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SpaceX’s BFR rocket to take people anywhere in the world in under 60 minutes, says Musk

Amid big reveals at IAC2017 about SpaceX’s future, CEO Elon Musk dropped a mammoth concept: City-to-city rocket travel that would transport people across...

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Watch Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveil progress on world’s largest battery

Elon Musk announced that Tesla is well on its way to completing the world’s largest lithium ion battery in Jamestown, Australia, at a Powerpack...

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Elon Musk provides a staggering glimpse of humanity’s multiplanetary future

In a truly jaw-dropping tour-de-force of confidence and detail, Elon Musk has provided a presentation with the ultimate goal of refining and...

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Elon Musk teases SpaceX-built Moon base and Martian cities

In a major divergence from SpaceX’s original strategy for colonizing Mars, Elon Musk has begun to release teasers suggesting that SpaceX will...

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Tesla aids Puerto Rico in relief efforts, sends Powerwall systems to help restore power

As relief efforts continue to take place in Puerto Rico after a Category 4 storm, Hurricane Maria, caused widespread devastation and created an island-wide black...

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Tesla extends referral program to solar and Powerwall customers

Tesla has updated its popular referral program to include customers who have purchased either a solar product or the company’s home battery unit, Powerwall....

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Rare photo of a Tesla Model 3 on the factory production line surfaces

Teslarati has obtained a rare photo shot in black and white of a Tesla Model 3 on the Fremont factory production line. The...

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Livestream: Watch Elon Musk at IAC2017 as he reveals Mars plan

Here’s how you can watch a livestream of Elon Musk at IAC2017 After many months of teasers from Elon Musk and SpaceX,...

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SpaceX will attempt Falcon 9 upper stage landings in 2018, says Shotwell

SpaceX also hopes to create an Internet constellation around Mars In a candid and light-hearted presentation given at the Massachusetts Institute of...

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California mulls state-wide internal combustion engine ban

California’s Governor Jerry Brown has expressed interest in recent statements made by the Chinese government about banning the internal combustion engine. Mary Nichols,...

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Tesla invites winners of ‘Founders Series’ Powerwall 2 to redeem their referral program prize

Tesla has begun to send a series of invitation emails to referral program winners, including one that invites Model S and Model X...

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Tesla’s “Design Your Model 3” invitation email expected to arrive soon

As more Tesla employees and their family members are being invited to configure their Model 3, the California-based electric carmaker is gearing up to open...

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Tesla’s Powerpack is helping a water treatment facility provide clean drinking water in Australia

A Tesla Powerpack system is helping a remote water treatment facility in Queensland, Australia, provide safe drinking water 24 hours a day to...

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Tesla Model 3 will cost $900/month suggests survey data, aero wheels surprisingly popular

The results are in from over 100,000 respondents that used the Tesla Model 3 monthly cost calculator by Ben Sullins. Data gleaned from users that...

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SpaceX’s plan for internet satellites might be helped by recent FCC ruling [Updated]

Correction: Upon further analysis of FCC filings and proposed updates to ITU regulations, SpaceX’s Internet constellation is on much steadier ground than...

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Tesla antes up with ‘Founders Series’ Powerwall 2.0 hand signed by Musk

In a newsletter update sent to existing Tesla owners late Friday evening, the Silicon Valley automaker and energy company announced that it...

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Tesla turns on more Superchargers enroute to “World’s largest battery” in Australia

Roughly two weeks ago, Teslarati reported that Tesla had committed to expanding its Supercharger network to the site of the world’s largest...

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Bill Gates on Elon Musk’s AI view, “we shouldn’t panic about it”

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently challenged Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s cautious view of AI development, saying that he did not think that AI...

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SpaceX aims for two launches in two days, droneship robot spotted again

NASASpaceflight.com has reported that two SpaceX launches have slipped five days, with SES-11 and Iridium NEXT-3 respectively scheduled for launch on October...