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Workers involved in union activities say Tesla is illegally intimidating them
Tesla is once again facing allegations that it's working to quash a union drive at its factory in Fremont, California. Last week, the United Automobile Workers union filed four separate charges with the National Labor Relations Board alleging that the company has illegally surveilled and coerced workers attempting to distribute information about the union drive.
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These are the most exciting Linux powered devices | enterprise IT
Did you know that Tesla cars run on Linux?
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Tesla's Autopilot Predicts Crashes Freakishly Early (Third Edition)
Watch dash-cam footage of Tesla's predict crashes and avoid them freakishly early.
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Tesla factory workers reveal pain, injury and stress: 'Everything feels like the future but us'
Exclusive: CEO Elon Musk defends workplace, saying ‘[we are not] just greedy capitalists who skimp on safety’ – and declares his $50bn company overvalued. When Tesla bought a decommissioned car factory in Fremont, California, Elon Musk transformed the old-fashioned, unionized plant into a much-vaunted “factory of the future”, where giant robots named after X-Men shape and fold sheets of metal inside a gleaming white mecca of advanced manufacturing.
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Volvo credits Tesla for creating EV demand, says they will stop developing diesel engines to focus on EVs
Today, Volvo Chief Executive Officer Hakan Samuelsson said that the current generation of diesel engines will be the automaker’s last and that they will instead focus on electric vehicles. And he also gave credit to Tesla for launching demand for electric vehicles, which actually plays right into the automaker’s mission.
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Tesla battery researcher says they doubled lifetime of batteries in Tesla’s products 4 years ahead of time
Almost a year into his new research partnership with Tesla, battery researcher Jeff Dahn has been hitting the talk circuit presenting some of his team’s recent progress. We reported last week on his talk at the International Battery Seminar from March and now we have a talk from him at MIT this week. He went into details about why Tesla decided to work with his team and hire one of his graduate students, but he also announced that they doubled the lifetime of the batteries in Tesla’s products a year into their 5-year contract.
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Tesla explains why it limits Supercharging speed after high numbers of DC charges
The Tesla community had another small technical/communication controversy this week that was not unlike the controversy around Tesla’s undisclosed performance restrictions with max power output in March. We learned this week that the automaker is also limiting the charging rate when Supercharging on vehicles that have accumulated too many DC fast-charge events. Electrek reached out to Tesla to get the official reason behind the change.
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The Tesla Semi Truck Will Use 'a Bunch of Model 3 Motors'
Elon Musk is excited about the Tesla Semi Truck. Although the CEO is trying to save details for the big reveal later in the year, he couldn’t help but leak a few details on Wednesday as to why the all-electric truck is going to be an impressive vehicle. And it involves the Tesla Model 3. “I don’t want to jump the gun on the Tesla Semi Truck unveiling later this year, but I think it’s going to be an incredible product and we’ll defy people’s expectations of what an electric truck can do,” Musk said during the company’s first-quarter 2017 earnings call.
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Elon Musk sees 'clear path' to Tesla being worth more than Apple one day
Elon Musk raised eyebrows on the Tesla earnings call Wednesday night by claiming the electric car maker was on track to become one of the most valuable companies in the world. "A couple years ago when the stock was at $200 … you outlined a scenario where you could get to $700 billion in market cap. That's about where Apple was at the time. We're two years later, you're obviously close to the Model 3 launch, how are you looking at that?" Barclays analyst Brian Johnson asked on Tesla's first-quarter conference call Wednesday, according to a FactSet transcript.
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Tesla recruiting Mexican engineers for US plant
Tesla Inc is recruiting engineers from Mexico to work on robotics and other automated equipment at its California factory, according to LinkedIn postings, part of a hiring push to ready the plant for mass production of the Model 3. The electric automaker aims to build 500,000 cars a year by next year at its plant in Fremont, California. That would be a six-fold increase from last year.
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Elon Musk: Self-driving Teslas will go between LA and NYC by the end of the year
Self-driving Teslas will be able to go between Los Angeles and New York City by the end of this year, Tesla Inc. TSLA, +1.76% Chief Executive Elon Musk said Friday. Musk spoke at a TEDTalk in Vancouver on a number of topics, including the status of driverless cars and his new project, The Boring Co., which aims to create a network of tunnels that would lay the foundation for a series of underground roadways for cars.
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Tesla's Klaus Grohmann ousted after clash with CEO Musk
Tesla (TSLA.O) executive Klaus Grohmann was ousted last month after a clash with Chief Executive Elon Musk over the strategy of Grohmann's firm, which Tesla had acquired in November, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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The Car That Will Kill The Model 3 - How Will The Tesla Story End?
In this video we are going to talk about the car that is going to kill off the Tesla Model 3. I am not planning to do a lot of these talking videos, but lately there has been so much news about Tesla that I felt that this needed a video. Tesla has been a very unique company and people didn't know what to do or think about Tesla. Every new electric car that came out analyst have been saying that that would be the new Tesla killer.
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Tesla’s ‘crazy’ climb to America’s most valuable car company
The luxury electric-car company Tesla has yet to turn a profit, losing hundreds of millions of dollars last year alone. But on Monday, the darling of Silicon Valley became the most valuable American car company, surpassing General Motors, the Detroit granddaddy with $10 billion in sales on nearly 10 million vehicles. Shares of Tesla, run by high-profile chief executive Elon Musk, put the company’s value at $51.5 billion, above GM’s $50.2 billion. Tesla blew by Ford ($44.6 billion) last week.
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Tesla unveils its new ‘sleek and low-profile’ exclusive solar panel made by Panasonic
The attention around Tesla’s solar products is mostly focused on its solar roof tiles, but those address only a new segment in the market – the new roof segment. Tesla is also trying to innovate for homeowners who don’t need a new roof, but who still want to generate their own solar energy. This weekend, Tesla updated the ‘Energy’ section of its website to unveil new pictures – see above and below – of a new exclusive solar panel made by Panasonic. Electrek has also learned some details about this new product that will apparently shape the future of the company’s offering in the residential solar industry.
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Tesla Model 3 will give ‘superhuman’ safety to driver and be ’10x safer than current cars’, says Tesla analyst Adam Jonas
Even though Tesla CEO Elon Musk already announced that the company aims for the Model 3 to score 5 stars in every safety category, Morgan Stanley’s Tesla analyst Adam Jonas says that the vehicle’s safety could be an underrated feature that will give the vehicle a competitive edge. Jonas sent a new note to clients today and referred to the Model 3’s safety features as an ‘ah-hah!’ moment when the car will launch later this year.
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Tesla's massive batteries are powering everything from exotic islands to breweries
As Tesla prepares for its long-awaited Model 3 launch, the company is also investing more in its renewable-energy division. Tesla has had an energy division committed to selling its at-home battery, the Powerwall, and commercial battery pack, the Powerpack since 2015. But after acquiring SolarCity in a deal worth $2.1 billion in November, Tesla has doubled down on its renewable energy efforts.
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Tesla’s $169 Million Battery Play Is Just the Beginning
Tesla is ready to power some grids. And not just in California or Australia. Last week, Elon Musk wagered he could address South Australia’s energy crisis with 100 megawatts (MW) of batteries installed in 100 days or less—“or it’s free.” The exchange blew up on Twitter and led to phone calls between Musk and leading Australian politicians, including Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. (Ukraine Prime Minister Volodymyr Hroisman later chimed in that he’s interested, too.)
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Tesla to raise $1 billion through stock and loan offerings
Tesla will raise a little more than $1 billion to fund the launch of its upcoming Model 3 electric car and to strengthen its balance sheet, the company announced today. Last year, Tesla made a similar stock offering to fund Model 3 production, although without the convertible notes, and another back in 2015. $250 million will come from a secondary stock offering, plus $750 million in convertible senior notes (basically a loan), as well as options for the underwriters to purchase an additional 15 percent of each offering.
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Tesla Autopilot crash caught on dashcam shows how not to use the system
Earlier this week, a Tesla Model S hit a barrier on the highway near Dallas, Texas. The driver, who fortunately wasn’t injured, first blamed Tesla’s Autopilot for the crash. We now have footage of the accident and it actually shows a situation that the Autopilot probably shouldn’t be expected to be able to handle, at least not yet. Ultimately, it serves as a reminder not to trust the system without paying attention.
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