Volkswagen, Germany’s largest company, knows where its future lies. The Wolfsburg-based giant, with quarterly revenues of $69 billion, has committed $91bn to electric vehicles (also shortened to NEVs, or new energy vehicles)…
Tesla Latest on Ventilator Based on Model 3 Tech
Automaker Tesla has provided updates on the ventilator it is prototyping, based on technology used in its Model 3 car. In a video posted to the company’s YouTube account, Tesla engineers explain…
German Court Stifles Tesla’s Gigafactory Roll-out
A German court has ordered that work on Tesla’s planned Gigafactory outside Berlin must halt, amid concerns over its impact on local wildlife. The ruling, handed down by the joint court of…
Progress Speeds Up on Dubai to Abu Dhabi UAE Hyperloop
Five years after Elon Musk imagined the Hyperloop, two companies are vying to make it a reality between the United Arab Emirates’ two most prominent cities. The proposed Hyperloop between Dubai and…
Four Beijing-Based Unicorns You May Never Have Heard Of
In case you’ve been living under a very large, dark rock, you’ll know that Chinese tech is poised to take on the world – trade war or no. And while western headlines…
Elon Musk: Down, Not Yet Out
Is Elon Musk really, as Wired posited yesterday, “broken”? Sure, the Tesla and SpaceX chief may have come across even more unhinged than usual these past months, missing deadlines, making grand statements and…
Musk’s Thai Mission: Failed, but Good
Remember July 10, 2018: It’s the day we hit Peak Tech. First, the drama: twelve young members of the Wild Boar soccer team were rescued from a cave rapidly filling with water,…
Is Elon Musk a Danger to the Free Press?
Elon Musk is at it again. The multi-billionaire Tesla and SpaceX chief has cleaved Twitter by suggesting that the mainstream media needs a fact-checker – and he wants to run it. Musk’s…
SpaceX Could Launch Next Week After Successful Test
SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket could launch as early as next week, after a successful ‘static fire’ test. The rocket, which is the most powerful lift vehicle ever created, comprises 27 Merlin engines…
The Biggest Tech Court Battles of 2017
Last Wednesday it was announced that Mozilla and Oath would be fighting it out in court, following Mozilla’s decision to switch from Yahoo! to Google for searches. What seems like small fry…