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Tesla’s 3rd-largest individual shareholder suggests clever strategy for TSLA buyback

Teslarati

Fremont, Shanghai, Austin and Berlin money printing machines are running in full speed, Tesla can invest in FSD, bot and factories while buying back its undervalued stocks. Reasonably, Tesla buys back its cheap stocks pic.twitter.com/GVOWnUIaJ8 — KoGuan Leo (@KoguanLeo) May 19, 2022. So Tesla can buy back cheap stocks now. . “We

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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

Plugs and Cars

The big takeaway: If you want a free charge station and are located in a program area (Austin, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Sacramento, San Jose/San Francisco Bay Area, Bellevue/Redmond, Washington DC, Southern Michigan), raise your hand now. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

Green Car Congress

During the late innings of the ICE-age (as in the Internal Combustion Engine age) it has become clear that feeding gasoline and diesel to the next billion new cars is not going to be easy, or cheap. Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. It really isn’t a fair fight. Click to enlarge.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. In 2021 Toyota inked a deal with the company to supply the 70-Series EVs to mining companies. Will it come to Australia? We’re watching on with interest.

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LIVE BLOG: 2023 Tesla Investor Day

Teslarati

17:19 CST – The Tesla execs noted that the company’s Heat Pump assembly highlighted supply chain issues. 17:14 CST – Tesla is also working with suppliers closer to their factories to decrease transportation time and reduce diesel use throughout the supply chain. Fantastic progress by @elonmusk here in Austin, TX.

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Here’s How Apptronik Is Making Their Humanoid Robot

Cars That Think

Apptronik , a Texas-based robotics company with its roots in the Human Centered Robotics Lab at University of Texas at Austin, has spent the last few years working towards a practical, general purpose humanoid robot. Paine: Some groups have tried masking the deficiencies of cheap, low-quality hardware with software.

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?How a Design Battle Between Chip Engineers Led to Polaroid’s Revolutionary SX-70 Camera

Cars That Think

Polaroid engineers recall that loads on the electronics were described simply as inductive, and that details of the battery supply were vague because a new battery was being concurrently designed. “We Since we were making our own battery [designed concurrently], we couldn’t tell them what the battery supply would be,” said Carcia. “I

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