Stories by Nehal Malik

New Tesla Superchargers Global Overview: January 19–25, 2023

Here’s a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up across the globe between January 19 and 25, 2023, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing January 19, 2023 The Village at Sandhill at 494 Town Center Pl, Columbia, SC, USA 12 250 […]

Tesla Q4 2022 Earnings: Record $24.3 Billion in Revenue, $3.7 Billion Net Income

Tesla announced its fourth-quarter and full-year 2022 earnings on Wednesday afternoon, reporting record revenue for the final quarter. The automaker reported revenue of $24.3 billion USD for October to November 2022, up a whopping 37% year-over-year. Wall Street, meanwhile, had forecasted $24.03 billion in revenue. Tesla reported a net income of $2.3 billion (GAAP) for […]

Tesla Model S/X Sold Out in Europe for Q1 2023

Tesla’s Model S and Model X electric vehicles (EVs) are sold out in Europe for the entirety of the first quarter of 2023, with estimated delivery dates for new orders being pushed to April-June from January-March (via @Tslachan).  $TSLA• Model S/X Europe's estimated delivery date has been changed from April to June. (Previously from January […]

SpaceX Starlink Latency Spikes Frustrating Some Customers

Some SpaceX Starlink subscribers are complaining of latency spikes and rampant packet loss on the service since earlier this week (via Reddit). The kind of lag this causes is most noticeable in online games, especially multiplayer titles. “I have been gaming on starlink for a while now and have for the most part not had […]

Tesla Model Y Custom Mods Unveiled by NOVITEC in Germany

High-end vehicle tuner NOVITEC, headquartered in Bavaria, Germany, recently launched a customized sports modification program for the Tesla Model Y (via @Berlinergy). NOVITEC is traditionally known for modifying Italian makes such as Ferrari, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, and Lamborghini. The company created a unit dedicated to Maserati tuning in 2007, and it will now be working […]

Tesla Becomes Germany’s Top-Selling EV Brand for 2022, Overtaking Volkswagen

Tesla was the top-selling battery electric vehicle (BEV) brand in Germany for 2022, unseating local automotive giant Volkswagen for the first time, according to data from the country’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) that was shared by nextmove, a German electric car rental company (via @Captn_Hype). @tesla taking pole position in Germany in BEV sales […]

Tesla Starts Accepting Questions for Q4 2022 Earnings Call

Tesla is now accepting questions for its fourth-quarter and year-ended December 31, 2022, earnings call, as detailed by Martin Viecha (@MartinViecha), the company’s head of Investor Relations. Submit new questions or upvote your favourite questions for Tesla's earnings call here:https://t.co/lcuyKYrRQn — Martin Viecha (@MartinViecha) January 21, 2023 The all-electric automaker’s Q4 and full-year 2022 earnings […]

New Tesla Superchargers Global Overview: January 9–18, 2023

Let’s take a look at all of the new Tesla Superchargers that went live worldwide between January 9 and 18, 2023, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing January 9, 2023 No. 556 Changjiang West Road, Shushan District, Hefei City, Anhui, China 3 250 kW […]

SpaceX to Build Five Full Starship Stacks in 2023, Says Elon Musk

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a Saturday tweet that the rocketry giant hopes to build “about five full stacks” of Starships this year. Each “stack” comprises an actual Starship, which will carry cargo and (eventually) humans into space, attached atop a “Super Heavy” booster rocket. The news comes after Musk said earlier this week […]

Tesla Design Chief Talks Cybertruck, Roadster, and More in New Interview

Tesla’s chief designer, Franz von Holzhausen, recently sat for an interview with IGN Executive Editor Ryan McCaffrey on the latest episode of Ride the Lightning, his unofficial Tesla podcast. The two spent close to an hour talking about several different topics, including Tesla’s upcoming Cybertruck, the next-generation Roadster, and the changes the all-electric automaker recently […]

Tesla FSD Hardware 4.0 Allegedly Leaks, Showing Camera Changes

Tesla has been working on a successor to Hardware 3.0, the computer that powers the Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) features in its vehicles, for over a couple of years now. Documents detailing what appears to be Tesla’s Hardware 4.0 surfaced online earlier this week, as shared by Chris Zheng (@ChrisZheng001)on Twitter. According to these […]

DISH Network Sues SpaceX to Halt Starlink Gen2 Deployment

DISH Network has filed a lawsuit against SpaceX in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. to prevent the company from deploying its second-generation Starlink satellites (via PCMag). In early December, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave SpaceX conditional approval to launch 7,500 Starlink Gen2 satellites (a fraction of the company’s original ask […]

Pwn2Own 2023: Tesla Up for Grabs for Hackers

Tesla has returned to the Pwn2Own hacking contest and is offering a $600,000 USD cash reward to anyone who can write an exploit capable of bypassing multiple systems in its electric vehicles (EVs) and achieving an arbitrary code execution — reports SecurityWeek. In addition to the cash prize, any hacker who succeeds will also get […]

Tesla Says Price Cuts Made Possible by ‘Normalizing’ Inflation

Tesla on Friday explained that its recent price cuts, which drove down the stickers on its electric vehicles (EVs) by up to a whopping $21,000 USD in the U.S., were made possible by the “normalization of cost inflation” — reports Reuters. According to the company, the price drops are making its top-selling EVs more accessible […]