Model S
App that lets Tesla owners pretend to be Knight Rider now #1 Lifestyle app in iTunes
"Remote S for Tesla is a third-party app which uses the Tesla API to allow you to control a number of the car’s functions using a combination of iPhone and Apple Watch. Highlights are the ability to unlock and start the car using Touch ID, monitor all three ranges at once (estimated/rated/ideal) and keep the heating/cooling running for more than 30 minutes when the car is not being used. Tech-ier users can even create web pages that communicate with the app."
Tesla Unveils New 'Mobile Container Store' To Get Closer To Customers
"In a media alert, the California-based auto and energy storage company said it plans to launch a mobile store that will tour the United States and Europe this summer. Housed in a 'unique' shipping container designed at Tesla, the store 'arrives and unfolds to double its size in just a few hours,' according to a company spokesperson."
Tesla to open showroom in Buena Park, CA
"Buena Park will soon be home to Orange County’s second Tesla Motors showroom. The Palo Alto manufacturer of high-end electric vehicles is expected to open a 23,000-square-foot dealership and service center on 2.5 acres this summer on Auto Center Drive within the Buena Park Auto Center. Tesla is moving into a vacant dealership formerly occupied by Premier Chevrolet, which moved to another showroom at the auto center. 'They will be bringing new, cutting edge, exciting technology to the city, including eight publicly accessible super charging stations for Tesla owners,' said Joel Rosen, Buena Park’s director of community development."
Deadline kills Tesla direct sales bill in Texas House
"A Texas House deadline has come and gone, killing many top-priority bills for both parties — among them one that would allow Tesla-backed direct car sales and another to regulate ride-hailing companies. Midnight Thursday was the last chance for House bills to win initial, full-chamber approval. Since any proposal can be tacked onto other bills as amendments, no measure is completely dead until the legislative session ends June 1. But even with such resurrections, actually becoming state law now gets far tougher."
Lawmakers hoping for deal this year to allow Tesla in Utah
"State lawmakers said Wednesday they hope to work out a compromise law this year that would allow Tesla Motors to start selling its electric cars at its $3 million showroom in Salt Lake City. Two weeks before the showroom's planned opening in March, the Utah attorney general's office ruled that it couldn't sell cars under state laws barring a manufacturer from owning more than 45 percent of any dealership. Now, no one can buy, test-drive or discuss the price of a Tesla there, and the company says it's losing money on the venture."
Tesla Energy
Tesla’s New Strategy Is Over 100 Years Old
"The Tesla Energy web site declares that 'Tesla is not just an automotive company; it’s an energy innovation company,' a statement that calls to mind Ted Levitt’s iconic observation that the railroads could have seen trucks as an opportunity and not a threat if they had thought of themselves as being not merely in the railroad business but, more broadly, in the transportation business. Embracing a larger, more encompassing self-definition powers systems-level ambitions. By defining itself as more than just a car company, Tesla is avoiding a common trap companies fall into as they mature: it is not letting the markets it’s in today bound tomorrow’s opportunities. Tesla’s flashy electric cars are positioned as but one component in the energy system of the future. To stretch an analogy, the cars are the iPod — and iOS, iCloud, and additional devices are still in the works."
Video: First Tesla Motors Gigafactory Drone Flyover Lets You Explore It in Glorious 4k
"Now, thanks to the wonders of aerial drone technology and 4k ultra high-definition video, we’re able to see the Tesla Gigafactory in the kind of high-resolution detail never before seen. The video, posted on YouTube yesterday evening by YouTuber QuickLaptopCash — a youtube channel we note previously hasn’t covered Tesla or electric vehicles — was recorded over the weekend and shows us for the first time just how incredibly gargantuan the Gigafactory site really is."
Elon Musk
‘Elon Musk,’ a Biography by Ashlee Vance, Paints a Driven Portrait
“'Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future' isn’t the first biography we’ve had of Mr. Musk, nor will it be the last. But it is easily the richest to date. It’s also the first one Mr. Musk has cooperated with, though he had no control, the author says, over its contents. Mr. Vance is a technology writer for Bloomberg Businessweek. He won over Mr. Musk, who initially declined to be interviewed, impressing him with his diligence after he had interviewed some 200 people."
Video: Elon Musk interview for BTV Chinese television (2015)
- 00:00. Model S
- 02:20. Future of EVs and autonomous driving
- 05:22. Mars and space colonisation
- 08:00. Reading books
- 11:28. Early days of entrepreneurship
- 14:45. Mclaren F1 crash
- 16:17. Tough times of 2008 (and success)
- 20:57. Failure
- 22:03. The price of innovation
- 24:47. Elon’s kid education at Ad Astra School
- 27:30. Advice for entrepreneurs
- 29:17. What’s next for Elon
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Uber gutted Carnegie Mellon’s top robotics lab to build self-driving cars
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