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Twenty-six-year-old Daphne Ferber believes she is worldly wise and a good judge of character. Rather than face up to her shortcomings she runs from them. At the start of Bea Setton’s debut novel, she’s left London for a fresh start in Berlin.As Daphne drip-feeds us information we learn she’s from a privileged background, failed to get accepted on a postgrad philosophy course (despite a degree from Oxford) and is living off her parents. We swiftly realise she is an unreliable narrator.Daphne is a mass of contradictions.…

Pedestrians walk through a street crossing in front of the American electric company car Tesla Motors official authorized car dealer store in Hong Kong, July 13, 2022.Budrul Chukrut | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty ImagesShares of Tesla jumped more than 8% on Thursday, one day after the electric car maker released second-quarter results that were better than analysts feared.Tesla reported Wednesday after the bell that its quarterly adjusted earnings per share were $2.27, higher than the $1.81 expected, according to…

Tesla is now allowed to sell the Model Y vehicles it produced during the long “test phase” at Gigafactory Berlin. While no number has been disclosed, we are talking about potentially thousands of electric vehicles. For the better part of a year, Tesla was stuck in a regulatory limbo at Gigafactory Berlin before it was finally allowed to officially start production in March 2022. But the automaker disclosed that it actually started producing vehicles at the plant in late 2021. Those vehicles were produced under…

Neon bodypaint, string vests and no-nonsense four-to-the-floor beats will return to the streets of Berlin this weekend as the legendary Love Parade techno event makes a comeback in the German capital after a hiatus of more than 15 years.Saturday’s daytime outdoor event carries a new name – the Rave the Planet Parade – but is being organised by some of the same people who put together the first Love Parade on the eve of the fall of the Berlin Wall.“The original spirit of the Love Parade hasn’t been present since 2003,”…

Tesla is reportedly going to shut down production at Gigafactory Berlin in order to upgrade the factory and add a shift to achieve higher production capacity. The top priority at Tesla is to ramp up production to catch up with customer demand. The automaker is doing that at all its factories, but the ramps are more significant at Gigafactory Berlin and Gigafactory Texas, which only recently started production. Giga Berlin appeared to be doing relatively well thanks to utilizing the 2170 cells, which enables a…

Tesla CEO Elon Musk described the electric automaker's factories in Austin and Berlin as "money furnaces" that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they could produce. In a May 30 interview with a Tesla owners club that was just released this week, Musk said that getting the Berlin and Austin plants functional "are overwhelmingly our concern." "Everything else is a very small thing," Musk said, but added that "it's all gonna get fixed real fast." It's not clear…

One type of hydrogen production uses electrolysis, with an electric current splitting water into oxygen and hydrogen. If the electricity used in this process comes from a renewable source then some call it "green" hydrogen.Alex Kraus | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSiemens Energy and Air Liquide have announced plans to set up a joint venture focused on the production of "industrial scale renewable hydrogen electrolyzers in Europe."The move, announced on Thursday, represents the latest attempt to find a way to drive "renewable"…

Tesla Inc's new car factories in Texas and Berlin are "losing billions of dollars" as they struggle to increase production because of a shortage of batteries and China port issues, Chief Executive Elon Musk said recently. "Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now. Okay? It's really like a giant roaring sound, which is the sound of money on fire," Musk said in an interview with Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, an official Tesla recognized club, in Austin, Texas, on May 31. The club divided its…

"The past two years have been an absolutely nightmare of supply chain disruptions, one thing after another, and we are not out of it yet," Tesla CEO Elon Musk said.Patrick T. Fallon | ReutersTesla's newest car factories in Texas and Berlin are losing "billions of dollars right now" as supply chain disruptions hamper the electric vehicle giant's ability to ramp up production, chief executive Elon Musk said in an interview published Wednesday."Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now. Okay? It…

Tesla Inc's new car factories in Texas and Berlin are "losing billions of dollars" as they struggle to increase production because of a shortage of batteries and China port issues, Chief Executive Elon Musk said recently. "Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now. Okay? It's really like a giant roaring sound, which is the sound of money on fire," Musk said in an interview with Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, an official Tesla recognized club, in Austin, Texas, on May 31. The club divided its…