Tesla’s factory outside Berlin, Germany will likely be shut down for days and cost the automaker more than $100 million, after a suspected arson attack on the local power grid.
The fire didn’t spread to Tesla’s factory and nobody was harmed, though employees were evacuated.
A purported activist organization calling itself the “Volcano Group” took credit for the fire in a letter posted online Tuesday.
The same group took credit for a similar fire near the site in 2021.
Last month, Tesla’s plan to expand the factory was also voted down by the public.
Less than a year ago, every automaker and EV charging company operating in the United States used the Combined Charging System (CCS).
Six months later, Ford announced a deal to that would give owners of Ford EVs access to Tesla Superchargers.
Within nine months every major automaker selling vehicles in the United States has agreed to the Tesla charging standard, with many committing to integrate the technology within their next-generation vehicles.
Tesla owners have long enjoyed sole access to the network and newcomers may put pressure on an already popular charging network.
Ford executives were quick to note in a briefing with reporters that not every Tesla Supercharger will be accessible to Ford owners.
Ford is cutting prices of its all-electric 2023 Mustang Mach-E by has much as $8,100 as the automaker attempts to rid itself of inventory and compete with Tesla and its increasingly cheaper EVs.
Total market share of new EV sales has grown, reaching nearly 8% in U.S. in 2023.
Ford confirmed with TechCrunch the price cuts, which are only for model year 2023 Mustang Mach-E vehicles and range between $3,100 and $8,100.
“The Mustang Mach-E is America’s No.2 EV SUV in 2023 and Ford is America’s No.2 EV brand,” Ford spokesperson Marty Günsberg wrote in an emailed statement.
Tesla shipped a record number of electric vehicles in the fourth quarter, which helped it reach 1.81 million deliveries in 2023.
Clayton Christensen was an amazing observer of business, and his work on disruption is seminal.
But has he been proven wrong in the last 10 years on many major disruptions?
What if the bottom-up cheaper product disrupting the market is a phenomenon limited to commoditized old product categories (think tires and clothes)?
The Christensen theory of disruption could be called “inferior disruption theory” — inferior, cheaper, good enough products that disrupt incumbents over time.
While this clearly happens, there’s a more powerful model for disruption.
Musk said last year that Tesla plans to spend “well over $1 billion” on Dojo.
Bringing the Dojo project to Buffalo is the latest shift in Tesla’s priorities for the location, which has turned into something of a boondoggle for New York state.
“We are scaling it up, and we have plans for Dojo 1.5, Dojo 2, Dojo 3, and whatnot.
“The governor is correct that this is a Dojo Supercomputer, but $500M, while obviously a large sum of money, is only equivalent to a 10k H100 system from Nvidia,” Musk wrote in the post on X.
“Tesla will spend more than that on Nvidia hardware this year.
Tesla’s once-leading solar business is in decline, according to the latest figures from its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings report.
It was a bad year for Tesla solar — its worst since 2020.
In Q4 2023, Tesla’s solar deployments dropped 59% year-over-year to 41 MW — down from 100 MW in Q4 2022.
Next to solar, Tesla’s energy generation and storage business is booming (surprise, surprise).
The scale of Tesla’s residential solar business isn’t what it once was.
Tesla’s once-leading solar business is in decline, according to the latest figures from its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings report.
It was a bad year for Tesla solar — its worst since 2020.
In Q4 2023, Tesla’s solar deployments dropped 59% year-over-year to 41 MW — down from 100 MW in Q4 2022.
Next to solar, Tesla’s energy generation and storage business is booming (surprise, surprise).
The scale of Tesla’s residential solar business isn’t what it once was.
Tesla’s once-leading solar business is in decline, according to the latest figures from its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings report.
It was a bad year for Tesla solar — its worst since 2020.
In Q4 2023, Tesla’s solar deployments dropped 59% year-over-year to 41 MW — down from 100 MW in Q4 2022.
Next to solar, Tesla’s energy generation and storage business is booming (surprise, surprise).
The scale of Tesla’s residential solar business isn’t what it once was.
Tesla’s once-leading solar business is in decline, according to the latest figures from its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings report.
It was a bad year for Tesla solar — its worst since 2020.
In Q4 2023, Tesla’s solar deployments dropped 59% year-over-year to 41 MW — down from 100 MW in Q4 2022.
Next to solar, Tesla’s energy generation and storage business is booming (surprise, surprise).
The scale of Tesla’s residential solar business isn’t what it once was.
Tesla’s once-leading solar business is in decline, according to the latest figures from its fourth-quarter 2023 earnings report.
It was a bad year for Tesla solar — its worst since 2020.
In Q4 2023, Tesla’s solar deployments dropped 59% year-over-year to 41 MW — down from 100 MW in Q4 2022.
Next to solar, Tesla’s energy generation and storage business is booming (surprise, surprise).
The scale of Tesla’s residential solar business isn’t what it once was.
