Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2022 02:13:35 +0000
Tesla recently hired a geologist, which many be a step in the direction of lithium and critical materials mining. There’s no official announcement that Tesla will actually do its own mining, and there could be other reasons that it’s hiring geologists. It could be a focusing on critical minerals and the supply chain in order […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2022 19:30:12 +0000
Scale and Tesla’s Master Plan Part 3 came up during Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent TED Talks interview. Head of TED, Chris Anderson interviewed Elon Musk, and shortly after a random musical interruption, Tesla’s Master Plan Part 3 came up. I’d previously written a short article about what we might expect Elon to share in […]
Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:33:02 +0000
Lithium-ion batteries are the storage technology of choice in state-of-the-art EVs, leading to a substantial growth in global battery production. But, as with any new technology, the journey from drawing board to practical use in EVs is fraught with difficulties.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2022 04:20:03 +0000
Panasonic plans to start the mass production of Tesla’s 4680 battery cells in the fiscal year April 2023, according to reports. There are also plans to set up two additional production lines and facilities at the company’s Wakayama factory. There’s also a rumor that Panasonic is planning a major gigafactory somewhere in the US. In […]
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 12:00:06 +0000
Tesla is celebrating the milestone of one million 4680 cylindrical lithium-ion battery cells. Tesla tweeted the news on Friday along with an image of employees standing in front of Tesla’s Kato Road facility in Fremont. The milestone took place in January. Celebrating our one millionth 4680 cell in January pic.twitter.com/d19IPFu18u — Tesla (@Tesla) February 18, […]
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:28:46 +0000
Tesla’s Giga Shanghai is expanding and will soon be able to manufacture more than 1 million cars a year.
Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2022 05:28:46 +0000
Tesla’s Giga Shanghai is expanding and will soon be able to manufacture more than 1 million cars a year.
Credit to Author: Johnna Crider| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 04:57:14 +0000
Panasonic has announced that it will be giving Tesla top priority for the new 4680 batteries, which makes sense since Tesla is set to deliver its first 4680 vehicles in Q1 2022. MarketWatch reported that Chief Financial Officer Hirokazu Umeda said that Panasonic is renovating its facilities and plans to start trial production in Wakayama […]
Credit to Author: Matt Pressman| Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 17:04:41 +0000
In 2017, The Economist declared the internal combustion engine “roadkill” on a controversial cover, claiming, “it had a good run. But the end is in sight.” For the conservative publication, this was a bold statement. Fast forward to 2020 and now Britain’s financial pub points to Tesla as the carmaker to look out for as the industry transitions to electric
Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2020 14:51:38 +0000
We get a lot of flack here at CleanTechnica for being Tesla fanboys, but in reality, we are just a bunch of clean technology nuts that love the things Tesla has done, is doing, and is expected to do out into the future