Stories by Nehal Malik
SpaceX Aims for People on Mars ‘Within a Decade’, Says Exec [VIDEO]
During a recent interview with CNBC, SpaceX President and COO, Gwynne Shotwell, was asked when she thinks her company will be able to transport people to Mars. This is the goal of SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk, and one that the rocketry giant has been working towards ever since it was created. “We should put […]
Tesla Supercharger Cables Keep Getting Cut by Vandals
A Tesla Supercharger in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been repeatedly vandalized, with someone cutting and stealing charging cables from the Supercharger stalls at the site (via Reddit). The Supercharger in question is located in the parking lot of a Meijer outlet at 4825 Marburg Avenue, and it hosts a total of 10 V2 Supercharger stalls capable […]
Elon Musk Plans to Quintuple Twitter’s Revenue, Hit 1 Billion Users by 2028: Report
Even though Twitter accepted Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s $44 billion USD takeover offer last week, the celebrity billionaire’s plans for the social media platform have been pretty vague. Up until now, the bulk of what we knew was that Musk wants to make Twitter “the platform for free speech around the globe,” and […]
Tesla FSD Beta 10.12 Releasing Next Week Says Elon Musk
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a Friday tweet that the next iteration of the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta, version 10.12, will “probably” start rolling out next week on Wednesday, May 11, or Thursday, May 12. Musk’s tweet was a response to FSD beta tester @WholeMarsBlog, who commented that they never once had to […]
Lucid Delivers 360 Cars in Q1, Increases Prices After $598 Million Loss
Lucid Group today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2022 ended March 31. The electric vehicle (EV) startup reported a total of 360 customer deliveries for Q1, with total revenue of $57.7 million USD. In comparison, electric truck startup Rivian delivered 1,227 vehicles during the same period, while Chinese EV maker NIO […]
Volkswagen ‘Sold Out’ of Electric Vehicles for U.S. and Europe for 2022
Volkswagen sold just over 99,000 electric vehicles (EVs) during the first quarter of this year across all of its brands, including Porsche, Audi, and Škoda in addition to the main Volkswagen line — reports the Financial Times. Output was lower than Volkswagen had hoped for due to supply chain constraints hampering global production. In fact, […]
New Tesla Superchargers Global Overview: April 25 – May 1, 2022
Here’s a list of all the new Tesla Supercharger locations 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 April 25, 2022 The Wawa at 1615 S Orange Blossom Trail, Apopka, FL, USA 8 250 kW Tesla April […]
Tesla St. Petersburg Location Moves Forward with $13 Million Land Sale
Truett Realty Group has purchased the site for a planned Tesla location that it has been hired to develop in St. Petersburg, Florida, for $13 million USD — reports The Tampa Bay Business Journal. It was reported last month Pinellas County had approved a massive Tesla sales, service, and delivery center in St. Pete — […]
NIO, Li Auto, Xpeng See Sales Drop in April, Due to COVID-19 Lockdowns
Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker NIO on Sunday announced delivery numbers for the month of April, along with rivals Li Auto and Xpeng. NIO delivered a total of 5,074 EVs in April 2022, bringing the automaker’s year-to-date total for deliveries in 2022 up to 30,842 — a year-over-year increase of 13.5%. NIO delivered 25,768 cars […]
Tesla Starts Charging European Users for Premium Connectivity in Leased Cars
Starting May 1st, 2022, Tesla has started charging drivers of leased vehicles in Europe for Premium Connectivity in their cars (via @tesla_adri). “Premium Connectivity provides the ability to access all connectivity features over cellular, in addition to Wi-Fi,” Tesla explains in an email recently sent to drivers of leased vehicles in Europe, where the company […]
Tesla Dominates California EV Sales in Q1, Takes Top 3 Spots
According to new data from electric vehicle advocacy group Veloz (via Green Car Reports), Tesla accounted for 78% of the 67,118 battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sold in California, the largest automotive market in the U.S., during the first quarter of this year. Tesla’s Model 3 was the best-selling plug-in vehicle (including both BEVs and plug-in […]
Lucid Motors CEO Takes Home $263 Million Performance Bonus
Lucid Group CEO Peter Rawlinson bagged a whopping $263 million USD worth of performance-based stock awards last year as a result of a brief summit in the company’s share price — reports Automotive News. In March 2021, Lucid’s board of directors awarded Rawlinson approximately 13.8 million time-based stock units that vest over four years from […]
SpaceX’s First Starship Orbital Flight Delayed Again by FAA
SpaceX will once again have to kick its hopes of launching Starship’s first orbital flight further down the line. According to a new project update on the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) website, the Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) for SpaceX’s proposed Starship/Super Heavy Launch Vehicle Program at the Boca Chica Launch Site in Cameron […]
Tesla Model 3 Was Europe’s Best Selling Car in March 2022, Model Y Ranked Third
Tesla’s Model 3 once again topped overall new car sales in Europe during March, with a total of 23,013 units registered across the region — reports JATO Dynamics. The Model Y was close behind in third place for new car sales with 18,968 units sold for the month. The Model Y ranked second for battery electric […]
Formula E and FIA Unveil Gen3: Fastest Electric Race Car Yet
Formula E and the Fedration Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) on Thursday unveiled the Gen3 — an all-electric high-performance sports car set to debut in Season 9 of the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship next year. The Gen3 is touted as the fastest Formula E car ever, with a top speed of over 200 mph […]