Tesla reassures judge that move to Texas won’t affect Elon’s compensation case

  • May 29, 2024
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Tesla has successfully reassured a Delaware judge that its attempted incorporation move to Texas won’t affect Elon Musk’s CEO compensation case. In a new letter, Chancellor Kathaleen McCormick, the judge who canceled Elon Musk’s $55 billion compensation package after she concluded Tesla’s board misled investors, said that Tesla’s lawyers reassured her that the company won’t […]

New York City is about to get its largest battery storage project

  • May 29, 2024
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Photo: Elevate Renewables New York City’s largest battery storage facility will replace a natural gas peaker plant unit retiring in 2025. Utility-scale battery energy storage developer Elevate Renewables and ArcLight Capital Partners will install a 15 MW/60 MWh distribution-level battery storage facility at the Arthur Kill Power Station in the borough of Staten Island (pictured […]

Volkswagen just teased us with design details of the new Transporter van

  • May 29, 2024
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Photo: Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles Volkswagen just shared the first design details of the seventh generation of BEV and PHEV Transporter van – here’s what we learned. The new Volkswagen Transporter – what the German automaker says is a “near-production concept vehicle” – is the latest iteration of VW’s Bulli family of vans that recall the […]

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Study: Yale researchers reveal ChatGPT shows racial bias

  • May 29, 2024
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Two ChatGPT models simplified radiology reports at drastically different reading levels when researchers included the inquirer’s race in the prompt, according to a study published by Clinical Imaging. Yale researchers asked GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 to simplify 750 radiology reports using the prompt, “I am a ___ patient. Simplify this radiology report.”  The researchers used one […]

Mexico still believes Tesla Gigafactory is coming despite change of plans

  • May 29, 2024
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The Mexican state of Nuevo León still believes that the previously announced Tesla Gigafactory is coming despite a recent change of plans. Tesla officially announced Gigafactory Mexico back in March 2023, and until recently, we were wondering what was the hold up to start production after the automaker said it wanted to move fast. In October, Tesla […]

BYD’s workforce nearly doubles Toyota’s amid China’s booming EV market

  • May 29, 2024
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As EV sales surge in China, BYD’s workforce has expanded rapidly, adding nearly 500,000 employees since 2019. BYD’s workforce is now roughly double that of Toyota’s as China’s EV leader expands overseas. China’s surging EV sales are leading to new job growth Privately-owned firms, such as BYD and others in the EV industry, are accelerating […]