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Big batteries are the newest answer to Big Tech’s big energy needs
1+ day, 5+ hour ago (907+ words) America's booming energy demand is creating a powerful case for large-scale energy storage. Like electric utilities across the nation, Minnesota's Xcel Energy has been staring down a future of more electricity demand, customer frustration around raising rates, and the constant…...
Nio, Li Auto rise as Q1 delivery totals beat internal guidance
2+ day, 10+ hour ago (697+ words) China's EV startup trio " Nio, Li Auto, and XPeng " are all climbing on Wednesday, following the release of March and first-quarter delivery totals. Nio delivered 83,465 vehicles in the three months that ended in March, up 99% from the same quarter a…...
Waymo’s now serving more than 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (785+ words) The Alphabet-owned company grew its ridership more than tenfold in less than two years. Per the company's post on X last Thursday, Google-owned Waymo is now providing 500,000 paid robotaxi rides every week, an eye-popping figure that's slowly turning the street-side…...
Report: SpaceX’s record IPO may grant preferential access to retail investors and Tesla shareholders
1+ week, 12+ hour ago (516+ words) SpaceX's impending IPO could raise $40 billion to $80 billion and rank as the largest ever " as well as one of the most unconventional. The Wall Street Journal reports several ways Elon Musk is considering breaking with IPO norms: Investors in his…...
Tesla released estimates for Q1 deliveries and they’re lower than analysts expected
1+ week, 1+ day ago (690+ words) Ahead of first quarter earnings next month, Tesla released its own company-compiled Wall Street consensus for deliveries: 365,645 vehicles. While that's lower than the 382,000 FactSet consensus estimate, it represents a nearly 9% jump from Q1 2025, when Tesla sold 336,681 vehicles. Tesla started releasing its…...
The US leads the world in robotaxi deployments
1+ week, 1+ day ago (597+ words) Every day it seems another robotaxi launches somewhere in the world. But most of them are in the US. Of the 171 active robotaxi deployments globally, 69 " or 40% " are in the US, according to a new report from the Bank of America…...
Giga Texas transformed the Austin landscape. Elon Musk thinks Terafab could be about 10x the size.
1+ week, 2+ day ago (586+ words) Watch Giga Texas grow from space. Tesla's upcoming chip plant, Terafab, is expected to dwarf anything the company has built before. For comparison, its flagship factory, Gigafactory Texas, comprises roughly 10 million square feet across multiple floors on a 2,500-acre campus....
Sony and Honda are scrapping Afeela, their joint EV that you could play PlayStation in
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1039+ words) Less than two weeks after Honda said it would take an up to $15.7 billion write-down as it restructures its EV business, the automaker is scrapping an EV made in a joint venture with Sony. The Afeela 1, a $90,000 EV with PlayStation…...
Amazon’s Zoox to increase San Francisco and Las Vegas footprint and expand service to Austin and Miami this year
1+ week, 3+ day ago (425+ words) The news follows a spate of other announcements from the purpose-built, steering-wheel-less robotaxi company, including expansions into a total of 10 markets for testing and a partnership with Uber, in addition to its longtime tech relationship with Nvidia. Like many robotaxi…...
🚀Musk’s conjunction function - Snacks
1+ week, 4+ day ago (868+ words) Stocks sank and oil prices rose on Friday as the war in the Middle East escalated, with the US deploying more troops and warships. All stocks in the Magnificent 7 fell for the second consecutive day. Financials was the best-performing sector....