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Tesla Gigafactory Nevada celebrates 1 million battery pack milestone

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Tesla’s Gigafactory Nevada has achieved an incredible milestone. A picture of Gigafactory Nevada’s 1,000,000th battery was posted on the r/TeslaMotors subreddit. The special occasion was commemorated by the Giga Nevada team, with the battery pack being signed by numerous employees.

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Amazon’s Zoox robotaxis to drive faster, farther, at night in Las Vegas – ET Auto

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Amazon’s self-driving car unit, Zoox, is seeking to stay abreast of rival Waymo by expanding its vehicles’ testing in California and Nevada to include a wider area, higher speeds and nighttime driving. The Zoox vehicles will also drive in light rain and at night, the company said, critical for gathering additional data.

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Renault nears EV battery recycling partnership in ‘advanced’ talks

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Renault 5 €25,000 small EV unveiled at Geneva Auto Show The vast majority of EV metals used in Europe are mined and processed outside of the region, and the statements come as many in European countries are looking to shift away from relying on China for these materials. .” company Redwood Materials.

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Tesla Semi has been pushed ‘well beyond expectations’ by a new customer

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Tesla was supposed to expand production of the truck at a Gigafactory Nevada expansion announced last year, but the automaker only recently broke ground on the construction project. Tesla Semi can travel up to 500 miles with a full load, which the company claims is competitive with diesel semi trucks with a much lower cost of operation.

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Tesla’s pay increase for employees revealed in internal documents: report

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The pay increase differs for each state with a Tesla Gigafactory or office because it is based on the cost of living in each area. As such, Austin, Texas, and Sparks, Nevada, are receiving the lowest pay in Tesla’s new payment scheme. Meanwhile, Tesla workers in Fremont and Palo Alto, California, receive the highest pay.

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Tesla and the EV sector’s growth is driving up lithium, cobalt, and nickel prices

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This allowed them to pass on some of the costs of rising material prices to consumers. . This helps foster a closed-loop system since Redwood also receives Panasonic’s battery scrap from Tesla’s Nevada facility. . What is quite unfortunate is that battery materials may remain in short supply for some time.

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Panasonic cools on idea for third US plant for Tesla batteries

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Panasonic, which has a plant in Nevada, is currently building a new factory of 2170-type cells for EVs in De Soto, Kansas, its second in North America. Panasonic has been working to increase the energy density of the 2170 cell , with the company saying that the new improvements could help reduce the overall cost of an EV.

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