Here are the 21 best cars for winter weather driving
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‘People are freaking out.’ Will electric vehicles doom your neighborhood auto mechanic?
Craig Van Batenburg began his career as an auto mechanic in 1970 after falling in love with the internal combustion engine. But for several years, the 67-year-old from Massachusetts has been warning about its imminent demise. As a wave of electric vehicles quickly approaches, experts say, it could wash away a large portion of a skilled […]
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Elon Musk at private party says Tesla is making A.I. hardware that could be ‘the best in the world’
Elon Musk says Tesla is making A.I. hardware that could be ‘the best in the world’ 11:41 AM ET Fri, 8 Dec 2017 | 00:54 Tesla CEO Elon Musk talked up the company’s work to develop custom hardware for artificial intelligence on Thursday during a talk at a company party for academic and industry researchers. […]
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Elon Musk just published a map of the new subway he wants to build for Los Angeles
Never one to wait for permission, Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has published its first city-wide map tracing the routes it would like to build as a Los Angeles underground transportation system. The company, dedicated to building an underground transit network, has yet to build a working subterranean system. However, it has been piling up […]
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Anheuser-Busch Orders 40 Tesla Semi Trucks
An Anheuser-Busch Budweiser delivery truck in Peoria, Ill. The brewer has reserved 40 of Tesla’s electric trucks as it seeks to cut fuel costs and vehicle emissions. An Anheuser-Busch Budweiser delivery truck in Peoria, Ill. The brewer has reserved 40 of Tesla’s electric trucks as it seeks to cut fuel costs and vehicle emissions. Forget […]
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Elon Musk Wants To Send His Red Sports Car To Mars
In January, Musk’s SpaceX rocket corporation plans to launch its first Falcon Heavy rocket, a long-awaited jumbo ride into orbit. The space and electric car mogul tweeted on Friday that the rocket would be carrying “my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster,” aimed at the orbit of Mars. Some rich men buy a red sports car when […]
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Tesla is where hype goes to die
This is where Hype Goes to Die. Friday was the monthly moment of truth for automakers in the US. They reported the number of new vehicles that their dealers delivered to their customers and that the automakers delivered directly to large fleet customers. These are unit sales, not dollar sales, and they’re religiously followed by […]
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Tesla switches on giant battery to shore up Australia’s grid
(This Dec 1 story corrects paragraph 6 to clarify name and description of company) By David B Gray HORNSDALE, Australia (Reuters) – Tesla Inc switched on the world’s biggest lithium ion battery on Friday in time to feed Australia’s shaky power grid for the first day of summer, meeting a promise by Elon Musk to […]
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Tesla just switched on the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery in Australia
HORNSDALE, Australia — Tesla switched on the world’s biggest lithium-ion battery on Friday in time to feed Australia’s shaky power grid for the first day of summer, meeting a promise by Elon Musk to build the battery in 100 days or give it free. “South Australia is now leading the world in dispatchable renewable energy,” […]
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Australia switched on world’s biggest battery
The world’s biggest lithium ion battery has started delivering power. Activating the massive system in South Australia fulfills a bold pledge by Tesla CEO Elon Musk to build the battery in 100 days or provide it for free. The electric car company’s Powerpack battery system stores energy generated by a nearby wind farm and is […]
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Porsche is betting on an electric future, CEO says
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — At a recent public forum with Porsche CEO Oliver Blume, a billionaire tech CEO stood up to ask a question. But rather than inquire about how quickly technological innovations could take root in the German sports car builder’s models, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum was worried Porsche was forgetting its past. “Have […]
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Elon Musk has a plan for a high-speed loop in Chicago
Elon Musk wants to take his train to Chicago. The billionaire tech entrepreneur tweeted Wednesday that his Boring Company will compete to design, fund, build and operate a high-speed loop connecting O’Hare Airport with downtown Chicago. Musk’s statement came after Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel asked for proposals to build and operate a high-speed rail line […]
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company to bid for Chicago airport link project
Elon Musk’s Boring Company, a project that plans to use futuristic underground pods to transport cars across long distances without traffic congestion, is starting to take shape. Fresh from raising $300,000 from the sale of hats — an ‘initial hat offering’ — and getting permission for projects in Maryland, Musk has confirmed that the company will […]
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Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO more concerned with user experience than rival Tesla
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. Visitors to the TechCrunch Shanghai even this week were greeted with a sleek silver high-performance car at the entrance. It’s right there above these words at the start of this article. This is EP9 produced by NIO, the Chinese electric carmaker […]
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Tesla Truck gets DHL order as shippers test Semi
SEATTLE (Reuters) – Deutsche Post AG’s (DPWGn.DE) DHL and Fortigo Freight Services Inc, one of Canada’s largest fleet management companies, said on Tuesday they had pre-ordered Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) electric truck unveiled earlier this month to test on limited routes. High-profile logistics and transportation customers like fleet operator J.B. Hunt (JBHT.O) and retailer Wal-Mart Stores […]
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Tesla Truck Gets an Order from DHL as Shippers Give Elon Musk’s New Vehicle a Try
The specifications for the Semi, shown in an artists’s rendering, that Elon Musk announced exceeded expectations for many industry observers. The specifications for the Semi, shown in an artists’s rendering, that Elon Musk announced exceeded expectations for many industry observers. Deutsche Post AG’s DPSGY 0.81% DHL said Tuesday it has preordered 10 of Tesla Inc.’s […]
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Elon Musk sees backflipping robot, thinks Apocalypse
Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Ever since I saw Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot perform a backflip, I’ve not been the same. Involuntary shudders have assaulted me in public moments. I even threw my copy of “Atlas Shrugged” in the trash. It was too close to […]
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Scientists Look at How Humans Drive in Self-Driving Cars
Almost half of Americans will hop in their cars for a Thanksgiving trip this year. But if you were being very precise—if you were a team of Massachusetts of Technology researchers who study human-machine interactions—you wouldn’t say that all those Americans are “driving,” exactly. The new driver assistance systems on the market—like Tesla’s’s Autopilot, Volvo’s’s […]
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Tesla Delivers the World’s Biggest Battery—and Wins a Bet
JAMESTOWN, Australia—Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk may have overpromised on production of the company’s latest electric car, but he is delivering on his audacious Australian battery bet. An enormous Tesla-built battery system—storing electricity from a new wind farm and capable of supplying 30,000 homes for more than an hour—will be powered up over the […]
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Tesla Roadster will get even quicker through an option package
It’s easy for Tesla to make these promises when the first Roadsters aren’t expected to ship until 2020. This gives it plenty of time to tackle the challenge and figure out exactly how much power they can wring out of this design. However, an even faster car is more plausible than it might seem. The […]
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Walmart will test Tesla Semi trucks for transporting merchandise
“We believe we can learn how this technology performs within our long-term sustainability goals, such as lowering emissions,” Walmart said in a statement to CNBC. This pilot program for the 500-mile range trucks likely won’t start anytime soon. After all, Musk said that Tesla Semi trucks won’t start production until 2019. Walmart has other options […]
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We drove a brand-new Tesla Model X from San Francisco to New York — here’s what happened
We drove the Tesla Model X from San Francisco to New York in just under a week to see what it’s really like to take an all-electric vehicle on an aggressive cross-country road trip. We limited our charging to Tesla’s network of US Supercharger stations, of which there are 861. Each day we traveled to […]
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Watch Elon Musk show off Tesla’s first electric semi — which can go from 0-60 mph in five seconds
Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Semi, the company’s first electric 18-wheeler, featuring a 500-mile range and capable of going from 0-60 mph in five seconds.
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An Evening With The Tesla Faithful As Elon Musk Unveils A New Truck And Car
On Thursday night, in a hangar at the Hawthorne Municipal Airport, hundreds of people — mostly men who were truck buyers, press, and Tesla owners who had won the opportunity to be there because they referred so many new buyers — were gathered to see Elon Musk unveil a new Tesla Semi truck. For 20 […]
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Watch Tesla unveil a brand new Roadster, which Musk says will be the fastest production car ever made
At the end of their semi-truck event Tesla unveiled a brand new Roadster.
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Tesla designs and manufactures the Model S electric sedan and the Model X electric SUV, and is taking reservations for Model 3, a premium EV starting at $35,000. Tesla also produces a line of commercial and residential battery products.
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Tesla Unveils an Electric Rival to Semi Trucks
He said the truck would be no less groundbreaking, claiming it would have a single-charge range of 500 miles, greater than many analysts had expected and enough to serve in many typical trucking routes. The truck can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in five seconds without a trailer, and in 20 seconds […]
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Tesla reveals semi-truck and new sports car
You’ll often hear automakers brag of a sports car’s zero-to-60 performance but less often for a big-rig truck. On Thursday night, Tesla boasted of both. Tesla revealed an all-new version of its Roadster sports car that can go from a stop to 60 miles an hour in 1.9 seconds, a figure that would make it […]
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Tesla’s New Roadster: Everything We Know
Tesla is making a new version of the Roadster sports car, Elon Musk announced Thursday night, and it looks spectacular. After the Tesla CEO spent half an hour onstage extolling the virtues of his new electric 18-wheeler, he stepped away and the lights went out. Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” came on the loudspeakers, and then the […]
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Tesla reveals a new Roadster, due in 2020
At Tesla’s Semi event, the automaker dropped its new Roadster. It’ll have a 620-mile range via a 200kWh battery pack.”You’ll be able to travel from LA to San Francisco and back without recharging,” CEO Elon Musk said. The new Tesla Roadster will do zero to 60 in 1.9 seconds, and it’ll blast through a quarter […]
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Elon Musk Has Unveiled Tesla’s All-Electric Semitruck
Elon Musk has always dreamed big, and tonight he showed off his biggest reverie yet: the fully electric Tesla Semi. Powered by a massive battery and capable of hauling 80,000 pounds, it can ramble 500 miles between charges. It’ll even drive itself—on the highway, at least.1 And Musk promises production will start in 2019. The […]
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Tesla unveils its vision of the future of trucking
The Tesla Semi is exactly what you would expect from the company. An electric truck with a 500-mile range and a wealth of technology including Enhanced Autopilot. It also has a plethora of big rig-specific features like jackknifing prevention, sensors for blind-spot detection and data-logging for fleet management. But Tesla is no longer alone when […]
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Elon Musk Reveals Tesla’s Electric Semitruck: Live Coverage
Just a few months ago, Elon Musk pulled off one of the great coups in automotive history, launching the Model 3, the long-range, $35,000 car that will bring Tesla’s electric ambitions to the masses. Since then, Tesla has been on shakier ground. Production problems followed the launch, high-ranking executives have left, and the company faces […]
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