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Panasonic and Tesla sign agreement for the Gigafactory in United States
Panasonic and Tesla have signed an agreement that lays out their cooperation on the construction of a large-scale battery manufacturing plant in the United States, known as the Gigafactory. According to the agreement, Tesla will prepare, provide and manage the land, buildings and utilities. Panasonic will manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells and invest in…
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Panasonic to expand its supply of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla
Panasonic and Tesla today announced that the two companies have reached an agreement in which Panasonic will expand its supply of automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells to Tesla. With this agreement, the two companies update and expand their 2011 arrangement to now supply nearly 2 billion cells over the course of four years. The lithium-ion battery…
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Panasonic delivers over 100 million lithium-ion battery cells for Tesla all-electric Model S sedan
Panasonic today announced that shipments of its automotive-grade lithium-ion battery cells for Tesla Motors’ premium, all-electric Model S sedan will surpass 100 million units by the end of this month. Delivery of the Model S started in 2012 in the United States. The electric-powered car has been praised for its innovative and luxurious design and…
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Tesla becomes the only American car company to repay the entire Department of Energy loan
Tesla Motors announced that it has paid off the entire loan awarded to the company by the Department of Energy in 2010. In addition to payments made in 2012 and Q1 2013, today’s wire of almost half a billion dollars ($451.8M) repays the full loan facility with interest. Following this payment, Tesla will be the…
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Aston Martin’s Chief Engineer Chris Porritt joins Tesla
Tesla has hired Aston Martin’s Chief Engineer of Vehicle Engineering, Chris Porritt, to be its Vice President of Vehicle Engineering. Chris is a world-class leader and automotive engineer who established Aston Martin’s Vehicle Engineering team from the ground up and used his innovative approach as Chief Engineer for Aston Martin’s One-77 supercar. The One-77 was…
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NVidia GPU-Accelerated Eurora supercomputer sets world record for energy efficiency
Italy’s Eurora supercomputer, which uses NVidia Tesla GPU accelerators based on NVidia Kepler, the world’s fastest and most efficient high performance computing (HPC) architecture -has set a new record for data center energy efficiency. The Eurora supercomputer,built by Eurotech and deployed yesterday at the Cineca facility in Bologna, Italy, the country’s most powerful supercomputing center,…
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University of Oxford Deploys U.K’s Most Powerful GPU Supercomputer to Accelerate Scientific Research
Nvidia today announced that the University of Oxford and a consortium of top U.K.-based academic institutions have deployed the nation’s most powerful GPU-accelerated supercomputer to enable advanced research across a range of scientific and engineering fields. Unveiled this week at the newly established Center for Innovation in High Performance Computing (HPC) at the STFC Rutherford…
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NVidia Tegra VCM to power Tesla Model S Electric Sedans 17-inch touchscreen infotainment and navigation system
When the highly anticipated Tesla Motors Model S electric sedan makes its debut Friday, so will the NVidia Tegra Visual Computing Module (VCM). Based on the same powerful Tegra processor used in smartphones and tablets, the Tegra VCM will power the vehicle’s 17-inch touchscreen infotainment and navigation system — the largest ever in a passenger…
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India Bolsters National Space Program using NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated Supercomputer
NVidia today announced that the SAGA -220 system (Supercomputer for Aerospace with GPU Architecture-220 teraflops),India’s most powerful supercomputer and the holder of the 85 position on the Top500 list released yesterday is leveraging NVidia GPUs to dramatically improve the design and analysis of the delivery vehicles critical to the nation’s space program. Developed by the…
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Toyota RAV4 EV all electric compact SUV developed with Tesla unveiled at the EVS 26 in Los Angeles
Toyota unveiled the Toyota RAV4 EV —an all electric compact SUV jointly developed with Tesla today at the 26th International Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26) in Los Angeles, California. The RAV4 EV—based on the Toyota RAV4 compact SUV and fitted with a Tesla electric powertrain—achieves a real-world cruising range of approximately 100 miles (approx. 160 km).
