Tesla announced today that Jerome Guillen, a longtime executive who most recently led its Heavy Trucking division, is leaving the company.
Guillen is one of Tesla’s most well-known executives and one of the longest-lasting top executives at the company.
He earned a BS in Mechanical Engineering at the École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées in Paris, France, his home country. He…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 7, 2021
June 8, 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.
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In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB):
Hitachi ABB Power Grids launches transformer products for offshore floating wind farms.
Turbine installation is complete at Denmark’s largest wind farm, the offshore Kriegers Flak.
UnderstandSolar is a free service that…
Tesla loses head of energy operations
June 8, 2021
Tesla’s head of energy operations has left the company amid an important growth phase for the ‘Tesla Energy’ division.
RJ Johnson
RJ Johnson was a US Army officer who graduated from West Point in civil engineering.
When leaving the service in 2007, he joined NextEra, a large electric utility company operating throughout the US and Canada.
He spent over a decade at the company, where he…
Autonomous rideshare rivals Waymo and Cruise have both reportedly applied for permits to charge passengers for self-driving rides in the San Francisco Bay area. Some of the applications are still under review, but it could be a major step toward autonomous rideshare vehicles…
Jeda, well-known manufacturer of accessories for Tesla vehicles, is launches a designed for the latest Model 3 and Model Y vehicles. You can and receive an exclusive discount.
Tesla is known for its spartan interior with minimalist design and it can be hard for…
An uncrewed SpaceX Dragon CRS-22 cargo ship launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on June 3 and arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) two days later. It was carrying, among many other things, two new solar arrays that will power the ISS.
Jacksonville-headquartered Redwire Space is an aerospace manufacturer and space infrastructure technology company.
A top Wall Street analyst released a new report stating that he believes Tesla (TSLA) stock could soon rise to $1,000 per share on a ‘green tidal wave’ coming to the US and China.
As we reported last week, a report came out stating that Tesla’s net new orders are…
From now through August 2, Costco members can save $1,000 on a 2022 Bolt EV and EUV, $3,000 on a 2020/2021 Chevrolet Bolt EV, and $2,000 on a Volvo XC40 Recharge Pure Electric. Those deals and much more have been added to our updated best Electric Vehicle prices and leases.
Tesla is turning to things besides solar in order to comply with its employment requirements at Gigafactory Buffalo in New York as part of a deal between SolarCity and the state.
Tesla Gigafactory New York
Tesla inherited Gigafactory New York as a result of its acquisition of SolarCity, and with it comes a deal with the state to create a certain number of jobs and maintain a level of investment…
