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Tesla CEO Elon Musk buys near 10% stake in Twitter

April 4, 2022
A new SEC filing revealed that Elon Musk, better known as CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, invested almost $3 billion in Twitter and now owns almost 10% of the social media platform. Musk, the richest man in the world, famously doesn’t have many investments. While most billionaires have most of their assets linked to a single company, like Jeff Bezos with Amazon and Mark Zuckerberg with Meta (Facebook)…
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Quick Charge Podcast: April 2, 2022

April 4, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players. New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
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Tesla beats all-time delivery record with 310,000 EVs despite difficult quarter

April 2, 2022
Tesla released its Q1 2022 delivery and production results today and confirmed just over 310,000 deliveries, which is a new all-time delivery record despite a difficult quarter for several reasons. Due to supply chain issues and 2 separate shutdowns at Gigafactory Shanghai, many believed that Tesla would finally break its impressive streak of quarterly delivery records. We estimated that Tesla…
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Drone whips around Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory in new fast-paced video

April 2, 2022
In Tesla’s latest video, a drone tours the company’s latest Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany. High-speed drone videos are nothing new, but the video the skilled pilot captured (in tandem with equally adept video editing) is impressive and gives us a look at the robots and tools the company uses to produce its electric vehicles. We’ve taken a look at skilled FPV piloting before over on…
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GM delivered only 457 electric vehicles last quarter, but it assures us more are coming

April 1, 2022
GM released its Q1 2022 delivery results today and revealed that it only delivered 457 electric vehicles during the last quarter. The automaker assures us that more EVs are coming. GM has been claiming to be “all-in” in electric vehicles for years now, but its sales haven’t reflected that. To be fair, the company has had issues that were, to a degree, out of its control, like the major…
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