Archive: Tesla News

By Amy Thompson Posted on February 25, 2020 Venus, Triton, or Io? Where would you send NASA’s newest mission? The space agency is in the midst of planning out its next Discovery class mission, a lower cost exploration program, capped at $500 million (not including launch costs). To that end, NASA has selected four finalists […]

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 25, 2020 A new SpaceX Starlink job posting hints that the company is very interested in an established multi-billion dollar market for high-quality satellite internet – a use-case its Starlink constellation should be a perfect fit for. One of the biggest sources for a recent boom in global demand […]

By Amy Thompson Posted on February 25, 2020 Dust devils are pretty common on Mars – the Red Planet is, after all, a very dusty and windy place. What’s a bit more rare is capturing one of the whirling devils on film. That’s because they fade away nearly as quickly as they appear. But in […]

By Randell Suba Posted on February 25, 2020 Tesla and Panasonic are ending their manufacturing agreement to produce solar cells at Gigafactory New York as early as May and with a planned full exit by September this year. While the two companies scrap their solar joint venture, Tesla and Panasonic will continue its collaboration on […]

By Randell Suba Posted on February 25, 2020 Just like the upcoming all-electric Tesla Cybetruck, Hot Wheels and Mattel’s 1:10 scale model Cybertruck RC is sensational, selling out five hours after its website launched. The toy for the big boys remote-controlled Cybertruck was unveiled during the Toy Fair 2020 at the Javits Convention Center in […]

By Randell Suba Posted on February 24, 2020 Tesla has begun sending Model Y delivery confirmation emails to early customers, notifying them that their all-electric crossover is coming soon. Customers in Northern California who purchased a Tesla Model Y Performance with Performance Upgrade are being notified that their vehicle is almost ready for delivery. The […]

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 24, 2020 NASA has revealed that the astronauts assigned to SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut launch debut are training for a space station mission many times longer than initially planned. Scheduled to deliver two NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station (ISS) no earlier than (NET) late-April or […]

By Jamie Groh Posted on February 24, 2020 Rocket Lab will soon take its tiny Electron rocket further than any similarly-sized vehicle before it, sending a NASA satellite to the Moon and potentially kicking off a new era of unprecedentedly cheap space exploration. On February 14th, the world-leading small satellite launch company announced – alongside […]

By Randell Suba Posted on February 24, 2020 The Audi factory in Belgium paused the production of the e-tron SUV citing production issues such as a battery supply bottleneck. The production of Audi Brussels was shut down Thursday last week and is expected to last until Tuesday. According to Audi insiders, aside from battery supply […]

By Simon Alvarez Posted on February 24, 2020 Recent images of a Tesla Model Y release candidate with its rear hatch open has provided a small teaser of the upcoming all-electric crossover’s rear cargo space. Based on the photos, it appears that the Model Y’s primary luggage area is very generous, to the point where […]