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Tesla’s (TSLA) stock dropped this morning due to a report that automakers are reducing their electric vehicle output at Gigafactory Shanghai because of lower demand. Bloomberg says that Tesla removed one and a half day of work at Gigafactory Shanghai: The US carmaker earlier this month instructed employees at its Shanghai facility to lower production of both the Model Y and Model 3 — the two vehicles Tesla makes in China — by working five days a week instead of the usual 6 1/2 days, the people said,…

A majority of Tesla Gigafactory Berlin workers voted against union representatives of IG Metall in their new work council, but the union has still made significant progress. Work councils in Germany work almost like little governments within companies to represent the workers. They can work with unions or be independent of them. Workers at Gigafactory Berlin had to vote on a new worker council yesterday. Tagesspiegel reports that IG Metall has made a lot of progress with taking about 40% of the…

Giga Berlin Fly Through 2.0 Tesla has shared an epic fly-through video (above) shot at its Giga Berlin facility in Germany. The electric automaker’s three-and-a-half-minute fly-through appears to cover much of the sprawling factory, which, since its official opening two years ago, has been manufacturing Tesla Model Y vehicles and battery cells. The footage reveals the extraordinary amount of cutting-edge technology that Tesla is deploying — along with a good number of human workers — to make the Model Y crossover…

The crypto market is continually refreshed with new presale contenders, each aspiring to mirror the achievements of industry stalwarts. Among these, Dogecoin (DOGE) stands as a benchmark in the meme coin realm, celebrated not just for its lucrative returns but also for fostering a dynamic and loyal community over the past decade. Entering this competitive landscape, Scorpion Casino (SCORP) and GigaChadGPT (GIGA) are the latest to pique investor interest, with SCORP, in particular, showing promising signs of…

AI is all the rage — particularly text-generating AI, also known as large language models (think models along the lines of ChatGPT). In one recent survey of ~1,000 enterprise organizations, 67.2% say that they see adopting large language models (LLMs) as a top priority by early 2024. But barriers stand in the way. According to the same survey, a lack of customization and flexibility, paired with the inability to preserve company knowledge and IP, were — and are — preventing many businesses from deploying LLMs into…

Tesla has sought help to prove that its vehicles built with giga-casting parts are not more expensive to repair. That’s something that is particularly of concern to insurers. Over the last few years, Tesla has heavily invested into giga-casting technology to produce larger car parts. The automaker can now produce entire car bodies with just a few parts rather than over a hundred. The advantages in manufacturing, efficiency, and even safety are pretty obvious, but industry experts and other…

Following in Telsa’s footsteps, Volvo has just signed a contract with Italian giga press maker IDRA to install two of its largest presses at a new site in Slovakia. The giga presses – what will likely be a reconfigured version of the same Giga Press 9000 that is making Telsa’s Cybertruck – are the world’s largest, the size of a small house and producing a clamping force of more than 9,000 tons. While no word has been given on the value of the contract, Volvo has signed up for two 9,000-ton giga…

Tesla announced that it has built the “first Cybertruck” at Gigafactory Texas. Is the electric pickup truck ahead of schedule? Tesla’s latest official comment on the timeline for the Cybertruck was that production would start “this summer” and it is planning a delivery event “around the end of Q3,” which would mean around the end of September 2023. Electrek recently reported that Tesla told suppliers to be ready for Cybertruck release candidates in late August and production in early October.…

Andy Boxall/Digital Trends Summer memories are here to be made. Unfortunately, we know that for a lot of us that means sitting with people we care about but awkwardly staring at our own phones. That’s just today’s culture. The new wave of fold style phones that’s hitting the market may disrupt that a tad. While they get some criticism for the inevitable crease down the middle — everything has a downside — there’s so much to be said about getting extra screen space in a pocket-fittable device. That’s why we want to…

Tesla has unblocked the view into Gigafactory Texas’ windows – giving us, through drones, a peek into the Cybertruck production line. The Cybertruck is arguably the most anticipated electric vehicle program to launch this year. We, along with about 1.5 million reservation holders, have been following it closely to have an idea of when the first deliveries will happen and in what volume. Tesla’s latest official comment on the timeline is a planned delivery event “around the end of Q3,”…