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Tesla’s Model Y now available in cheaper Standard Range option

Tesla is now taking orders for a cheaper Standard Range version of the Model Y. The new variant, whose availability was reported by Electrek, has a cheaper starting price of $41,990 compared to $49,990 for the Long Range model. The discount comes with a lower EPA estimated range of 244 miles rather than 326 miles, and rear-wheel rather than all-wheel drive.

Alongside the new cheaper Model Y version, Tesla is also selling a new 7-seat option for a $3,000 premium. The version has a third seating row, which can be folded flat along with the second row for cargo storage.

Tesla originally announced the Standard Range version of the Model Y back at the car’s announcement in March 2019. At the time, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company was targeting a release date of Spring 2021 for the entry-level Model Y with a 230-mile range and $39,000 price tag. However, in July last year, Musk said Tesla shelved its plans for the Standard Range model because its “range would be unacceptably low” at under 250 miles. This new $41,990 Standard Range Model Y appears to be a compromise on the original plan.

If you want to order the new variant, Tesla notes that estimated delivery times currently range from two to five weeks.

Elon Musk is the richest person in the world with just under 190 billion US dollars

The CEO of electric car maker Tesla and space company SpaceX, Elon Musk, is with an estimated net worth of 188, 5 billion US Dollar the richest man in the world. This comes from Thursday’s Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Accordingly, Musk has replaced Amazon founder Jeff Bezos as the richest man in the world, whose fortune is currently around 187 billion dollars with an increase of 72 should be billions of dollars last year. Bezos had headed Bloomberg’s billionaires list since October 2017.

Tesla asset base Musk’s fortune is billionaire’s list within the last year of 153, $ 7 billion grew to 188, $ 5 billion. He benefited above all from the strong price increase of the Tesla share, the value of which rose by about 700 percent in the same period. On Friday morning the value of a Tesla paper is 691, 20 Euro at currently rising exchange rate.

Musk should continue to expand his fortune in the coming years, provided he succeeds in increasing Tesla’s sales and profits. Tesla shareholders had approved 2018 a generous compensation package that Musk will receive in the form of twelve stock options upon reaching certain milestones at Tesla. So far, Musk has qualified for four of them. However, the payment is only made after all twelve goals have been achieved. This could then bring him several 10 billion dollars.

Who is wealthier? The ranking of billionaires on lists like the Bloomberg Billionaires Index or the Forbes Billionaires List is based mainly on publicly available information about ownership in the form of stocks and real estate and are therefore estimated values.

The ratings on the individual lists, such as the Forbes Billionaires List, vary accordingly. Here Jeff Bezos is with 184, 6 billion dollars ahead of Elon Musk with 177, $ 2 billion and the French entrepreneur Bernard Arnault with his family, who is the richest European with a fortune of 154 , Should own 2 billion. Ex-Microsoft boss Bill Gates is in fourth place with 154, 3 billion dollars.

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Tesla Model Y, standard version range at $ 41,999: 7-seat configuration among the optional

Tesla updates the configurator for its Model Y SUV proposing a new RWD version with Standard Range autonomy and offering among the options a 7-seater configuration with an additional third row and various accessory modifications.

by Carlo Pisani published 08 January 2021 , at 01: 51 in the channel Technology

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Tesla updates the configurator for his SUV Model Y proposing a new RWD version with Standard Range autonomy and offering among the options a 7-seater configuration with additional third row and various accessory modifications.

In addition to the Long Range Dual Motor and Performance versions, therefore available the Standard Range configuration, for the moment exclusively on me US rcato, which lowers the list price to 41. 999 $ , leaving Model 3 the title of the cheapest model in the range.

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Last summer Elon Musk had declared that he had renounced a standard range version of the Model Y but in fact we see it appear now despite the autonomy declared is slightly higher than the 230 miles initially declared, or 244 miles about 392 km , when Musk himself previously declared unacceptable autonomy under the 250 miles.

Tesla has communicated that deliveries of this new version of the vehicle will begin between 2 and 5 weeks in the US .

Click to enlarge – Lineup to Model Y presentation

In addition to the new standard range configuration, additional options have appeared, the most interesting of which is to be obtained for 3. 00 0 $ the installation of the third row of seats reaching a total of 7 places available , with, in addition to the two extra small seats located in the rear trunk, a series of accessory changes:

Third row easy access system
Third row USB-C charging
Sliding second row with adjustable backrests
Second and third row foldable for maximum load storage
Foldable electronic unlocks in the trunk

Signal Messenger: Rush of new users overloads Signal's registration system

The encrypting messenger signal is getting a lot of new users. The reason is that WhatsApp forces its users to approve the sharing of additional data with Facebook. Perhaps a tweet from Tesla founder Elon Musk also contributed to the growth at Signal. The inflow even overloaded Signal’s registration process for a short time.

In WhatsApp’s updated privacy policy, it says under Others: “As part of the Facebook company, WhatsApp receives information from other Facebook companies and also shares information with other Facebook companies”. If you want to continue using WhatsApp, you have to agree to the new terms of use – by February 8th at the latest. So far, WhatsApp users had the right to restrict the transfer of data.

Asked WhatsApp alternatives Many people did that Not well received by users, including Elon Musk. Yesterday he wrote briefly “Use Signal” on Twitter. That was shared more than 20. 000 times within half a day and has almost 200. 000 Get likes.

Both together apparently lead to a rush on WhatsApp alternatives like Signal. Shortly after the Musks tweet, Signals’s SMS gateway was unable to send the verification codes that are required for new registrations. However, this was remedied at short notice in cooperation with various Internet services, as Signal itself reports on Twitter.

Signal not only enables end-to-end encrypted text messages, but also secure voice and video calls . Since December, Signal has also supported encrypted video group calls, i.e. those with several people at the same time. Initially up to five participants can make fully encrypted video calls, soon there will be more.

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Elon Musk surpasses Jeff Bezos and becomes the richest man in the world

Elon Musk overtook Jeff Bezos, becoming the richest person in the world. His fortune grew by over 150 billions of dollars in one year, thanks to the stock boom Tesla.

by Manolo De Agostini published 07 January 2021 , at 20: 11 in the web channel

Tesla and SpaceX boss, Elon Musk, has become the richest in the world, surpassing Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos thanks to the strong growth of the Tesla share price in the last year (from just over to over 800 dollars!). South African billionaire boasts a fortune of around 1 88 billions of dollars according to Bloomberg’s estimates, little more than colleague Bezos (187 billions), at the top since October 2017. It’s a two-person fight, between figures who are rumored not to love each other too much, and not just because of the rivalry between SpaceX and Blue Origin.

A ballet of positions in the future, depending on the share performance, cannot be ruled out, but l Elon Musk’s run in 2020 was impressive due to the fact that it holds a full-bodied Tesla share package, approximately 150% of the company. Last year the automaker produced and delivered 500 thousand cars, in particular Model 3 and Model Y, a result definitely encouraging. The market has awarded the stock and its valuation is now 8 times higher than the combined values of the US “big three” : GM, Ford and Fiat Chrysler. And he doesn’t seem to want to stop.

Like most billionaires, Musk also saw his overall wealth grow during the COVID pandemic – 19. In 2019, during a court hearing, Musk pleaded short of money. This is due to the fact that the entrepreneur systematically reinvests the proceeds of the shares in his companies – in 2018, for example, pumped about 100 millions in The Boring Company. Musk has always used his personal finances to finance new businesses: Tesla and SpaceX owe their birth to what the entrepreneur collected with Zip2 and PayPal. On Twitter Musk commented on the news with “how strange” and an ironic “well, I’m back to work”.

SpaceX Starship SN9, static fire ok for the new spacecraft. The first flight test soon

SpaceX ran the first static fire by Starship SN9, and it is likely that we should see more shortly before the final flight test of the spacecraft

by Nino Grasso published on 07 January 2021 , at 10: 41 in the Science and Technology channel

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The three engines of Starship SN9 , the most recent version of the SpaceX spacecraft prototype, were turned on for about a second during the static-fire test which took place last January 6th 2021 at the SpaceX facilities in Texas (near Boca Chica ). The so-called static fires are routine preliminary tests before the first real flight attempts, so it is very likely that a “test flight” very similar to the memorable one that took place last month with SN8 will follow shortly.

Occurred on 9 December, the Starship SN8 flight test was performed using three new generation Raptor engines, just like those installed on the SN9. On that occasion, SpaceX performed the first high-altitude test for the spacecraft, rising about 12 , 5 kilometers in the skies of Texas using the propulsion of the three engines installed. SpaceX had previously tested its Starship prototypes with a single engine reaching an altitude of approximately 150 meters.

The SN8 test was quite explosive, but a success: although its landing was disastrous, causing a scenographic explosion and the destruction of the vehicle, all the other objectives were met in full going beyond SpaceX and Elon Musk’s wildest expectations. Starship will be used to transfer cargoes and people to the Moon, Mars and other distant destinations, as well as meet many other SpaceX spaceflight needs in the near future.

The system currently has two elements: the spacecraft high 50 meters, called its Starship , and a huge first stage booster known as Super Heavy . Both elements will be reusable in full and quickly according to Musk’s predictions: Super Heavy should gently return to Earth after each mission with a vertical maneuver as already happens with the Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. According to Elon Musk, however, the final maneuver of Super Heavy will be much more precise , and the company aims to ensure that it takes place on the same launch platform to minimize the reuse times of the rocket.

Starship will instead be able to perform several flights between Earth and Mars: it will need approximately 30 Super Heavy rockets to leave our planet, while only 6 thrusters will be needed to the return from the Moon or Mars. The latest static fire was recorded live from the Spadre.com website, and will probably be followed by further tests before the actual flight test.

In the case of SN8 they are 4 engine ignition tests were conducted over the course of over a month before the final flight test at high altitude, so better stay tuned to not miss the next SpaceX show .

EU plans its own satellite internet

The EU Commission is considering the operation of its own satellite internet. To this end, it has commissioned a feasibility study from a consortium of European satellite manufacturers and operators, telecommunications companies and rocket service providers for 7.1 million euros, the results of which should be available in a year.

According to the Airbus group involved, the system is intended to provide safe internet access for citizens, companies and public institutions and to open up white spots in rural and remote areas. If the project is approved, it would be the third major satellite-based European space project after the Earth observation program Copernicus and the GPS alternative Galileo, which is currently being developed.

Expectations and requirements Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton is one of the big supporters of the system, according to Airbus. This is to be based on the EU’s Govsatcom program for connecting and sharing satellite services and also use the results of the EuroQCI initiative, which promotes innovative methods for quantum cryptography.

The consortium, to which Arianespace, Eutelsat, Hispasat, OHB, Orange, SES, Telespazio and Thales Alenia Space also belong, is to determine the expectations of potential users and the requirements of the mission. The corporations should provide a preliminary draft design and concept for the provision of services and the associated costs.

Better critical infrastructure It will also be examined how the satellite system could improve and connect to critical infrastructures including terrestrial networks in order to strengthen the EU’s access to the cloud and provide digital services independently. The tasks also include finding out whether the project could strengthen the 5G ecosystem and the interoperability of different communication systems. The future 6G mobile radio technology should already be taken into account.

The head of the ArianeGroup, André-Hubert Roussel, appealed to the Commission to give the initiative in the area of space policy top priority. Europe must drive this program and associated projects ambitiously, he told the Playbook newsletter service of the online magazine “Politico”. Direct entry into the satellite-based network would require an ongoing wave of rocket launches. The longer the EU waits, the more Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX establishes itself as the cheaper option to put satellites into orbit, especially since it receives public contracts in the USA for its Falcon 9 rocket.

SpaceX is already in the process of building up a satellite network for Internet supply with Starlink, and so has a clear lead. In December, the Federal Network Agency assigned the US company the first time-limited frequencies for its planned mega-constellation. The British communications company OneWeb is pursuing a similar project, for which the European rocket operator Arianespace, which belongs to the ArianeGroup, recently 36 sent satellites into space.

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Tesla reaches half a million electric vehicles produced in 2020

Tesla vehicle production in the course del 2020 has exceeded quota 500. 000 cars; about 9 out of 10 are Model 3 and Model Y, the two latest families to arrive on the market

by Paolo Corsini published 04 January 2021 , at 10: 01 in the Technology channel

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The 2020 closes with record production and sales levels for Tesla, capable to exceed the threshold of half a million vehicles produced in 245 days. Specifically, the company announced that it had touched 509. 737 cars manufactured during 2020 , while taking into account the problems encountered in their factories in California and China in the spring with closures linked to the global pandemic. During 2019 the company had produced approximately 367. 500 vehicles, while the 2018 was closed at quota 55. 000 vehicles approx.

During the period the company totaled 499. 550 deliveries of vehicles to customers, touching the threshold of half a million even if the count is not yet definitive and could register a slight increase such as to touch the ambitious goal. Most of these cars are from the Model 3 and Model Y families, with just over 450. 000 vehicles produced during the year; for Model S and Model X the total production is slightly less than 55. 000 cars.

It is interesting to note that this result is perfectly aligned with the forecasts formulated by Elon Musk , founder and CEO of Tesla, in an interview released during the 2014. At that time Musk had stated that he was confident of achieving the sales target of 500. 000 vehicles per year in 2020 thanks to its own Gigafactory.

“I feel confident that we will be able to achieve at least half a million cars a year by 2020 “- @elonmusk in 2014 pic. twitter.com/n0FCO8dg4b

– Pranay Pathole (@PPathole) January 2, 2021

During the month of March 2020 Tesla has produced its own car number 1 million , another important result achieved by the American company. It is conceivable that Tesla’s sales results for the year 2021 will be higher than those just recorded, thanks mainly to the contribution of the new Model Y. Sales of this car began in March 2020 in the United States, with production at the Tesla factory in California; over the course of 2021 the Tesla factory in Shanghai is expected to contribute with the production of approximately 250. 000 Model Y cars and this will be joined by the new European factory in Berlin.

Almost 500,000 vehicles: Tesla sets a new delivery record

The electric car manufacturer Tesla announced on Twitter that in the year 2020 a total of 499. 550 having sold vehicles. The company thus remained – despite the effects of Corona on production – just below its own target of 500. 000 vehicles.

Previous record exceeded Elon Musk called on his employees again shortly before the end of the year for the final sprint. Apparently with success: In the last quarter of the year 2020 the manufacturer exceeded according to its own information with sales of 180. 570 vehicles the previous record of just under 140. 000 from the third quarter again significantly exceeded.

Musk expressed his satisfaction on Twitter and spoke of a “significant milestone.” When the company was founded, even Tesla had little chance of survival of 10 percent granted.

At the beginning of the year, production started in the so-called Gigafactory 3 in China, in which around half a million cars are to be built per year. In Grünheide, Brandenburg, the company is currently building a factory in which production is to start in July.

High price gain of the share As expected, the announcement also had a positive effect on the share price. At the end of the year, Tesla shares had already left US trading with a new closing record. The share closed on 31. December 2020 with 705, 67 Dollars higher than ever. With a price gain of around 740 percent over the full year, Tesla outperformed all stocks in the S&P index 500, in which the car manufacturer has been listed since December 2020. Tesla has not yet communicated any further data for the fourth quarter. In this context, the manufacturer refers to its upcoming earnings call.

The rapidly rising share price is also noticeable with Tesla boss Elon Musk: Meanwhile, the 49 – According to the billionaire index of the financial services provider Bloomberg, year-olds with calculated assets are now on 110 Billion dollars of the third richest people in the world – after Amazon boss Jeff Bezos and Microsoft founder Bill Gates and before Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg.

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Tesla fell just short of delivering 500,000 vehicles in 2020

Tesla fell just shy of hitting CEO Elon Musk’s goal of delivering 500,000 vehicles in 2020, the company announced Saturday, having shipped a record 499,550 throughout the year — or 99.91 percent. Tesla said the final tally could vary by as much as 0.5 percent, though, so it’s possible that it will eclipse the 500,000 mark by the time it reveals the ultimate figures in its full year results, due out at the end of January.

Either way, that’s more than double what the next-largest sellers of electric vehicles did in 2020, like China’s BYD or Germany’s Volkswagen. And it’s a remarkable recovery for Tesla considering the impact the coronavirus pandemic had on its operations during the first half of the year. While Tesla said in January 2020 that it expected to “comfortably exceed” Musk’s goal of shipping 500,000 cars worldwide by the end of the year, the company had to close its new factory in China as well as its vehicle plant in Fremont, California for several weeks as the virus spread.

So proud of the Tesla team for achieving this major milestone! At the start of Tesla, I thought we had (optimistically) a 10% chance of surviving at all. https://t.co/xCqTL5TGlE

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 2, 2021

Musk maintained that Tesla would still be able to reach his goal, and the company followed suit, especially after it launched the Model Y SUV ahead of schedule in March. Tesla delivered 88,400 vehicles in Q1, and 90,650 vehicles in Q2. In October, Tesla said it delivered 139,300 vehicles during the third quarter, slightly better than the 137,000 Wall Street had expected. It also had its fifth consecutive profitable quarter in Q3. All of this helped send the company’s stock price into the stratosphere, making it the most valuable automaker on the planet.

Tesla ostensibly met the 500,000-car goal with another classic end-of-quarter push, one that even saw the company’s chief designer Franz von Holzhausen out delivering cars. Musk himself prodded Tesla workers last week to go “all out” to hit the mark. “This is a great milestone to rally the company around achieving,” he wrote. “All the critics who, as recently as two years ago said that we’d never make it, also called our target of half a million in 2020 ‘impossible.’ The heck with them, we are doing it!”

Tesla said Saturday that it ultimately produced 179,757 vehicles in the fourth quarter and delivered 180,570, bringing its totals to 509,747 and 499,550 for the year, respectively. The company wound up selling around 130,000 more vehicles than it did in 2019.

The self-imposed 500,000-car sales goal is part of Musk’s attempt to drag the auto industry into the clean energy age, though it is more modest a bar than he once set. Musk had once predicted Tesla would deliver 1 million vehicles in 2020. But he later backed away from that number after the company ran into trouble ramping up production of its first mass-market electric car, the Model 3.

“So proud of the Tesla team for achieving this major milestone! At the start of Tesla, I thought we had (optimistically) a 10% chance of surviving at all,” Musk tweeted Saturday. “Tesla is responsible for 2/3 of all the personal & professional pain in my life combined. But it was worth it.”

Analysts: Tesla has to wrap up warm in front of the Apple Car

When Apple finally hits the market with its own electric car, it will primarily affect Tesla. This is the opinion of analysts at the Morgan Stanley banking house, who published a current study on the subject at the festival. According to this, the electric car maker under the leadership of Elon Musk has to fear far less of traditional vehicle manufacturers such as VW or Toyota than of the iPhone manufacturer.

Apple has “central ingredients” It has the “central ingredients” that are critical to To be successful in the automotive industry in the future: access to capital (Apple is the most valuable publicly traded company in the USA), the ability to attract and retain top talent, hardware design skills (from the human-machine interface to the battery) and a “rich ecosystem, to take advantage of recurring revenues through subscriptions and services “. According to Morgan Stanley, the revenues that can be achieved with “Internet of Cars” services could “exceed the entire auto business”. Musk wanted to talk to Tim Cook Recently there were rumors that Apple will enter the vehicle business for the foreseeable future. The “Project Titan”, “Apple Car” or “iCar” is according to the news agency Reuters supposedly ready for delivery from 2024. After the announcement, the Tesla share initially fell. Elon Musk let himself be carried away shortly afterwards to divulge the information that he had even approached Apple during the “darkest days of Model 3” to negotiate a sale. Allegedly Apple boss Tim Cook refused.

Apple expert waves it away It is unclear whether it actually stays with the timeline 2024. The well-known Apple observer Ming-Chi Kuo from the money house TF International Securities from Taiwan said on Sunday that the development plan for the Apple Car is “still unclear” and if development starts (or has started) this year, it will be before 2025 to 2027 nothing. In fact, Apple has been working on the project for many years. However, according to Kuo, “don’t be surprised if the launch schedule is postponed to 2028 or later”. Until then, Tesla could still sell numerous cars. (bsc)

The new Tesla 4680 battery will be manufactured by Panasonic

The Tesla cell 4680 announced on the occasion of Battery Day would be entrusted to Panasonic, according to a recent rumor

by Rosario Grasso published the 28 December 2020 , at 11: 01 in the Technology channel

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During Tesla’s important Battery Day held in September there were important announcements about the change in battery strategy of the car brand of Elon Musk . First of all the new cell 4680 for the Tesla of the future, more powerful and with production costs significantly lower, to the point of allowing the production of much cheaper electric cars and, perhaps, even a Tesla-branded European-style compact car.

Tesla and the internal production of batteries

During the event Tesla also spoke of the possibility of acquiring machinery for the internal production of batteries, while up to now it has always turned to external suppliers. Catl (China), LG Chem (South Korea), Panasonic (Japan ), BYD (China) and Samsung Sdi (South Korea) are currently the leading manufacturers of batteries for electric vehicles. Panasonic has long been Tesla’s main partner for battery manufacturing, but the American brand has also relied on LG Chem and CATL in the recent period.

However on that occasion the CEO Elon Musk did not clarify whether the new cell 4680 would have been entrusted to external battery manufacturers and the same applies to the fate of the current formats 2170 is 18650, which now power all Tesla electric vehicles . Now Nikkei Asia reports that Panasonic is working on production lines to produce cell prototypes 4680 . Panasonic will create a production line prototype at existing facilities. The cost of the project is expected to reach tens of millions of dollars “ reports the Japanese economic newspaper.

Production of the new cells would start at start 2021 and should lead to a new supply agreement with Tesla , which has already started experimental production of the new cells through a pilot plant at the Fremont plant ( Gigafactory 1 ). Tesla is already planning on the volume production of the new batteries by adapting the Gigafactory in Berlin ( Gigafactory 4 ) and other manufacturing centers.

Tesla has the capacity to produce almost any battery it needs in-house, but in the latter years decided to turn to external suppliers in order to concentrate on the engineering and production of battery modules and battery packs. ery Day Musk had hinted at the desire to produce the batteries internally, probably this is a long-term plan, still after the cell 4680.

Regarding Tesla’s battery plans don’t miss how Tesla is building the largest battery in the world.

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