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Tesla officially increases price of its Full Self-Driving Kickstarter campaign to $10,000

October 31, 2020
Tesla has now officially increased the price of its Full Self-Driving package to $10,000 in the US. That’s quite a price for a model that most closely resembles a Kickstarter campaign. In a Kickstarter campaign, companies ask customers to purchase a product before it is fully completed or in production. They basically ask customers to help pay for the development of the product and in…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 29, 2020

October 31, 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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Tesla tests Supercharger limited time discounts to offset expensive peak demand charges

October 31, 2020
Tesla is apparently starting to test discounted rates at Supercharger stations in order to offset expensive peak demand charges. Do you think it’s going to work? Electric utilities are making large energy users pay ‘demand charges’ during peak use that can be quite taxing, especially to charging station operators. Charging stations by nature suffer from big discrepancies between their lows…
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BMW to bring 2 new Mini electric crossovers to market

October 30, 2020
BMW announced that it will release several new all-electric vehicles under the Mini brand in the next few years, including electric crossovers. When BMW had an announcement about the future of the Mini, we had a feeling that they could announce the brand is going all-electric. The announcement fell short of that, but they still made a bigger commitment to electric vehicles: In future, MINI will…
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These futurists say we can achieve 100% green energy by 2030

October 30, 2020
Independent think tank RethinkX, which “analyzes and forecasts the speed and scale of technology-driven disruption,” has released a report that says that most of the world is technologically capable of achieving 100% wind, solar, and storage electricity grids in 10 years. Green energy disruption RethinkX is led by Stanford University futurist Tony Seba, who, for example, declared at the…
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