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The first installation of Tesla’s highly anticipated Solar Roof product is expected to take place in the coming months, bringing the company one step closer to providing a comprehensive and arguably best looking “sun-to-vehicle” system possible. As we near the inaugural installations, those in the solar industry are keeping a close watch on the impact Tesla’s roll out will have on solar demand and the entire category as a whole. Tesla’s Solar Roof glass tiles— offered in four styles of Tuscan, Slate, Textured, and Smooth— look like regular roof tiles from ground level, but embedded with photovoltaic solar cells underneath. Tesla claims the glass tiles are more resil…
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Tesla is close to securing a deal with the city of Shanghai that would allow the Silicon Valley-based electric carmaker to produce vehicles in China, according to a newly published report by Bloomberg. Chinese regulations require Tesla to enter into a joint venture with a local company to manufacture vehicles in the country. Having a presence in the world’s largest electric vehicle market is a critical next step for Tesla as it seeks to scale production globally. Tesla has previously shared that it is looking to build vehicles and batteries in China which would allow the company to avoid a 25% tariff on vehicles it sold in the country. Last year, Tesla’s sales in Chi…
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Champs-Elysees attack: Car full of explosives & guns rams into Paris police van, suspect dead An anti-terror investigation is underway in Paris after an armed attacker rammed a car into a police van on the Champs-Elysees. The French Interior Ministry says it was intentional and that the driver is dead. He had been on France’s security watchlist since 2015 due to radical Islamist ties. No-one was injured in the incident. World News
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A new piece of legislation being drafted by House Republicans could squash the stranglehold that states currently have on autonomous vehicles. Federal regulators could be blocked from demanding pre-market approval for self-driving vehicle technology that currently bar states from governing design and testing of self-driving cars, according to Reuters. If passed, which is a far in the future possibility, this would be a major triumph for autonomous vehicle-makers such as Tesla, General Motors and Alphabet’s Waymo. States such as California and New York are considering limiting the deployment of self-driving vehicles, something that this draft would stop. The legi…
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As widely reported yesterday, SpaceX and Elon Musk have confirmed that the launch of BulgariaSat-1, initially scheduled for June 19, is being realigned to Friday or Saturday to allow SpaceX to replace a leaking valve inside the payload fairing. Musk reiterated that the second redundant valve was functioning perfectly, but tempered that fact with an abundance of caution. BulgariaSat-1 was initially scheduled to launch on June 17th, but was delayed while the pad continued to be prepared after the launch of CRS-11 fourteen days earlier. With a public acknowledgement that SpaceX is even willing to consider two launches within 48 hours, let alone officially schedule …
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Tesla CTO JB Straubel spoke at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association’s Annual Energy Fair over the weekend and shared a summary of Tesla’s progress to date. To put the scale of Model 3 into perspective, he shared that “the Model 3 alone, when it’s at half a million vehicles per year, will use the world’s entire lithium ion battery supply.” The clarification builds on previous statements by Tesla CEO Elon Musk several years ago that the Gigafactory would produce more lithium ion cells than the entire world’s capacity at the time. The statement by Straubel provides an updated perspective on the scale Tesla is pursuing with Model 3 and with the Gigafactory. It a…
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed today with a tweet that Tesla has no plans to use its new 2170 lithium ion cell in the Model S and X. The news flies in the face of past assumptions that Tesla would convert all of its vehicles to the new cells being produced at Gigafactory 1 in Nevada. The new 2170 cells were designed from the ground up to be the optimal size and energy density for electric vehicles, balancing energy storage with external surface area to allow for sufficient cooling. Why maintain two battery standards? Tesla has partnered with Panasonic for its batteries since the beginning, and as such has existing contracts with the company that may come …
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JB Straubel, Tesla’s co-founder and chief technical officer, was the keynote speaker at the Midwest Renewable Energy Association’s Annual Energy Fair which took place this weekend in Wisconsin. While there, he dropped a few hints about an array of Tesla’s projects. One of these nuggets is that the technology for its existing vehicles is going to be upped to the level of the Tesla Semi, which is being unveiled in September. “It may not be intuitive to everyone, but the same technology that’s in the Model S can be scaled up,” Straubel said. “In fact you can just kind of double it and double it again, you can scale it to vehicles that are much much bigger.” …
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Tesla has scored a victory in Arizona after a judge ruled that an existing law believed to prohibit auto manufacturers from selling direct to customers did not apply to Tesla. Tesla pursued and obtained an automotive dealer license – a standard license traditional automotive dealerships are required to hold in order to sell vehicles – from the Arizona Department of Transportation following the ruling. Tesla previously believed that a supporting law prohibited direct sales to customers even with the dealer license so the clarification from the judge that direct sales would be allowed with a run of the mill automotive dealer license came as quite a relief. The vic…
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Elon Musk tweeted that progress is being made with securing political support for The Boring company after ‘promising conversations with @MayorOfLA (Eric Garcetti) regarding tunnel network’. Gaining support of leading political figures, especially from Los Angeles city Mayor Eric Garcetti, would set a high water mark for the upstart company and stimulate laggard cities that might not otherwise be as supportive of the proposed underground transportation network. Musk shared a video at TED2017 demonstrating his plan to create a multi-layer high-speed tunnel infrastructure to support mobility by way of electric skates and Hyperloop tubes. The serial tech entr…
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the-future-now: the-future-now: After 40 years, scientists may have solved the mystery of the “Wow!” space signal In August of 1977, a group of astronomers examining radio transmissions in Ohio received a mysterious signal from an unknown source. Shocked by its incredible length — 72 seconds — one scientist scribbled “Wow!” next to the recording, inadvertently giving the unusual communication a nickname that would last decades. Now, after 40 years of grappling with possible explanations for the Wow! signal — which even include the possibility of aliens — scientists at the Center for Planetary Science have finally solved the puzzle. A comet unknown to research…
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neurosciencestuff: Our nervous systems have left-right differences that are important for correct functioning. Handedness is probably the best-known asymmetry arising from the development of the nervous system. This is observed very early on: embryos of eight weeks already tend to move their right arms more often than their left arms. At this ‘age’ signals are not sent from the brain to the arms yet, but only from the spinal cord. A few weeks later, left-right differences also become visible in the shape and size of the premature brain. A team of scientists from the Netherlands, the UK and China searched for genes that contribute to left-right differences in th…
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video-cnbcukfin-yahoopartner: The average annualized total return for the S&P 500 index over the past 90 years is 9.8 percent. For 2017, in just under half a year, the S&P 500’s total return is 9.7 percent. Looking at these facts side by side, it might seem the market has been twice as generous as usual so far this year, tempting a wary investor to back away from stocks or expect next to nothing more over the coming six months. Yet equity returns come in waves, not in metered doses. The market gets on a roll, overshoots, retrenches, and sometimes—as in the 18 months ended last November—just slides sideways. One of the market’s more intriguing and mischie…
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the-independent-new-yahoopartner: Several pedestrians have been injured after being hit by a van in a “major incident” near a mosque in London. Witnesses said the vehicle veered off the road into worshippers leaving prayers in Finsbury Park shortly after midnight. “From the window, I started hearing a lot of yelling and screeching, a lot of chaos outside,“ a woman who lives opposite the scene told the BBC. “Everybody was shouting: ‘A van'��s hit people, a van�’s hit people’. “There was this white van stopped outside Finsbury Park mosque that seemed to have hit people who were coming out after prayers had finished.” Passers-by said a crowd had previously stopped t…
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Van attacks pedestrians near Finsbury Park Mosque in N. London, at least 7 people injured - reports Several people have been injured after being hit by a van near Finsbury Park Mosque in north London, early Monday morning. The van reportedly veered off the road into people outside the mosque but it was unclear whether the collision was deliberate. One person has been reportedly arrested at the scene. World News
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