*Speaking of Zambia, Which is progressing to Benefit their Electric Battery ambitions atm, showing the DRC how it's done, I see
New Mining Projects in Zambia
This will be the highest Nickel producing mine In Africa | Electric vehicle batteries to benefit
Zambia now boasts of being the largest copper and Nickel producer in Africa
Insane! Thousands of Tesla electric cars are on the way to Australia
If you’ve noticed more Tesla electric cars on the roads since the EV maker began delivering its latest model to Australian drivers, get ready to see even more.
The Tesla Model Y went on sale in June in Australia after a long wait.
We estimated as many as 12,000 were ordered within days of the Model Y order page opening.
Now, a record number of Tesla Model 3s and Model Ys have been snapped lined up Shanghai dockyards ahead of a massive influx, as well as more than 300 Model 3s at Fremantle docks.
“Glovis loaded with Teslas just left last week, and this week the dock was once again filled with more Teslas,” said Giga Shanghai watcher Wu Wa posting a video of more than 8,000 cars at dock in China on Friday (see the end of this article for the video.)
Images shared by him on Twitter show the thousands of Tesla cars awaiting shipping at South Port terminal, Shanghai, with many built-in right-hand drive for markets such as Australia and New Zealand.
“We noticed that most of the cars in this batch are right-hand steering, and we understand from the factory that most of the cars in this batch are aimed at the AU market,” said Wu Wa.
And it’s a record number, according to Sawyer Merritt, a Tesla investor who posts regularly on the EV maker. He says he counted more than 8,800 cars waiting at the dock.
“This batch of Teslas above beat the previous record of about 7,000 that were there in mid-July for export.
This to me is partly an indication that production output is indeed increasing following the recent Giga Shanghai factory upgrades. INSANE amount of Teslas!” he said in a follow up post.
Tesla shipping tracker Vedaprime says there are as many as 7,000 to 8,000 Tesla cars already on ships headed for Australia.
“It’s just the craziest thing,” said
Vedaprime in a note to The Driven.
To deal with the massive influx, Tesla is decentralising its delivery processes, and ships are headed to Port Kembla, the Port of Melbourne as well as, for the first time, straight to Fremantle in Western Australia.
Dodge Is Retiring Its Charger and Challenger Muscle Cars.
An EV Is Coming Next.
Chrysler/Dodge parent Stellantis said it is retiring the gasoline-powered versions of its iconic Charger and Challenger muscle cars, but announced one final lineup of gas-fueled models for 2023.
Those classic American muscle cars have been around since the 1960s.
The Charger might have been made most famous by the 1980s TV show and 2005 film The Dukes of Hazzard.
Protagonists Bo and Luke Duke drove around in a 1969 orange Dodge Charger.
