Neowin News Feed for: Gigafactory

Tesla allowed to cut down trees for fourth gigafactory

Paul Hill — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 12:58:02 +0000

Tesla has been given permission by a German court to continue felling trees in a 91 hectare plot of forest land that the firm owns. It had been told to stop work earlier this week by another court. Read more...

Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

Paul Hill — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:18:01 +0000

Tesla has been forced to stop work on its fourth gigafactory after a court ordered a temporary halt yesterday. The Green League has been protesting construction over wildlife and water concerns. Read more...

Elon Musk asks Twitter if it wants to see a gigafactory built in Texas

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 09:54:02 +0000

Elon Musk has asked Twitter in a poll if it would like to see a future gigafactory constructed in Texas. Tesla earlier said that there was a need to ramp up battery production to "crazy levels". Read more...

Tesla cuts prices in China over trade war tariffs

Paul Hill — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 20:22:01 +0000

Tesla has announced that it is slashing the prices of the Model S and Model X in China by 12 to 26%. The move comes several months after the firm boosted prices by 20% in response to tariffs. Read more...

U.S. SEC subpoenas Tesla over its Model 3 production forecasts

Paul Hill — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 18:16:02 +0000

In a recent SEC filing, Tesla admitted that it had received a subpoena pertaining to Model 3 production figures despite denying it less than one week ago. It said the DOJ is also investigating. Read more...

Tesla made a pitiful number of Model 3 cars in Q3

Paul Hill — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:48:01 +0000

Tesla has released its third quarter report, and things aren't looking good for the car maker. On the back of the results, the share price in the company dropped almost 7 percent, as of writing. Read more...

Tesla may overcome Model 3 Gigafactory bottleneck soon

Paul Hill — Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:54:01 +0000

Panasonic's CEO has confirmed that the reason for the Model 3 bottleneck at Gigafactory 1 is due to a lack of batteries being produced. He said the problem has been identified, so a fix is due. Read more...