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Mercedes is quietly becoming Tesla’s biggest rival
Daimler, Mercedes' parent company, has made it clear it plans to rival Tesla on everything from electric cars to residential energy products.
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Elon Musk’s Most-Liked Instagram Post Touches a Nerve in Turkey
U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk has made high-performance electric vehicles, created rockets that can land on ships and planned life on Mars -- chronicling it all on social media. But his personal record for Instagram “likes” comes from a post this week about Turkey. The chief executive officer of companies including Tesla Inc. and SpaceX visited the country to discuss the launch of rockets by Turkey’s national satellite firm. On Wednesday, he met President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his presidential palace in the capital city of Ankara.
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A big 48 MWh Tesla Powerpack system will power the island of Nantucket
National Grid announced this week that its project for a 48 megawatt-hour battery energy storage system on the island of Nantucket has been greenlit and Tesla has been selected to provide the batteries. Nantucket is a small island of about 10,000 permanent residents about 30 miles off the Massachusetts coast, but it’s also a very popular touristic location. The island’s electricity is currently supplied via two submarine cables that connect to the mainland transmission system on Cape Cod.
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Tesla is planning to start production at upcoming Chinese factory in ‘~3 years’, says Elon Musk
After all the recent rumors that Tesla reached a deal with China to build a ‘wholly-owned’ factory in Shanghai, CEO Elon Musk officially elaborated on the automaker’s plan to establish manufacturing capacity in China. During a conference call discussing Tesla’s third quarter financial results, Musk confirmed that the company aims to start producing cars in the Chinese market in “about 3 years.”
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Tesla succeeds where Trump flails, brings power to Puerto Rico with solar panels
Five weeks after hurricane Maria slammed into Puerto Rico, President Donald Trump’s team has only managed to restore power for a mere 26 percent of the island’s 3.5 million U.S. citizens. Meanwhile the tiny Trump-linked energy contractor that won a $300-million no-bid contract to rebuild the grid, Whitefish Energy, is also under fire.
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Tesla Turns Power Back On At Children's Hospital In Puerto Rico
Tesla has used its solar panels and batteries to restore reliable electricity at San Juan's Hospital del Niño (Children's Hospital), in what company founder Elon Musk calls "the first of many solar+battery Tesla projects going live in Puerto Rico." The project came about after Puerto Rico was hit by two devastating and powerful hurricanes in September, and Musk reached out about Tesla helping.
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Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity and employees say they were blindsided
Employee dismissals at Tesla are continuing at its SolarCity subsidiary, according to six former and current employees, and are affecting SolarCity offices across the U.S. Echoing reports from earlier this month, these SolarCity employees say they were surprised to be told they were fired for performance reasons, claiming Tesla had not conducted performance reviews since acquiring the solar energy business. Earlier this month, Tesla began firing hundreds of employees after it announced a recall of 11,000 Model X SUVs.
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Elon Musk Was Wrong About Self-Driving Teslas
A year ago, Tesla Inc. set up a hastily organized conference call between Elon Musk and reporters. Tesla had something big to announce—big enough for the chief executive to open the floor to questions. That doesn’t happen very often.
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Tesla will have a few hundred all electric service vans
Tesla has all electric service Van based on the Model S and Model X vehicles and technology. In California, Tesla operates about 100 trucks and they are apparently aiming to have hundreds of service vans. Last quarter, Tesla announced plans to triple service capacity with 1,400 new techs, 350 new service vans, and in-car scheduling.
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Tesla employees detail how they were fired, claim dismissals were not performance related
Tesla is trying to disguise layoffs by calling the widespread terminations performance related, allege several current and former employees. On Friday, the San Jose Mercury News first reported that Tesla had dismissed an estimated 400 to 700 employees. That number represents between 1 and 2 percent of its entire workforce. But one former employee, citing internal information shared by a manager, said the total number fired is higher than 700 at this point.
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Musk: Tesla can rebuild Puerto Rico power grid
Billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk says that he believes he can rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid with batteries and solar power. “The Tesla team has [built solar grids] for many smaller islands around the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too,” Musk tweeted on Thursday. “Such a decision would be in the hands of the PR govt, PUC, any commercial stakeholders and, most importantly, the people of PR.”
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Puerto Rico's governor says 'let's talk' after Elon Musk says Tesla can rebuild island's power grid
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said he will speak to Puerto Rico's governor about helping get the hurricane-hit island's power grid back online. On Thursday, Musk tweeted that his company has built solar grids for many small islands, adding that there "is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too."
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Elon Musk Suggests That Tesla Could Rebuild Puerto Rico's Electricity System With Solar And Batteries
Puerto Rico hasn't had a great time of it recently, and in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria large portions of the country's power infrastructure is in disarray. A lot of effort has been done to provide aid, particularly from Elon Musk who had Tesla ship solar panels and Powerwall batteries to bring power back to the population.
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Tesla is sending hundreds of battery packs to power outage-ridden Puerto Rico
Earlier this month, we reported on survivors of hurricane Irma, which hit the islands of Caribbean communities, including Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, writing ‘SEND TESLA’ with the debris of their destroyed home.
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U.S. Air Force is buying a Tesla Model X to study its ‘fully self-driving’ capability
As the only option when it comes to all-electric SUVs, Tesla’s Model x is slowly growing in popularity. Now apparently, even the U.S. Air Force wants one, but they are especially interested in its autonomous driving capability rather than the fact that it is electric. A tipster sent Electrek a solicitation for the acquisition of a commercial vehicle by the U.S. Air Force (embedded below).
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GM, not Tesla, is a better bet on the autonomous vehicle future right now, Deutsche Bank says
General Motors' strong competitive position in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is widely underestimated by investors, according to a Wall Street firm. Deutsche Bank raised its rating on the automaker's shares to buy from hold, saying the company will attain a large market share of the new AV market.
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How did Tesla make some of its cars travel further during Hurricane Irma?
Tesla drivers who fled Hurricane Irma last weekend received an unexpected lesson in modern consumer economics along the way. As they sat on choked highways, some of the electric-car giant’s more keenly priced models suddenly gained an extra 30 or so miles in range thanks to a silent free upgrade.
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Tesla flips a switch to increase the range of some cars in Florida to help people evacuate
Tesla has pushed an over-the-air update to some of its vehicles in Florida that lets those cars go just a liiiittle bit farther, thus helping their owners get..
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