Category: News
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Tesla to serve as adviser to nickel mine in bid to secure more battery resources
Tesla is poised to be a technical advisor in the massive Goro mine in New Caledonia, since the electrical car maker extends its attempts to acquire more nickel because of its own battery initiatives. Nickel is required for the EV segment’s greatest batteries, such as Tesla’s 4680 cells which were unveiled last year during Battery…
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How Sustainability Results In Competitive Advantage
Last October, Procter & Gamble investors, owner of such megabrands including Tide, Bounty, Crest, Pampers, Olay, Gillette, and Downy, approved a proposal to publish a new report on what’s being done to address deforestation. The Board of Directors had advised against approving the suggestion. P&G uses a great deal of woods. There’s the Bounty brand…
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The Aston Martin DBX is a tale of two vehicles
The Aston Martin DBX is the newest ’s first SUV — as well as the bets for its iconic British luxury car maker couldn’t be much greater. Just like Astons before this, the DBX is handsome. Its sculptural form stretches out to unapologetic ample proportions, also stands out in the audience of SUVs that frequent…
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Seurat Aims to Disrupt Metal 3D Printing with 2 Million Lasers
3D printing company Seurat is named after pointillist painter Seurat becausehe, the business wants to work pixel by pixel. Rather than follow a laser within the entire build, they would like to illuminate and heat each pixel of this layer at once for faster results. Seurat’s production technology is termed Area Printing and utilizes what…
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Audi RS E-Tron GT Heads To The Autobahn For A Top Speed Run
With Audi recently lifting the embargo for the E-Tron GT first drive videos, we laid eyes on a clip that shows it travel at full pace on a no-speed-limit section of the German Autobahn. This isn’t the regular E-Tron GT, but the RS model, which may not pose a threat to the fastest electric sedans…
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Apple’s New Privacy Initiative
Apple’s tracking-optional iOS 14.5 update provides privacy-preserving features, giving users the ability to opt-out of being followed around the Internet via “trackers” in their apps. This privacy-driven iOS 14.5 update contains a feature that redirects all fraudulent website checks through its own proxy servers. Apple’s released this as a part of their strategy to protect…
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Tesla FSD Beta takes on Waymo’s autonomous taxi in real-world test
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving suite recently went head-to-head against the acclaimed leader in the autonomous driving race, Alphabet’s Waymo. The two self-driving systems were tested twice using destinations that are frequented by commuters. In both instances, the results proved quite surprising, especially on Waymo’s part. Rankings of the market’s self-driving systems today typically rank Waymo at…
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Tesla FSD Beta’s public rollout gets an expected release date
The wider release of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta seems poised for a second-quarter rollout, if CEO Elon Musk’s recent statements on Twitter are any indication. While interacting with the electric vehicle community recently, Musk noted that a possible Q2 release for the public FSD Beta rollout “sounds about right,” though he still emphasized that Tesla…
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How to master “core and explore” investing
For investors old or young, I’ve long been responsible for taking a hybrid vehicle & ldquo;center and research ” approach. The “center ”–the so-called “severe cash ” which includes 80% to 90% of your portfolio–might be held in balanced funds or low-fee indexed alternatives, such as asset allocation ETFs in BMO, Horizons, iShares and Vanguard.…
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Tesla won’t be ‘king of the hill’ forever, but it will be for the foreseeable future
Tesla is the “king of the hill” in the electric vehicle sector, former company board member Steve Westly said on CNBC’s Power Lunch yesterday. However, Westly, who joined Tesla in 2007 and left several years later, doesn’t believe the automaker will remain at the helm of the EV industry forever. Driven by growing competition from both…