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Tesla Semi could be ‘the biggest catalyst in trucking in decades’ and 70% cheaper to operate, says analyst
Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas is one of the top analyst covering Tesla and now he seems pretty excited about the imminent launch of Tesla Semi, the automaker’s upcoming all-electric truck. In a new note to clients today, Jonas even suggested that the reveal of the truck could be “the biggest catalyst in trucking in decades”.
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US labor board files complaint against Tesla over worker rights
The U.S. agency in charge of enforcing labor law on Thursday filed a complaint against electric carmaker Tesla, saying it found merit to workers' complaints about unfair labor practices. According to the National Labor Relations Board complaint, Tesla violated workers' rights by requiring them to sign a confidentiality agreement that could bar them from talking about their working conditions and safety issues at the company's facility in Fremont, California.
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Tesla Faces Gigafactory Competition from Asia and Europe
For those of us waiting for affordable, long range electric cars a global race to build Gigafactories couldn’t be better news. Battery costs have consistently fallen year on year for decades but they still represent the majority of the production cost of electric vehicles.
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Model S Sets New Record For Distance Traveled On One Charge
An owners club in Italy did it by "hypermiling" the Model S.
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Here's How Much One of Tesla's Amazing Solar Roofs Actually Costs
The Tesla Solar Roof is here, and if company CEO Elon Musk has his way, there will be one on most houses within 15 years. But despite its energy efficiency and dazzling looks, clean power doesn’t come cheap — and Tesla’s listed price is a little hazy on some of the details. So how much will it actually cost?
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Elon Musk's First Tesla Solar Roof Is Here, and It Looks Amazing
Elon Musk’s house runs on solar. The Tesla CEO made the announcement during Wednesday’s second quarter 2017 earnings call, where he revealed that both himself and Jeffrey B. Straubel, the company’s chief technology officer, have installed solar roof tiles on their houses. “We have installed and working the Solar Roof tiles,” Musk told investors during the conference call.
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Chevrolet Bolt Beats Out Tesla Model S To Become Consumer Reports' Range Champion
Consumer Reports has completed its benchmark testing of the Chevy Bolt and found it to offer more real-world range than any other electric vehicle it’s ever tested. The Bolt achieved 250 miles on a single charge, in Consumer Reports’ own independent testing (testing methods here). That beats out its EPA-estimated 238 miles of range and in fact put the Bolt ahead of two Teslas previously tested by Consumer Reports.
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Exclusive: Tesla Model 3 First Drive Review - Motor Trend
The Tesla Model 3 is the most important car in the world right now. Motor Trend got an exclusive drive. Is it worth the fanfare and the price?
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An emotional Elon Musk thanks the people who are still waiting to get their Model 3
Tesla’s handover ceremony of the Model 3 tonight was an affecting moment for CEO Elon Musk, whose casual authenticity has emerged as a distinct tech keynote style. The Model 3 is the first mass market electric car Tesla has made so far and 30 were delivered to employees tonight.
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Tesla Model 3 first drive: this is the car that Elon Musk promised
After hearing so much hype about this car, I was surprised that my first reaction was a profound sense of delight.
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Tesla Model S Tops Consumer Reports' Ratings After Getting Key Safety Feature
With the recent successful delivery of updated software, the Tesla Model S regains its position as CR’s top-ranked ultra-luxury sedan now that its automatic emergency braking system works at highway speeds.
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Telsa Motors is now Vegan!
Not quite but they have come very close. Overnight, Tesla made some changes to their available options, making some options standard, and notably eliminating one thing: leather seats. As of now, Tesla only sells vegan seats. While this lack of leather is not made explicit on the Tesla configuration page, any mention of leather has been removed, and all upgraded interiors are now referred to with Tesla’s “premium” designation which they applied to the original rollout of vegan seats made of a new synthetic material.
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Twin Cities man says he's to blame, not Tesla autopilot, for crash into marsh
The Eden Prairie driver says he is clarifying what was in the police report, and says he had disengaged the autopilot by stepping on the accelerator. A Twin Cities man whose Tesla rolled over into a central Minnesota marsh said Monday that he's to blame, and not the autopilot technology, for the luxury vehicle suddenly accelerating before the crash landing. David L. Clark, 58, of Eden Prairie, said he was driving Saturday evening before...
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Large US electric utility Southern Company starts deploying Tesla Powerpacks
Southern Company, one of the US’ largest electric utility and the owner of the two most polluting power plants in the country, announced today that they are bringing online a new Tesla Powerpack station to test the deployment of energy storage. They inaugurated the new 250 kW/1 MWh Tesla Powerpack system at Gulf Power’s Douglas L. McCrary Training and Storm Center in Pensacola, Florida.
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2,939 new Teslas were registered in Hong Kong in March—none in April
Currently, the only way to make EVs competitive is with government incentives.
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Elon Musk's big battery brings reality crashing into a post-truth world
For months, politicians and fossil fuel industry have lied about the viability of renewables. Now Tesla’s big battery in South Australia will prove them wrong.
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Tesla factory reportedly described as a ‘predator zone’ by female employees
Tesla’s Fremont factory was described by a female employee as a “predator zone” of harassment in a meeting attended by dozens of employees, according to a bombshell report in The Guardian. Other women recalled being catcalled by male employees, feeling unsafe around male managers, and being subjected to sexist comments by their superiors, the report states.
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Tesla Model S Rated 'Acceptable' in IIHS Crash Test, Tesla Lashes Back
Tesla say the IIHS has "motivation that suits their own subjective purposes."
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Tesla’s First Mass-Market Car, the Model 3, Hits Production This Week
Tesla’s long-awaited mass-market electric car will begin rolling off the assembly line this week. But even as it moves ahead, the automaker is encountering challenges to its ambitious plans for growth. On Monday, it acknowledged that it had experienced a “severe shortfall” in production of 100-kilowatt battery packs that use new technologies and are made on new assembly lines.
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Tesla plans to disconnect ‘almost all’ Superchargers from the grid and go solar+battery, says Elon Musk
Tesla has been talking about adding solar arrays and batteries to its Supercharger stations ever since announcing the fast-charging network in 2012. But only half a dozen stations or so out of the …
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