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Tesla has updated its popular referral program to include customers who have purchased either a solar product or the companyÂ’s home battery unit, Powerwall. The update is effective September 28, 2017. Model S and Model X owners are also impacted by the new update and can now refer friends to purchase Tesla solar products. Likewise, Tesla solar customers can refer friends to purchase solar panels or a Model S/X with free unlimited Supercharging. The referral program update that incorporates TeslaÂ’s solar offerings will phase out SolarCityÂ’s referral program. Tesla has also recently updated its mobile app to include a feature that allows users to see how much CO2 e…

Teslarati has obtained a rare photo shot in black and white of a Tesla Model 3 on the Fremont factory production line. The Model 3 is seen with a handwritten timestamp of “9-26” on a portion of the bumper below the front trunk, which suggests that the vehicle was produced just days ago. The Model 3 appears to be in its final stages of production inside of what CEO Elon Musk calls TeslaÂ’s “alien dreadnaught” factory. The first sighting of TeslaÂ’s robot army to be used on the Model 3 production line took place in April of this year after a Field Service Engineer for Kuka Robotics – maker of TeslaÂ’s “X-Men superhero robots” – revealed an army of 467 new rob…

Here’s how you can watch a livestream of Elon Musk at IAC2017 After many months of teasers from Elon Musk and SpaceX, Musk is about to give a presentation on SpaceXÂ’s updated Big Falcon Rocket, which is expected to one day bring humans to Mars and potentially even support a city-sized colony on the planet. MuskÂ’s 2016 presentation on the Interplanetary Transport System captured the imaginations of many people, kindling the sort of excitement he has always hoped to inspire. Sitting in the audience during his Guadalajara, Mexico talk, his esoteric desire to make people excited to get out of bed in the morning resonated with me. What exactly those unexpected appli…

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SpaceX also hopes to create an Internet constellation around Mars In a candid and light-hearted presentation given at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell revealed a considerable amount of exciting information about the space launch company’s future prospects and near-term goals. Fascinatingly, Shotwell confirmed that SpaceX is currently attempting to procure nuclear materials in order to conduct research and development of nuclear propulsion for spacecraft. Nuclear-powered methods of propulsion have the potential to drastically increase the efficiency of spacecraft once in orbit, with the primary benefit being faster travel times a…

California’s Governor Larry Brown has expressed interest in recent statements made by the Chinese government about banning the internal combustion engine. Mary Nichols, chairman of the California Air Resources Board, told Bloomberg on Friday that the governor questioned why California couldn’t one day enact similar plans to China. “I’ve gotten messages from the governor asking, ‘Why haven’t we done something already?’” Nichols said, referring to China’s statements. “The governor has certainly indicated an interest in why China can do this and not California.” She also said a ban would likely not be implemented for at least another decade. The ultimate goal is t…

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Amazon (+1.31%) released a smaller Echo for $99 along with a list of newEcho products.

Uber is closing its failing U.S. car-leasing business.

Ford (+0.17%) and Lyft are vying to become the next great duo in autonomous driving—think Ernie and Bert, Jordan and Rodman, Trump and Twitter. The two will manufacture self-driving vehicles for Lyft’s ride-hailing biz. And it shouldn’t come as a shock. Lyft has been on cruise-control trying to hone this technology. It’s partnered with Waymo and two smaller startups (Drive and NuTonomy), while beginning to develop its own in-house solutions. So why all the intermingling? Consider what both parties stand to gain: As Lyft and Uber head towards profitability, they’ll look to cut drivers out of the equation. That’s why they need partnerships with self-drivi…

Germany and France are putting their rough past behind them: Siemens (+1.20%)(Germany) is merging its rail business with locomotive producer Alstom (France) to form one united (and very large) European rail company. Mi scusi? Siemens will be the conductor, taking a majority stake in the newly-formed company that expects to post $18 billion in annual sales. It’ll also exploit synergies in R&D and manufacturing to save more than $550 million over four years. And every penny counts, now more than ever. Across the world, large industrial companies are linking up in the face of intense Chinese competition. First it was steel (ThyssenKrupp and Tata Steel, rememb…

GOP leaders released a basic framework for the first big tax overhaul in the U.S. since 1986. And as they strap on their helmets and elbow pads for a fight through Congress, we dove headfirst into the plan. Simplifying personal income taxes The number of brackets will decrease from seven to three: 12%, 25%, and 35% (though there’s an option for a fourth for the one-percenters). Which rate will you pay? Impossible to tell, since they haven’t released the cutoffs. Extreme Makeover: Corporate Tax Edition President Trump was pushing for a 15% rate…that’s not going to happen. BUT under this plan, it will drop to 20% from the highest rate in the developed wo…

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I see you also posted about AMC and some movie deals. AMC means something very different to me. Some of whatever mental agility I have stems from having to defend our family's choice of vehicles. AMC built some of the most hideous looking cars on earth. And also some of the coolest. We favored the hideous.

Tesla has begun to send a series of invitation emails to referral program winners, including one that invites Model S and Model X owners that referred four or more sales to redeem their exclusive ‘Founder SeriesÂ’ red Powerwall 2 that can not be purchased. “Your fourth referral has taken delivery and weÂ’d like to thank you by giving you a Founders Series Powerwall 2. Please take a moment to provide details of your installation below.” reads the email sent by Tesla to the most recent referral program winners. The email also contained a “Take Survey” button that when clicked prompted the prize winner with the following set of questions: Are you interested in …

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