Stories by Nehal Malik

Tesla’s Model 3 was the Best-Selling EV in Canada for 2021

The Tesla Model 3 was the number one best-selling electric vehicle (EV) in Canada for 2021, with a total of 12,800 units sold, while the Model Y came in third place — reports Motor Illustrated. The Model 3 has now claimed the title for two years in a row, with sales of the all-electric sedan […]

Volkswagen’s All-Electric Vehicle Deliveries Jumped by 97% in 2021

Volkswagen on Wednesday announced global delivery numbers for the year 2021. The German automaker handed over more than 263,000 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) to customers across the globe this past year, almost doubling the numbers from 2020 with a 97% increase year-over-year (YoY). Volkswagen also delivered 106,000 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), up 33% as […]

Tesla Seeks Help to Fight California Proposal to Increase Home Solar Costs

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is currently considering a policy proposal that seeks to increase the costs associated with installing and operating a home solar system, not only for new customers but also for around 1.3 million existing residential solar customers in the state. A new campaign running on Tesla’s Engage platform urges Tesla […]

Tesla Seeks Help to Lobby New York, Wisconsin for Direct EV Sales

Due to a law passed in 2014, automakers are barred from directly selling vehicles in the State of New York and Tesla is limited to only having 5 stores or Sales Centers in the entire state as a result, inconveniencing its customers hampering electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the region. As things stand, many New […]

BMW Plans to Double All-Electric Deliveries to 200,000 in 2022

BMW Sales Chief Pieter Nota last week told Automotive News that the company’s electric vehicle (EV) sales were seeing significant growth and that the German automaker plans to double global EV deliveries to 200,000 units this year. EVs were a “big growth driver” for BMW in 2021, during which the luxury car brand made an all-time […]

New Tesla Superchargers Global Overview: Jan. 3-9, 2022

Courtesy of data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums, here’s a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that went online across the globe this past week: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing Jan. 7, 2022 115 E Main St, Llano, TX, USA 8 250 kW Unavailable Jan. 8, 2022 The Canoe Creek […]

New 2022 Tesla Colors from Giga Berlin [PICS]

During the Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg County Fair in October, Tesla “hid” a Model Y with a brand new color option in the on-site paint shop for guests to stumble upon. Soon after, we learned that Giga Berlin would produce cars in three new paint colors: Deep Crimson Multi-Coat Abyss Blue Multi-Coat Mercury Silver Metallic Now, color […]

SpaceX Starlink Internet is ‘Crazy Good,’ Say Rural Canadians

SpaceX’s high-speed satellite broadband service, Starlink, received its license to start operating across Canada in October 2020 after an “unprecedented” 2,195 people wrote to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and lobbied for it. The service received rave reviews from Canadians a month into its launch. Now, well over a year since the service […]

How to Mine Cryptocurrency with your Tesla Like These Owners

For a recently published story, CNBC talked to several Tesla owners who have mined Bitcoin and other altcoins, including Ethereum and more, using the internal computer and/or battery power of their cars. San Francisco-based Siraj Raval has tried mining cryptocurrencies on his 2018 Tesla Model 3 using every way possible. From running free Bitcoin mining software […]

SpaceX Starlink Internet Still Not Working for Some, After Global Outage Friday

At around 6 a.m. PST on Friday morning, SpaceX Starlink users across the globe started experiencing network outages. Hordes of the high-speed satellite broadband service’s subscribers took to Reddit, Twitter, and other platforms, only to find that they weren’t alone in facing connectivity problems on the network. While some users experienced a complete service blackout, […]

Tesla to Increase Model 3 Pricing in Austria by 1200€

Tesla says it is going to increase the price of the Model 3 in Austria by 1200€ come February 1. The news comes from a recent email sent out by Tesla (via @tesla_adri), informing recipients that the dealer’s/manufacturer’s share in each sale will go down from 2400€ to 1200€. Seems like Austria will see a […]

Tesla Close to Surpassing BMW for Top U.S. Luxury Car Sales

According to Automotive News, Tesla is steadily moving in on the top U.S. luxury car brand spot currently held by BMW, which claimed the title for the third year in a row after delivering 336,644 luxury sedans and crossovers during 2021. Tesla, on the other hand, exceeded analyst projections and delivered a whopping 936,000 vehicles in […]

Tesla Heat Pumps Keep Failing in Extreme Cold Weather

Several Tesla owners across Canada’s prairie provinces are reporting complete loss of cabin heat in temperatures that are, in some cases, dangerously below freezing — reports CTV News. Issues with in-cabin heating seem to be isolated to Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles (EVs) and only started popping up in mid-December following a […]