Tag: cars
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Tesla owners looking for love can now join a dating network exclusively for ‘like-minded Elon stans’ (TSLA)
Ajitpal Grewal A techie in Canada has been launching a program exclusively for owners of Tesla cars, the electrical vehicles using a faithful cult following. The idea came after program founder Ajitpal Grewal discovered that Tesla owners couldn’t quit talking about their cars and shared with similar values, such as”stanning Elon Musk,” he told Business…
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Hyperion develops hydrogen-powered supercar
By Kyle StockWith little more than sketches and not fully baked prototypes, a crowd of electric vehicle startups have rounded up billions from investors. Can that fund-raising engine drive a hydrogen-powered car? Hyperion Companies Inc., a decade-old Los Angeles outfit, is entering the race for speculative transportation capital today when it pulls the cover off…
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World’s most valuable carmaker: How Tesla defined a new era for the auto industry
FRANKFURT/BEIJING/DETROIT: Tesla Inc’s rapid rise to become the world carmaker could indicate the start of a new age for the international car industry, characterized by a Silicon Valley strategy. Tesla’s ascent took several investors . But executives at Daimler AG, the parent firm of Mercedes-Benz, needed a close-up view beginning in 2009 of Tesla and…
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The COVID-19 threat is here for the foreseeable future. As cities reopen, protecting passengers on public transit is a matter of life and death.
Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images; Samantha Lee/Business Insider Cities will need to make some major changes to allow citizens to travel safely and efficiently post-lockdown, experts told Business Insider. A handful of systemic transportation issues — like the sporadic reliability of public transit, the lack of safe bike lanes, gridlock in city centers, and unequal…
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The evolution of the Corvette from America’s sports car to a global powerhouse
Chevrolet For nearly 70 decades , the Chevrolet Corvette was a front-engined sports car. It was a great actor, but was missing that one last element that would make it competitive in the global sector. The 2020 Corvette is currently a worthy competitor and mid-engined. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for additional stories Despite the offering…
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Tesla’s US-made Model 3 vehicles now come equipped with wireless charging and USB-C ports
Tesla Model 3 vehicles made in its Fremont, Calif. mill will reportedly come standard with a wireless charging pad along with USB-C interfaces, upgrades which were first spotted by Drive Tesla Canada. Electrek additionally reported to the changes. The upgrades now set U.S.-made Model 3s on par with the very same vehicles made at Tesla’s…
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Dyson poured $629 million into an electric car before abandoning it — here’s what its Tesla competitor was supposed to look like
Fred Macgregor / Dyson Dyson scrapped its electric car project in May, after spending more than $600 million on its development. The company released new images of the prototype this week. Dyson hopes some of the battery technology can be repurposed, so that not everything is wasted from the investment. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for…
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Elon Musk: the Tesla Cybertruck isn’t getting any smaller
In the days and weeks after Tesla CEO Elon Musk demonstrated the cybertruck — a post-apocalyptic automobile made of cold-rolled steel — there was a lot of speculation about whether it would be smaller once it made it to sell. Generation of this Cybertruck is a long ways off. There isn’t a factory to construct…
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Elon Musk just put a new person in charge of production at Tesla’s Fremont factory
On precisely exactly the identical day which Elon Musk defied local regulations and reopened Tesla’s mill in Fremont, California, ” the CEO place a brand new person in charge of production. Musk named Richard Miller, who was manager of paint operations at Tesla, to head of production at the mill, according to an internal email…
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Tesla hasn’t been given the ‘green light’ to reopen Fremont factory, health official says
Tesla has not yet been awarded the “green light” to start its own factory in Fremont, Calif., Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan stated in a videostreamed city hall meeting Friday. Tesla created plans to start as soon as Friday at defiance of this county’s prolonged order. Tesla stated in an email sent Thursday,…