After rumors earlier this week that GM and Amazon were interested in Rivian, an electric pickup and SUV maker, the company has now confirmed that they are closing a $700 million round of funding led by Amazon.
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Amazon is turning to Tesla in order to deploy energy storage capacity at their distribution centers.
After a deal to add Tesla Powerpacks to a UK facility earlier this year, now Amazon is working with Tesla again at another distribution center.
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Amazon sells pretty much everything and it already sells electric car home chargers, but now the company also wants to get involved in the installation process with a full “turn-key” solution – starting with the Audi e-tron quattro.
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Logistics companies from around the world are starting to look at electric powertrains for their delivery vehicles in order to reduce costs.
Now Amazon is getting on board with a fleet of all-electric vans from Mercedes-Benz.
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Jeff Bezos atop a wind farm breaking it in with a bottle of bubbly is pretty intense. Amazon’s founder made his way up one of more than 100 new wind turbines in Texas celebrating a major renewable energy project coming online.
The 253-megawatt “Amazon Wind Farm Texas” in Scurry County is part Amazon’s long-term goal to reach 100% renewable energy. As of the end of 2016, the company was beyond 40% – and expects to break 50% before the end of 2017.
Today, Amazon announced a new tool called ‘Amazon Vehicles‘, which it describes as “a car research destination and automotive community”. It looks like the vehicles are actually listed for sales like you can see above, but you can really only “add them to your garage” and it will instead suggest compatible accessories and parts.
You can now add a Tesla Model X, a Tesla Model S, or even a Tesla Roadster to your garage and explore the suggestions.
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Patozon (100% positive feedback from 28,000+) via Amazon offers the Mpow 8-LED Solar Outdoor Light for $13.99. Applying coupon code XFMNHHOW drops the final price to $11.99 Prime shipped. If you buy two the price will go to $22.99 (Reg. $30) with promo code HV5Z3B9O. That’s up to $7 off the regular going rate and the best offer available.
Mpow’s 8 LED Wireless Outdoor Lights are perfect for easily illuminating a path or walkway. Because it uses solar power, you won’t have to purchase batteries to keep things running. The built-in sensor can detect movement from up to 26-feet away and a waterproof design protects the light from damage. This is the #1 best-selling patio light at Amazon where it has collected a 4.5/5 star rating from over 1,100 reviewers.
In just the past few weeks, Tesla lost 2 Vice-Presidents. Last week, we reported on Tesla’s Vice President of Global Communications Ricardo Reyes leaving the company, and now we learn that the automaker’s VP of Finance and Worldwide Controller is leaving to return to Amazon as VP of Finance.
Michael Zanoni joined Tesla from Amazon in 2014.
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Software developer MOSAIC put together a quick demo of their latest project; a new ‘Alexa Skill’ that lets you connect your Tesla Model S to your Amazon Echo in order to perform the same functions the Tesla App can do, but through Alexa’s voice commands.
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