Stories by Peter McGuthrie

The Tesla Model Y launched in Australia last August, and it has been so popular with recent price cuts that its deliveries are being pushed further and further out. Tesla’s Model Y units are now showing estimated delivery dates of February to May on the company’s order configurator, as detailed in a report from The […]

Want Apple CarPlay in your Tesla? A workaround called Tesla Android has been updated to version 2023.4.1, adding Android 13, H264 hardware acceleration, support for DRM and lossless audio and USB tethering for iOS, and more, according to developer and creator @Michael Gapiński. Coder for the project Michael Gapiński shared the update with Tesla North, […]

Tesla has two brand new manufacturing facilities in the works near Giga Nevada, according to statements from Governor Joe Lombardo and the White House, and now confirmed by the automaker. Following the confirmation, Tesla shared a video on Wednesday showing CEO Elon Musk’s announcement speech about expanding operations with the $3.6 billion investment. In the […]

Ford may be talking with Chinese automaker BYD about selling its Saarlouis, Germany plant, according to sources familiar with the matter in a report from The Wall Street Journal. Officials at Ford will head to China next week to talk about the potential sale of the German plant, which is currently planning to stop producing […]

SpaceX is planning to perform a static fire test of the Super Heavy Booster’s 33 Raptor engines, after a successful “wet dress rehearsal” (WDH) of Starship 24. To do so, SpaceX is destacking Starship 24 from Booster 7 to prepare for the static fire test, both of which represent the company inching closer to launching […]

Polestar has announced an updated design for the 2024 Polestar 2, including an updated range, a high-tech front end, new motors and the addition of rear-wheel-drive on base models, according to a press release shared on Tuesday. The company says the 2024 Polestar 2 has new motors and batteries, even including a switch to rear-wheel-drive […]

Honda announced plans on Tuesday to debut a new company division to help strengthen and accelerate the electrification of its lineup. The news is just the latest in automakers looking to separate out their businesses to better focus on catching up to leaders Tesla and BYD in the emerging EV sector. The changes are set […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is currently trial for a 2018 tweet in which he claimed having “funding secured” to take the automaker private. During his testimony on Monday, Musk said on Monday that he could have sold SpaceX shares to fund a buyout, as a potential alternative to the Saudi financing to take Tesla private […]

As Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs) become more and more common in the German market, new buyers can now safely look forward to subsidy support from the government. Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control (BAFA) has added Tesla’s Model 3 and Y units to the list of EVs eligible for its full €4,500 […]

One major fan of Elon Musk has earned a long-awaited moment with the Tesla and SpaceX CEO for his own YouTube channel. Fidias Panayiotou hugged who he considered to be the world’s top 100 celebrities in a new video shared on Monday, including Musk. The video shows all 100 hugs with a number of YouTube […]

Zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs) reached a milestone of making up 18.8 percent of all new cars sold in California in December 2022, as detailed in a press release shared by the state on Friday. A total of 1,399,913 cumulative ZEVs were sold in California in 2022, marking as much as 40 percent of ZEVs sold in […]

@Alec Corum launched StockGPT on Sunday, which he describes as an AI financial search tool. This particular tool was trained on Tesla’s quarterly earnings call transcripts dating as far back as the second quarter of 2011. Corum says the tool is great for finding specific commentary on topics during a certain quarter or evaluating performance […]

As Tesla continues to expand its network of stores, service centers and delivery centers, the company is continuing to deploy new locations across the world — including a recent construction project completed in Florida. Tesla has completed a new sales, service and delivery center in St. Petersburg, Florida, as seen in a photo of the […]

Image via WSJ Following a rough year in the market for the technology sector, most investors have stopped buying the dip on most stocks, except for one–Tesla. Tesla’s stock is still being purchased at its low price, while other retail investors have largely stopped buying the dip in various tech stocks, according to The Wall […]

Tesla began offering sales of the Model Y in Australia and New Zealand last June, so far comprised only of the single-motor rear-wheel-drive variant. Now, however, Tesla has developed the first of its Model Y Performance units for the New Zealand market, with Australia soon to follow, according to a report from The Driven. The […]