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Amptricity just confirmed today that it will start sales of its first home battery model, equipped with solid electrolyte cells; an alternative that stands out for its safety features, but also for a guarantee that basically lasts 25 years. Will it be able to compete with the Tesla Powerwall?

According to an official statement by Tesla, the EV maker doesn't expect to begin Cybertruck mass production until mid-2023. However, today we got new insider leaks that suggest Tesla is planning to deliver 30 manually-built Cybertrucks in December.

Since November 2021 Tesla has opened the supercharger network to non-Tesla EVs in 15 European countries. And today, the EV maker announced that it will be opening the supercharger network to non-Tesla EVs in Italy.

A new report provides some insight as to why Tesla’s lead times have dropped so dramatically in the U.S.

Starting next year, the German government is going to start cutting all aid to electric vehicles, a situation in which Tesla will not be particularly favored.

Just a few months after undertaking a major renovation at the plant, Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin wants to expand its activity in the adjacent area, as we reported in an article before, in order to double the annual production capacity.

Some of Tesla’s “Newest” models still haven’t arrived. Fans don’t seem to mind.

In just a month and a half the Austin Gigafactory has doubled its production figures; the workers celebrate in style the manufacturing of 20,000 units of the Tesla Model Y.

One Tesla Model Y owner comes up with a great list of desired changes for the Tesla Model Y (and Model 3). These would be awesome changes and hopefully Tesla will listen.

Eliminating empty spaces that are created in battery electrodes can help increase the capacity of the battery (up to 25%), and consequently the range of EVs in which they are implemented, according to an interesting study recently published.

Tesla has already started the process of clearing the trees and land of an area of approximately 170 acres necessary for the expansion of Gigafactory Berlin, a facility that is key to its expansion in the European market.

Tesla, the best-known electric car brand in the world is celebrating: its Supercharger network turns 10 years old, having more than 35 thousand charging locations spread over 46 countries as of today.

Tesla's latest wireless upgrade makes its cars to charge faster: the OTA software improvement is already being rolled out to the first customers in North America.

Many enthusiasts are signaling the end to low inventory and long lead times. Here’s the truth on where new car inventory and lead times are heading into the early winter of 2022.

Tesla has just updated its new 4680 battery cells production capacity: according to official information this improvement means that mass production is getting closer; although on the other hand and in parallel, Tesla also claims to be reducing its dependence on them. Is it a contradiction?

Elon Musk has just announced that Tesla is focusing on developing a new platform for its next generation of electric cars, which will cost half as much as the Model 3 and Model Y platform.

Tesla vehicles are made by men and driven by men, at least according to the available data.

Tesla has just added some improvements to the made in Shanghai Tesla Model Y to make the ride more comfortable for rear-seat passengers.

Strong accusations forced Euro NCAP authorities to investigate Tesla for alleged fraud in the European crash tests series. However, absolutely no trace of cheating in any possible way was detected by the European inspectors.

Lectron has just released its newest home charger unit. The features per dollar are hard to beat.

Lectron has just introduced a new adapter that allows Tesla owners to charge at DC fast charging locations. Here are the details.

The best-selling car in Germany in September 2022 was the Tesla Model Y; a headline that actually hides some half-truths, as Tesla usually accumulates deliveries in the last quarter of the year. But it is also true that the huge production ramp up at the Berlin Gigafactory is allowing that to happen, to the terror of German and other European ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) legacy manufacturers in general.

The Kathleen Valley Lithium Project, from which more than 500,000 tons of lithium spodumene concentrate per year will be obtained to supply Tesla, Ford and LG, will be powered by 100 % green, renewable energies combined with battery packs.

Elon Musk has officially announced the start of production of the Tesla Semi and the date of deliveries of its first units to PepsiCo, who acquired up to 100 of these electric trucks years ago.

The year 2022 is going to be the best in Tesla's historical series. The Austin, Texas company is breaking delivery and production records, with the third quarter closing as the best of the year, and while there are still three months to go.

Tesla has announced that it will ditch the use of sensors in all of its electric cars in favor of the cameras and computational neural networks that make up the Tesla Vision system.

With more than a million cars sold per year and with estimates of doubling that number very quickly, Tesla needs more batteries right away. This, among other reasons, is why it is going to expand its Nevada Gigafactory, aiming directly at a steady increase in production.

After opening at the end of March, it took almost three months before Tesla was able to report the first milestone for its German Gigafactory in Grünheide near Berlin: for the first time, 1000 Model Y units were produced within a week, the company announced in mid-June. Since then, rumors of further increases have been heard again and again, and on Saturday the next round number became official: in the past week, 2000 Model Y were produced in the German factory, Tesla announced again via Twitter.

Last night the "Tesla IA Day" event took place in Palo Alto, California, where the Austin EV manufacturer officially presented its advances and improvements in artificial intelligence and robotics, and where the general public was able to directly see a working prototype of Optimus, the humanoid robot with which Elon Musk wants to somehow alleviate many of the burdens of heavy or repetitive everyday tasks for human factory workers.

A fire declared in the recycling section of the Tesla Gigafactory forced firefighters to work hard on its extinction. Although there were – luckily - no personal injuries or damages of great material value, several civil associations from the Brandenburg area are calling for a plant shutdown.