Ramping production of a new vehicle is absurdly expensive, and Rivian is learning that first hand as it pushes to bring it’s R1-T electric pick-up truck to market this year. The beloved electric vehicle startup has raised a fresh $2.65 billion in a new funding round that closed this week. Not only is Rivian working […]
It’s funny. For years, TSLA-Qanon has been assuring us that “the competition is coming”, and once it arrives legacy incumbents will wipe the floor with Tesla. Well, the competition is finally starting to arrive –– and it’s embarrassing. That’s right –– German luxury giant Mercedes-Benz has a new “urban entry model” EV, a compact SUV […]
Trevor McKendrick, Lambda School’s Chief of Staff, writes a great weekly email newsletter called “How it Actually Works”. If you’re not subscribed, you should definitely consider checking it out. This week he wrote about a book he’s been reading called “The Box”, which is about the transformative impact of shipping containers. The shipping container was […]
Oh boy. With a headline like that, you know the story’s gotta be good: ZWICKAU, Germany—Five years and nearly $50 billion into the auto industry’s biggest bet on electric vehicles, Volkswagen VOW 2.05% CEO Herbert Diess and his guest, Chancellor Angela Merkel, stood in anticipation as the first ID.3, Germany’s long-awaited answer to Tesla, rolled off the assembly line. […]
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Have you been following this Alexei Navalny story? The Russian opposition leader and blogger was nearly assassinated by Russian FSB agents late last summer, as reported in December by Belingcat. (Be sure to check out that story too, it’s something else). After tricking one of the men who tried to kill him into admitting it […]
Remember Anthony Levandowski? The Google engineer who founded Waymo (back when it was the Google Self Driving car project), and then got sued by Google after Uber bought his company? Not only did Levandowski lose his job at Uber and lose the civil case, federal prosecutors decided to press criminal charges against him as well. […]
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Come work on cell / battery production at Giga Texas & Giga Berlin! https://t.co/PhsI5bb0uD pic.twitter.com/jEUatMLDmE — Tesla (@Tesla) January 17, 2021 These cells are going to change everything.
Joe Biden has been arrested. The deep state is in disarray and has struck a deal with the Trump administration. There will be an experimental surgery that will exchange the faces or Biden and Trump. So when you watch “Biden’s inauguration” you will really be watching Trump being sworn in for a second term. And […]
