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Tesla has once again changed its used car policy. It is reverting back to not sharing pictures of its used vehicles for sale. Since Tesla doesn’t use the dealer model, it has arguably the greatest hold on the used car market for its own vehicles. It gets a steady flow of used vehicles from leases ending and Tesla owners upgrading to the latest models. Over the years, Tesla has made several…

The UN secretary-general urges G20 nations to ditch coal completely in a climate conference. Planting seagrass needs to play an important part in reducing emissions. Here’s why. Writer Andrew McCormick asks, “The sitting president has no climate plan. Why isn’t that headline news?” And more… UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres probably feels like a broken record at times. On…

A Tesla owner managed to recover his stolen RV thanks to the help of Tesla Sentry Mode that captured the theft on video. Tesla’s Sentry Mode is an integrated surveillance system inside Tesla’s vehicles using the Autopilot cameras around the car. The system detects when there’s a “threat,” which basically consists of anyone or anything approaching the car, and starts recording. It was…

Tesla is launching phase 3 of its massive virtual power plant in South Australia and confirmed that soon, almost 4,000 homes with Powerwalls and solar will be connected to the system. Tesla virtual power plant A virtual power plant consists of connecting several small distributed energy assets, like residential solar panel systems and home battery packs, and using them together to provide larger…