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Elon Musk: The World's Raddest Man
Elon Musk, for those unfamiliar, is the world’s raddest man. I’ll use this post to explore how he became a self-made billionaire and the real-life inspiration for Iron Man’s Tony Stark, but for the moment, I’ll let Richard Branson explain things briefly: Whatever skeptics have said can’t be done, Elon has gone out and made real. Remember in the 1990s, when we would call strangers and give them our credit-card numbers? Elon dreamed up a little thing called PayPal.
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Tesla plans to unveil its $35,000 Model 3 in March 2016
Tesla is aiming to reveal the Model 3, its answer to BMW's 3-series, in March 2016. CEO Elon Musk announced the target date during today's call with Tesla investors.
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Tesla announces 38,000 pre-orders for Powerwall home battery
During Tesla's earnings call, CEO Elon Musk just announced that the company has so far taken 38,000 reservations for its Powerwall home battery. "The response has been overwhelming. Like, crazy," Musk said. He went on to describe the reception to Tesla Energy's introduction as "crazy off the hook." Tesla has also tallied 2,500 reservations for the PowerPack.
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Tesla's Amazing "Powerwall" Battery Explained
Humanity just won a really important victory in our battle to lower the CO2 emissions that are causing climate change. Tesla CEO Elon Musk introduced the world to the “Powerwall,” a wall-mounted battery for your house which aims to accelerate our transition to clean solar and wind-power.
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Why Tesla Batteries Are Cheap Enough To Prevent New Power Plants
Tesla's Powerall home battery stole the headlines all weekend, but the shocker was the new low price for the utility-scale battery, which could reduce the need for new power plants.
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Here's Why Elon Musk Might Have Just Really Pissed Off Your Utility Company
The Tesla CEO has introduced a new battery — not to power its line of luxury electric vehicles, but to support rooftop solar generation for homes and businesses.
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Tesla begins selling used cars at discount prices - SlashGear
While news on Tesla has been dominated by their new Powerwall home battery system this last week, the company made a small change
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Tesla Motors to Unveil Home and Utility Batteries April 30
Tesla Motors Inc. will announce a home battery and a “very large” utility-scale battery on April 30, according to an e-mail sent to investors and analysts. The e-mail Tuesday from Jeffrey Evanson, Tesla’s head of investor relations, said the company “will explain the advantages of our solutions and why past battery options were not compelling.” Khobi Brooklyn, a Tesla spokeswoman, said that “we’ll share more information next week,” without confirming the e-mail.
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Elon Musk nearly sold Tesla to Google in 2013
Tesla frequently comes across as a fiercely independent automaker, but that wasn't always the case... at least, if you ask Bloomberg. Its sources claim that Elon Musk almost secured a deal for Google to buy Tesla in early 2013, when vehicle sales were tanking so badly that Tesla closed its factory. Reportedly, the deal would have kept Musk in charge of his company for eight years, or until Tesla's mainstream electric car (the Model 3) was on the road.
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Tesla plans to pay $25 an hour at Gigafactory
Tesla Motors plans to pay an average hourly wage of $25 at its huge battery factory under construction near Reno, Nev., the head of the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada said.
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The gamble on Tesla’s gigafactory in the Nevada desert
For Elon Musk’s venture and the state, success will depend on quickly deploying a skilled workforce.
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Tesla sets new Model S sales record
Despite lackluster sales in China, not to mention the delayed rollout of the highly anticipated Model X, Tesla is as strong as ever. Tesla this past Friday announced that they delivered a whopping 10,030 cars during the first quarter of 2015. Note that the figure pertains to cars that actually ended up in consumer hands. Which is to say, the company’s overall sales figures were likely a tad higher.
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Tesla Is Building a Battery to Power Your Home
It's not quite a Tesla in your living room, but Elon Musk is working on porting the electric car's advanced battery for home use. Production may begin within the next six months. Similar batteries (like that used in the Toyota Mirai) use fuel cells capable of powering a home for a week. Musk hasn't given an estimate of how long his would last, nor how it would be charged, though many solar energy enthusiasts use batteries to store solar electricity for cloudy days to prevent brown-outs.
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Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Something New April 30
Elon Musk certainly knows how to steal the thunder from his competitors. While other automakers are gearing up for big announcements at the New York Auto Show this week, the Tesla Motors chief just tweeted this: "Major new Tesla product line -- not a car -- will be unveiled at our Hawthorne Design Studio on Thurs 8pm, April 30"
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Elon Musk Teases A New Tesla: Could It Be A Home Battery?
Elon Musk must enjoy Twitter, because he's used it repeatedly in the past few months to tease announcements from Tesla, most recently on the company's push to alleviate
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Elon Musk: Burning Fossil Fuels Is the 'Dumbest Experiment in History, By Far'
Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX, and chairman of SolarCity, and the guy who dreamt up the hyper loop, says we shouldn't need an environmentally motivated reason to transition to clean energy. We're probably going to run out of oil sometime; why find out if we can destroy the world while we do it, if an alternative exists?
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A wrong move means instant death - How to power your home with a hacked Tesla car battery
You need $20,000, plenty of time – and an iron nerve. But but is ripping up a Tesla car and adapting its battery the future of cheap, sustainable home power? In a small garage in suburban New Jersey, a man has hacked an electric car battery. And used it not, as you might imagine, to solve the energy crisis or time-travel a DeLorean back to 1955 … but to power his own home. Employing nothing more than a battery the size of a single mattress, some unfathomable technological wizardry...
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Tesla self-driving cars to be enabled through an ‘AutoPilot’ update
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has announced that an update for software in all-electric cars will turn them into autonomous vehicles. The autonomous features will be available only on freeways as sensors will detect white lines, for driving the car between them. Tesla claims to offer super-cruise control, including detection of pedestrians. More updates will bring in the ability of the user to drive the vehicle automatically to a place or back to the garage using a smartphone.
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Tesla Wins One In Jersey: Gov Christie Signs Bill To OK Four Stores
A new bill signed by New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will once again allow Tesla Motors to sell its electric cars in the state. Tesla operated its direct-sale retail stores in New Jersey until almost exactly a year ago, when the Christie administration quietly enacted a rule change that...
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In major reversal, New Jersey allows Tesla to sell its cars directly, without dealerships
Almost exactly one year after it was banned from selling its cars directly in New Jersey, Tesla will be back in business in the Garden State. Governor Chris Christie signed into law a bill this afternoon that reversed last year's ban. The new legislation comes with some limits. Tesla can only open a total of four direct sale dealerships and has to operate at least one service center. But it's a major win following a heated war of words that saw...
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