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Electric car battery prices fell by 80% in the last 7 years
According to the study made by McKinsey, the cost of electric car batteries has decreased by 80% since 2010. Tesla offers much lower cost batteries. As electric cars become more widely used, drivers are expected to see lower prices for electric cars and lower charging costs, as well as increased awareness of climate-changing carbon-emissions-rich gasoline and diesel vehicles. The reduction in the production costs of electric cars is very important for both the company and the drivers because if the production costs are low, the drivers will have a low price electric cars and it will be easier to spread these vehicles.
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2017 Tesla Model S P100D First Test: A New Record - 0-60 MPH in 2.28 Seconds!
The 2017 Tesla Model S P100D is the quickest car Motor Trend has ever tested! Get the exclusive story only at Motor Trend.
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50 Tips For Slowing The Electric Car Revolution
Let’s say that, for some reason, you really don’t want humans to drive in cleaner, more enjoyable, more exciting, safer, better electric cars. How do you go about slowing down the transition? Below are prescriptions for four different groups (automakers, the media, investors, and politicians) that could “pitch in and do their part” to delay the transition.
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Tesla Stock Forecast: Selling Solar Shingles Roof Is A Long-Term Tailwind For Tesla
The article was written by Motek Moyen Research Seeking Alpha’s #1 Writer on Long Ideas and #2 in Technology – Senior Analyst at I Know First. Tesla’s upcoming $5 billion Gigafactory for lithium-ion batteries justifies Elon’s decision to merge with SolarCity. Elon is now using SolarCity’s photovoltaic cell expertise to build roofs that are made of solar shingles. Tesla is not a car company anymore. It is a clean energy firm with the potential to dominate the market for solar-powered houses in America and Europe. Tesla will make money from installing solar shingles roof and the Powerwall batteries to store them. This venture...
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Tesla wants to sell future cars with insurance and maintenance included in the price
Tesla wants to bundle insurance and maintenance into the price of future vehicles. Tesla has actually been quietly experimenting with this model in Asia by selling cars with insurance and maintenance included, Jon McNeill, Tesla's president of sales and services, said during the company's fourth-quarter earnings call. "It takes into account not only the Autopilot safety features but also the maintenance cost of the car," McNeill said. "It’s our vision in the future we could offer a single price for the car, maintenance, and insurance."
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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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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Elon Musk to Trump: You quit Paris, so I quit you
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has quit of two of President Trump's business advisory councils after the president announced he will pull the U.S. out of the historic Paris climate agreement.
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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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Elon Musk Just Revealed a Major Tesla Model 3 Event Coming Soon
The wait is almost over. Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed on his Twitter page Sunday evening that the Model 3 has passed all regulatory requirements “two weeks ahead of schedule,” and the first production car should arrive shortly. To celebrate, Musk has announced possibly the most hotly anticipated event in the Model 3’s journey: the launch party.
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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 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 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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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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