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Tesla is allowed to sell Model Ys produced during ‘test phase’ at Giga Berlin, potentially thousands of EVs

July 14, 2022
Tesla is now allowed to sell the Model Y vehicles it produced during the long “test phase” at Gigafactory Berlin. While no number has been disclosed, we are talking about potentially thousands of electric vehicles. For the better part of a year, Tesla was stuck in a regulatory limbo at Gigafactory Berlin before it was finally allowed to officially start production in March 2022. But the…
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Tesla alums launch a new electric RV startup: Lightship

July 14, 2022
A bunch of Tesla alums has launched a new electric RV startup with its first product being a travel trailer equipped with an electric powertrain to help increase the range of an electric vehicle towing a trailer. At Electrek, we have been arguing that the RV market is primed to be electrified for a few years now, but there are only a few projects being developed. Winnebago has its e-RV electric…
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Panasonic is building a battery factory in Kansas to supply Tesla with new 4680 cell

July 14, 2022
Panasonic is reportedly going to build a new battery cell factory in Kansas to supply Tesla with its new 4680 cell. Update: the governor has now made the project official Earlier this year, we reported on Panasonic looking for a site in the United States for a new large-scale battery factory to produce the new 4680 battery cell for Tesla. At the time, it was reported that Panasonic was zeroing in…
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Watch XPeng’s latest video of an HT Aero eVTOL that you drive like a flying car

July 13, 2022
Urban air mobility (UAM) company HT Aero continues to make progress toward the “flying car” it has promised to deliver by 2024. XPeng Huitian (aka HT Aero) recently posted a video to Weibo demonstrating an eVTOL prototype taking off, flying around, and being maneuvered like a car. It has the XPeng Motors steering wheel and everything – check it out. HT Aero is the rebranded name of XPeng…
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