solarcity
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Tesla’s Solar Panel Factory Staff Just Analyses Autopilot Data
New York spent $1 billion on a facility that was supposed to revive Buffalo manufacturing. Instead, many of its workers train AI driving software.
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Dammit, We’re Going To Have To Talk About That Elon Musk Tweet
Elon Musk is very likely the best-known CEO of any modern automaker, and I’m even counting Datuk Zainal Abidin Ahmad of Perodua in that assessment. Part of why this is the case is that Musk is a pretty uninhibited user of social media, and is more than willing to make his thoughts known on a…
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Tesla Runs An Entire Island Using Solar Power
The island of Ta’u in American Samoa is home to around 600 people. Located in the southern Pacific Ocean, the island relied until recently on diesel generators for energy production — which meant that not only did the generators produce pollution as a byproduct, but the diesel itself had to be shipped in at a…
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Tesla Is About To Buy SolarCity, Another High-Tech Musk Company
Elon Musk is on the brink of acquiring the the next critical component in a solar-electric transportation future. Tesla Motors just made an offer to buy SolarCity, one of the largest solar providers in the US — a company not coincidentally founded by Musk’s cousins, which Musk holds a large stake in already.