Stories by Nehal Malik

Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas toured Tesla’s Fremont Factory on Tuesday, where he test-drove the Model 3, Model Y, and Model S Plaid, and also met with the company’s Investor Relations (IR) division (via @SawyerMerritt). NEWS: Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas toured the Tesla Fremont Factory on Tuesday March 15th, test drove the Model 3, Model […]

A new report from Ookla Speedtest examining Q4 2021 internet download/upload speed data from users across the world found that SpaceX’s Starlink saw a marked increase in median download speeds, delivering 100+ Mbps in the U.S., Canada, and 13 other countries. Starlink is a high-speed broadband service from SpaceX that connects to a constellation of […]

Volkswagen AG might build an all-electric truck for the U.S. automotive market’s growing and highly profitable pickup segment — reports The Wall Street Journal. According to the publication’s sources, the veteran automaker is considering the idea and could make a final decision by the middle of this year. Scott Keogh, head of Volkswagen’s U.S. business, […]

Before incentives, the Tesla Model Y Long Range now costs the same as a Model Y Long Range in Germany (via @tesla_adri). The Model 3 is eligible for €6,000 in incentives in the country while the Model Y is only eligible for €5,000, so the Long Range trim of the former comes out just €1,000 […]

Tesla in February fired John Bernal, a former employee on the company’s Autopilot team and the YouTuber behind AI Addict, a channel dedicated to reviewing Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta on public roads — reports CNBC. Bernal started working for Elon Musk’s electric vehicle (EV) company as a data annotation specialist in August 2020 in an office in […]

Tesla has suspended production at its Gigafactory in Shanghai for two days amid China’s largest COVID-19 outbreak in two years — reports Reuters. The news comes from a notice Tesla sent out to employees and suppliers, which was seen by the publication, informing them that production would be halted for Wednesday and Thursday. Gigafactory Shanghai produces […]

Mercedes-Benz on Tuesday unveiled the “progressive and luxurious” interior of its upcoming 2023 EQS SUV, slated to launch globally on April 19. The EQS SUV is the company’s largest all-electric sports utility vehicle to date, and it will be the first of six EQ-series electric vehicles (EVs) from Mercedes that are due to launch in […]

Elon Musk’s The Boring Company has been in “initial conversations” with the North Central Texas Council of Governments (NCTCOG) for tunnel projects in the state to alleviate traffic pressures and assist with transportation — reports The Dallas Business Journal. The NCTCOG is a voluntary association of local governments that was established to assist in regional […]

Europe is set to get the first Model 3 and Model Y deliveries without radar starting in the second quarter of this year (via @tesla_adri). The news comes from a new approval (V22) that was granted to Tesla in February. The approval also lists several other changes being made to the Model 3 and Model Y […]

The team of employees Apple had working on the company’s long-rumored self-driving electric vehicle (EV) “has been dissolved for some time,” says reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TFI Asset Management Limited (via MacRumors). Kuo, who in December 2020 pegged the Apple Car for a 2025-2027 launch at the earliest, added that Apple needs to reorganize the […]

Image: Tesla North A new update for the Tesla app (version 4.7.0 on iOS) started rolling out late Monday evening and brings a new auto seat heating feature, along with several improvements for Tesla Powerwall owners (via @AlexGuichet). Hey @Tesla #Powerwall owners, fun new app update for you. Big updates to Storm Watch and Energy […]

According to German business newspaper Handelsblatt, local politicians and officials expect Tesla CEO Elon Musk to be in attendance for the first customer deliveries out of the company’s $5 billion Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory (via Yahoo Finance). Tesla has scheduled a delivery day event for March 22 at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg. “I expect that Elon Musk will be […]

Jared Isaacman, commander of the Polaris Program, with the rest of his Polaris Dawn team coordinated the donation of nine SpaceX Starlink terminals to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, the institution said on Monday. We are humbled to share 9 @SpaceX Starlink units were donated to our clinic & foundation partners […]

Tesla unveiled the Model Y, on March 14, 2019, touting it as the “safest mid-size SUV in the world”. Today, the all-electric crossover celebrates its third birthday. Watch Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s 2019 unveiling of the Model Y in the video below: At launch, Tesla announced three trims for the Model Y: Long Range RWD, […]

Let’s take a look at a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up across the globe this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing March 8, 2022 26415 Indian Trail Dr, Punta Gorda, FL, USA 8 250 kW Unavailable March […]