Cleantech & EV’s

According to a new report from the Wall Street Journal, Tesla and Saudi Arabia are in early talks about building an electric vehicle factory in the country, and the latter is dangling some cobalt from the DRC as an incentive. While only sighting “people familiar with the discussions,” the WSJ reports today: Saudi Arabia is in talks with Tesla about setting up a manufacturing facility…

An increasing number of premium bicycle companies have thrown their hat in the budget-minded electric bike ring lately, resulting in lower prices than ever before from major bike shop brands. So what’s behind this move? Several of the recent launches from major bicycle brands have included models that undercut their average e-bike prices by several thousand dollars. While Cannondale has grabbed…

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Elon Musk pushed to use Tesla’s internal driver monitoring camera to record video of drivers’ behavior, primarily for Tesla to use this video as evidence to defend itself from investigations in the event of a crash, according to Walter Isaacson’s new biography of the Tesla CEO. Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk is out, resulting in several revelations about Tesla’s past, present…