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Automotive
29th November 2021
What Tesla’s app failure says about security in our cars and homes

Tesla’s server failure on its vehicle app led to the inability for around 500 Tesla drivers to access their own cars. While the damage was minimal, the event does raise questions about the limitations of smartphone-based approaches to security in both our vehicles and our homes.

Renewables
20th December 2017
Electric trucks to bolster commercial fleet

One of the largest commercial trucking fleet operators in the world has has placed a reservation for 125 of Tesla’s new fully electric semi tractors. The new tractors will join UPS’s alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicle fleet, comprised of trucks and tractors propelled by electricity, natural gas, propane and other non-traditional fuels.

Power
4th October 2017
100 days to build a battery, or it's free!

Have you ever made a bet that you instantly regretted? Many Twitter users might have thought this when Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, struck a deal with Australian software entrepreneur Mike Cannon-Brookes to build a 100MW (129MWh) lithium battery. The terms of the deal were clear: if Tesla takes more than 100 days to build the wind-charged battery, the state will get it for free.

Renewables
5th July 2017
Elon Musk drives early release of Tesla Model 3 electric car

The first Tesla Model 3 electric car for the masses should come off the assembly line on Friday with the first deliveries in late July, the company's CEO said. CEO Elon Musk, in several Twitter messages early Monday, said the new car passed all government regulatory requirements for production to begin two weeks ahead of schedule. The company plans to hold a party to hand over the first 30 Model 3s to customers on July 28th, Musk wrote in a ...

Analysis
20th September 2016
Tesla Model S gets hacked from 12 miles away

Chinese researchers have managed to control the brakes, lights and mirrors within a Tesla Model S from afar, while the cars are moving and up to 20km (12 miles) away. The researchers also claim that their efforts will work on multiple Tesla models – they have withheld details of the world first zero day attacks and privately disclosed the flaws to Tesla.

Analysis
2nd August 2016
Tesla & SolarCity combine to create the world's only vertically integrated sustainable energy company

Just over a month ago, Tesla made a proposal to purchase SolarCity and today the two companies have announced an agreement to combine, creating the world's only vertically integrated sustainable energy company. Solar and storage, according to Tesla, are at their best when they're combined. As one company, Tesla (storage) and SolarCity (solar) can create fully integrated residential, commercial and grid-scale products that improve the way tha...

Renewables
1st April 2016
An ‘affordable’ electric car

The much anticipated Model 3 has been launched by Tesla, and with a price tag of £24,423 and a claimed range of around 215 miles per charge, it’s the company’s lowest cost vehicle to date. The price tag puts the vehicle within the average cost bracket for the US auto market, making the car a far more realistic proposition for the average person.

Events News
14th March 2016
Tesla Motors returns to CWIEME in 2016

After a packed seminar at CWIEME Chicago in October last year, Dr. Konstantinos Laskaris, principal motor designer at Tesla Motors, will be joining other leaders in the design and manufacture of electric motors and transformers this May in the 2016 CWIEME Berlin seminar programme.

Analysis
16th October 2015
Tesla introduces Autopilot Version 7.0

In October 2014 Tesla started equipping their Model S electric vehicle with hardware to allow for the incremental introduction of self-driving technology: a forward radar, a forward-looking camera, 12 long-range ultrasonic sensors positioned to sense 16ft around the car in every direction at all speeds and a high-precision digitally-controlled electric assist braking system.

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