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Tesla Semi Wins Over a Million-Mile Skeptic Who Still Picks Diesel
FreightWaves' Adam Wingfield called the Tesla Semi overhyped for three years. Loaded, it lost 1 mph on a climb. He still picks diesel for long haul.
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Tesla Semi’s First Fatal Crash Kills Nevada Couple While The Truck’s Automatic Braking Remains A Black Box
A Tesla Semi slammed into two passenger vehicles stopped at a red light on U.S. 50 in Dayton, Nevada, on Sunday morning, June 28, killing a married couple and leaving a third person with life-threatening injuries. Preliminary statements gathered at the scene suggest the truck driver may have fallen asleep, according to the Lyon County…
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Tesla Loses Truckloads of Batteries at Giga Nevada While Its Own Software Writes Self-Driving Code
Organized crews stole trailers of Tesla car and home batteries straight off loading docks at the company’s Nevada facilities at least 11 times since last December, according to Storey County sheriff’s records. Nine of those suspected cargo thefts happened in January alone. The hauls ran into the millions: two of the earliest trailers each carried…
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Rivian’s R2 Factory Takes A Direct Tornado Hit Weeks Before Customer Deliveries
An EF-1 tornado struck Rivian’s Normal, Illinois assembly plant on the night of April 17, 2026, tearing open the roof and a wall of the building where the company assembles the R2, its make-or-break mid-size SUV. Rivian confirmed the damage to TechCrunch, which first reported the company’s confirmation and the internal staff email, and said…
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Samsung’s Taylor Texas Fab Starts Equipment Move-In April 24 For Tesla AI5 And AI6 Chips
Samsung Electronics will hold an equipment installation ceremony at its Taylor, Texas foundry on April 24, 2026, kicking off the final run-up to mass production of Tesla’s AI5 and AI6 autonomous-driving chips on a 2-nanometer process. Han Jin-man, president of Samsung’s Foundry Business Division, will lead the ceremony alongside executives and representatives from materials, component,…
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Tesla Is Building a New Compact SUV Cheaper Than the Model 3 — But It Has Said That Before
Tesla is developing an all-new compact electric SUV priced below its current entry-level Model 3 sedan, according to a Reuters report citing four people familiar with the matter. The vehicle would measure 4.28 meters (about 14 feet) in length, roughly 20 inches shorter than the current Model Y, and three sources say it would be…
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Tesla Promised Gigafactory Texas an Ecological Paradise Four Years Ago. Environmental Groups Want to Know Where It Is.
Austin environmental groups are calling out Tesla for the four-year delay of the Giga Texas "Riverfront Eco-Park." While a new 28-acre site plan has been filed, it falls far short of the 290-acre paradise originally promised.
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Tesla and SpaceX Launch Terafab Chip Factory in Austin With No Timeline and a $25 Billion Price Tag
Elon Musk unveiled Tesla and SpaceX‘s “Terafab” chip manufacturing project on the night of March 21, 2026, at a theatrical event inside Austin’s defunct Seaholm Power Plant — light beams shooting into the sky, Texas Governor Greg Abbott in the audience — and walked away without giving a construction timeline or confirming how the estimated…
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