Mexican Governor Says Tesla May Triple the Size of Gigamexico

The governor of Nuevo León says Tesla will double or triple the size of the GigaMexico factory and they will build the next-generation car, Cybertruck, and maybe Model Y, and its 4680 batteries there. Tesla is talking about capacity increases where there will be demand for more model Y that needs another factory and cybertruck …

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Tesla Sending Out Autosteer Autopilot Software Update

Tesla will send out an over-the-air software update to 2 million cars that will incorporate additional controls and alerts to those already existing on affected vehicles to further encourage the driver to adhere to their continuous driving responsibility whenever Autosteer is engaged. The picture above does not show the actual new Tesla alerts In certain …

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Drone Evidence for Tesla Next Generation Car Assembly Line in Texas

Joe Tegtmeyer has a youtube channel where he has extensive daily coverage of what is happening at the Tesla Austin Texas Gigafactory. Joe operates drone coverage of the entire site. Joe has determined that General Assembly line 3 is being built now and it will be used for the next generation car. A lot of …

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Tesla Cybertruck Delivery Event

The Tesla Cybertruck delivery event is happening now and the public presentation is starting. Cybertruck Delivery Event https://t.co/rWd111HvHc — Tesla (@Tesla) November 29, 2023 pic.twitter.com/vOCicwfKHJ — Franz von Holzhausen (@woodhaus2) November 30, 2023 Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com …

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Toyota’s Advanced Battery Roadmap 2026-2030

Toyota has published an advanced battery roadmap in September, 2023 which has new iron phosphate batteries and solid state batteries in 2026. Toyota’s strategy includes three new liquid electrolyte battery technologies to achieve higher power, longer driving range, faster charging and lower cost and mass production of solid-state batteries. They will have next generation batteries. …

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BYD Building 30 GWh/year Sodium Ion Battery Gigafactory

BYD has signed a deal with local conglomerate Huaihai Holding Group to jointly build a sodium battery manufacturing base with an annual capacity of tens of GWh. FinDreams, BYD’s battery making unit, and Huaihai signed a deal on November 18 in Shenzhen, where BYD is headquartered, to build the sodium battery site in Xuzhou, Jiangsu …

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Sweden’s Northvolt Will Mass Produce Sodium Ion Batteries

Northvolt announced a state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery, developed for the expansion of cost-efficient and sustainable energy storage systems worldwide. The cell has been validated for a best-in-class energy density of over 160 watt-hours per kilogram at the company’s R&D and industrialization campus, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, Sweden. Northvolt’s validated cell is more safe, cost-effective, and sustainable …

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AI Guides ORNL to Make Breakthrough Materials Near Ultimate Physical Limits

Guided by machine learning, chemists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory designed a record-setting carbonaceous supercapacitor material that stores four times more energy than the best commercial material. A supercapacitor made with the new material could store more energy — improving regenerative brakes, power electronics and auxiliary power supplies. This research has …

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