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Elon Musk: Cybertruck Aerodynamics Could be “Insane”

On Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that “with extreme effort,” the company’s controversial new pickup truck could hit an extremely low drag coefficient — a quantifier often used to denote air resistance — that’d be “insane for a truck.” In his tweet, Musk claimed the Cybertruck could reach a drag coefficient of 0.3, making… Continue reading Elon Musk: Cybertruck Aerodynamics Could be “Insane”

Valmet Automotive has started battery production in Salo

Valmet Automotive has today started the production of automotive batteries in its new plant in Salo, Finland. The battery plant project has progressed on schedule, and with the ramp up of production volumes, Valmet Automotive will continue recruiting more employees to the Salo plant. Valmet Automotive have today completed the first battery packs destined for… Continue reading Valmet Automotive has started battery production in Salo

Valmet Automotive – 50 years of Finnish car manufacturing

The first car at the Uusikaupunki car plant was completed on November 13, 1969, at 6 am. The car was a Saab 96, unveiled at 3 pm on that day in a gala ceremony to mark the start of car manufacturing. Today, Valmet Automotive has celebrated 50 years of automotive manufacturing at the Uusikaupunki plant with… Continue reading Valmet Automotive – 50 years of Finnish car manufacturing

BMW Invests €400 Million In Dingolfing Plant To Produce iNEXT

The production version of the iNEXT will be produced in Dingolfing, Germany, which requires a €400 million investment. BMW announced a major investment of around €400 million ($443 million) in its largest European production location in Dingolfing, Germany to handle all-electric cars and “autonomous” (called also “highly automated”) models, starting from 2021. The Dingolfing site was… Continue reading BMW Invests €400 Million In Dingolfing Plant To Produce iNEXT

Check Out Similarities Between Supercharging And Filling a Gas Tank

This video finds two of them. And, unfortunately, a big disadvantage on the EV side. Have you ever seen a comparison between supercharging and filling up a gas tank? The DennisCW YouTube channel decided to shoot this video to check out how these things compare in terms of money. Still, it ended up showing two… Continue reading Check Out Similarities Between Supercharging And Filling a Gas Tank

MAHLE Aftermarket nearing completion of acquisition of thermal management business – Trucks, Parts, Service

MAHLE Aftermarket announced Monday that its integration of BEHR Hella Service (BHS) is proceeding on schedule and the transition will be completed on Jan. 1, 2020. According to the company, the transfer enables BHS customers to order the complete catalog of MAHLE Aftermarket components, and will give MAHLE customers access to a broad portfolio of… Continue reading MAHLE Aftermarket nearing completion of acquisition of thermal management business – Trucks, Parts, Service

Uber is exploring ways to make its self-driving cars also self-cleaning (UBER)

Uber has filed a patent application with US regulators for a robotic vacuum system to keep its self-driving cars clean. The filing also revealed plans for an artificial-intelligence-powered camera system to detect soiled spots or items that passengers may have left behind. Autonomous vehicles are key to Uber’s plan for eventually turning a profit, something… Continue reading Uber is exploring ways to make its self-driving cars also self-cleaning (UBER)

The Station: Canoo hits the road, Coup shutters and Samsung shifts

Welcome back to The Station, the go-to newsletter for keeping up to date on what the heck is going on in the world of transportation. I’m your host, Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. Portions of the newsletter are published as an article on the main site after it has been emailed to subscribers… Continue reading The Station: Canoo hits the road, Coup shutters and Samsung shifts

Watch Tesla Model 3 Hot Off The Production Line At Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai

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Published on December 1st, 2019 |

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Watch Tesla Model 3 Hot Off The Production Line At Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai

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December 1st, 2019 by Dr. Maximilian Holland

The latest video from Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai shows Model 3 vehicles emerging from the end of the production line and coming out into the world for the first time. Cute!

To watch a Model 3 emerging from the southeast corner of the main Gigafactory building, tune in to the 3:10 to 3:16 section of this latest update video from “Gigafactory Guru” Jason Yang. Also, give Jason a like and subscribe if you appreciate his work.

Although we don’t yet have enough video evidence to estimate a vehicle production run-rate, we can count a total of around ~150 Model 3s parked in the Supercharging area immediately south of the main Gigafactory building, and in the adjacent large parking area immediately to the east. Most the vehicles produced so far appear to be dark blue, with a few white and perhaps a few dark gray examples.

From the entire video, there is a decent rate of activity shuttling around the new vehicles between Superchargers and parking lots, suggesting that — at the very least — dozens of vehicles per day are already being produced.

Along with the Shanghai Model 3s that have already been tested by journalists and those which are on display in Tesla showrooms throughout China, it seems likely that at least several hundred vehicles (or perhaps even getting into a 4-figure total) have already been made at the new Shanghai Gigafactory.

The latest statements by Tesla to Bloomberg reporters suggest that the company is aiming to start regular customer deliveries of the Shanghai-made Model 3 before the Spring Festival holidays that begin on the 24th of January, 2020.

This is pretty remarkable progress considering Tesla broke ground on the site only in January 2019. Have you ordered a Shanghai-made Tesla Model 3? Please let us know in the comments.
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Tesla Is Hiring Solarglass Installers Across The US In Support Of Version 3 Launch

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Tesla Is Hiring Solarglass Installers Across The US In Support Of Version 3 Launch

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last month that version 3 of the Solarglass Roof was designed for high-volume production and installation. New job listings on Tesla’s Careers page this week reveal that the company is also ramping up its efforts on the installation side of the equation, with numerous job listings and hiring events for new Tesla Solarglass installers across the country.

Tesla is also kicking off a slew of hiring events across the country for Solarglass installers to rein in new hires in support of the Solarglass Roof manufacturing ramp. CleanTechnica confirmed earlier this week that Tesla’s crew of Solarglass installers have already completed the first installation of version 3 of the Solarglass roof in California.

If Tesla is to be believed, the potential market for version 3 of the Solarglass Roof is massive, as the cost of the new Solarglass Roof should come in below the cost of the average new roof plus the cost of the electricity it produces over 20 years. Indeed, we found this to be true in our analysis of the more expensive version 2 of the Solarglass Roof.

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CEO Elon Musk proclaimed a target of producing 1,000 Solarglass Roof systems per week earlier this year, and version 3 of the Solarglass Roof paves the way for this to become a reality. The new panels promise to be easier to install, with no onsite cutting of tiles required, being cheaper to produce, and with a more appealing aesthetic than traditional solar panels.

Moving forward, the challenge for Tesla will be to get this new army of installers trained up on a completely new class of building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) products that blur the lines between roofing and solar installations. The new Solarglass Roof tiles impressively require no blank glass tiles, which also eliminates the need to cut the glass tiles at the installation site. This not only reduces the time and cost to install one of Tesla’s Solarglass Roof systems on a home, but also improves the integrity of the roof. Cutting glass inevitably causes microfractures that Tesla was forced to contend with in previous versions of the Solarglass Roof.

A cut Solarglass version 2 tile ready for installation. Image credit: Kyle Field | CleanTechnica

Moving forward, Tesla needs to prove out its manufacturing and installation capacity as it finally looks to leverage its acquisition of SolarCity at scale. It has been years in the making, thanks to delays caused by the launch of Model 3 and the development of the Solar Roof tiles, but all signs point to success on the horizon for Tesla’s Energy business.
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