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Sometimes it’s nice to just get some simple, old-fashioned, positive stories from Tesla. At its core, Tesla — more than 100,000 Tesla employees — are producing great electric cars, rolling our Tesla Superchargers, and spreading clean technologies around the world. I know, the Supercharger team was supposed to be kaput. [continued] The post Tesla Reaches 60,000 Superchargers appeared first on CleanTechnica.
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Is the Lucid Gravity, which will start at just under $80K, priced right? Will it move for that money? I gotta admit, $79,900 doesn't sound too bad , but $94,900 does. And you'll probably not want the base trim. With a lower-cost trim unlikely, at least any time soon, does this pricing scheme work? What say you? Sound off below. [Image: Lucid] Become a TTAC insider.
Elon Musk finally admits Tesla’s HW3 might not support full self-driving and that he doesn’t actually know what it will take. Millions of Tesla vehicles are equipped with HW3 computers.
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