Over the weekend, Tesla released a video by its engineering team that showed updates on a new ventilator design that will be created and donated to hospitals that need them. One nurse has taken to YouTube to provide his thoughts and hopefully useful feedback. As we know, Elon Musk is a fan of constructive criticism, which helps everyone to learn better in general as long as you are receptive to it.
GM was recently awarded a federal contract for $489 million to supply 30,000 ventilators to the Strategic National Stockpile. They have until the end of August to do so. This is a result of President Trump invoking the Defense Production Act via the US Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar.
Tesla owners across the country and around the world are, like Tesla CEO Elon Musk, helping their local communities fight COVID-19. One such Tesla owner, Dr. Jonathan Richards, is right here in Baton Rouge working on the front lines. In fact, there are many Tesla owners who are healthcare workers on the front lines.
A cool electric vehicle total cost of ownership calculator from a California utility (for its region), the horrible situation the state of Louisiana is in with regards to the coronavirus epidemic and COVID-19, coming gas station bankruptcies, and Elon Musk’s offer of ventilators to any hospital urgently needing them led CleanTechnica’s list of the most popular stories last week.
Tesla’s engineering team released an update on Tesla’s progress making ventilators — something that hospitals desperately need to fight the coronavirus-caused disease COVID-19. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has already helped hospitals by donating CPAPs that doctors can convert into ventilators, as we’ve covered a few times. This is something different.
The Mount Sinai Hospital of New York, NY, received ventilators from Tesla, as we all know, but worth noting is the hospital’s President and Chief Operating Officer took to both LinkedIn and Twitter to express his gratitude for receiving the ventilators bought by Tesla and given freely to the hospital.
Inspired by Elon Musk and others who are trying to help during the coronavirus pandemic, a group of Tesla owners in New York are raising funds to buy donuts and coffee to bring (safely, of course) to Tesla employees making ventilators. Tesla’s Gigafactory in New York is producing ventilators to help save lives and Elon Musk will be giving them away to hospitals in need.
Elon Musk announced on Wednesday that Tesla Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo would begin manufacturing medical ventilators as soon as humanly possible.
