Elon Musk says some of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites had to dodge debris from a Russian missile test. Russia blew up a satellite on November 15, making new clouds of high-speed debris in Earth’s orbit. Any collision could disable or explode a SpaceX satellite. Not all the Russian debris is being tracked. Elon Musk said on Tuesday that SpaceX’s Starlink satellites have had to dodge debris from …
If SpaceX really is staring down a potential bankruptcy, at least it wouldn’t be the first time. On Tuesday, CNBC obtained a copy of a letter that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sent to his employees the day after Thanksgiving, in which the billionaire said the rocket company could be at “genuine risk of bankruptcy,” unless it can …
Tesla’s approach to using giant casting machines, nicknamed Giga Press, to make car bodies with just a few massive casted parts is catching on in the auto industry. A Tesla supplier says that it is working with about half a dozen other automakers taking the same approach. Over the last few years, Tesla has been …
The all-too-common myth that electric vehicles are not affordable to the average American is now being reignited by former Trump White House Communications Official Mercedes Schlapp, among others, who ripped Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for suggesting that the answer to rising gas prices was to buy an electric car. Sec. Buttigieg appeared on MSNBC on Sunday to …
Tesla has enabled drivers and owners to purchase upgrades for their vehicles in their cars with the rollout of Software Update 2021.40.6. Upgrades for Tesla have been available for years in many different forms. Everything from Premium Connectivity, which gives drivers features like Navigation, Life Traffic Visualization, Video Streaming, and an Internet Browser among other features, …
Lucid has a technological edge that should take it far. Before delivering vehicles, Rivian has already built an impressive brand. Nio should finish 2021 with over 150,000 lifetime deliveries. How does the competition stack up to the EV industry leader? There’s a new cast list of electric vehicle (EV) contenders gunning for a slice of …
Elon Musk’s planned sale of 10% of his Tesla shares is triggering a massive tax liability. In moving to Texas, Insider calculates that he could carve $2.5 billion off the final bill. Estimates by Bloomberg show Musk has likely managed to save $500 million so far. Elon Musk has made no secret of his desire …
Claiming that their treatment goes against the famous “don’t be evil” clause in Google’s employee code of conduct, three former employees are suing the company. Google once famously had “Don’t Be Evil” as its motto, but it still retains those words as a clause in the contract that employees have to sign. Now this code …
Apple has regained its spot as the second-largest smartphone manufacturer in the world in the third quarter of 2021, and the iPhone 13 models will likely drive it to first in Q4. The Cupertino tech giant had a 15.9% share of the market in the third quarter of 2021, which spans the period between July and September, …
Tesla’s coming years and its ambitious ramp towards a production target of 20 million vehicles per year would be built on the back of the Giga Press, a massive house-sized machine capable of producing single-piece front and rear vehicle underbodies. Using components produced from the Giga Press, Tesla is able to optimize its vehicles’ components, …