Cleantech & EV’s

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…

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…

Tesla’s (TSLA) electric vehicle business is certainly its main source of revenue right now and should remain so for the foreseeable future. However, we believe that the next phase of massive growth is going to be powered by Tesla Energy, the automaker’s energy division. Following Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity, Elon Musk had a vision of combining clean energy consumption with electric…

The possibility of an upcoming Tesla Model S/X refresh is back in the spotlight as a hacker finds a reference to an updated interior with a selfie camera in a software update. Rumors of a possible Model S and Model X design refresh have been increasing lately — especially since Tesla announced that the Model S Plaid is going to require several important changes. Last month, we also reported…