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Tesla Cybertruck Delivery Event: First Looks Inside of Gigafactory Texas

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The Tesla Cybertruck Delivery Event is set to launch at 2 p.m. Central Time, and we are getting our first looks inside the event thanks to those on the ground. Credit: Elon Musk/X We will be Live Blogging the event here. You can keep up with our coverage of the event, and there will also be a live stream on X.

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Tesla posts behind the scenes footage of Cybertruck’s “bullet test” demo

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A video of the test, plus some more, were shared by the electric vehicle maker during the all-electric pickup truck’s first delivery event. As noted by Wes, a lead Cybertruck engineer, the Cybertruck was not really designed to be bulletproof , but if the vehicle were to weather literal shots from guns, then all the better.

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Tesla shows demo video of Optimus bot working in the Fremont Factory

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Tesla did not waste time in AI Day 2022 , unveiling its Tesla Bot prototype onstage as soon as the event started. Perhaps most interesting about the Optimus demo , however, was Elon Musk’s comments that came after. According to the CEO, Optimus is designed to be a mass-market product, costing less than $20,000.

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Tesla Cybertruck meets the steel ball test once again

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In 2019 at the Tesla Cybertruck unveiling event, CEO Elon Musk and Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen planned to display the strength of the pickup by slamming it with a sledgehammer and throwing a steel ball at its window. It did not go as planned. Hey @elonmusk I tried the steel ball on the Cybertruck again. Fascinating results.

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EV startup Atlis Motor Vehicles to host “Battery Day” to demo small-scale prototype of battery tech, XP platform

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Atlis Motor Vehicles, an electric vehicle technology startup designing an electric pickup truck (Atlis XT pickup), announced the first Atlis Battery Day event, where it will showcase early prototypes of its proprietary ultra-fast charging battery technology and 100% electric XP Platform.

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Tesla Product Design director lightly hints toward Tesla-brand gaming controller

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Tesla’s Product Design Director Javier Verdura lightly hinted toward the electric automaker creating its own branded gaming controller that could be used with the Arcade within its vehicles. In July at Tesla’s Plaid Delivery Event, Tesla did have a Tesla-brand controller available for video game demos.

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MIT proof-of-concept demo of ionic wind propulsion for aircraft

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Here we demonstrate that a solid-state propulsion system can sustain powered flight, by designing and flying an electroaerodynamically propelled heavier-than-air aeroplane. The MIT team’s final design resembles a large, lightweight glider. EAD airplane design. —Xu et al. Click on image to see the flight.

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