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    Tesla Changes Stance on Bitcoin Amid Climate Concerns

    Tesla Changes Stance on Bitcoin Amid Climate Concerns

    The U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla suspended its plans to accept Bitcoin as a payment method, CEO Elon Musk announced in a Twitter statement late Wednesday. Musk, who has become notorious for moving the price of cryptocurrencies via tweets, cited the massive amount of energy required to keep Bitcoin running and its environmental impacts as […]

    Tesla Is Building a Giant Battery in Texas to Back up Grid

    Tesla Is Building a Giant Battery in Texas to Back up Grid

    Almost a decade after moving into the electric vehicle industry, Elon Musk’s Tesla is supersizing its plans to bring its battery technology into the power storage game. Gambit Energy Storage LLC, a Tesla subsidiary, is building a 100 megawatt energy storage project in Arlington, Texas, outside of Houston. The giant battery will plug into the […]

    Tesla Can Clear Trees for New EV Factory, German Court Rules

    Tesla Can Clear Trees for New EV Factory, German Court Rules

    Tesla can continue clearing a forest outside Berlin in order to build a new Gigafactory factory, a German court ruled Thursday. The company is planning its first European electric car and battery factory in the town of Gruenheide, but local environmental groups opposed the tree clearing necessary to construct it, Reuters explained. The court had […]

    Tesla Launches a Futuristic Electric Truck​​

    Tesla Launches a Futuristic Electric Truck​​

    Tesla just unveiled its first electric truck. CEO Elon Musk showed off the new design at a launch event at the company’s Design Studio in Hawthorne, California Thursday. “We need sustainable energy now,” Musk said, according to Reuters. “If we don’t have a pickup truck, we can’t solve it. The top 3 selling vehicles in […]

    Tesla Unveils 2nd Mass-Market EV: The Model Y

    Tesla Unveils 2nd Mass-Market EV: The Model Y

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the company’s second mass-market electric vehicle at its Southern California design studio Thursday night: the Model Y. The car is a compact SUV that will have a range of 300 miles, The Verge reported. Three versions will be available for sale in fall of 2020: a ,000 long-range version, a […]

    Mass-Market Electric Pickup Trucks and SUVs Are on the Way

    Mass-Market Electric Pickup Trucks and SUVs Are on the Way

    By Venkat Viswanathan and Shashank Sripad Electric vehicles — specifically, the Tesla Model 3 — are dominating the U.S. market for premium sedans, but are barely even on the radar in the busiest automotive category, which includes SUVs and pickup trucks. The immediate reason is economics, but it has a lot to do with physics […]