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Toyota announced that it is investing over $13 billion in EV batteries as it is trying to catch up after falling behind in electrification. In the meantime, the Japanese automaker has led lobbying efforts to slow broader EV adoption. Toyota has yet to launch a battery-powered electric vehicle outside of China. Executives for the automaker have often downplayed all-electric vehicles, and instead…

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Tesla has actually managed to obtain a patent on its wild idea to use lasers to clean debris off of vehicles. We are basically talking about using laser beams as windshield wipers. About two years ago, we reported on Tesla working on a technology to use laser beams to automatically clean debris off cars. We discovered the idea through a patent application filed by the company. At the time, Tesla…

Some people trade stocks, but Tesla wants to trade energy capacity. The company is building a new team of traders to do just that with its Autobidder platform. Autobidder is a real-time trading and control platform for energy assets, like Tesla’s Powerpacks, Powerwalls, and Megapacks, optimized through machine learning to better use and more directly monetize the assets. It was first launched…