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Elon Musk in talks to set up Tesla factory in India; car prices may start at Rs. 20 lakh
13Jul By adminNo Comments
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Elon Musk in talks to set up Tesla factory in India; car prices may start at Rs. 20 lakh

[ad_1] Tesla is in talks with the Indian government to set up a Gigafactory in India with the capacity for manufacturing 500,000 electric vehicles annually. For years, Tesla has been thinking about whether to set up a plant in India, but the plans seem to have moved forward with Elon Musk-led company in talks about making India the export base for the Indo-Pacific region, as per a report by the Times of India.Tesla's India plansAt present, Tesla's biggest plant remains in China with a reported annual manufacturing capacity of nearly 750,000 units. However, tech companies like Apple and Samsung have been looking to establish plants in alternative countries in a bid to boost sales in other regions as well as to minimize production losses caused by the country's tight restrictions. It seem...
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Tesla to Build New Shanghai Factory for Megapack Battery
10Apr By adminNo Comments
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Tesla to Build New Shanghai Factory for Megapack Battery

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. will build a new battery factory in Shanghai, increasing investment in China at a time of brewing tensions between Beijing and Washington.Tesla will manufacture its Megapack large-scale energy-storage unit in the new facility, which adds to its factory for electric vehicles in Shanghai. The company led by Elon Musk, who is said to be visiting China this weekend, made the announcement at a signing ceremony for the project in Shanghai. Tom Zhu, Tesla's senior vice president of automotive, and Shanghai government officials including vice mayor Wu Qing attended, with Tesla Vice President Tao Lin signing the contract. Construction is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of this year and the plant will commence production in the second quarter of 2024, the company said in...
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Group: Tesla workers fired after union push at NY plant
17Feb By adminNo Comments
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Group: Tesla workers fired after union push at NY plant

[ad_1] Several employees at a Tesla factory in New York have been fired a day after launching union organizing efforts, according to Tesla Workers United.The workers at the Buffalo plant received an email Wednesday evening updating them on a new policy that prohibits them from recording workplace meetings without all participants' permission, the group said in a release Thursday. It said that such restrictions violate federal labor law and flouts New York's one-party consent law to record conversations. “We're angry. This won't slow us down. This won't stop us,” Sara Costantino, a current Tesla employee and organizing committee member, said in a prepared statement. “They want us to be scared, but I think they just started a stampede. We can do this. But I believe we will do this.” The ...
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The challenges automakers, and now Tesla, face with humanoid robots
20Sep By adminNo Comments
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The challenges automakers, and now Tesla, face with humanoid robots

[ad_1] Tesla's CEO Elon Musk is set to unveil its prototype humanoid robots at an event on Sept. 30, hoping to expand beyond self-driving cars Tesla's CEO Elon Musk is set to unveil its prototype humanoid robots at an event on Sept. 30, hoping to expand beyond self-driving cars that have not yet become reality despite his repeated promises.While robots are widely used for specialist tasks at factories, other companies have struggled to create commercially viable human-like robots, despite decades-long development efforts. "This market is very, very challenging market because you buy this big expensive robot, but it actually cannot do much," Heni Ben Amor, a robotics professor at Arizona State University, said. TESLATesla's hu...
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