Tesla

Wed January 17, 2018

Tesla Motors Inc.'s Tax Breaks Top $150M in Nevada for Fiscal Year 2017

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) Tesla Motors Inc. enjoyed more than $150 million worth of Nevada tax breaks last fiscal year as part of the deal that brought its giant battery factory to an industrial park east of Sparks....

Emily Buenzle - Fri October 27, 2017

Tesla's Solar Panels Restore Power to Puerto Rico Hospital

After two hurricanes ripped through Puerto Rico in September, car company Tesla has stepped in to help one of the island's hospitals get back up and running. The company used solar panels and batteries to restore power to Hospital del Niño (Children's Hospital) in San Juan....

Thu July 20, 2017

Tesla Owner Gets Government Approval for Hyperloop Transit System

Tesla Inc. and SpaceX founder Elon Musk dropped a bombshell announcement July 20, tweeting that he has received "verbal government approval" to construct a Hyperloop transit system that would connect New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C....

Thu June 01, 2017

Testing Tube Unveiled for Hyperloop Transport System

A Dutch tech startup and a construction company on June 1 unveiled a Hyperloop test facility, a steel tube that will be used to help develop the futuristic high-speed transportation system. It is a first step toward developing the system in the Netherlands, a key European transportation transport hub, and beyond....

Thu April 20, 2017

Work Begins on Second Charging Station in the Mountain State

Construction has begun for a Tesla Supercharger station in Charleston, making it the second in West Virginia. News outlets report the station, which will be exclusively for Model S and X cars, will occupy eight parking spaces of the Courtyard by Marriot hotel....

Tesla - Tue April 18, 2017

Tesla Semi Includes 'Autopilot' Technology

American automaker Tesla, a leading force in electric mobility, has announced that it will be adding a truck to its range as the brand's next model. Not the standard American pickup truck either, but a fully-fledged prime mover....

Story Kathleen Riley from Futurism.com - Tue February 14, 2017

Going Underground With Elon Musk

Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has been moving quickly on the development of what he calls “The Boring Company.” In January of last year, he presented a proposal at the Hyperloop Pod Competition for a company that would lighten traffic through the use of underground tunnels....

Wed February 08, 2017

Solar Panel Farm to Provide Clean Energy Savings to P.A. Town

The Department of Military and Veterans Affairs (DMVA) finalized a contract to build a solar panel farm that will provide Fort Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County, with clean renewable solar energy for the next 20 years, reducing the facility's power demand costs....

Yoni Heisler - Wed December 28, 2016

4K Drone Footage of Tesla's Gigafactory Reveals That Construction is Really Coming Along

It's no secret that the linchpin in Tesla's ambitious plan to manufacture more than 500,000 cars per year by 2018 is the company's Gigafactory, an absolutely enormous factory that's still under construction in Sparks, Nev....