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Elon Musk: Tesla’s next ‘killer product’ is Solar Roof

October 28, 2020
Elon Musk says that Tesla’s next ‘killer product’ is its Solar Roof and that it will become “obvious” next year. It looks like Tesla is getting ready for it by hiring an army of roofers. During a conference call following Tesla’s Q3 2020 earnings results this week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk hyped up the solar roof tiles. The CEO said that it will become a clear ‘killer product’ next…
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Tesla vehicles are starting to go into the new Boring Company Loop in Las Vegas

October 22, 2020
The first Tesla vehicles are starting to go into the tunnels of the new Boring Company Loop in Las Vegas for testing. It looks like they are getting closer to launching the new transportation system. A Boring Company Loop system consists of tunnels in which autonomous electric vehicles travel at high speeds between stations to transport people within a city. The first system is being deployed at…
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Quick Charge Podcast: October 21, 2020

October 22, 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 releases new Model Y Shanghai factory pictures ahead of production start

October 22, 2020
Tesla has released new pictures of the Model Y factory at Shanghai Gigafactory ahead of the start of production. The start of Model Y production in Shanghai is considered critical to Tesla’s growth. There’s no doubt that the Chinese market has become extremely important to automaker and Tesla has taken full advantage of it by becoming the first foreign automaker to have a wholly-owned factory…
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Australia to host the latest world’s largest solar farm

October 21, 2020
It looks as though the latest holder of the title, “world’s largest solar farm,” is set to be Newcastle Waters in Australia’s Northern Territory. The solar farm in the Outback will be capable of producing 10 gigawatts and will be so big that it will be able to be seen from space. The Newcastle Waters solar farm, which will sit on a 10,000-square-kilometer (3,861-square-mile) cattle…
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