Stories by Nehal Malik

According to data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums, the following new Supercharger locations have gone live in the U.S. between December 7 and December 13: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing Dec. 7, 2020 The 2+U at 1201 Second Avenue, Seattle, WA 4 72 kW Tesla Dec. 8, 2020 The Lisbon Landing at […]

In good news for Canadian electric vehicle (EV) enthusiasts, Polestar is set to start delivering the Polestar 2 to customers in Canada. Polestar’s first all-electric car may have seen recall after recall, but it has finally made its way to the Canadian market.  According to a press release, the car will retail for $69,900 CAD […]

According to 3News, a currently under-construction steel plant in Sinton, Texas, will be providing most of the steel Tesla will use to produce its Cybertruck. Tesla plans on manufacturing the Cybertruck at its Texas Gigafactory located in Austin, which is also currently a work-in-progress. The plant, which will also manufacture 4680 battery cells, is on track […]

In a recently published YouTube video, Sam Sheffer showcases his experience riding in New York City’s first (and, right now, only) Tesla taxi, which he ran into while walking around the city. The cab is a Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus, wrapped and retrofitted to look like NYC’s taxicabs and meet the standards of the city’s […]

According to data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums, the following new Supercharger locations have opened up in the U.S. between Nov. 28 and Dec. 06: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing Dec. 4, 2020 The 99 Ranch Market Shopping Centre at 5406 Walnut Avenue, Irvine, CA 8 250 kW Tesla Dec. 4, 2020 […]

Accompanied by a blog post on the matter, Tesla released a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) report for 2020 on Friday — the company’s first-ever — for its operations in the U.S. A key takeaway from the report is the fact that Tesla’s U.S. workforce is 79% male and 21% female, whereas the leadership is […]

After an unsuccessful attempt last year, DragTimes‘s Brooks was finally able to pit the Tesla Model S Performance against the Porsche Taycan Turbo S in an all-out 1/4 mile drag race on an actual drag strip, with the results showcased in a new YouTube video. Porsche’s Taycan Turbo S features two electric motors with an output of […]

According to a recently published tweet citing an official list disclosing proposed vehicle purchases from its Fleet Services Division, the town of Eden Prairie in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has purchased a brand new Tesla Model Y to its fleet of police cruisers. As part of a new pilot project, the town of Eden Prairie has purchased […]

With tax breaks of up to €9,000 for buyers and ever-tightening emission rules benefiting their manufacturers, Germany had already established itself as the biggest market for EVs in Europe. Germany is buying more electric cars than California. That's good news for Tesla. https://t.co/YNHMXp4C8l — Business Insider (@BusinessInsider) December 3, 2020 According to Business Insider, the […]

After losing an additional $4 billion USD by the end of November, Tesla short sellers have now lost a total of $35 billion USD so far this year, according to a report by CNN Business. According to analysis by S3 Partners, short investors in Tesla— those who placed bets in the market that its shares would […]

Fortune has just announced their pick for 2020’s Businessperson of the Year, and it is none other than Tesla CEO Elon Reeve Musk. Apart from being at the helm of the company leading the EV revolution, Musk is also credited as the founder, CEO, CTO, and chief engineer of SpaceX, founder of The Boring Company, co-founder of […]

According to The Guardian, Aston Martin has landed itself in hot water after a recently published report refuting the advantages and effectiveness of electric vehicles was found to have been published by a public relations (PR) firm registered to Rebecca Stephens — the wife of the luxury automaker’s Director of Government Affairs, James Stephens. The study […]

In a recent YouTube video, Torque News takes a look at a brand new Tesla E-Bike concept developed by industrial designer Kendall Toerner. Veteran motorcycle manufacturers Ducatti and Harley Davidson (and even BMW) have E-Bikes out in the market right now, but Toerner’s concept imagines what an E-Bike from EV pioneer Tesla would look like. After all, […]

Chief Operating Officer of Fiat Chrysler’s Italian luxury vehicle brand Maserati, Davide Grasso, said on Thursday that the manufacturer hopes to establish an all-electric catalog consisting of hybrid and/or fully-electric vehicles in the next five years — reports Reuters. “The new Gran Turismo and Gran Cabrio models will be electrified too, all our line-up will […]

According to The Guardian, a Kent couple’s 130-mile (209 km) drive home from Bournemouth, England, took over nine hours as Linda Barnes and her husband met with a multitude of non-functional or sub-par chargers for their Porsche Taycan 4S.  “We left Bournemouth with 45 miles of range left and followed the car’s navigation system to […]