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A startup wants to build the “Tesla de los Barco”. His revolutionary idea is to put candles

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Transport electrification and the search for alternatives to traditional combustion are priorities for many countries. While Europe and China They bet on him electric car and aviation explores more sustainable fuelsmaritime transport of merchandise continues to depend almost completely on diesel. Although the most Of world trade, it is rarely mentioned in the conversation about sustainability. However, a company is already working on changing this And that solution is an millenary technology: candles. Pollution. To meet the tremendous commercial volume we need at the moment, we use huge boring ships. And, although the focus is put on other forms of transport, the maritime is a significant source of pollution. HE esteem that the sector produces 3% of global CO₂ emissions and other particles that contribute to global warming. Specifically, it is responsible for 15% of nitrogen oxides emissions -Nox- and 13% of sulfur oxides -sox- that humanity produces. He guilty It is the fuel used, with high amounts of sulfur and heavy metals, but the regulations allow ships contaminate up to 500 times more than land vehicles. At full sail. Therefore, measures are being implemented to mitigate the polluting impact Of the great ships such as speed reduction, more respectful fuels either systems carbon capture within the ships themselves. But there are also those who are exploring other ways. Show this is the Yara Birkeland boat That not only works thanks to a cover full of solar panels, but does it autonomously. Another example is a design of the British company Windship Technology that bets on technology thousands of years ago: candle. Or a kind of candle. The ‘Tesla de los Mares’. Presented A few years ago, the True Zero Issation is a ship or propulsion project that allows the CO2, NOX and SOX to eliminate, as well as any other polluting particle, of the navigation equation. The idea of ​​the company is for the ship to work with a diesel-electric energy system and, to ensure that there are no emissions, carbon captors would be installed. In addition, the helmet would be optimized to offer the lowest possible resistance to water and would have software that draws the best possible route taking into account variables such as weather forecast, distance, currents and the state of the sea. But it is clear that what attracts the most attention is the candle system. 21st century candles. Unlike traditional candles, which generate wind resistance to propel the ship in the opposite direction to that current, the Windship design consists of several masts with three wings that what they are looking for is to attract the wind to, next to the electric motor, optimize the movement of the ship. Each of these platforms can be up to 48 meters high, something that adjusts depending on the size of the ship and is mobile, oriented to take advantage of the currents. Challenges. At the moment, there is no ship designed with this base system, and it is not something that seems simple. The reason is that the boring ships have their load surface, precisely on the deck. Except for Roro shipsdesigned as large covered garages, the containers transport their load on the deck, which raises a challenge: the candles would occupy valuable space and could interfere with the port operations. From Windship already comments that the structure of the mast can be folded to facilitate maneuver and that its useful life is greater than 25 years, but it is clear that it is an added challenge for ship designers. For now, who has interested For technology is DNV, an insurance organization in segments such as oil, energy or maritime industry. Superyates. Although these large load ships are heavyweights in naval pollution, where a system like the one that Windship poses in luxury yachts can have more future. David Barrow is the Windship technology director and Comment that, although the strictest regulations have not yet affected the superyates, with the environmental objectives marked By 2050, it is possible that these vessels are also wrapped in the restrictions. Being much lighter than the large charges, a yacht of about 70 meters with three masts of 35 meters each could reach the same speed that current engines provide. That, of course, would lead a redesign in the construction plans so that they are more “dynamic and with better stability. Traditional sailboats. The Windship solution is evident that it is avant -garde, but there is another company that literally bets on candles. By sailboats to transport merchandise, specifically. It’s about Towta French company that completed a pilot trip with its ship a few months ago Anemosa sailboat with carbon fiber masts, traditional candles that are deployed by remote control and two diesel-electric motors. Anemos is the first of a projected fleet of eight vessels that, according to Towt’s calculations, would transport 200,000 tons of merchandise every year, saving with its impulse to candles about 40,000 tons in CO₂ emissions. The ‘anemos’ In the end, to candles or not, it is evident that manufacturers should look for alternatives to current fuels if they want to adjust to restrictions based on achieving the decarbonization objectives. And it would be curious to see non -competitive ships driven thanks to new generation candles. Images | Towt, Windship In Xataka | Is it feasible to protect us from climate change with a giant umbrella? Some researchers believe yes

38,000 million dollars to lift Tesla and Spacex

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Elon Musk’s mission at this time, at least in doge, is Cut the budget of the Federal Government of the United States in two billion dollars. It is not, obviously, a trivial figure, but rather amazing if we take into account that this budget currently amounts to 7 billion dollars. Hence the conflict of interest of a person who has Tesla or Spacex among his companies, It hasn’t taken long. Yet, The Washington Post has just revealed The, possibly, the greatest paradox of the richest man in the world. An empire with 38,000 million. It told the environment that the rise of Musk as the richest entrepreneur in the world has been deeply linked to the financial support of the United States government. How much? With At least 38,000 million dollars in contracts, subsidies, loans and tax credits for their companies over two decades. In other words: Musk is one of the biggest beneficiaries of the taxpayers’ coffers and, although the tycoon has promoted a disruptive innovation and business independence, its success has depended on the Government’s key investments at critical moments for Tesla, Spacex and other companies in its ecosystem, as we will see below. Investments, o generosity of the State, which now paradoxically has the mission of trimming. The case of Tesla: from collapse to domain. In 2008, when Tesla faced serious financial problems, Musk pressed to obtain A loan of 465 million dollars of the energy department, an amount that was fundamental For the manufacture of Model S and the purchase of its plant in Fremont, California. Without this support, the company would have collapsed. In addition, Tesla has obtained 11.4 billion dollars In regulatory credits for selling carbon bonds to other automotive, a crucial factor for their profitability in key years. Although Musk has criticized government subsidies For consumers, your company has been one of the main beneficiaries of fiscal credits for the purchase of electric vehicles. But there is more. Since its foundation, Tesla has also received billions in state and local incentives, including 1.3 billion dollars In Nevada for its battery gigaphal and 750 million dollars in New York For the Failure SolarCitywhich was then absorbed by Tesla. Despite these benefits, in 2021 Musk moved the Tesla headquarters of California to Texas, arguing a more favorable regulatory environment. The Spacex case: contracts to master space. Since its creation in 2002, Spacex has depended largely on Contracts with NASA and the Department of Defense. Before achieving its first successful launch, the company had already received NASA 278 million dollars In 2006 and then A contract of 1.8 billion dollars In 2008 for the transport of supplies to the International Space Station. Government investment allowed Spacex to develop Falcon 9today the pillar of your business, and benefit from Defense and Espionage Missions for Pentagonsome of them classified and valued at billions. In 2024, Spacex generated 9.3 billion dollars In income from your service Starlink satellite Internetalthough it continues to depend on contracts with federal agencies. Despite their growth, analysts point out that privileged access to government financing has allowed him to overcome competitors such as Boeing and Lockheed Martin in the aerospace industry. Musk and subsidies. They remembered in The report of the post that Musk has publicly advocated The elimination of government subsidiescriticizing the Biden Inflation Reduction Law, the same that Ironically made Tesla would qualify again For tax incentives. In this way, while maintaining that your company is self -sufficient, its success has been based on A model that combines State investment and private capital, a strategy that has allowed it to consolidate the leadership of Tesla and Spacex, but without the same risks that other entrepreneurs face. In this regard, the Professor John Helveston From George Washington University, he pointed out that “every aspect of Tesla has been promoted by subsidies and public financing”, which makes Musk’s rhetoric against government aids It is contradictory. At the same time, its impulse to cut subsidies throughout the industry has affected emerging companies that depend on the same type of support that Tesla had in its beginnings. The role of government in the Musk Empire. The truth is that, despite his libertarian speech, Musk continues to benefit from multimillionaire government contracts and preferential access to state programs. In the last five years, almost Two thirds of the 38 billion dollars In public funds that have promoted their companies have been granted in the form of new contracts or incentives. With 52 active contracts with agencies such as NASA, the Department of Defense and the Administration of General Services, Your connection with the government It remains a fundamental pillar of its business success. Although his influence and his fortune They have grown exponentiallyits relationship with the government remains rather ambivalent: while criticizing state intervention in the economy, it continues to receive the financial support that has cemented its empire. Under this context, Musk does not seem to be only the richest entrepreneur on the planet, but also one of the biggest beneficiaries of public spending in the United States, which now promotes cutting. Image | Gage Skidmore In Xataka | Elon Musk has tried to fire officials with an email: the FBI, the Pentagon and NASA have ordered to keep the secret In Xataka | Elon Musk has put the US Labor Inspection in Doge Diana: he investigated Tesla for the death of a worker

Tesla sales in Europe have sunk 45% and their shares are paying expensive. It’s not even your worst news

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The beginning of 2025 is not being the best for Tesla. Sales of electric cars in Europe have shot last January but their sales have fallen to worrying levels. The prospects for investors are not good. These are the data. A new fall. Two weeks ago, we counted on Xataka that the price of the action in Tesla marched in free fall. So, its price was $ 336 when we wrote that item. Subsequently, the price increased slightly but has fallen again And when we write these lines, the barrier of 300 dollars has already broken, accumulating a drop of almost 20% in less than a week. To be below $ 300 is to walk towards November 2024 levels. That same month he had started with good news for Tesla in the stock market, since it started from about 250 dollars/action. Then it went up to a peak of about 480 dollars/action. The fall has been more or less constant since then, mid -December 2024. With the last fall, we talk about a setback of almost 30% in what we have been. A setback that for many is related to Elon Musk’s approach to Donald Trump and the fall of sales of his cars. For others, it is as simple as The price of the shares was swollen And now we are living a readjustment. In a political key. Is it affecting the Elon Musk’s political positioning To sales and shares of Tesla? We evidently speak of sensations because the fall in sales may be due to different circumstances and establishing a direct line between the two situations is only One more of the possible interpretations. It is true that In CaliforniaTraditionally progressive state, the sales of its Tesla Model 3 fell 36% in 2024, while in the United States the setback the setback was 12%. And the messages in the cars warning that the driver bought the car “Before Elon (Musk) went crazy” They seem more common every day. Likewise, your approach to ultra -right -wing positions in Europe can undermine sales. Especially in Germany where Musk has shown its support to AFDthe party that has triumphed throughout the east of the country except in the capital, Berlin, where the company has a Gigafabrica that has raised controversy since its opening until possible extensions. The data. Pure and hard. Because the influence of Elon Musk’s political positioning on Tesla’s sales is still a sensation. What can be talked about is numbers. And the results are being bad. Bad to the point that its fall is 45% in Europe, just when the electric car rises. They are ACEA data. The fall in Spain was especially striking. In January 268 Tesla cars were enrolled in our country, a decrease of -75.50% compared to January 2024, according to ANFAC data. But it is much more serious in France and Germany, since they are the markets with the highest volume of electric vehicles in Europe. In Germany, Tesla enrolled 1,277 cars (The lowest figure since July 2021). The fall was 54% and the market share went from 14% to 4% among electric cars. With 1,141 units sold, In France sales fell 63%. TESLA EUROPE SALES VS Electric cars sold in Europe A key year. Staying behind and losing market share in 2025 is especially serious for the company this 2025 in Europe. It is expected that, threatened by fines of billions of euros, the volume of electric and plug -in hybrids rises considerably. This will force to reduce prices and put the complicated things to Tesla. The first month of 2025 has already served to take the pulse, always according to data from Acea. Electric sales in Europe have grown by 34% compared to the same figure last year, adding 124,341 cars by the 92,781 electric cars last year in January. And most importantly, results are traced in France (0.5%drop) which is the second largest market in Europe and rises in the most popular. In Germany, which last year dealt with these dates with the sudden withdrawal of aid, grows 53.5%. Belgium is now the third country that buys more electric (growth of 37.2%) and the Netherlands also rises a lot (+28.2%). Already outside the European Union, the United Kingdom has gone from 20,935 to 29,634 electric cars last January (+41.6%). Tesla market share in the general market (including combustion) and electric in Europe Let’s not forget. In spite of everything, there is something we cannot forget about: Tesla is immersed in a restructuring of the range of its best -selling model. He Tesla Model and has received a Important face washing that many purchases may have delayed and whose impact we will not see until after a few months, when the new units are enrolled. In its launch, Tesla opted for a version that forced 60,000 euros to spend in the car. A price that not many have been willing to pay. Shortly after, the company confirmed that the renovation reached the entire range, with a much more restrained output price of 44,990 euros. In the same way, it remains to be known (and we will only see it with the passing of the months) how it is going to the Tesla Model 3. With its renovation it received a strong support in sales but taking into account the sales figures of the Q4 of 2024, where the company did everything possible to improve the figures of the previous year, it is very likely that there is a Stock surplus to which they now have to give way and that the data of these first months would be resorting. Losing rhythm. The problem for Tesla is that, as we see in the superior image, it is in its market share among the lowest electric vehicles in the last year. In all 2024, no month broke the 10% market share barrier. There were periods in which almost one in three electric cars bought in Europe was a Tesla. Losing pace is a … Read more

investigated Tesla for the death of a worker

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The day had to come when Personal interests of Elon Musk They will collide with their Commitment to cut out in the US administration at the head of Doge (Department of Government Efficiency). That day has arrived. The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), which is equivalent to the Labor Inspection in Spain, is investigating the death of a worker in Tesla Gigafactoría in Fremont, but has refused to make public The investigation not to reveal the identity of the complainants. At the same time, Doge is analyzing What officials say goodbye To save costs, so Osha’s officials are feeling the pressure of giving bad news to the CEO of Tesla and that is firm their dismissal order. Research in Tesla. In August 2024, Víctor Gómez, an employee of a company subcontracted by Tesla, died electrocuted while performing maintenance in electric panels of the Texas Gigafactory. According to his family’s complaint, the company did not deactivate energy systems during the review that Gomez was going to make, which caused the fatal accident. As usual, the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA), under the Labor Department, initiated an investigation that confirmed the violation of the security standards by Tesla, such and as confirmed Reuters. Institutional silence and suspicions. Although OSHA closed the investigation in February 2025 and issued judicial citations against Tesla, the complete results have not been made public, an unusual procedure since, as has happened in previous labor inspections That has had Tesla, the investigation has been made public. As published by Reuters, the sudden opacity by Osha has coincided with the Doge campaign to cut personnel in government agencies. The Labor Department is one of the 15 agencies that Musk has put at your point of view Since Donald Trump put him in front of Doge. Greg Casar, congressman of the district where the event occurred, demanded transparency to Osha sending a letter A Scott Ketcham, deputy secretary of the agency: “Americans have the right to know if Tesla and their contractors put at risk the life of a man and if Tesla will follow the safety standards in the workplace in the future,” Casar wrote. A stone in Tesla’s shoe. It is not the first time that Osha fine to Tesla for putting the health of her workers at risk. In 2023, the company was sanctioned with $ 7,000 for exposing its workers to Hexavalent chromea carcinogenic substance used in the Cybertruck manufacturing process. As published ForbesTesla would already accumulate 29 complaints and $ 400,000 in fines Since 2021. Space X is not far behind the number of incidents in its facilities. An investigation of Reuters He revealed 600 injuries not reported at the company’s Texas plant, registering an accident rate six times higher than the average of its sector. Damocles’s sword on his heads. David Michaels, professor at the Public Health School at George Washington University and Osha director during Obama’s mandate, warns that Doge You will have access to confidential files of complainants and officials of that agency. That raises an important deterrence in denouncing irregularities since Doge could access that information. “If you know that your name will not be secret, you will think twice before informing about something”, He pointed out Professor a The Newyorr With the Doge pointing to the Labor Department, a clearing arises Conflict of interest: the same person who directs the fouched companies, controls the future of the organism that regulates them and its officials. In Xataka | Complaining about a Tesla in China has a high price: some customers have had to pay compensation for criticizing the brand Image | (Trevor Cokley), Tesla

A bakery accepted a 4,000 cakes for Tesla. Elon Musk had to mediate to avoid bankruptcy

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Large companies are not only a pole of Employment creation Or direct wealth for those who work on them, but, indirectly, they are also an indirect development engine for other companies in the area. Sometimes, they can also be their ruin. In 2024, a small artisan pastry from San José (California) was about to bankrupt when he tried to satisfy a huge request for cakes for the Tesla offices. A last minute change of opinion left the small business on the verge of bankruptcy and debts. Such and as they counted in The Guardian, Elon Musk had to take action on the matter. Laura’s sweet request Voahangy Rasetarinera, owner of the Giving Fourth pastry, received the challenge of facing a request for 2,000 mini cakes for a Tesla employee event. This request represented a Great economic opportunity for the small businessbut also supposed an important logistics challenge given its magnitude and the scarce resources of the pastry. Rasetarinera consulted their staff and agreed to accept the order by sending the invoice to Tesla. The delivery dates would be Tuesday and Thursday the following week. Elon Musk’s company diverted the payment of the cakes to an external supplier called City Flavor, which did not respond to payment requests after delivering the first round of cakes. “I was still optimistic while waiting for the payment on Thursday. However, when he did not materialize, I worried.” That same day, Laura, the contact of Rasetarinera in Tesla, called the pastry maker to apologize for the delay in the payment of the first round alleging the inexperience of the suppliers. On that same call, Laura requested to duplicate the Cake request. In total, the invoice already amounted to $ 16,000 for 4,000 cupcakes that Giving FEET had to deliver, of which he had already delivered half and had not charged anything. The pastry shop was forced to redouble their efforts paying extra hours To the staff, buying more ingredients that had not yet charged and, more importantly, rejecting other orders to meet the enormous demand of Tesla. After re -consulting the employees, they all agreed to move forward, so Rasetarinera sent a new invoice extended to Tesla with the new amount and got into flour with the new remittance, but not before sending a message to Laura, to claim the Payment of the first pitch of cakes that had already been delivered. “I regret to bother you again, but I am a small business. I have no luxury of having infinite resources, so I really need them to pay me to ensure my staff,” the businesswoman wrote to Tesla, Tesla, As published The local medium Kron4. Touch the image to go to the original message However, joy lasted little. Just a week before the delivery date, Tesla canceled the order without prior notice. As Rasetarinera explained In the Instagram account of the bakery, “we received an email saying that they canceled the order. There was no explanation. Only a message that said: ‘Hey, I am very sorry, I think we are no longer going to need this order.” Invoices without paying and 2,000 cupcakes in the oven The cancellation of the order had serious consequences for giving feet. The pastry He had already invested in ingredients and increased his staff to be able to comply with the assignment of Tesla. What was outlined as a great opportunity to work with a great company, had become an impeded bill of invoices. Rasetarinera explained on their social networks that “we had to buy additional ingredients, hire extra staff and program extra hours.” All this represented a considerable expense for a small business. “I had invested time, resources and effort based on Tesla’s guarantees, just to stay in the stake,” The owner declared to The Guardian. The news spread rapidly on social networks and local media That they echoed the bad pass that Tesla had made to this little merchant, generating outrage among users for the lack of consideration of Tesla towards a local business. The voice ran through social networks, even arriving at the ears of Elon Musk himself. Elon Musk and the unexpected solution When Elon Musk learned about the situation, he decided to take action on the matter personally. From Your X accountMusk apologized for what happened with the bakery and promised to solve the problem. “I just found out about this. We are solving it immediately,” the billionaire wrote. Touch the image to go to the original message Musk’s solution was simple but effective: Tesla would buy all the cakes that Giving Fourth could produce. In addition, the company promised to distribute these cakes between local beneficial organizations. “People should always be able to tell that Tesla will do their best,” Elon Musk wrote in his X message. For giving feet, this experience It ended up being positive. Not only did they exceed the bad financial drink for the investment made in the order, but also gain advertising and the support of the community. As shown On its websitecurrently, Giving Foot sweetens the parties of some of Silicon Valley’s most important technological companies. In Xataka | An English called his restaurant “Tesla”. Then he was released and with a fine of 14,000 euros thanks to Musk In Xataka | Tesla has been demanding buyers and journalists for some time for criticizing their cars in China. And he is winning Image | Dvids (Justin Pacheco), Giving Pie

Tesla had a contract of 400 million dollars from the United States government. They have had to reculate

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Elon Musk has become one of the strong men of the new Donald Trump government in the United States. Very involved in his electoral campaign, the owner of Tesla has also become the visible head of the government efficiency department (Doge) with which he aspires to reduce inefficiencies within state institutions. Since he took sides in the government, Musk has applied hard In the administration the same thing that has launched in its own companies: marathon days (including beds in the offices) and the elimination of all superfluous cost. To the point of withdraw the protection of career officialsthose who work for the State rule who governs. But at the same rate that Musk advances in reducing assumptions superfluous and expendable costs In state structures, questions about a possible conflict of interest have been repeated. Questions that have made sense following a controversial contract of 400 million dollars to get armored electric cars. Or should we say a controversial contract of 400 million dollars to get electric cars of Tesla armored? Tesla, the word that appears and disappears When talking about the possible conflict of interest between Elon Musk and its position within the United States government it has been to focus on the facilities that can be granted to accelerate tests with autonomous cars (in which Tesla has great hopes) or in the elimination of aid for the purchase of electric cars (which can prevent rivals from achieving sales of the Musk company). However, what was not thought of was directly on the purchase of Tesla electric vehicles for the United States administration itself. In an order of December 2024, the State Department contemplated a $ 400 million contract for the acquisition of armored vehicles as a part of the forecasts of ADisquisitions for the fiscal year of 2025. In that same document, the name of BMW whose BMW X5 and X7 armored uses the state administrations also appeared. They explain in Bloomberg that this contract has been modified to make the word Tesla disappear and, in this way, that a conflict of interest cannot be denounced when it comes to awarding it. What now appears in the drafting of the contract is the hiring worth 400 million dollars of “armored electric vehicles”. This situation, they point out from the American media, is just one of the possible conflicts of interest that can arise with the new Musk position within the country’s government. Spacex, its aerospace company, is responsible for providing rockets for the US army or launching NASA astronauts and has previously received contracts worth bills of dollars. For its part, Elon Musk has assured that it has no record that this has happened. In a message in xthe owner of Tesla has assured that he is completely sure that there is nothing approved about the possible purchase of these cars. What the American media highlights is to what extent Musk can exercise a neutral position in future contracts where their companies are involved. In this case, for example, although there were other brands involved the 400 million dollars item is the highest of the 320 items that appear in the purchase forecast for this year. In statements a ForbesState Department spokesmen say that last year Joe Biden’s government He requested that “the interest of private companies to produce armored electric vehicles” and that a single company showed interest in the contract. “It should have been a generic entry called ‘Electric Vehicle Manufacturer’” Without the mention of Tesla, they collect in the middle. Keep in mind that, if the contract is granted, the chosen electric car should be the cybertuck tesla of which precisely The company has presumed its resistanceeven before the bullets. The car began to sell at a good pace And the most expensive units were placed to get greater profitability but after the first months of commercialization, the huge electric pick-up It seems not being convinced to possible buyers. Photo | Maxim and The White House In Xataka | Tesla had no intention of selling Cybertruck in China. Is selling so few that it already rethinks it

The owner of a Tesla Model and has filled his roof of solar panels to load “up to 100 km”. It is not a good idea

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He Solar car It’s like gold for the electric car. There, all wishes will be fulfilled: we will load our cars free of charge. End of the bonds of electric and oil forever. But we are so far from getting something like the gold appears in our lives. Different companies have proposed to experiment with the solar car and even sell their own models. Toyota, with the PRIusit filled the roof of it so that its plates would help the electrical components of the car. Mercedes, in his EQXX visionhe has played with the same idea. And, despite everything, from Sttutgart to Silverstone, a trip in which they toured more than 1,200 kilometersthey barely managed to extend the autonomy of the vehicle in less than 50 kilometers. But the Marketing From a solar car is very far. In the PRIus He contributed little. The Mercedes is a prototype designed to look for the limits of efficiency, both in aerodynamics and in chemistry of its batteries and consumption of its engines, so it is not too representative either. The 3.57 kWh recovered by the solar panels yielded much more in a vehicle of these characteristics than in a street car. Sono Zion, one of the most advanced projects, He ended up canceling. Those responsible for Lightyear, who said they were able to travel for free 70 kilometers daily with their solar car, have also ended by Lower the blind. In fact, since the vehicle was announced in 2019, its managers did not stop lowering expectations and, with them, the number of kilometers per year that the car could travel thanks to its solar panels. But all this has been no impediment to the owner of a Tesla Model and that ensures in Reddit having made your electric SUV a much more efficient vehicle thanks to some solar panels distributed along the ceiling. Figures that, of course, you have to take with tweezers. Putting it in quarantine As he has counted in a thread of Redditthis owner of a tesla model and ensures that he has designed a system of Foldable solar panels that allow you to load every day between 30 and 100 kilometers a day. In the presentation of his project, the user explains that the panels are folding and installed on the roof baca. He assures that in this first version, the panels stand out about 27 centimeters from the ceiling of the vehicle but that, in a new version in which he is working, he will reduce the height to about 15 centimeters, improve the flush and create a carbon fiber support To lighten the set. In total, the Tesla Model and can carry in the future, always according to the user, 4,000 W packaged On the roof, which once deployed can recover part of solar energy, transform it into electricity and recharge the car while it is parked. But many doubts arise here. First, he assures that He is working So that the solar energy is transformed into electric and goes directly to the car battery so, we understand, for now the energy is stored in a battery that subsequently recharges the vehicle. The other great doubt that arises is about the true efficiency of the whole. In 2019Toyota created a prototype of the PRIus that filled the entire roof, the rear window and the hood of the solar panel car. A surface that generated 860 W. With them, Toyota said he could travel some 45 extra kilometersbut they were based on the Japanese homologation cycle, much more lax than Europeans. In the case of Tesla Model and, the weight of the panels touches the maximum of 75 kg that in the United States can move on the ceiling, so it will irremediably affect consumption. First of all, those 75 kg of weight, which is more or less like going with one more person in the car. And, much more critical, for the impact on automobile aerodynamics, which would be very damaged. The creator says that he has not calculated the latter but believes that consumption worsens at 10%. All this has led some Work reviewers To affirm that the car can barely travel a little more than 40 kilometers under real circulation conditions. That without entering into the impact that the solar panels have on the dynamics of the vehicle and the march comfort, because it must be difficult to ignore the generated noise. In Xataka | The accounts (impossible) to get an autonomous solar car that is recharged only with sunlight In Xataka | This electric SUV moves only with solar energy. And just arrived at the Sahara after traveling 1,000 kilometers Photo | Somid3 *An earlier version of this article was published in January 2024

Now he has lost 40.9 billion in a week and Tesla has been to blame

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After the victory at Donald Trump’s polls, Elon Musk’s fortune marked A double historical record: exceed the threshold of 400,000 million dollars, and almost double your fortune in just a couple of months. However, as the English saying goes: “Easy eats, Easy Go“. The money that comes easy, easy vanis. For the first time in this 2025, Elon Musk’s fortune has fallen from that symbolic brand. The main responsible for that fall: Tesla. Below 400,000 million. The world’s greatest fortune has suffered a serious varapalo after 428,000 million dollars recorded last week, at 387,100 million dollars to which it has fallen today. That loss of 40.9 billion of difference in just one week marks the end of a two -month streak of constants up Very complicated value to keep in time. Less rich, but very rich. Despite the enormous devaluation that his fortune has suffered in the last two weeks, no Elon Musk continues to occupy his position as richest person in the worldfollowed by Mark Zuckerberg, whose fortune has not stopped growing in 2025 and is already at 249.8 billion dollars. The third and fourth place in the Millionaire list of Forbes It is occupied recovering from the stock market which supposed the presentation of Deepseek. The fall of Tesla drags Elon. In addition to being his CEO, Elon Musk is the main holder of Tesla’s minority investor, and has been controlling between 12 and 15% of the electric car manufacturer. That implies that, around 60% of his fortune is linked to Tesla. For better, or for worse. Unfortunately, the brand directed by Elon Musk is not at its best, and accumulates a Fall in the price of your shares of more than 30%, accumulating a 25% decrease in what we have been, leaving the company in the same capitalization that it had at the end of 2021. The Fall in your quote It intensified after the presentation of the results of Tesla of the fourth quarter of 2024, where investors confirmed how the downward trend followed The sales of their cars. Market adjustment and expectations. Such and As they pointed out In Bloomberg, there is a dissonance between the real financial data of Tesla and the price of its shares. This phenomenon, which is common in startups with a lot of potential to experience explosive growth, is not usual in a mature company with more than a decade. So the company’s stock market fall could respond to an adjustment in the expectations of investors before the bad financial results of the last quarters. Deepseek’s arrival has also had a great impact on this impact, since, as its CEO has transmittedBy active and passiveTesla will stop being just a car manufacturer to become an AI company. Know that it is possible to develop a AI at least cost also He has sown concern Among Tesla investors. In short, the perfect storm on the Tesla headquarters. It is no longer your right eye. Investors have tolerated more bad than good that his CEO will pay more attention to the management of his other companies. Critical voices were not missing when he focused on making his rockets They will land autonomouslyor when they considered that he spent more time to tweet incendiary messages in X than harmed Tesla’s finances. In spite of everything, Musk had managed to appease his spirits with brilliant financial results. So much that they even served to ratify his Milmillonario Bonus Salarial. However, your new Doge in front paper in the Trump administration, and its explicit support for formations of extreme right in Europethey have returned to sow doubt Among investors, wondering if Tesla’s CEO is dedicating time and energy necessary to remove Tesla from the current fall spiral. In Xataka | Elon Musk continues to tweet without a brake: there is already a millionaire betting market to hit how many will publish per week Image | Flickr (NASA HQ Photo), Unspash (Dmitry Novikov)

Tesla faces a perfect storm and his actions are paying him expensive

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We have been for 43 days of the year 2025 and Elon Musk has lived a roller coaster of emotions. In less than a month and a half he has confirmed that he is one of the strong men of the Donald Trump government, with controversial investiture included, and at the same time he has seen losing hundreds of millions of euros of his fortune. Tesla is very blamed. A collapse. Tesla ended the year 2024 asking for the time and the consequences have begun to be noticed in this 2025. On December 17 of last year, Tesla’s shares cost $ 479.86. Since then, the fall has been sustained, despite a small rebound a week later. However, Tesla’s actions have fallen until 328.50 euros at the time we write These lines. It is a collapse of more than 30%, devaluing the action almost 25% in what we have been. And the fall has been especially pronounced in what we have of the month of February. Less than two weeks ago, the action exceeded the barrier of 400 euros. What happened? The reasons being wielded to explain the fall They are many and varied But they can be summarized at some key points: Bad results of the company Elon Musk’s political slope The competition ads and, especially, by byd Bad results. The end of the year for Tesla was complicated. The company sought, by all means, to prevent the year 2024 from becoming the first year of “non -growth.” The company reduced prices, offered 0% financing and free recharges to try to carry sales figures above 2023 But he didn’t finish getting it. That has left an important hangover in its market. In 2025, the registrations have collapsed which indicates that they could have put in the commercial network more vehicles than those who now have to give out. In Stellantis they know well what we are talking about, with A crisis in United Statess for this reason that has ended with Carlos Tavares outside the address of the company. A 2025 that does not start well. In the first bars of 2025, Tesla sales have fallen very hard. It is still early to know what the company of Elon Musk will hold the year but in China, the company’s main market, They have fallen hard. Tesla has in Europe a good ceiller to continue exploding. However, Your sales In Germany (by volume, the main European market of the electric car) reflect falls of almost 60% in January. In France (second market) they have also exceeded that barrier and in more fragile markets such as Spanish, variation is even more striking with a 75%decrease. They are not good short -term perspectives. A Tesla Model and renewed. But more expensive and without solving the demands of the Chinese market. Local market customers are turning positions towards More technological and advanced models But, above all, towards brands that are able to evolve their cars very quickly. The paradigm shift is such that Catl has begun to invent the term of “Smart Electric Car”. Renew the image without offering large additions or new incentives at the software level, following the rhythms marked by the traditional automobile industry, may not be enough for Tesla in China. Elon Musk and politics. Position yourself as one of the strong men of Donald Trump’s government can serve Tesla to Accelerate plans To put on the streets the Tesla Cybercab and try to burn stages that to other manufacturers It has cost them years and billions of dollars. However, there are several aspects to take into account: A competition that squeezes. Although no one in Europe and the United States still does not offer the autonomy/price ratio of which the western manufacturers presume They are launching more and more products to the market to rival Elon Musk’s company. Maybe they are cars smaller or higher consumption But more and more vehicles are in prices of between 25,000 and 30,000 euros that, if you are aware of the needs of the home or the small discomforts they can have on long tripsthey are more than valid for the vast majority of the potential public. A bomb called “Eye of God”. Beyond European competition, a good part of its economic results are played in China. In that market you live in a continuous price war where Musk’s own company has participated for try to sweep competitors and leave them along the way. But Byd has launched a bomb: it will offer its autonomous (supervised) driving systems for free in all electric cars, be of the range that is. Its Byd Seagull, its best -selling model because it has a demolition price that to the direct change is below 10,000 euros, it will also have what The company calls “Eye of God”. I give it to you. The news is especially relevant because Tesla wanted to make automated driving one of her great incentives to sell her cars. But, above all, I thought it could be a new business to exploit with subscriptions and the purchase of functions at a price of thousands of euros. Giving this system, which is vitaminated with DeepseekByd has launched a missile to the Tesla flotation line invalidating the argument of its autopilot, which So much is costing them to work in ChinaIt is a differential value. The impact has been such that in the last five days the action of Tesla has fallen almost 60 euros and the decrease has been much more accused in the last two days. At the same time, Byd’s action has not stopped growing. In the last five days more than 20% has been fired and around 22% in what we have been in 2025. Photo | Bram van Oost and Trevor Cokley In Xataka | Tesla’s most buoyant business is also the most unknown: energy generation and storage

Europe’s anger with Elon Musk grows like foam. Tesla pays the consequences with sales falls of up to 75%

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Tesla has made its presentation of sales results And the news has not been what they expected: the sales of their electric cars They have plummeted during the last quarter, especially in Europe. Some investors have not been able to associate this fall to the political activism of the CEO of Tesla, and see in this fall the reaction of the markets to the Elon Musk support to the ultra -right parties of Germany and the United Kingdom. The Batacazo of Germany. According to data From the Federal Carriage Transport Authority of Germany (KBA), during the month of January 2025, Tesla only enrolled 1,277 electric cars in the largest car market in Europe. That represents a 59.5% drop with respect to sales of the previous year. The fall in sales of Tesla in Germany contrasts with the number of enrollments of battery electric vehicles (BEV) in that country, which amounted to 34,498 units enrolled, increasing the figure by 53.5% compared to the previous year. That is, the Germans They have bought more electric carsbut these cars were not from Tesla. The decrease in sales in the withdrawal of incentives for the purchase of electric cars can be attributed, but this theory would be ruled out because that would impact all electric cars. However, the Chinese manufacturer Byd has been the great beneficiary of the Tesla stumbling, increasing its sales by 69.1% during the same period. It is not an isolated case. Such a pronounced fall in a single market can be attributed to certain economic factors. However, when the situation is replicated with generalized falls in the main European markets, the diagnosis also changes. According to published data By Electrek, Tesla’s sales fell 75.4% in Spain, a 63.4% in France46% in Sweden, 42.5% in the Netherlands, 40.9% in Denmark or 40.2% in Norway, a market in which the 90% of cars that are sold They are electric. In general terms, Tesla’s total sales fell 47.7% in Europe and a 7.78% in the United Kingdom. It is striking that, in California, a state where Tesla usually got good sales figures, Model 3 sales have also fallen 3. Everything points to a person in charge: politics. One of the reasons that different responsible for the European car industry have argued as an explanation for the decrease in sales of the brand is the political role of Elon Musk in the US government and Your explicit support to extreme right formations in Germany and the United Kingdom. The French medium France24 collected the statements Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of the Automotive Research Center in Germany, ensuring that the behavior of the Tesla CEO was being “extremely harmful” for the manufacturer in that country. “Nobody wants to be associated with this. Tesla and Musk are almost inextricably linked.” Tesla pays Musk’s invoices. The electric car manufacturer has become the objective of protests of different types in different countries in Europe. Behind him controversial greeting the public After Trump’s investiture, some activists projected The word “Heil” on the main facade of Tesla’s gigafactoría in Berlin. The Everyone Hates Elon Group has been marking the London Tesla with adhesives in which it reads: “Don’s Buy to Swasticar“(Do not buy a car-esvastic) and disseminating it In your social networks. Investors begin to worry. During the last quarter, the manufacturer has registered a decrease in its revenues of operations with 1.6 billion dollars, compared to the 2.1 billion dollars declared in the same quarter of 2023. Before this fall, investors were worried about the political facet by Elon Musk and its negative effect on the brand, as well as the time that your Doge in front paper. After all, Tesla pays Musk’s salary, not the US government. CNBC collected Some of those investor questions: “How long does Elon Musk do to grow Tesla, solve products and generate value for shareholders compared to their public commitments with Trump, Doge and political activities?” Asked one of the Retail investors present. Other investors asked if Tesla had “lost sales due to Elon’s political activities” and wondered how the company was going to “respond to Musk’s Nazi infamous greeting and how the negative impacts of Elon Musk’s public opinions and public activities are being addressed ” None of them received a response from the directive. In Xataka | A government “Extremely Hardcore”: Elon Musk is applying to the US the same recipe that has applied to all its companies Image | Unspash (Andreas Rasmussen), Dvidshub (Joshua Armstrong)

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