Tesla unveiled the Model 3 on March 31, 2016, as the company’s most pocket-friendly offering. Today, the all-electric premium sedan celebrates its sixth birthday. Watch Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s 2016 unveiling of the Model 3 in the video below: The Model 3 was the culmination of Tesla’s efforts to deliver an electric vehicle (EV) for […]
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Sunday announced that a previously delayed hike in penalties for 2019 and later model year vehicles that do not meet fuel efficiency requirements will soon take effect — reports Reuters. The news comes a little over two months after the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied […]
A federal judge on Friday approved the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) plans to distribute $40 million USD from the regulator’s 2018 settlements with Tesla and company CEO Elon Musk to the electric vehicle (EV) pioneer’s investors — reports Reuters. The news comes after the SEC said earlier this month that it was going to […]
Let’s take a look at all the new Tesla Superchargers that went live across the world this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing March 21, 2022 Carl-Zuckmayer-Straße 4, Salzburg, Austria 10 250 kW Tesla March 23, 2022 445 Rte du N, Montauban, […]
Tesla has announced plans for a second stock split in the span of a little less than two years, giving a slight bump in prices to shares that had been trading lower following reports of Tesla’s COVID-19 woes — reports Yahoo Finance. In a tweet published early Monday morning, the company said it will “ask […]
Tesla will suspend production at its Gigafactory in Shanghai for five days, from Monday, March 28, to Friday, April 1, due to a full COVID-19 lockdown being imposed by the local government to curb China’s largest COVID-19 outbreak in two years (via @JayinShanghai). BREAKING: TESLA TO PAUSE PRODUCTION AT GIGA SHANGHAI DUE TO FULL LOCKDOWN […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE and reporter for Welt Online, at the company’s Fremont Factory for a rare interview following the Gigafactory Berlin delivery event earlier this week. .@elonmusk im Gespräch mit @welt-Reporter Mathias Döpfner: „Es ist sehr wichtig, dass Deutschland seine Kernkraftwerke nicht abschaltet. Ich denke, […]
Tesla’s plans to convert a former Porsche garage in Dorset, U.K., into a sales and service center have received almost unanimous backing from both residents and the Dorset Council as they inch closer to approval — reports The Bournemouth Echo. Tesla originally submitted plans to take over the site, located at New Road, Ferndown, and turn […]
A newly discovered permit application filing from March 25 indicates that Tesla is planning on building an up to 53-acre on-site battery energy storage system (BESS), along with a switchyard, at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas (via @SawyerMerritt). Tesla enthusiast and sleuth Sawyer Merritt, who uncovered the permit filing, wagers that Tesla would use its […]
Newly surfaced drone footage from inside Tesla’s now-operational Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg takes us on the same journey a Model Y takes across the production line, from casting to the paint job (via Reddit). The video is a recording of a television showing the process, that was on display during the recent Giga Berlin Model Y delivery event, […]
Responding to an article from digital news outlet Slashdot outlining Russia’s apparent hacking of thousands of Ukrainian satellite modems that accompanied its invasion of Ukraine, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Friday said Starlink, the company’s satellite internet service, has so far overcome all hacking and jamming attempts in Ukraine. California-based Viasat, a rival satellite broadband […]
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer NIO Inc. on Thursday announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full-year ended December 31, 2021. NIO delivered 25,034 all-electric cars across its product lineup (5,683 ES8s, 12,180 ES6s, and 7,171 EC6s) during Q4 2021, representing 44.3% growth in sales year over year (YoY) and an increase of […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed he will be in attendance at the company’s upcoming delivery event at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, slated for Tuesday, March 22. Musk will personally hand over the first production cars assembled at the factory to customers. “Excited to hand over the first production cars made by Giga Berlin-Brandenburg tomorrow!” the Tesla […]
Edify, an Australian solar and battery energy storage developer, on Monday announced three new energy storage facilities in New South Wales, Australia, powered by Tesla’s Megapack batteries — reports Renewables Now. The Megapack is a commercial-grade energy storage solution from Tesla that is typically deployed to solar farms, energy storage sites, and other large-scale electricity projects. Edify’s planned […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Monday that the company will use Raptor 2 engines for the first orbital flight test of its Starship spacecraft, which will “hopefully” be in May. “We’ll have 39 flightworthy engines built by next month, then another month to integrate, so hopefully May for orbital flight test,” wrote Musk in […]
