Cleantech & EV’s

Tesla today announced that it had purchased $1.5B in bitcoin, pushing the cryptocurrency to an all-time high, currently approaching $44,000. The company announced the move in an SEC filing today and says it plans to accept the currency as payment for its products and services. Tesla noted in its 10-K this morning: In January 2021, we updated our investment policy to provide us with more…

There’s a report going around in Germany about Tesla having a “massive delay” at Gigafactory Berlin, which is critical to the automaker’s growth in Europe, but the report is pretty weak. Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Tesla Gigafactory Berlin is arguably the automaker’s most important project of 2021. The company is not launching the Model Y in Europe until the vehicle is produced at the…

A recently shared video is giving us our first look at the SONDORS Metacycle electric motorcycle performing real-world riding. It also finally provides us with some insight into the affordably priced electric motorcycle’s real-world range. The highly anticipated SONDORS Metacycle electric motorcycle was unveiled earlier this year. The bike’s (relatively) low price of $5,000 combined with its…

Tesla has reintroduced the Enhanced Autopilot packaged in Europe and China with some features that were in the more expensive Full Self-Driving package. Over the last few years, Tesla has changed its Autopilot options and pricing so many times, it has been hard to follow. Finally, the automaker ended up making the Autopilot’s Autosteer and Traffic-Aware Cruise Control standard on its…