Terra Infirma

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

As the name suggests, an EV battery gigafactory is truly colossal with a price tag to match – we’re talking billions rather than millions. A couple of years a go a business associate asked me whether I would join with him to pitch our joint services to the proposed Britishvolt gigafactory in Blyth, just a few miles up the road.

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Charged

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Tesla-watchers predicted that Chinese sales would prove to be a big part of the company’s all-time record deliveries in Q3 ,and Elon Musk confirmed it at the shareholders meeting, announcing that Gigafactory Shanghai had surpassed the Fremont factory in production volume. (We There are two titillating tales to be teased out here.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Considering the massive media coverage of Tesla over the last decade, it may seem surprising that there aren’t more books about the company. When I first released my history of Tesla in 2014, I expected to have a short window of exclusivity before a “real” book—one with a hard cover and celebrity blurbs on the jacket—appeared in airport bookstores.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Yesterday, British zero emission van and bus start-up Arrival snatched the record for the UK's largest ever tech IPO after floating on the Nasdaq with a staggering valuation of $13.6bn. Armed with the $660m of proceeds raised from yesterday's IPO, the firm is now gearing up to accelerate its plans and start eating into its $1.2bn backlog of orders.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Yesterday, British zero emission van and bus start-up Arrival snatched the record for the UK's largest ever tech IPO after floating on the Nasdaq with a staggering valuation of $13.6bn. Armed with the $660m of proceeds raised from yesterday's IPO, the firm is now gearing up to accelerate its plans and start eating into its $1.2bn backlog of orders.

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