Speaking at The Wall Street Journal‘s CEO Council Summit on Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk pummeled U.S. President Joe Biden’s proposed electric vehicle (EV) tax credit of up to $12,500 USD, a significant chunk of which Tesla and other automakers with non-unionized workforces, like Toyota, will be locked out of — reports Marketwatch. Musk said the […]
According to Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog), Tesla’s upcoming holiday firmware update for the company’s electric vehicles (EVs) will bring the new Model S/X User Interface (UI) to the Model 3 and Model Y. Looks like the holiday update will have the UI from the new S & X — Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) December 8, […]
Tesla recently released detailed findings from the Model 3 police cruiser pilot it launched in the U.K. earlier this year — reports Electrek. Police departments, emergency services, and even local governments all over the world are starting to lean towards electric cars for new service vehicles, with Tesla’s Model 3 and Model Y proving to […]
It looks like the Tesla Model Y Long Range will also be getting AMD Ryzen chips for the Media Control Unit (MCU) and double-paned acoustic rear glass, after the Made in China (MIC) Model Y Performance got both upgrades late last month (via @tesla_adri). First Model Y LR AWD with AMD Ryzen and Double Rear […]
According to Automotive News, Honda-owned performance vehicle maker Acura is gearing up to go all-in on battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and will skip the hybrid phase altogether in its transition to all-electric. After new Integra, Acura to push hard on EVs https://t.co/MP5orjclGj pic.twitter.com/Gdqfo5T4g9 — Automotive News (@Automotive_News) December 6, 2021 Acura will be dusting off the […]
The New York Times today published a deep-dive into Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) technologies after talking to a number of former employees who have worked on them over the last decade. The 19 former employees–speaking anonymously–interviewed by The New York Times all said Tesla has tried to push the development of both Autopilot […]
Let’s take a look at all of the new Supercharger sites that have opened up all over the world this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing Nov. 30, 2021 Olstavägen 45, Åsarna, Sweden 8 250 kW Tesla Dec. 1, 2021 The Bigstore Gallery […]
SpaceX (@SpaceX) on Saturday announced via Twitter that the company has successfully completed the static fire test for Falcon 9’s upcoming launch of NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission, and is now eyeing Thursday, December 9 at 1:00 a.m. ET / 10:00 p.m. PT for liftoff. Static fire test complete – targeting Thursday, December […]
According to The Wall Street Journal, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been invited to speak about ‘Tech’s New Frontier’ and the future of his companies at the publication’s year-end CEO Council Summit, slated for December 6-7, 2021, in Washington D.C. “Tesla has redefined the market for electric vehicles while SpaceX is looking to transform […]
According to a recent post from Reddit user daekwan, Tesla is now delivering the 2022 Model Y Performance with Michelin Pilot All Season 4 tires instead of the Pirelli P-Zero tires the all-electric CUV used to come with. The news comes after Tesla repeatedly hiked the price of the Model Y Performance in the U.S. […]
Looks like Elon Musk sold more than just Tesla stock this week. According to Mansion Global, the billionaire CEO has officially closed on his last remaining property, a luxurious 16,000-square-foot mansion in California’s Silicon Valley. The property, located in Hillsborough, California, just south of San Francisco, sold for $30 million USD. According to the California […]
Veteran Japanese carmaker Toyota has reportedly partnered with Chinese electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer BYD, to use the latter’s battery technology in an upcoming all-electric sedan, slated to launch exclusively in China in late 2022 — reports Automotive News. Toyota turns to BYD for new China EV battery tech, report says https://t.co/fqbR0R1UnK pic.twitter.com/2wthRvLviB — Automotive News […]
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Friday announced it intends to engage SpaceX for up to three additional crew flights to the International Space Station (ISS) under its Commercial Crew Transportation Capabilities (CCtCap) contract. The decision comes after NASA issued a request for information to American companies capable of providing safe, reliable, […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced earlier today the company has broken ground on a new, dedicated launchpad for its Starship rockets on Florida’s Space Coast (via CNBC). Construction of Starship orbital launch pad at the Cape has begun — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 3, 2021 Starship is a next-generation, fully reusable spacecraft designed by SpaceX […]
Opus One Solutions, Elexicon Energy, Marshall Homes, and the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) have come together to create one of the first preplanned, nested microgrid residential communities in Canada, powered by solar panels and Tesla Powerpacks — reports The Weather Network. Tesla’s Powerpack is a utility-scale rechargeable energy storage system that’s designed to store […]
