Elon Musk Predicts that in the future people will demand that there be no human drivers. This will make it inevitable that steering wheels will be removed from safe full self-driving cars. The steering wheels will be removed.
Like the Energizer Bunny Elon Musk says the Tesla Model 3 will keep going and going for a million-mile life. This would be five times more than regular cars which are usually fail before 200,000 miles.
Bloomberg’s Tesla Tracker is showing nearly 80,000 Model 3’s Tesla delivered for the first quarter. If this is accurate that would be a huge quarter for Tesla and Elon Musk. In January, Musk warned that about 10,000 cars could be stuck in transit at the end of the quarter. Tesla built about 85,000 cars in …
Elon Musk tweeted pictures of a Tesla Semi delivering Tesla passenger electric cars. The Tesla Semi was not expected to be in full production until 2020. However, it appears that Tesla will be using a few dozen of the Tesla Semi’s and could start delivering some pre-order Semi trucks in 2019. Tesla will start making …
The Tesla Model 3 had the best electronics teardown expert Sandy Munro’s team has ever seen. It had the lowest number of hoses, 40% less harnesses, and the electric motors are smaller, lighter, and more powerful than the competition. Munro says if Tesla optimizes the Model 3’s production in China, the electric vehicle will generate …
Elon Musk has sent out an email to Tesla employees that states the current cost of a standard range Model 3 would be around $38,000. This seems to mean that with a 25% margin the car build cost is $30,400. In May, there was an Elon Musk tweet that building 10,000 units per week the …
Tesla sent out invitations to reservation holders living in Germany, France, Sweden, Norway, Italy, and Belgium. A significant number of Tesla cars will be made for Europe and Asia in the first quarter of 2019. Da domani #Model3 al #Tesla store di Piazza Gae Aulenti a Milano! @Tesla @TeslaOwnersIT @disinformatico @Teslarati pic.twitter.com/PlEKj5ZhK6 — Francesco (@FraPet89) …
Kalashnikov has an electric car that uses the styling of a car symbolic of occupied East Germany. The Trabant became a symbol of the technological and social backwardness of the East German state. The new electric version has 220 kW, cruising range is 350 km and 6 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km …
Elon Musk could be in trouble if Tesla does not vote on the going private offer at $420. Elon Musk twitter announcement on the buyout could look like stock fraud if they do not out the offer to a vote. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 …
Currently tanks are loud and emit a lot of heat. A quieter tank with a low level of infrared signature might not be detected until it was too late. Future tanks could also control several large flying or ground drones with missiles. Those tanks would not give away their location when a strike is ordered. …
Elon Musk reported in the Wednesday’s Q1 2018 earnings call that Tesla has managed to reduce the time to make a Model 3 battery pack by 94%, from 7 hours to under 17 minutes. This still remains to be fixed, but in any case, overgeneralizing the design. For example, the current battery pack has a …