Stories by Peter McGuthrie

While the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) puts in place range estimates for every electric vehicle (EV), these numbers are not always precise. This results in range anxiety for EV owners when they aren’t certain that their cars will drive as far as they claim to. After Tesla disputed a claim from a February report that […]

SpaceX has been periodically launching new Starlink satellites into orbit with its Falcon 9 rocket booster, and debris from a recent launch left Oregon residents and others in the Pacific Northwest completely blown away. In a video uploaded Thursday by YouTube channel Andy’s Auto Care Plus, a dazzling display of lights is seen above an […]

Despite recent production delays to the Tesla Semi, the all-electric cargo truck is still on track to deliver this year, and one company has already shared details on its deliveries of the electric vehicle (EV). In a press release Thursday, PepsiCo announced that it’s reducing its greenhouse gases in half, a move made possible by […]

Demand for solar roofing is at an all-time high right now, with Tesla and other companies racing to keep up with new solar orders across North America. Canadian manufacturer Mitrex, based in Etobicoke, Ontario, has announced entry into the solar roofing market with a new solar roof that mimics the aesthetic of the traditional shingle […]

Earlier this year, Tesla began taking Model 3 orders from customers in Israel. Now, many of those orders are set for delivery, according to new reports. Tesla follower Sawyer Merritt reported Wednesday approximately 238 Tesla Model 3s have arrived in Israel and are set for delivery by the end of the month. While the first […]

Following the Trump administration’s removal of high emissions penalties put in place by the Obama administration, Tesla is calling on a U.S. appeals court to reinstate the regulation, which would more than double penalties for auto manufacturers failing to meet fuel efficiency requirements, according to Reuters. On January 14, before President Joe Biden took office, […]

Chinese automaker and Tesla rival NIO has seen all-time highs this year (but not at the moment!) with the release of its ET7 flagship sedan, and the battery swapping electric vehicle (EV) company has now reached another major milestone in 2021. On Thursday, @driving_china reported that NIO had reached 2 million battery swaps, marking an […]

Direct auto sales bills have been popular in the last few years with the rise of Tesla, an electric car company that doesn’t have franchised dealerships, such as in Connecticut. On Wednesday, the General Assembly’s Transportation Committee passed Senate Bill 127, a bill that effectively allows direct sales from auto companies to customers in Connecticut […]

In an electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure deployment update from Natural Resources Canada, the federal government in Canada has announced plans and funding efforts to install 129 new Tesla Supercharger stalls across British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan (via @MontrealTesla). The new Tesla Superchargers, as listed on Canada’s website, are shared below, revealing locations not seen before. […]

Talks of the Tesla Semi are heating up, with more sightings in the wild coming up in recent months than ever before. However, there is still more work to be done for the electric semi-truck to reach Australia. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla’s first-generation Semi will be delayed in Australia due to a law […]

Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy has been working on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) platform for several years now, and in a new Robot Brains Podcast with Pieter Abbeel, Karpathy details his path to working with artificial intelligence, how Tesla’s FSD is going, what it’s like to work with CEO Elon Musk, comparisons between Waymo and […]

On Tuesday, Twitter user @sumitgrrg summarized Elon Musk’s 2013 handshake deal with Google to acquire Tesla, which was struggling to survive at the time. If you haven’t heard of this story, it’s one for the ages as part of Tesla’s evolution into a dominant electric automaker. Dealing with tons of bugs, and an inability to […]

Tesla’s newly-refreshed 2021 Model S began delivering to customers over the past few weeks, even after the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHTSA) expressed safety concerns over the electric vehicle’s (EV’s) yoke-style steering wheel. On Wednesday, a Reddit user shared photos of the new 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid with the yoke-style steering wheel to […]

Occasionally, Teslas have been known to have accidents while on Autopilot. However, despite the scrutiny Tesla’s Autopilot systems have undergone in recent months, the electric vehicles (EVs) are still considered safer than if they weren’t engaged, according to the company itself and other data. A new report from Loup Ventures echoes the past claim that […]

Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai has been hard at work since its completion last year, even expanding to include a new Supercharger factory earlier this year. Internal sources discovered that Tesla is likely buying a 460,000 square-meter plot of land to the south of Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai, according to Tesmanian. The land, as sold by the city […]