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Tesla loses its head of AI and vision Andrej Karpathy – a big loss for the Autopilot team

Andrej Karpathy, senior director in charge of AI and computer vision at Tesla, announced that he is leaving the automaker. It is a big loss for Tesla’s Autopilot team and self-driving effort. Karpathy joined Tesla more than five years ago as a neural net and computer vision expert. He quickly rose through the ranks and became a big part of Tesla’s Autopilot team and the automaker’s effort to…
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Tesla battery supplier Panasonic teases impressive increases in capacity

Panasonic, which grew into a major battery cell supplier in the EV industry through its partnership with Tesla, is now teasing some important improvements in battery capacity. Back in the early 2000s, Tesla approached every battery manufacturer in the world with its idea of using Li-ion cylindrical battery cells – primarily used to power laptops at the time – to power electric vehicles. They…
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Aptera asks Congress to make Tesla’s plug and Superchargers the standard for EVs in the US

Aptera has launched a petition to ask Congress to make Tesla Superchargers and its plug the standard for electric vehicles in the US. When Tesla started making electric cars, there was no dominant charging standard, and therefore, Tesla developed its own. Things have changed a lot since then, and now, CCS has become the global standard. While CCS has now been globally adopted, it doesn’t…
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Celebrate BLUETTI Prime Day with some of its best energy storage deals ever

Whether it’s a new phone charger, that one specific laundry detergent you love, or a last-minute Halloween costume accessory, you’ve probably used Amazon. One of the perks of the web’s largest digital marketplace is Prime Day, a multiday sale event celebrated each year throughout the site. Veteran energy storage provider BLUETTI is joining the Prime Day celebration this year with . This list…
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