Stories by Peter McGuthrie

Tesla’s German Customers Get Access to Octopus Energy Power Service

Tesla has launched its Virtual Power Plant in Victoria, Australia last month, and now another company is offering similar services for Tesla Powerwall owners in Germany. On Monday, the German arm of the British electricity provider Octopus Energy unveiled a new program in which it will offer top-up power supply to households with rooftop solar […]

Tesla FSD Beta 10.2 Gets ‘Honest Review’ by Ryan Shaw [VIDEO]

Following a recent review of the Tesla Model S Plaid, Ryan Shaw has shared a new review of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta release, as updated earlier this month to include more users. Ryan Shaw shared a new video on Monday, including a full review of Tesla’s Full-Self Driving (FSD) beta 10.2 in action as driven […]

Tesla Gigafactory Austin Construction Update: Day 452 [VIDEO]

Tesla officially announced plans to move its headquarters from Fremont, California to Austin, Texas earlier this month, just a few months ahead of the company’s completion of Gigafactory Austin. A new video shared by Jeff Roberts on Sunday shows drone footage of the Gigafactory Austin site as it begins nearing completion, taken on the site’s […]

Taiwan’s Foxconn Unveils EV Concepts: Model C, Model E and Model T

Taiwan-based Hon Hai Technology group, known as Foxconn, is best known for manufacturing Apple products such as the iPhone, but now has finally unveiled its next move into the world of electric vehicles. At the company’s Hon Hai Technology Day, it detailed three unique electric vehicles (EVs), with a naming scheme that sounds out of […]

Tesla Stock Gets $950 Price Target by Jefferies; Closes at $843

Jefferies analyst Philippe Houchois raised his stock price target on Tesla from $850 to $950 per share, saying the company is uniquely positioned to handle the ongoing global semiconductor shortage than other companies, according to MarketWatch. Houchois also made the claims that concerns over Tesla’s demand in China, the world’s largest auto market, were put […]

Tesla Model 3/Y Lead Luxury Auto Insurance Registrations in China: Sept 2021

China remains an important market for Tesla, as evidenced by the company’s Shanghai Gigafactory hitting 300,000 cars produced between January and September. Tesla landed second place for both the top September OEMs and the top luxury auto vehicles, according to insurance data collected by CBIRC as shared on Friday (via @DKurac). The all-electric U.S. company […]

Iceland’s Tesla Supercharger Ring is Now Complete

While Tesla has opened a number of Superchargers in Iceland, it appears the U.S. company has officially completed its road of Supercharger stations running the perimeter of the country, ahead of another Supercharger station which is set to be built later this year. Tesla has completed the Supercharger ring lining the outside coastal areas of […]