Volkswagen subsidiary Bentley is setting its sights on an electric future, as emphasized in a recent interview. Bentley plans to begin producing its first electric vehicle (EV) by 2025, funded by a 2.5 billion pound ($3.4 billion) investment into sustainability, according to Automotive News. In an interview on Wednesday, Bentley said the move to build […]
With Ford’s F-150 Lightning seeing high levels of demand alongside a new electric van from the automaker, the company’s leader is expressing high production targets for the two electric vehicles (EVs). Ford CEO Jim Farley says the company is targeting 600,000 production units of the E-Transit electric van and the F-150 Lightning over the next […]
Tesla’s AI team is hiring for a number of Deep Learning and other Engineer roles, as announced by the automaker’s Director of Artificial Intelligence Andrej Karpathy on LinkedIn on Tuesday. The positions listed on Karpathy’s post include a Deep Learning Engineer/Scientist, three different Software Engineers, a Backend Engineer and a Frontend Engineer. The Deep Learning […]
@SpaceX confirmed the splashdown of its Dragon spacecraft on Twitter on Monday, officially marking a successful mission for the company’s 24th resupply mission for the International Space Station (ISS). The company also said that the spacecraft would be retrieved by SpaceX’s recovery team, at which point the data and science on board would be transported […]
During the transition to yoke steering wheels in its Model S and X units last year, Tesla has been faced with a number of complaints about the new, small capacitative touch button for the horn – and it seems the automaker has heard the complaints of consumers this time. Tesla looks to be adding a […]
Tesla’s stock has been a hot topic for its explosive growth in the past few years, and a new update shows that one of Canada’s largest commercial banks is now going in on the company’s shares. The publicly-traded National Bank of Canada (it’s not related to the government of Canada) purchased $600 million worth of […]
Earlier this month, one German teenager claimed to have hacked Tesla’s vehicles globally, and since the report, the teenage hacker has explained how he discovered the flaw in the automaker’s software. 19-year-old David Colombo discovered flaws on Tesla’s software that allowed him to learn the email addresses of a number of Tesla owners, according to […]
General Motors (GM) has been making tons of moves lately to try to catch up with Tesla, and a recent round of investments marks the largest single investment in GM history. GM announced plans on Tuesday to invest $7 billion USD into four of its Michigan factories, set to create 4,000 jobs while holding onto […]
Tesla’s new app version 4.5.0 on iOS is now available with a number of new features, as pointed out by @Tesla_App_iOS – an account that tracks Tesla app updates for iPhones. The account shared photos of source code from the Tesla app, depicting a number of features currently in development or now available through the […]
Tesla’s Fremont factory is officially the most productive auto factory in North America, as measured by average weekly output by year, according to Bloomberg. The Fremont Tesla factory outranked over 70 other North American car production facilities, producing an average of 8,550 cars per week throughout last year. The closest contenders to the figure include […]
After teasing numerous pictures on Twitter of its Tesla Model S Plaid teardown, Sandy Munro has shared the first video of the process, beginning with the vehicle’s frunk removal. In the video, Munro and the team start with a thorough review of various elements of the car’s interior, before diving into the teardown of the […]
Following JPMorgan Chase’s lawsuit opened against Tesla last year with proposed damages in the amount of $162.2 million USD, Tesla is countersuing the bank for seeking a “pure windfall” in the original suit. Tesla announced plans to countersue JPMorgan Chase on Monday, claiming that the bank was acting in “bad faith” when proposing it was […]
China and other Asian countries are drawing near to their annual Lunar New Year celebrations, and this year, Tesla customers will do so with a new gift basket from Tesla commemorating the event. Tesla China sent a gift collection to some customers’ offices for China’s Lunar New Year, according to a photo of the gift […]
Tesla is reportedly set to upgrade its V3 Superchargers across North America to charging speeds up to 324kW from the current 250kW, according to a report from insider @Sawyer Merritt on Sunday evening.. Following the upgrade, according to Merritt, Tesla will begin to unveil its V4 Supercharging hardware soon after the update, expected to debut […]
Tesla’s 4680 next-generation battery cell concept is closer than ever to coming to fruition, with a recent update showing one of the automaker’s partners preparing to begin supplying new electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Panasonic plans to begin mass-producing Tesla’s next-generation 4680 lithium-ion batteries by 2023, which are expected to increase the range of EVs by […]
