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Missouri’s largest wind farm is shut off at night to protect bats – is this overkill?

Missouri’s largest wind farm has been switching off at night since April 19 to avoid killing endangered and threatened bats. Is this good environmental stewardship, or is it throwing out the baby with the bathwater? Missouri wind farm… and bats The High Prairie Renewable Energy Center, which is in northeastern Missouri, is currently the largest wind farm in the state. The St. Louis-based…
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Tesla tried to charge $22,500 for new battery pack when a $5,000 repair did the trick

Tesla has tried to charge a Model S owner $22,500 for a battery pack replacement out of warranty, but a third-party shop was able to fix the issue for a fraction of that cost. As a Tesla owner, one of the most common questions I get asked is, “How much does it cost if you need to replace the battery pack?” It’s a hard question to answer since the vast majority of Tesla battery replacements…
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Quick Charge Podcast: September 11, 2021

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 pushes its ‘mind-blowing’ Full Self-Driving Beta v10 to early access fleet

Tesla has started pushing its Full Self-Driving Beta v10 software, a version that CEO Elon Musk called “mind-blowing”, to its early access fleet. Are your minds blown yet? Mine is blown that Tesla actually stuck to the latest FSD timeline from Musk – “latest” being the keyword. We are coming up on almost a year since Tesla started testing its Full Self-Driving Beta in its early access…
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Leaked video from Tesla Gigafactory Texas shows tons of megacasts ahead of production

A video that leaked from Tesla Gigafactory Texas in Austin shows a ton of large mega casting parts ahead of the expected start of Model Y production at the new factory. Tesla is currently in the process of starting production at two brand new factories, Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas, almost simultaneously. The timeline to production is unclear. Officially, Tesla says it plans to start…
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