Stories by Nehal Malik

The owner of a Tesla Model Y that crashed into a Texas home’s garage back in May has now spoken with media to provide their account of the accident, after a Tesla executive recently said that Autopilot saved them from a “pedal error.” “I was going very slow, and all of a sudden, this Tesla […]

Check out a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing August 15, 2022 The Great World City at 1 Kim Seng Promenade, Singapore 3 250 kW Tesla August 17, 2022 The Landmark […]

According to InsideEVs, Rivian has discontinued the Explore package for both its R1T and R1S electric vehicles (EVs). Customers who have pre-ordered either car with the Explore package configuration can either upgrade to the higher-end but also pricier Adventure package if they want to keep their reservation or cancel it altogether. Rivian told InsideEVs in […]

A new 4K drone video shared by Jeff Roberts on Saturday showcases a brand new addition to Gigafactory Texas — the “cyber helipad,” as Roberts called it. Drone footage captured by Roberts on Friday gave us a look at a now-completed new parking lot on the Giga Texas premises, which also houses a helipad. It is […]

Tesla Autopilot prevents an average of 40 collisions from drivers accidentally stepping on accelerators instead of brakes every single day, Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software, Ashok Elluswamy, said during a keynote presentation in June. His talk was uploaded to YouTube on Saturday. Elluswamy presented some of the Autopilot team’s recent work at the Conference on […]

A couple of YouTube videos featuring amateur vehicle safety tests of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta involving children have been pulled for violating the platform’s policies on harmful and dangerous content — reports CNBC. “YouTube doesn’t allow content showing a minor participating in dangerous activities or encouraging minors to do dangerous activities,” a YouTube spokesperson […]

Elon Musk has offered to invest in Synchron, a brain chip implant developer that recently beat Musk’s Neuralink to human trials in the U.S. — reports Reuters. According to the publication’s sources, Musk has approached Synchron founder and CEO Thomas Oxley about a potential investment in the Neuralink competitor. Whether Musk simply wants to invest […]

Image credit: LAX The Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has just added 1,300 new electric vehicle (EV) chargers across its footprint — reports Autoblog. 508 of these chargers are located in a new, 4,300-space economy parking structure close to the airport. The new parking structure cost $294 million USD and construction was completed last year. […]

Here’s a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that went live across the globe this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing August 8, 2022 Route de Sefrou, Fes, Morocco 4 150 kW Unavailable August 9, 2022 The Meijer at 1301 8 […]

According to Canadian Supercharger aficionado Marco (@MarcoRPTesla), the City of Vicksburg, Mississippi, just had a Tesla Supercharger go live earlier this week. The new Supercharger is located at the Ameristar Casino & Hotel at 4116 Washington Street, Vicksburg. It comprises a total of 12 V3 Supercharging stalls, each capable of delivering up to 250 kW […]

Tesla has emerged victorious in a lawsuit brought by Germany’s antitrust regulator alleging that the marketing around the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD), is misleading — reports Teslamag. This is far from Tesla’s first brush with concerns regarding how it advertises Autopilot and FSD. The result […]

Tesla has joined a task force chaired by CenterPoint Energy that aims to launch an Aggregated Distributed Energy Resources (AEDR) pilot project in the state of Texas (via @SawyerMerritt). Among other things, the program seeks to create a model for virtual power plants (VPPs) to export energy to Texas’ energy grid. A VPP is a […]

The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday passed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the largest climate bill ever passed in the country. It includes $369 billion USD in climate-related funding, part of which will cover tax credits of up to $7,500 USD for new and used electric vehicle (EV) purchases. The IRA cleared the U.S. […]

According to Tesla’s AI and Autopilot lead, Tim Zaman (@tim_zaman), the company now operates the seventh-largest graphics supercomputer in the world by GPU count. Zaman said in a Friday tweet that Tesla recently upgraded its GPU supercomputer. It now comprises a whopping 7,360 of Nvidia’s A100 Tensor Core GPUs. Tesla is sponsoring the @MLSysConf, come […]

Model Y units manufactured at Tesla’s Fremont Factory in the U.S. now come with an updated interior trim (via Reddit). The new interior on Fremont-made Model Ys replaces white faux leather with alcantara, a suede-like material, adds carpeting to the door bins, and features new wood panels along the front driver and passenger doors, matching […]