Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda made rare new comments about Tesla and Elon Musk after the electric automaker has surpassed them as the most valuable automaker in the world.
He may or may not have been really hungry when it made the comments.
During an online conference following Toyota’s latest financial results, CEO Akio Toyoda said about Tesla (via Bloomberg):
Tesla says that their recipe will be…
Quick Charge Podcast: November 5, 2020
November 6, 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…
Bentley plans to go all-electric within 10 years
November 6, 2020
Bentley announced a significant expansion of its electrification plans, including only selling battery-electric vehicles starting in 2030.
As part of the Volkswagen Group, Bentley has been somewhat lagging behind its sister brands when it comes to electrification.
Now, it…
Tesla has finally launched its tequila with a crazy-looking bottle and a very high price tag.
Yet another Elon Musk joke that becomes reallity.
From a fart machine inside Tesla vehicles to flamethrowers, Elon Musk had plenty of strange ideas that sounded like jokes but became reality.
Now add Teslaquila to that list.
Back in 2018, Musk poked fun at Tesla haters with an April Fool’s joke about…
NASA just completed a critical propeller test for its all-electric experimental plane called X-57
November 6, 2020
NASA is developing an all-electric experimental plane called the X-57 Maxwell as part of an effort to share insight with regulators before EV planes establish a market. Propellers for the electric X-plane recently completed wind tunnel testing at the Langley Research Center…
Tesla (TSLA) wins contract for new giant battery in Australia
November 6, 2020
Tesla (TSLA) has won a contract to build another giant battery system in Australia — even bigger than the first one.
The project in South Australia has come to be known as the ‘Big Tesla Battery’.
The Big Tesla Battery originally had a capacity of 100 MW/129 MWh with…
Elon Musk is going to Tesla Gigafactory Berlin to boost hiring effort, will personally interview candidates
November 6, 2020
Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he is going to Tesla Gigafactory Berlin today to boost the local hiring effort, and he will personally interview candidates.
Tesla’s vision of massive factories have many advantages in terms of economies of scale, but they do offer challenges when it comes to hiring.
Every market has a limited pool of qualified workers, even with these higher-than-usual…
Volkswagen Group CEO Herbert Diess said today that a Joe Biden win in the US presidential election would boost the German automaker’s efforts to mass-produce electric vehicles globally.
Diess said on a Bloomberg webcast [via Reuters]:
A Democratic program would be more…
EGEB: Biden confirms US would rejoin Paris Agreement on Jan. 20
November 6, 2020
Joe Biden confirms that if he wins, his administration would immediately rejoin the Paris Agreement.
Volkswagen’s CEO says a Biden win would be better aligned to the automaker’s global EV strategy.
Many US households hesitate to invest in solar due to perceived cost.
Tesla has received approval from the Chinese government to register its new Model Y made in China, pointing to the imminent start of production.
As we previously reported, Tesla has taken a new vehicle introduction strategy for Model Y. Unlike previous vehicle programs, which were launched in different markets with vehicles imported from Tesla’s Fremont factory in California, Tesla is only…
