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Tesla is working on Apple and Amazon Music in-car integration

Tesla is working on adding Apple Music and Amazon Music as new native in-car music services inside its electric vehicles. While most other automakers are turning to phone mirroring with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay to handle media playback inside their cars, Tesla is insisting on integrating music services into its own user interface. For years, the automaker has been integrating different music…
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Tesla (TSLA) new 4680 battery cell to be produced by Panasonic, report says

Tesla (TSLA) has recently introduced plans to produce its own battery cells called ‘4680’, but now we learn that Panasonic will also be producing the new cell for them, according to a new report. While Tesla has been working on its own battery cell chemstry for years, it has always worked with experienced battery cell manufacturers to produce them while it focused on battery module and pack…
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Quick Charge Podcast: December 26, 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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Elon Musk says Tesla can still achieve milestone of 500,000 cars in 2020, but will need to ‘go all out’

Elon Musk told Tesla employees in a new email obtained by Electrek that the automaker can still achieve its milestone of 500,000 electric cars delivered in 2020, but it will need to ‘go all out’ in order to achieve it. Tesla is nearing the end of its end-of-year delivery push as it aims to deliver a record number of vehicles this quarter to achieve 500,000 deliveries in 2020 – a long-time…
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Scientists set a solar cell efficiency world record

A Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) research team published a paper in the journal Science earlier this month on the development of a perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell that achieved 29.15% efficiency. That’s a new world record. Solar cell efficiency record This beats the…
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Tesla launches 3 new in-car video games on its arcade platform

Tesla is launching 3 new in-car video games on its arcade platform as part of its bigger holiday software update. As we reported earlier today, Tesla is about to release a big software update during the holidays and surprisingly, no information has leaked about it. That’s changing now. A picture of the release notes has leaked on Reddit – although it’s in Norwegian and as part of the…
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