Stories by Peter McGuthrie

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to the camera – or dare we say, the microphone. With a number of public appearances on recent podcasts and the like, the billionaire entrepreneur is not shy in sharing his opinions, ideas, and future developments with the world. Musk is set to appear on the […]

With recent predictions stating that Tesla’s Texas Gigafactory will almost double its previously-estimated amount of jobs, providing up to 15,000. In a new video uploaded by automotive YouTube channel host Joe Tegtmeyer, a number of exciting progress updates are shown off in a drone video of Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas. The factory, set for completion in […]

Recently, many luxury car brands seem to be taking their stands on future plans for electric vehicles (EVs), and thus their own personal plans of action for climate change, and one particular company’s plans for the future are… refreshing and ambitious, to say the least. On Wednesday, Bentley announced plans to become “end-to-end” carbon neutral […]

On Friday, Tesmanian reported that Tesla had filed a patent earlier this year, published Thursday, for an electric motor waste heat mode to heat its own battery – a major improvement on previous motor cooling and battery heating systems. [RELATED: save 10% off Tesmanian.com with coupon code TESLANORTH10] Many critics have cited that it’s difficult […]

On Thursday, The Driven reported that Tesla Model 3 customers in Australia will be refunded the difference of Tesla’s recent Model 3 base price drop, in return for delays caused by industrial chaos at the Port of Botany. Tesla recently dropped the price of its baseline Model 3 from $73,900 to $66,900, though without luxury […]

Tesla’s presence as a company is quickly becoming mainstream, and its electric vehicles (EV) are the standard in the zero-emission auto world. A decade ago in California (growing up in Fremont, no less!), one would be amazed to see a single Tesla on the road in their daily commute. Now, anywhere you go in the […]

With new Tesla showrooms, service centers, factories, and Superchargers going up around the world, Tesla customers are getting increased chances at having their Tesla’s purchased, serviced, or charged, nearer their home, and the shift couldn’t come soon enough. A new picture has surfaced of a new, in-progress Tesla showroom being built in Kitchener, Ontario, according […]

SpaceX launched a satellite with an advanced GPS system on Thursday on behalf of U.S. Space Force, as reported by Space.com. The launch took off at 6:24 pm from Space Coast in Southern Florida, using SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets. The advanced GPS device, GPS III-SV04, touched down on drone ship Of Course I Still Love […]

Tesla CEO and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is well-known for tweeting thoughts, feelings, and important updates out into the internet. But a recent tweet, calling for job applications, feels like it might be a new one. Early Thursday morning, Musk tweeted that Tesla would be conducting on-site, in-person interviews for “ace engineers,” telling interested candidates […]

The long-anticipated Tesla Model Y is one step closer to becoming available to fans of the electric vehicle (EV) company in China. Tesla has now completed its filing for the made-in-China (MIC) Model Y crossover, filed with China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The news was first reported in a tweet by Twitter user […]

The internet is ablaze with videos of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta, and the results are exciting, to say the least. In a new video released by YouTube host Brandon M, Brandon and another person use a drone view to capture themselves using Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) to drive on rural Nevada roads. The views captured […]

The government of Victoria, Australia is making a major push towards renewable energy, and as a result, the region will soon be home to the largest battery in the southern hemisphere. Now, as reported by ABC, renewable energy company Neoen will pay for a 300 megawatt Tesla battery, which will ultimately be installed at Moorabool, […]

Despite past critiques of the Tesla Semi, the progress of electric vehicle (EV) batteries has debunked some of those critiques, orders already reflecting this. And now, a new order for Tesla’s all-electric Semi has just been announced. On Wednesday, Pride Group Enterprises (PGE) announced that it would be reserving 150 Tesla electric semi-trucks, with the […]

Many critics over the past few years have stated a recurring critique of the Tesla semi, arguing that the weight of the vehicles’ batteries made them ineffective against diesel and hydrogen competitors. However, an electric vehicle (EV) expert recently debunked this idea. Senior Adviser for Electric Mobility at Eindhoven University of Technology, Auke Hoekstra, noted […]

A new web app was released Tuesday, called Optiwatt, which includes an electric vehicle (EV) charging algorithm that claims to charge your Tesla during periods of negative electricity rates, according to the developers. Optiwatt includes a web browser app, plus graph and real-time tracked data about charging habits, which are to allow Tesla owners to […]