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Tesla AI team burns the Christmas midnight oil by releasing FSD v14.2.2.1

Tesla is burning the midnight oil this Christmas, with the Tesla AI team quietly rolling out Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.2.2.1 just a day after FSD v14.2.2 started rolling out to customers.  Tesla owner shares insights on FSD v14.2.2.1 Longtime Tesla owner and FSD tester @BLKMDL3 shared some insights following several

Humanoid Robot Battery Production — CATL Achieves A World First

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. The world’s leading battery producer, CATL, has decided to flex some of its robot muscles this month. It has revealed the first humanoid robot battery production line…. That is, a battery production line “manned” by humanoid robots. First of all,

Tesla FSD v14 is the first AI to pass the "Physical Turing Test"

NVIDIA Director of Robotics Jim Fan has praised Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14 as the first AI to pass what he described as a “Physical Turing Test.” After testing FSD v14, Fan stated that his experience with FSD felt magical at first, but it soon started to feel like a

CATL Battery Factory in Spain, Lithium Mine in Yichun

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. CATL is the largest EV battery producer in the world. It continues to progress, with the latest news being a factory under construction in Spain and restarting of a lithium mine in China. CATL + Stellantis Battery Factory in Spain

State of Commercial Electrification — 2026 Outlook

Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. By Proterra Team The commercial electrification market is entering 2026 in transition. Regulatory frameworks are being rewritten. Federal incentives are under review. OEMs face uncertainty about which compliance standards will govern their products. 2026 will be a year of clarification;

Energy-Storage.news most-read news stories of the year 2025

Click the headline to read the full story. Saudi Arabia: Qualified bidders revealed for Kingdom’s 8GWh first battery storage tender 2 January 2025 The state-owned Saudi Power Procurement Company (SPPC) published a list of pre-qualified bidders in its first procurement of battery storage resources. Names entering the 2GW/8GWh build-own-operate (BOO)

Tesla (TSLA) receives "Buy" rating and $551 PT from Canaccord Genuity

Waymo has filed a lawsuit against the City of Santa Monica in Los Angeles County Superior Court, seeking to block an order that requires the company to cease overnight charging at two facilities.  In its complaint, Waymo argued that its self-driving cars’ operations do not constitute a public nuisance, and

How to navigate volatility in ERCOT: Ascend Analytics

The newly introduced Real-Time Co-Optimisation Plus Batteries (RTC+B) modifications have also created significant market changes within ERCOT. Ascend’s latest ERCOT Market Report Release 5.3 characterises ERCOT’s revenue patterns as resembling a ‘roller coaster,’ though the firm emphasises this volatility as an intentional design characteristic rather than a flaw. The ERCOT

Tesla FSD v14.2.2 is getting rave reviews from drivers

The U.S. Department of War announced Monday an agreement with Elon Musk’s xAI to embed the company’s frontier artificial intelligence systems, powered by the Grok family of models, into the department’s bespoke AI platform GenAI.mil.  The partnership aims to provide advanced capabilities to 3 million military and civilian personnel, with

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