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Tesla shares ‘Giga Sounds’ song featuring real factory audio

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Tesla also has Gigafactory locations in Shanghai, China and outside of Berlin, Germany, and it has plans to build a new one in the Mexican state of Nuevo León in the coming years. Additionally, Tesla has a main account, and a few other separate accounts for charging, operations in Asia, its energy division overall and Megapack deployment.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

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It has now re-established it as an electrified sub-brand of GMC. But it’s the EV we’re most interested because it will likely use the 800V electrical architecture from the Kia EV6 and EV9. A sizeable 142kWh battery pack was claimed to cover about 320km between charges. Australian sales are a definite possibility.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

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18:36 CST – A question was asked about Tesla and how China and the US’ tensions could affect the company. Ton Zhu noted that Tesla China has ample demand, sometimes more than the company can produce. A question about bidirectional charging was also asked. Most times, it’s a matter of whether people can afford one.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

Buick will focus on North America and China. As part of the culling, GM has the option to re-badge vehicles from the non-core brands, such as the Pontiac G8, Opel Insignia and Saturn Vue. Re-badging is a sensitive topic with the OEMs and their desire to highlight the differences among brands. It can improve fuel economy by 2%.

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BYD Atto 3 review: Chinese newcomer previews our EV future

EV Central

So, it was definitely time for us to publish a review of a car that’s grabbed our attention – and yours too, judging by the sales numbers – and explain what’s going on here. BYD is a new brand to Australia, but it’s by no means a new brand in its homeland of China. BYD Atto 3 with vehicle-to-load V2L charging port.

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Drive Electric Submission: Auckland Transport Parking Strategy

Drive Electric

We are aware that the Government is currently developing a long-term EV charging infrastructure strategy, being coordinated by the Ministry of Transport. This will particularly focus on increasing the access to residential charging. Specific ideas are provided in this section 2.4 of this paper.

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Tesla Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript: April 23, 2024

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million vehicles, and we’re seeing about half of people use it so far. For a while there, we were training-constrained in our progress, and we are, at this point, no longer training-constrained, and so we’re making rapid progress. We’re making sure that we’re being efficient as possible in our training.

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