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GM reportedly plans to bring back the Hummer as an electric pickup

Sponsored Links blinow61 via Getty Images The car once most synonymous with gas-guzzling excess could soon get a second lease on life as an eco-friendly electric vehicle (EV). According to the Wall Street Journal, General Motors plans to bring back the Hummer as a battery-powered pickup truck in early 2022. What’s more, we could get… Continue reading GM reportedly plans to bring back the Hummer as an electric pickup

Wallbox Quasar Bidirectional Charger Will Power Your Car And Your Home

The electric vehicle charging industry is really beginning to get interesting. When this latest generation of EVs came to market roughly ten years ago electric vehicle supply equipment or EVSE was only capable of delivering electricity safely to the EV, nothing more. However, that’s rapidly changing and we now have smart-chargers that can offer the… Continue reading Wallbox Quasar Bidirectional Charger Will Power Your Car And Your Home

Tesla’s Free All-Weather Kit Gaps May Hold Dirt Close To Car Body

Can a fix be worse than the defect it aims to correct? We’ll try to answer that with this article. It started when Andrew McMahon, from Toronto, noticed something weird with his brand-new All-Weather Kit. Tesla installed it to his Model 3 for free – as it started doing in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland… Continue reading Tesla’s Free All-Weather Kit Gaps May Hold Dirt Close To Car Body

Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran Loves Her Tesla & Elon Musk’s Roughness

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Published on January 10th, 2020 |

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Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran Loves Her Tesla & Elon Musk’s Roughness

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January 10th, 2020 by Johnna Crider

In a Yahoo Finance video discussion about Tesla and its stock [TSLA], Barbara Corcoran of “Shark Tank” cuts right to the chase: “I own a Tesla and don’t say anything wrong to me about it.” She also points out that she invests in Tesla. Her thoughts on TSLA “slumping” a bit “after a double downgrade” are that these guys are just “hedging their bets” and that they don’t want to be wrong. “It’s all nonsense,” she says. “All you have to do is buy a Tesla, or borrow one and drive around, and you’re sold.”

One of the analysts tried to cut her off with a question about the competition and she cuts him back off saying, “The dashboard alone is enough to just buy it.” She also says it’s a gorgeous car and that she loves it. The analyst says that he has never driven a Tesla but has heard that BMW, Porsche, and all these other guys are moving into the EV space and that Tesla’s nice looks aren’t going to be “enough.”

Like many analysts, he doesn’t realize that Tesla is a technology company as well as an automaker. Corcoran’s response is her full belief in Elon Musk and Tesla. “You know what’s wrong with that? The old guy never creates a new trick and they never catch up. You always need a guy that’s a wild man like he is to create something new, and by the time the big guys wake up to it, they can never catch up,”

She also mentions that she wants to start rating stocks and that Tesla is going to get her vote. She also talks about how “rough” Elon Musk is and says that the roughness is what any great leader wants. In order to reinvent a category, this is needed. “Any great leader is rough. Any great leader has a strong opinion.” Barbara Corcoran also says that you need to look at Tesla as a company and stock in the long-term viewpoint. It is the product that drives the stock. You can watch the full video here.

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Fiat Chrysler Will Basically Fund Tesla’s Gigafactory 4

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Published on January 10th, 2020 |

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Fiat Chrysler Will Basically Fund Tesla’s Gigafactory 4

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January 10th, 2020 by Johnna Crider

In a sense, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) will be funding Tesla’s Gigafactory 4 (GF4). This insight comes from Automotive News Europe. FCA could spend around $2 billion all the way through 2023 riding Tesla’s zero-emissions coattails.

FCA made a deal, which we reported back in April 2019, to pool its fleet with Tesla’s in order to comply with Europe’s stricter emissions rules. According to a U.S. investment bank, this is funding Tesla’s upcoming German factory. That $2 billion can be split into about $150–200 million per quarter and will give Tesla’s profit margins a nice cushion for 2020.

In 2019, FCA’s CEO, Mike Manly, said that FCA will not have to pay fines for not complying with the tougher European CO2 regulations in 2019 and 2020. The reason is because of the credit deal with Tesla, along with FCA’s forthcoming plug-in hybrid versions of the Jeep Compass, Renegade, and Wrangler. There is also a new fully electric Fiat 500 coming. (The Fiat 500e has been sold in California for years. We reviewed it in 2016 and 2017.)

Some may think that more EVs and hybrids out there are bad for Tesla, but in reality, this is Tesla’s overall goal — to accelerate the transition to electric vehicles and clean energy. Elon Musk once noted that Tesla’s true competition isn’t the EVs coming onto the market, but the gas vehicles that are still being produced.

I believe that 2020 will be the decade of the EV, and this is all thanks to the push from Tesla and Elon Musk (and perhaps partly the mainstream media, which keeps putting Tesla in the news — whether good or bad). The more people focus on something, the larger that something becomes. With more people talking about Tesla, the more people buy a Tesla, and the more the costs come down (as we’ve seen with the Cybertruck).

It’s good to see FCA contributing to the cause, as Kim Paquette said in her tweet. They will end up contributing one way or another, and thus help Tesla achieve its mission, a great way to help lower the amount of CO2 in the air.
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Tesla is challenging hackers to crack its car, and it is putting ~$1 million on the line

Tesla has been investing more in its cybersecurity over the last few years, and now it is returning to Pwn2Own to challenge hackers to crack its cars with ~$1 million on the line and a few Model 3 vehicles. Last year, Tesla went to Vancouver for Pwn2Own, which is a hacking competition run by Trend… Continue reading Tesla is challenging hackers to crack its car, and it is putting ~$1 million on the line

Price war wipes out half of China’s EV battery makers

BEIJING — China’s electric-vehicle battery industry slowed in 2019 as the country’s automakers remain mired in the doldrums. The industry has been realigning since the beginning of last year, with smaller players gradually being edged out. This comes against a backdrop of heavy borrowing throughout the auto industry supply chain as EV sales stall and… Continue reading Price war wipes out half of China’s EV battery makers

Tesla offers big cash prizes to car hackers in annual Pwn2Own contest

Sponsored Links Highly-connected cars like Teslas bring all sorts of advantages, like over-the-air updates that deliver new features. But they may also be open to digital attacks. In the past, reports have emerged of hackers remotely controlling cars, stealing vehicles by copying entry fobs and performing digital hot wires. To improve the security of it… Continue reading Tesla offers big cash prizes to car hackers in annual Pwn2Own contest

Lithium For Tesla Battery Uses Less Water Than 11 Avocados

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Published on January 5th, 2020 |

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Lithium For Tesla Battery Uses Less Water Than 11 Avocados

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Let’s talk about lithium production. Lithium is the first member of the alkali metal family — elements that make up Group 1 (IA) of the periodic table. Lithium is also the least dense of all of the metals in its group, with a density of about half that of water. It has many uses, including in batteries. It’s also been used to help treat a mental disorder known as bipolar disorder. It’s a very soft, silvery metal with a melting point of 180.54 degrees Celsius, or 356.97 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a pretty interesting element.

In a recent article by Teslarati, the headline says that lithium produced for Tesla’s batteries is less polluting than 31 cups of coffee. That headline alone makes me want another cup of coffee. One of the major criticisms about Tesla is that it requires massive amounts of water to produce lithium-in batteries. That idea has been debunked by the Director at Helmholtz Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage in Germany, Dr. Maximilian Fichtner

Reportedly, 3,840 liters (1,104 gallons) of water are evaporated for the lithium of a battery that has a capacity of 64 kilowatt-hours of capacity. You may think that is a lot of water being evaporated, but according to Fichtner, this is the same amount of water production in 250 grams of beef, 10 avocados, 30 cups of coffee, or even a half of a pair of jeans. One thing many people don’t realize is that we are consumers, and we consume water with basically everything we use. Also, when water is evaporated, it’s not gone, just changed. The US Geological Survey explains it better: “For the water cycle to work, water has to get from Earth’s surface back up into the skies so it can rain back down and ruin your parade.”

Claiming that producing lithium is wasting water is pretty silly and is one of the myths that surround the production of electric vehicles, especially Teslas. But such claims seem to always be waiting in the wings like a guard dog ready to attack anyone who may be interested in purchasing an EV for environmental reasons.

Yes, we use gallons of water for washing clothes, doing dishes, bathing, and, of course, we still drink it. We also have products that used water in their production. That’s part of modern life.
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The Sun Names Porsche Taycan 4S The World’s Best Electric Car

Tesla was the first manufacturer to start mass producing desirable electric cars, but in doing so it has forced the mainstream manufacturers to take note and start developing their own EVs. Its vehicles were deemed the best and most desirable for a good few years, but now that the likes of Porsche has its own… Continue reading The Sun Names Porsche Taycan 4S The World’s Best Electric Car