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Tesla have just announced a competition where the successful winner will score a whole week in April, where you and 5 guests will get to experience a taste of our electric future. This gorgeous house in Byron Bay features 2 Tesla Powerwalls to collect energy from the solar panels...
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Lots of company’s offer affiliate programs where customers who help sell product for the company are rewarded. Overnight Elon Musk announced on Twitter, that Tesla would be ending their referral program effective from February 1st, 2019. While Tesla has sold their Model S and X in Australia for a...
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EV charging standards are a joke. With the world unable to agree, we’ve ended up with different plugs for different vehicles. To make matters more complex, as recharging and battery technology improves, we can now recharge faster, with more powerful chargers (up to 350kW) (and batteries that can handle...
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Time flies when you’re having fun, or storing energy. Can you believe it’s been a year already since Tesla’s big battery went into production? The time has flown, but during the year the impact the battery has made is substantial. Neoen, one of the fastest growing leading independent producer...
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Tesla has announced their second big battery in Australia, located at Gunnawarra Solar Farm, is now connected to the grid. As part of the announcement, they provided a pretty sweet time-lapse of the construction process. The battery in Victoria may be half the size of the now famous big...
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Elon’s been tweeting again and this time its about changes to the Model 3 offerings by Tesla. In the US, followed by Canada, there’s a new Model 3 variant, with a Mid Range Battery. As the name suggests, this new battery sits between standard or base model and the...
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As expectant owners anxiously await their delivery in Australia, Tesla’s Model 3 is about to go on somewhat of a road trip. Tesla imported a few Model 3s for a preview event in late August, which saw some location experience up to a 2 hour wait. Since then, the...
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Last week Tesla teased future Model 3 owners by bringing 3 of them to Australia. Located in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, those with pre-orders were given first access. With the arrival event done, the Model 3 is now available to go see in person, so if you are considering...
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It seems Tesla’s keen to give those who pre-ordered a teasing look at their upcoming vehicle. Reservation holders for the Model 3, due out mid-2019 in Australia are receiving email invites to an event on August 21st, 2018 between 9AM and 5PM to check out the Model 3 in...
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My current car is a 2005 Mitsubishi Lancer ES 2.4L Manual sedan that’s served me well for the last 13 years, but now it’s nearing the time where I enter the market for a new car to replace it. When I first got the car, I knew I wanted...
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This week Tesla are celebrating a major milestone, one they set for themselves, that is to ramp up production to make 5,000 Model 3’s per week. This acceleration of the number of vehicles shipped each week is important for a few key reasons. Firstly goal number 1 is to...
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Tesla’s done a better job than anyone in building out their electric recharging infrastructure, but thanks to a new deal with hotel network Crowne Plaza, there’s about to be 13 more destinations for Tesla owners to recharge. The hotels will install Tesla Destination Chargers at all of their properties...
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Elon Musk unveiled the mass-production Model 3 back in March, 2016, and owners have been receiving the vehicles. There is a feature yet, full autonomy, that’s highway and suburban streets, that is still on the ‘coming soon’, a promise for the future to owners. This feature actually costs a...
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When Elon Musk revealed the Model 3 to the world, he knew then, the company’s first large-scale production car would be a massive challenge to produce the volume necessary to satisfy the sight-unseen 115,000 pre-orders. Since the event, more details of the car have emerged and more orders have...
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Sorry South Australia, it looks like Tesla is going to finish your big battery on time, so it won’t be free. Tonight at an event in Jamestown, SA, Elon Musk announced the project to deliver the world’s largest lithium-ion battery (built using multiple PowerPacks) is on schedule for completion...
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In what is understood to be the biggest Tesla Powerwall 2 installation in the world, the Dominos franchise in Sydney’s West (Plumpton) has added 10 Powerwalls to their business. Tired of high power prices, they’re taking things into their own hands and investing in a renewable energy solution to...
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The tiny house movement is a global one of downsizing counters the natural trajectory of building larger and larger homes. There’s a great series on the US-based A+E Network called Tiny House Nation. This takes you inside the scene, explaining the creative ways people are living in houses smaller...
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The Model 3 had its official coming out party last week and the first 30 lucky owners now have them in their garage. For the rest of the world and hundreds of thousands of people who pre-ordered and haven’t had the chance to go hands-on, there’s now a great...
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One of the biggest criticisms placed one electric vehicles is their high cost. Today that all changes as the first batch of Tesla’s more affordable and first-mass production vehicle, the Model 3. being delivered to the first 30 customers. If you want a fully tricked out Model S, you’re...
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The very first Model 3 is done and this is it, beautiful isn’t it? Founder of Tesla, Elon Musk tweeted earlier today that he is actually the owner of that very important nameplate 1. The first Model 3 was meant to go to the first person to pay in...