On Saturday, NIO unveiled the sleek-looking ET5, a mid-sized smart electric sedan, at its NIO Day 2021 event in Suzhou, China (via CnEVPost), that looks to take on Tesla’s Model 3. The ET5 is meant to be the entry-level younger sibling to the NIO ET7, the company’s first (and flagship) electric sedan that was unveiled […]
Driverless robotaxis are hitting more and more roads each year and the eCommerce industry is hard at work trying to automate deliveries, but according to ABC7, Brandon Tsai and 23 other former SpaceX employees departed from the $100 billion USD space exploration and transportation company to bring robotics and automation to an entirely different industry […]
Transport Canada will be replenishing the federal Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) program fund with another $73 million CAD — reports Global News. The fall economic statement released earlier this week budgets an additional $73 million towards the program to make sure that the growing demand for plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in Canada is […]
While TIME Magazine has named Tesla CEO Elon Musk the ‘Person of the Year’ and Newsweek is calling him one of ‘America’s Greatest Disruptors,’ one Massachusetts Senator insists that he is actually a “freeloading billionaire” who skimps on his taxes. Following her recent spat with Tesla CEO Elon Musk over taxes on Twitter, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren […]
On December 1, Tesla launched the Radio Flyer-made Cyberquad for Kids with an estimated shipping date of 2-4 weeks. A little over a fortnight after launch, customers who were lucky enough to snag one before they were sold out have started receiving their mini Cyberquads, even though Tesla said orders were not guaranteed to arrive before […]
According to Spaceflight Now, SpaceX plans to launch three Falcon 9 rocket flights in a span of about 72 hours before 2021 draws to a close. Looks like SpaceX wants to end the year with a bang. Each of the three missions will blast off from a different orbital launch pad, with all three of SpaceX’s […]
Images shared to Twitter by Tesla enthusiast Joe Tegtmeyer (@JoeTegtmeyer) give us our first up-close view of some of the battery cell production equipment Tesla will be using at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. Giga Texas Battery Cell Close Images … I see there is a lot of interest in these images … here are […]
According to Tesla tipster Sawyer Merritt (@SawyerMerritt), Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Thursday had a virtual meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to discuss issues related to the country’s electric vehicle (EV) and satellite & space technology industries, among other things. NEWS: Elon Musk had a meeting with the Turkish president Erdoğan. […]
YouTuber and automotive expert Sandy Munro took delivery of his Tesla Model S Plaid earlier this month. Munro shared his first impressions of the all-electric luxury sedan and took it out for a couple of test drives, and also assured that a teardown would be coming soon. Before the auto industry veteran takes the Model […]
When asked about Ford’s ongoing rivalry with electric vehicle (EV) pioneer Tesla in a recent interview with Bloomberg, President and CEO Jim Farley said they “really have a chance to get to #1.” Ford’s goal moving forward is pretty straightforward: double EV production to 600,000 units by 2024 and become #2 by volume, and then […]
In a recently published YouTube video, CGP Grey put a Tesla Model 3 Long Range with the Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta to the test on the ‘Tail of the Dragon’ — one of the twistiest, deadliest roads in the U.S. The Tail of the Dragon is 11 miles (17.7 km) of road that stretches through […]
Hyundai has revealed pricing for its IONIQ 5 electric vehicle (EV), slated to go on sale in the U.S. in late December — reports Automotive News. The new all-electric compact crossover starts at $40,925 USD and goes all the way up to $55,725 USD for the dual-motor ‘Limited’ variant. Hyundai prices Ioniq 5 EV from […]
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday said that Canada would be willing to “align” its electric vehicle (EV) incentives with the tax credits proposed under U.S. President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, provided that its southern neighbor expands those credits to Canadian-built vehicles — reports CTV News. President Biden’s bill proposes tax credits of up […]
TIME Magazine on Monday named Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk 2021’s ‘Person of the Year’. This year saw Musk soar through the ranks of the world’s billionaires to reach the top as Tesla broke a whopping $1 trillion USD in market capitalization for the very first time, joining the likes of Apple and Microsoft […]
Here’s a list of all the new Supercharger locations that went live across the globe this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing Dec. 6, 2021 2 Via Leopardi, Grandate, Como, Italy 8 250 kW Tesla Dec. 8, 2021 Hirsimäenkatu 1, Lappeenranta, Finland […]
