Tag: Las Vegas
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Elon Musk says The Boring Company will launch in China this month
Elon Musk Wishes to drill holes in China. Even the Tesla founder has tweeted to reveal that his tunnelling and transportation startup, The Boring Company, will be launching in China later this season. Musk is due to speak at an AI seminar, known as the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, taking place in Shanghai on August…
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It’s fight night in Las Vegas: Elon Musk’s Loop vs the Monorail
The latest bout in Las Vegas is not taking place in a raucous casino boxing ring, but in the hushed rooms of planning committees. The reigning champion, the Las Vegas Monorail, is facing upstart challenger The Boring Company, in a fight to decide the future of Sin City’s urban transportation. In May, the Las Vegas…
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Tesla’s new V3 Supercharger can charge up to 1,500 electric vehicles a day
Tesla has started a large next-generation electric vehicle charging station in Las Vegas that combines the company’s core products into a renewable energy ecosystem, satisfying a vision CEO Elon Musk laid out almost three decades ago. The new V3 Supercharger, that supports a peak rate of around 250 kilowatts, is intended to radically cut charging…
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company lands $48.7M contract for underground “people mover” in Las Vegas
The Boring Company, Elon Musk’s tunneling and transportation startup, has landed a $48.7 million job to shuttle people in an underground Loop system around the Las Vegas Convention Center. This is the company’s first commercial contract. The design for the project, dubbed Campus Wide People Mover or CWPM, will focus on the Las Vegas Convention…
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Transportation Weekly: Polestar CEO speaks, Tesla terminology, and a tribute
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior Transport reporter at TechCrunch . This is the fourth edition of our newsletter, a weekly jaunt to the wonderful world of transport and how we (and our bundles ) move. This week we talk with Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath, dig into Lyft’s S-1, be…