As we reported last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears more confident than ever about meeting the automaker’s goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week by the end of the quarter.

But there are still plenty of things that can go wrong with over 10,000 parts all converging in Fremont to make a single vehicle.

Now Tesla apparently has to add sabotage to the list of things that can go wrong as an employee maliciously changed the software of the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System and stole data.
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The Jaguar Vector Racing has been working for the past year to convert a speedboat to electric propulsion by leveraging Formula E technology and it has now broken electric speed records with the battery-powered boat.
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When you think of an electric motorcycle, especially in the US, Zero Motorcycles is often the first to come to mind. They aren’t the only electric motorcycle company out there, but they are one of the best known for their multiple models of sporty and commuter electric two-wheelers.
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Several electric automakers are also venturing into the energy generation aspect of charging electric vehicles. Tesla is leading the charge after its acquisition of SolarCity.

Now several other automakers are getting on board and Audi is partnering with SMA Solar Technology to have ‘intelligent charging functions’ optimized for solar in the upcoming e-tron quattro electric SUV.
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Over the past few months, Mercedes-Benz has been revealing some information about its all-electric EQC SUV development program.

Today, they are releasing the details of summer testing ahead of the start of production.
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Some of the legacy automakers who are really serious about electric vehicles are also trying to address the issues that come with selling both electric and gas-powered cars at dealerships.

Renault is exploring electric vehicle-only stores and after a successful pilot project in Stockholm, it is now opening a second location in Germany.
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Electric scooters, ride-on scooters, mopeds – whatever you want to call them – aren’t exactly commonplace in the US. It wasn’t long ago at all that spotting these two-wheeled EVs in America’s cities was nearly impossible.

But in Bob Dylan’s ironically timeless words, “…the times, they are a’changing.”
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We previously reported about what Tesla’s Autopilot can see with its suite of 8 cameras around the car, but we rarely got into how the Autopilot understands and interprets what it is looking at through its computer vision system.

That’s changing today after a few hackers were able to overlay Autopilot data on top of snapshots of what the system is seeing.
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