Elon Musk has revealed more details about what his Tesla Master Plan Part 3 will be about during a new companywide meeting with employees held last night.
Tesla Master Plan Part 3
Part One and Two of Musk’s “master plan” for Tesla have been important pieces of literature at the company that, in many ways, laid the path to its success.
Back in March 2022, six years after part 2, Musk…
Porsche accelerates its electric bike expansion, buys up German e-bike motor manufacturer
June 9, 2022
German automotive manufacturer Porsche isn’t sitting in the slow lane when it comes to expanding the company’s reach in the electric bike market. Porsche’s latest power move in the two-wheeled EV industry just saw it buy up Fazua, an innovative electric bicycle drive…
Microlino opens configurator for its adorable electric microcar to 30,000 reservation holders
June 9, 2022
One little Swiss microcar (technically a quadricycle) has made a disproportionately sized splash. The pint-sized four-wheeled electric vehicle known as the Microlino may be petite, but it’s got a long line forming out the door counting over 30,000 reservation holders. And…
The Pixel’s Battery widget became easier to find with Android 12 QPR3, and Android 13 will allow the homescreen object to take up less space.
On Android 12, the Battery widget’s smallest configuration is 2×2 with a lot of empty space if it’s only showing the charge level of your Pixel phone, which is the case most of the time. Beta 2 of Android 13 made it so that the percentage bar…
No, Android Auto isn’t going away
June 9, 2022
You might have read recently that Google is turning Assistant Driving Mode into its primary driving experience on smartphones, with a version of Android Auto going by the wayside. Let’s take a minute to clear things up – Android Auto is not going away.
Android Auto is…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 8, 2022
June 9, 2022
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…
Elon Musk told Tesla employees to expect a “nutty” end-of-quarter delivery wave this quarter at a new company-wide meeting.
The automaker has been trying to move away from quarterly delivery waves, but special circumstances made one inevitable at the end of this quarter.
Tesla has been known to have intense end-of-quarter delivery pushes due to its distribution system, which is very…
NASA’s new powerful space observatory, the James Webb Space Telescope, got pelted by a larger than expected micrometeoroid at the end of May, causing some detectable damage to one of the spacecraft’s 18 primary mirror segments. The impact means that the mission team will…
Ricoh has announced the second-generation global positioning system (GPS) unit for its DSLRs that it says provides reliable, high-precision positioning data and promises to simplify tracing for astrophotography.
The Pentax O-GPS2 is described as a versatile GPS unit…
.The NASA podcast explores a variety of space communications and navigation topics, and the upcoming fifth season will focus on the JPL-managed Deep Space Network.
NASA’s “The Invisible Network” podcast returns on June 9 for a six-episode season about NASA’s Deep Space Network. Managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, the Deep Space Network provides critical…
