Stories by Nehal Malik

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced earlier today that the Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta is now available to anyone in North America “who requests it from the car screen,” provided they have purchased the upgrade. Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta is now available to anyone in North America who requests it from the car screen, assuming you […]

Here’s a list of all the new Supercharger locations that Tesla opened up across the globe between Wednesday, November 16, and Sunday, November 20, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing November 16, 2022 B2, Yintai City, No. 1188, Station Avenue, Aojiang Town, Pingyang County, […]

Kevin Chau (@kchau), who makes a hobby of scouring service manuals and related documentation to find interesting information, recently found that the front and rear castings, among other things, of Tesla’s new Model Y design with 4680 cells and a structural battery pack are highly repairable (and can even be replaced). The new structural battery […]

Tesla on Saturday filed for a voluntary recall of more than 321,000 Model 3 and Model Y electric vehicles (EVs) with the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) for a potential glitch with taillights that could cause them to not light up properly — reports Fox Business. On Friday, the all-electric automaker also issued […]

SpaceX is hiring engineers to work on next-generation Starlink technology at its Redmond, Washington, facility, as spotted by Tesla North reader Nathan Owens (@VirtuallyNathan). According to one job listing on SpaceX’s website, the company is looking to hire specialists for its Starlink Solar 2.0 team that will work on solar stringer machines. https://twitter.com/VirtuallyNathan/status/1594359493332455425 “Working for the Starlink […]

According to permit filings discovered by Canadian Supercharger aficionado Marco (@MarcoRPTesla), a 16-stall Tesla Supercharger is coming to an IKEA outlet in Renton, Washington, near Seattle. It's official, IKEA has established a Supercharger partnership with Tesla!!! Permits have been filed for a 16-stall site in Renton, Washington, near Seattle. H/T to @GuyMaughan and @J_Probstfield pic.twitter.com/E5yxFUroIJ […]

Tesla plans to open a new showroom and service center at The Commons retail shopping center in Aliso Viejo, California — reports the Orange County Register. According to the publication, the site received a conditional-use permit in July for remodeling. A Tesla showroom and service center has now been green-lit to replace the Michael’s and […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Saturday morning that the company has started rolling out Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta version 10.69.3.1 to public testers. Tesla FSD 10.69.3.1 going to wide release now — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 19, 2022 FSD beta 10.69.3.1 brings improvements to the system’s Object Detection network, improved architecture for better accuracy […]

Here’s a look at all the new Tesla Superchargers that went live across the globe between Tuesday, November 8, and Tuesday, November 15, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing November 9, 2022 Sortavalankatu 2, Joensuu, Finland 8 250 kW Unavailable November 9, 2022 7703 […]

Tesla started rolling out the next iteration of its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta, version 11, on Friday. The new update brings major improvements to FSD since it features a ‘single stack,’ meaning that it “unifies the vision and planning stack on and off-highway and replaces the legacy highway stack, which is over four years old.” […]

Tesla on Thursday celebrated the opening of its 100th Supercharger station in South Korea (via Tesmanian; use coupon code TESLANORTH10 for 10% off). 100th Supercharger in Korea: Seongsu D Tower (9 Stalls)https://t.co/dXfSYbfJLm pic.twitter.com/LTdOgoNJWn — Tesla Charging (@TeslaCharging) November 10, 2022 This new milestone was more than five years in the making for the all-electric automaker. […]

Some of Tesla’s first production Model Y units in the new ‘Quicksilver’ paint option have been spotted outside Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg in a recent 4K drone flyover of the facility that was shared on YouTube by the_wolfpack_berlin. Quicksilver is one of the two new paint colors Tesla launched last month for Berlin-built Model Ys. It is […]

The Boring Company is planning to build a new underground tunnel project in downtown Austin, Texas, according to filings with the city — reports the Austin American-Statesman. On November 3, The Boring Co. filed for a new project called the “Austin Loop Transportation System” at 400-512 E. Cesar Chavez St., which is the address of […]

SpaceX on Saturday launched Intelsat’s Galaxy-31 and Galaxy-32 satellites to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) aboard a flight-proven Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket lifted off at 11:06 a.m. ET/8:06 a.m. PT in what was SpaceX’s 52nd mission of 2022. This […]

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, reached out to Tesla CEO Elon Musk back in April and offered an investment of up to $5 billion USD in the latter’s $44 billion bid to acquire Twitter, according to internal emails shared by @TechEmails. Michael Grimes, the Head of Global Technology […]