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Elon Musk Announces Tesla's NEW Aluminum-ion Super Battery with 15-min Charging Elon Musk’s latest announcement could change everything about electric vehicles. Tesla is rolling out an all-new aluminum-ion battery that promises to be a game-changer, boasting rapid 15-minute charging times. The technology has been years in the making, but it could lead to a future where Elon Musk is quite literally, on top of the world. Imagine charging your electric car in just 15 minutes—Elon Musk's latest breakthrough could make it a reality and revolutionize the future of transportation as we know it. Curious to know how this innovation could...

Answering a question about what he was excited about in the coming year, Dell CEO Jeff Clarke said that after a year of what he called "the H100 show," the company was "excited about what happens at the B100 and the B200" with regards to performance improvement.He then went on to tell analysts on the call that the B100s don't need direct liquid cooling to get to the energy density of 1kW per GPU, although he said that would happen "next year with the B200."Nvidia's H100 GPUs have a thermal design point (TDP) of 700W and are manufactured on a...

Crypto YouTuber and trader Lark Davis has posted a tweet, in which he reminded followers of the recent news of the Bitcoin whitepaper spotted within the operational system of Mac computers...The blogger also stated that the periods when Satoshi went off the grid and Steve Jobs differ by just one year, with these events happening in 2010 and 2011. With this tweet, he started a poll, offering his audience the choice between three answers: "yes" Steve Jobs was Satoshi, "no" he was not and "it does not matter."A total of 37.7% of the respondents chose "no." Slightly less but close...

TSLA down 8.5% today. Down 47.9% from its ATH of 1243.49 in November.

Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk holds a 9.2% stake in micro-blogging site Twitter Inc, according to a regulatory filing on Monday. Twitter shares rose about 28% in pre-market trading after a 13G filing revealed Elon Musk has taken a 9.2% passive stake in the social media company. Twitter shares were last up 28.49% in at $50.51 in pre-market trading following the news. The world's richest man bought nearly 73.5 million shares, a document filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission shows. Musk, a prolific user of Twitter himself, has been critical of the social media platform and its policies...

Elon Musk has told Tesla employees that the automaker is aiming to release its previously announced $25,000 electric car in 2023. The CEO hinted that it might not even be equipped with a steering wheel. At Tesla Battery Day last year, CEO Elon Musk announced that Tesla will be making a $25,000 electric car. The CEO commented in the announcement: Tesla will make a compelling $25,000 electric vehicle that is also fully autonomous. He made it clear that this new price point is achieved through Tesla’s new battery cell and battery manufacturing effort, which could reduce battery costs by over...

- CPI surged 0.8% MoM (4 times the +0.2% expected) and exploded 4.2% YoY. That is the biggest YoY jump since Sept 2008 (and biggest MoM jump since June 2008). - The core CPI rose 3.0% over the past 12 months; this was its largest 12-month increase since January 1996. - This spooked investors. Contracts for the Nasdaq 100, which is dominated by technology, fell sharply, while those for the benchmark S&P 500 also declined significantly.

Piedmont Lithium PLL.AX on Monday said it signed a five-year deal with Tesla Inc TSLA.O to supply high-purity lithium ore mineral to the U.S. electric carmaker, prompting an 83% surge in the Australian lithium miner's shares. The initial five-year agreement implies that Piedmont will supply about a third of its planned 160,000-tonnes-per-year spodumene concentrate produce from its deposits in North Carolina. Both companies have an option to extend the deal for another five years. Shares of the Australian miner touched their highest since May 2007.

* Tesla’s stock had its best single day of trading since May 2013. * The electric automaker turned in an unexpectedly profitable third-quarter and better than anticipated progress toward getting its Shanghai factory operational. * “Skeptics had legitimate concerns in the past, but Tesla is now building cash, winning market share, and boosting margins,” Piper Jaffray says. Tesla’s stock popped big when trading began on Thursday, after the electric automaker turned in an unexpectedly profitable third-quarter and better than anticipated progress toward getting its Shanghai factory operational. “Skeptics had legitimate concerns in the past, but Tesla is now building cash,...

Tesla sent out an invite to automakers who could use its important zero-emission fleet in Europe and according to an update on the European Commission’s website, Fiat Chrysler took them up on the offer. It also comes at a great time as Tesla is believed to be under a significant cash crunch following a lackluster first quarter in 2019. That said, Tesla shouldn’t expect it to last for too long because automakers don’t like to send money to their competitors.

Steve Westly's career has long straddled the worlds of progressive politics and alternative energy. Now Westly's roles bankrolling green-energy-firms such as Tesla Motors (TSLA) and alternative energy-friendly politicians such as President Obama have drawn questions about whether the former eBay (EBAY) executive and Democratic state controller's investments unduly benefitted from his political connections. An investigative report this week by the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity in Washington, D.C., and ABC News suggested that after Westly raised $500,000 for Obama's presidential bid, cleantech firms backed by his Menlo Park venture capital firm clinched more than a half-billion dollars in federal aid....