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US consumes more green energy than coal for first time since 1885

In 2019, US annual energy consumption from green energy sources exceeded coal consumption for the first time in 134 years, according to the US Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Monthly Energy Review. Green energy’s new US record How was this major milestone achieved? Simply put, coal is declining and wind and solar are growing. Coal consumption in the US decreased by nearly 15% in…
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Tesla achieved supply optimization at Gigafactory Shanghai, now says cost is linked to materials

Tesla executives are linking the price drops in China throughout the year to supply optimization at Gigafactory Shanghai, which they say is now completed. Now, they linked the price to material costs and say they could increase. Tesla is completing its first full year of production at Gigafactory Shanghai, and it has been a successful one. The automaker managed to ramp up production and lower…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 30, 2020

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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LG signs massive ~$10 billion deal to make batteries in Indonesia

LG has signed a massive agreement to reportedly invest close to $10 billion in Indonesia to make batteries in the country. Indonesia is one of the world’s biggest nickel producers, but it has also recently put a ban on exporting nickel ore in order to encourage the industry to process it locally. The new protectionist move has resulted in high interest to invest in battery production in the…
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Elon Musk pushes Tesla to have more in-car gaming in preparation for self-driving future

CEO Elon Musk is pushing Tesla to have more in-car games and entertainment, which he sees as ‘critical’ in a self-driving future. Is he getting ahead of himself? Last weekend, Tesla started pushing a new software update that Musk had been hyping as ‘fire’ over the last few weeks. The update ended up consisting of a few user interface changes and the main new features were 3 new in-car…
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