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Tesla Cybertruck spotted at Giga Texas wind tunnel

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The Tesla Cybertruck has been spotted at the Giga Texas wind tunnel ahead of its production launch later this year. The Cybertruck may be Tesla’s most highly anticipated vehicle of 2023, especially considering the long production hiatus that has kept it out of the hands of consumers.

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First look at Tesla’s lithium refinery in Texas

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Drone imagery of the upcoming Tesla lithium refinery just outside Corpus Christi, Texas, shows the facility is already coming together. With battery-grade lithium quickly becoming the supply bottleneck of the automotive industry, Tesla has decided to enter the market by establishing its own lithium refinery in Southern Texas.

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Tesla’s plans for Giga Texas prove everything is bigger in the Lone Star State

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There’s a saying in Texas that everything is bigger. New details about Tesla’s manufacturing plant just outside of Austin, known as Giga Texas, reveal that everything really is bigger in the Lone Star State, and Tesla is on its way to having the largest automotive manufacturing facility in the United States.

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Tesla Giga Mexico building ‘a whole new production line’ for $25k compact car: Gov. Samuel García Sepúlveda

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Tesla Gigafactory Mexico is expected to take longer to build because the company is working on a new production line for its $25k compact car. Tesla China still holds the record for the fastest gigafactory made compared to Giga Berlin and Giga Texas. That production line,” he elaborated.

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The $10,000 BYD Seagull EV is scaring the U.S. auto industry

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market, the company’s recent release of a city EV with a price tag under $10,000 has some worried for when it and other low-cost companies do. BYD launched its Seagull, a small hatchback EV with a price tag starting at 69,800 yuan (~$9,773), at the Shanghai Auto Show last year. auto market anytime soon , some U.S.

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Chevrolet to Produce 10,000 Volts in 2011 and 30,000 in 2012; 50-State Availability 12-18 Months After Launch

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Austin, Texas; and the New York City metropolitan area later this year. Volts are expected to arrive at dealerships in Michigan, New Jersey, Connecticut, as well as the balance of Texas and New York in the first quarter of 2011. Volt production begins late this year at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck facility.

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Ford Decides Against Dumping AM Radio

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Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rep. one of the bill’s sponsors, has said eight of 20 major automakers including Ford, BMW and Tesla have pulled the band from new vehicles. We’ve already seen General Motors taking heat over vowing to eliminate Apple CarPlay from future products. Josh Gottheimer, (D-N.J.), Tom Kean, Jr., (R-N.J.),

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