Would-be Tesla killer files for bankrupcy
Owes $3.6 billion
The Chinese bloke who claimed that he would defeat Tesla has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware court having amassed billions worth of debts worldwide.
Tesla expands electric car share
Jaguar's I-Pace and Audi's e-Tron having difficulty
Tesla has managed to expand its electric-car market share, despite two new battery-powered luxury SUVs that have been in US showrooms for the last ten months: Jaguar's I-Pace and Audi's e-tron.
Tesla ordered to stop spinning safety numbers
Watchdog growls at Tesla
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has told Tesla to stop embellishing its figures.
Xilinx Alveo U50 adaptable compute is out
Wins against Xeon and Tesla
Xilinx has a data center first strategy that Victor Peng and his team are executing flawlessly so far, and part of that plan is to launch an adaptable compute, network and storage card and call it Alveo U50.
Consumer Reports warning
Consumer Reports has rubbished a new feature on Tesla cars which will allow them to change lanes automatically saying that it doesn’t work very well and could create potential safety risks for drivers.
Tesla solar cells are being exported
The US is not the best place to sell them
The “great majority” of solar cells being produced at the Tesla factory in upstate New York are being sold overseas.
Elon Musk says Lidar is fool’s gold
Lidars are unnecessary
Tesla has shared a vast amount of details about its FSD (Full Self Driving) dual SoC 14nm computer and said that the 12 ARM core chip has a modest GPU, a custom neural network compute part, while the SoC packs 250 million gates, 6 billion transistors at 260 mm2. More importantly, Elon addressed Tesla’s apparent desire to stay away from Lidars.
Panasonic wants to invest more in Tesla
Quashes rumours that the two outfits had fallen out
Panasonic is looking at further investments in battery production at its Gigafactory venture with Tesla and quashed rumours the two outfits had fallen out.
Tesla Model Y starts at $47K in late 2020
And in Europe will cost €56.000 in early 2021
Tesla has announced its next car and simply calls it Tesla Y. This is a higher version of Tesla 3 that has a similar interior - read no interior but a single 15inch tablet - but is slated to have three sitting rows and a range of 300 miles (482 km). Elon doesn’t tell you that a fully self-driving vehicle costs an additional $8,000 in the US and €9,200 in Europe.
VW to seriously undercut Tesla
Plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23,000
Adolf Hitler's favourite car company plans to sell a reasonably priced electric car which should kick Telsa to the curb.