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A research paper published in Nature on February 25 describes a lithium metal battery that hits 700 Wh/kg at room temperature — nearly three times the energy density of CATL’s Qilin, currently considered the ceiling of commercial battery technology. The team behind it is from Nankai University in Tianjin and the Shanghai Institute of Space…
The dispute that has been consuming Giga Berlin for weeks just hit pause. Tesla and German union IG Metall reached a truce on Thursday in a Frankfurt (Oder) labor court, agreeing to drop the public back-and-forth over the February 10 recording incident until after next week’s works council election. The agreement, reported by Reuters, came…
A Reuters investigation published today — based on previously unreported California DMV records and a state spokesperson — reveals that Tesla logged zero miles of autonomous test driving on California public roads in 2025. That makes it six years in a row. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has spent more than a year telling investors and analysts…
The Boring Company has been sitting in Nashville with its Prufrock-MB1 tunnel boring machine since January, engine ready, waiting on permits. Today, the last major regulatory hurdle cleared. By tonight, the company announced it was already 2.5 feet into the ground. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Wednesday that the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and…
The man who led the development of Tesla’s Cybercab from concept to first production unit just walked out the door. Victor Nechita, who held the title of Vehicle Program Manager for the Cybercab, announced on LinkedIn that he’s leaving Tesla after nearly six years to move to Boston. The departure was first flagged on X…
The VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has independently verified that a Donut Lab solid-state cell charged from 0 to 80% in 4.5 minutes at an 11C rate — a result that legitimately puts the Finnish startup ahead of every other solid-state developer on raw charging speed. Having tracked solid-state battery announcements for years, I’ve…
There’s a telling contrast buried in Tesla’s February news cycle. On one front, the company filed a lawsuit on February 13 demanding that a California administrative agency retract its finding that Tesla engaged in false advertising around Autopilot and Full Self-Driving. On another, it quietly pushed Grok-powered navigation commands to European and Australian drivers via…
The first Tesla robotaxi crash in Austin happened just weeks after the service launched. The most recent batch of five happened in a single month. In between, the pattern stayed consistent: federal data shows Tesla’s autonomous fleet is hitting things at a rate that would get a teenage driver’s insurance canceled. Bloomberg’s Kara Carlson reported…
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