Automating Intelligently Is Tesla’s Manufacturing Advantage
What’s Tesla doing today that other auto manufacturers think of as a tomorrow-kind-of-futuristic goal?
What’s Tesla doing today that other auto manufacturers think of as a tomorrow-kind-of-futuristic goal?
Leaked emails obtained by CNBC reveal that Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims the company is the victim of several acts of sabotage at the hands of employees.
The top 20 article of the past week on CleanTechnica were …
Tesla is doomed, doomed I tell you. When the real carmakers with their century of experience start making electric cars, it is over for Tesla. Ford, VW, and Toyota are so much better. Etc., etc. ……… . How often have we heard comments like this? In a couple of previous articles, I compared the ramp of the Tesla Model 3 to the ramp of the Chevy Bolt. Tesla is clearly as good as or better than GM in bringing electric cars to production.
The world’s largest grid storage battery built by Tesla and installed in South Australia has been tested twice this month. Both times it reacted so quickly the grid administrator couldn’t measure its response time accurately.
Those sounds you heard a few days ago were a collective sigh of relief from many automakers and electric vehicle advocates when the US Congress passed new tax legislation that also kept the federal electric vehicle tax credit intact — a tax credit of up to $7,500 for any US taxpayers who buy a new electric vehicle*.
In the past month, we’ve gotten multiple reports of Tesla Model 3s rolling around the streets of Florida, Texas, New York, and even Canada. Tesla staff, SpaceX staff, and reportedly Tesla engineers at certain stores needing to get familiar with the cars have been receiving early units. I finally decided to go grab some Model 3 spy shots from Instagram and Twitter in order to share the excitement here … and I discovered that numerous new Model 3 photos have been hitting instagram in the past several hours.
Is Tesla still ahead in the race to self-driving cars, or has it fallen back into the pack? I think it still has a much more complete and robust solution set than anyone over several factors which support one another. Other companies are a bit ahead in one component or another, but no one else has the complete set.
You may remember last year when we reported on the presence of a Model S P100D badge buried in Tesla’s software. It was uncovered preceding the release and announcement of the new battery pack size by the “hacker” Jason Hughes.
Tesla has reportedly now gathered more than 1.3 billion miles of data from Autopilot-equipped vehicles, data that’s been obtained whether Autopilot was being actively used or not. What’s the value of all of this data? Does it give the company a significant advantage in the self-driving sector over its potential competitors?