Earlier this week, the Biden administration expressed its support for a bipartisan Senate bill that, once passed, would allocate $1.2 trillion USD for infrastructure projects, including $7.5 billion USD to be spent on electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure projects. According to Reuters, the U.S. President’s plans to expedite the development of EV infrastructure in the country may […]
TikTok user@stayfitstaylit recently went viral after she posted a video claiming that her 10-month-old son purchased the $10,000 USD Full Self-Driving upgrade for her car in the Tesla app by accident. The mom says she and her husband didn’t find out about the purchase until it appeared on their bank statement, and by then it […]
A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revealed that Tesla Inc.’s former President of Heavy Duty Trucking, Jerome Guillen, has sold approximately $274 million USD worth of the company’s stock since June 10 — reports Yahoo! Finance. Long-time Tesla executive and one of the electric vehicle (EV) giant’s top-four, Guillen left the […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has officially rated the Tesla Model S Plaid variant with larger and less efficient 21″ wheels for 348 miles on a single charge with an efficiency of 101 MPGe in highway and city driving combined — reports Electrek. The Model S Plaid directly succeeds Tesla’s 2021 refresh of the Model […]
Elon Musk’s The Boring Company wants to build a tunnel-based underground transportation system to “solve traffic” but also has more goals beyond the latter. With the company’s Las Vegas loop for vehicles now operational, the Boring Company is looking for its next project. According to a copy of the document pitch seen by Bloomberg, The […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is urging employees to go “all out” in an end-of-quarter delivery and production push meant to help the electric vehicle (EV) maker post record numbers yet again — reports Electrek. An internal email from Musk obtained by the publication reads: Overall, we are executing well, but the next 12 days are super […]
According to a recent Reddit post, Tesla’s new Model S Plaid also adds a couple of infrared LEDs inside the cabin, which many are suspecting may be used for future driver monitoring. The infrared LEDs can be found right above the rear-view mirror inside the cabin, hidden behind a plastic cover. The infrared LEDs were spotted in […]
In order to support the two million electric vehicles (EVs) that may be driving on its roads by 2026, India’s emerging EV market will need approximately 400,000 charging stations across the country of over 1.3 billion individuals — reports Business Standard. The Grant Thornton Bharat-Ficci report, released Saturday, June 12, said that hefty support from the […]
A Tesla Model S Plaid owner who received their vehicle at Tesla’s delivery event on Thursday, June 10, at the Fremont factory in California, recently shared an entire gallery’s worth of hands-on pictures of the electric vehicle (EV) to his SmugMug. The gallery includes images of both the individual’s new Model S Plaid, and pictures […]
According to a tweet from Unplugged Performance (@UnpluggedTesla), the leading brand in bespoke, premium upgrades for Tesla vehicles has “purpose built” a Tesla Model S Plaid to feature as a race car at the Hypercar Invitational, currently underway at the Laguna Seca raceway in California. UP has gone Plaid! Welcome to our purpose built Tesla Model […]
Tesla has brought a plethora of changes and innovations with its newest offering, the Model S Plaid. According to a recent Reddit thread, one of these changes has to do with how drivers shift gears. With the Tesla Model S Plaid lacking gear stalks, and instead relying on touch controls or automatic gear selection by […]
Reddit user “melancholicricebowl” recently shared all the free “swag” they got as a guest at Tesla’s Model S Plaid delivery event in Fremont, California. The user’s haul consisted of a custom Plaid-themed face mask, which another Reddit user on the same thread explained were being given out to attendees during entry, a pass from the event, […]
In an interview on CNBC‘s The News With Shepard Smith, Jay Leno talked about breaking the world record for fastest 1/4 mile time in a ‘production car’ in a Tesla Model S Plaid. Earlier in the month, the comedian, writer, vehicle enthusiast, and host of Jay Leno’s Garage took a Model S Plaid down to a […]
Twitter user @rodsideas recently shared some mock-ups of ‘V11’ of Tesla OS on the Model S Refresh that include support for Apple CarPlay. I’ve designed some concepts of #Tesla OS V11 (#ModelS refresh) with CarPlay. Of course, I expect many will have polarizing opinions on how this should be done, if done at all. But it […]
In an interview with AI researcher Lex Fridman on YouTube, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin talked about the cryptocurrency’s future, the blockchain’s in-progress upgrade to the proof-of-stake token creation and transaction validation model, and the popular meme cryptocurrency Dogecoin. When Fridman asked Buterin if it would be possible for Dogecoin to “beat bitcoin hands down,” the […]
