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Tesla’s Megapack grid-scale batteries have been selected to back an energy storage project in Japan, coming as the latest of the company’s continued deployment of the hardware. As detailed in a report from Nikkei this week, Tesla plans to supply 142 Megapack units to support a 548 MWh storage project in Japan, set to become one of the country’s largest energy storage facilities. The project is being overseen by financial firm Orix, and it will be located at a facility Maibara in central Japan’s Shiga prefecture, and it aims to come online in early 2027. The deal is just the…
Tesla uses a little-known Cybertruck Easter Egg with the massive windshield wiper to help with efficiency and aerodynamics. The Easter Egg is called “Aero Mode,” and it all has to do with the positioning of the obnoxiously large windshield wiper that Tesla installed on the Cybertruck. According to the Cybertruck’s Lead Engineer, Wes Morrill, Aero Mode positions the wiper vertically along the A Pillar of the all-electric pickup. It activates the mode automatically at higher speeds and helps decrease drag, which is a very important metric to minimize, especially for EVs, as it can greatly decrease range if it is…
The Boring Company’s (TBC) Prufrock 3 has officially launched at Tesla Giga Texas. In a recent video by drone operator Jeff Roberts, The Boring Company’s Prufrock 3 tunnel boring machine (TBM) is seen partly underground, signaling that it has started digging toward Tesla Giga Texas. The TBM is porpoising or launching directly into the surface, more than halfway into the ground. In March 2023, Prufrock 3 made a subtle cameo in a TBC post on X. The TBM was in the background of a photo of Prufrock 2 and company employees. At the time, Prufrock 3 hadn’t been deployed yet. Fellow drone…
Este artículo también está disponible en español. Crypto analyst ProjectSyndicate has made a bullish case for the XRP price, which he predicts could record 40% gains soon enough. The analyst also revealed the price level, which he believes is ideal for market participants to buy and hold XRP. XRP Price Eyes 40% Gains As Analyst Reveals Key Level In a TradingView post, ProjectSyndicate predicted that the XRP price could witness a 40% move to the upside soon enough. This came following his analysis of XRP’s 4-hour chart. He noted that the outlook remains bullish despite the current pullback in progress.…
Ford has unveiled its new AI-focused subsidiary, Latitude, focusing on “hands-free, eyes-off-the-road” autonomous driving solutions. Ford CEO Jim Farley has previously stated that there is no better product to sell to consumers than time; more time with family, more time to relax, etc. And he has made it clear that he intends to do just that by selling vehicles with autonomous driving capabilities. Ford’s new subsidiary, Latitude, will work on that problem. Ford claims that drivers spend “nearly 100 hours a year sitting in traffic,” an unpleasant, stressful, and time-consuming activity that benefits nobody. In response, Ford introduced its BlueCruise…
A McDonald’s restaurant in Omaha, Nebraska, on Oct. 23, 2024.Mario Tama | Getty ImagesMcDonald’s is set to report its fourth-quarter earnings before the bell on Monday.Here is what Wall Street analysts surveyed by LSEG are expecting the company to report:Earnings per share: $2.83 expectedRevenue: $6.44 billion expectedThe fast-food giant had a rocky quarter. Sales were picking up again after a summer slowdown, due to its value meal and the permanent addition of its Chicken Big Mac in early October.But several weeks into the quarter, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention linked a fatal E. coli outbreak to its Quarter…
Hyperloop One has announced locations for possible installation of Elon Musk’s transportation technology that could revolutionize city-to-city transportation. The company announced that the finalists are Dallas to Houston (640 miles), Chicago to Columbus, Ohio, to Pittsburgh (488 miles), Miami to Orlando (257 miles), and Cheyenne to Denver to Pueblo, Colorado (360 miles). Hyperloop One will conduct extensive case studies on each region before deciding which will be home to the United States’ first Hyperloop transport system. The studies will account for things like transportation demand and overall cost. Musk’s SpaceX currently operates a Hyperloop test facility in California and The…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says he has directed the Treasury Department to stop minting new pennies, citing the rising cost of producing the one-cent coin.“For far too long the United States has minted pennies which literally cost us more than 2 cents. This is so wasteful!” Trump wrote in a post Sunday night on his Truth Social site. “I have instructed my Secretary of the US Treasury to stop producing new pennies.”The move by Trump is the latest in what has been a rapid-fire effort by his new administration to enact sweeping change through executive order and proclamation…
President Donald Trump has started his second stint in the White House by earning positive reviews from Americans, with especially high marks given for the president keeping campaign promises.A large majority of Americans, 70%, believe Trump is doing “what he promised” during the campaign, while just 30% believe the president’s agenda has been “different from promised,” according to the results of a CBS/YouGov poll released on Sunday.The poll found that Trump’s overall approval on the job so far is 53%, with 47% of respondents indicating they disapprove. Voters also used positive words to describe the president, with 69% describing him…