Today, we take a look at Tesla Powerhub, a lesser-known Tesla energy product to monitor and control energy assets at a large scale.
Tesla’s well-known energy products are the Powerwall, Powerpack, Megapack, solar panels and solar roof.
Earlier this year, we also learned of Autobidder, Tesla’s platform to autonomously monetize battery assets.
But this new product is not alone in Tesla’s…
Just in case you didn’t notice, the US election is next week, on Tuesday, November 3. We at Electrek ran a Climate Crisis Weekly roundup on October 10 with the headline, “Humanity’s future rests on American voters.” Someone on the subreddit r/JoeBiden declared…
Google Pixel 5 camera earns 120-point score from DxOMark
November 2, 2020
Despite the incredibly flawed and confusing nature of ranking cameras using a point-based system, the Google Pixel 5 has achieved a 120-point score from the defacto industry camera experts DxOMark — an 8-point bump over the Pixel 4 according to the French firm’s…
Tesla pushes new Full Self-Driving Beta update, Elon Musk says could slash interventions by a third
November 2, 2020
Tesla has started pushing a new software update under its Full Self-Driving Beta program and CEO Elon Musk says it could already cut driver interventions by a third.
It has been less than two weeks since Tesla has started pushing the first version of its “Full Self-Driving” feature in beta to some users.
As we previously reported, Tesla has already been collecting a large amount of data…
As a computing teaching tool or even as a nifty emulation station, the Raspberry Pi is a wonderful piece of kit that runs Linux. Thanks to work by devs, you can now get a version of Android 11 running on Raspberry Pi hardware.
Even though the Raspberry Pi uses effectively…
Quick Charge Podcast: October 31, 2020
November 2, 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…
OnePlus 8T Cyberpunk 2077 Edition goes official with unnecessarily gigantic camera module
November 2, 2020
Ahead of the game’s delayed release in a few weeks, OnePlus has debuted a special tie-in edition of the OnePlus 8T to go with Cyberpunk 2077.
Going up for pre-order today in China, the Cyberpunk 2077 Edition OnePlus 8T is pretty much identical to the standard model on the spec sheet. It has a 6.55-inch 1080p 120Hz display, a Snapdragon 865 chip, 12GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, a 4,500 mAh…
Samsung reclaimed its “top smartphone vendor” title from Huawei in Q3 2020, according to the latest figures from Canalys, while Apple slipped into fourth place behind Xiaomi — the first time the iPhone maker has missed the top three in at least 12 years.
While…
The U.S. sanctions against Huawei are working. We learned last week that the Chinese company’s growth slowed sharply with Q3 2020 revenue of $32.5 billion, up just 3.7% year-over-year. Revenue growth for the first nine months of 2020 was 9.9%, compared to 24.4% for the…
While 2020 won’t be remembered fondly in history books, it has been quite good for Apple, which is ending its fiscal 2020 with record revenues for three of its four quarters. Today, Apple announced record fourth quarter revenues of $64.7 billion, once again citing strength in its growing services business, as well as an all-time record for Mac sales, offset by the atypical absence of first…
