Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

A new Tesla Model 3 taxi fleet has launched in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The announcement on March 1 by the Sharjah Roads and Transportation Authority (SRTA) said a fleet of 10 Tesla Model 3 sedans, part of the emirate’s green economy initiative, according to SRTA Chairman Yousef Al-Athmani. The Authority has launched 10 Tesla 3 […]

Tesla’s Investor Day teased something we’ve never seen before—wireless charging for the company’s vehicles. During the Charging segment of the presentation with Rebecca Tinucci, Senior Director of Charging Infrastructure. Near the end of her presentation, she pulled a Steve Jobs “one more thing” thing moment, showing a slide that said “Can’t Forget To Do Cool […]

Tesla started rolling out its 2023.6.1 software update on Friday, and now we have some release notes thanks to @greentheonly. According to @greentheonly, the following changes are in 2023.6.1: Apple Music: now available Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Morocco, Hong Kong Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Jordan and Israel Zoom app: now available in Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto […]

Tesla has made its 2023 Investor Day slide deck PDF available for the public to download on Friday. The company’s head of investor relations, Martin Viecha, said today, “Due to popular demand, Investor Day deck is now available on our [Investor Relations] website.” The Tesla Investor Relations website now lists a link to the Investor […]

Image: @adityasaielsh A Tesla follower j.aditya (@adityasaielsh) shared some new pictures of videos today of the company’s latest Cybertruck production beta, identified by its latest triangular mirror design. We also get another look at the rear tonneau cover closing on the Cybertruck. You can’t really see from the rear bed into the vehicle it seems: […]

During a presentation of Tesla’s energy business by Drew Baglino yesterday at the company’s Investor Day, a new charging offer was teased and set to launch this summer. Baglino, the Senior Vice President of Powertrain and Energy Engineering at Tesla, detailed how the company’s Megafactory in Lathrop, California, was completed in less than 12 months. […]

As expected, Tesla has just announced its next Gigafactory and it will be in Mexico, while also showing a render of the new factory that has the outline of “TESLA” on its roof, which looks covered in solar panels. Our next Gigafactory will be in Mexico, manufacturing our next-gen vehicle pic.twitter.com/bk0IKrGtaZ — Tesla (@Tesla) March […]

Tesla today achieved a production milestone, hitting 4 million total cars built. The announcement was made by Tom Zhu, the company’s new global production chief speaking at Investor Day. Zhu said the accomplishment was made “early this morning” at Giga Texas. Tesla later shared a video of the Giga Texas team celebrating: We produced our […]

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved Tesla for a Basic International Telecommunications Services Licence (BITS) on Tuesday, as spotted by the University of Ottawa Law Professor, Michael Geist. Tesla submitted an application in September 2022 and since then, there were two interventions opposing the issuing of BITS license to the company. “These opposing […]

Tesla today revealed it has started installing its 4th-generation Supercharger posts in Europe. The news was announced at its Investor Day and was made by Rebecca Tinucci, Head of Global Charging Infrastructure at Tesla. After reiterating the Magic Dock debuting at 10 U.S. Superchargers yesterday, Tinucci detailed the company’s next-generation Superchargers. “We’re also just started […]

During Tesla’s 2023 Investor Day, the company shared some details about its next gen vehicle and manufacturing. But we also learned some stats about Full Self-Driving beta. According to Tesla, FSD beta offers “higher safety”. For the first time, we are learning about collision data with FSD beta. Tesla vehicles using FSD beta saw 1 […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the company’s Master Plan 3 by detailing what it will take to convert Earth to sustainable energy generation and use. The plan will result in repowering the existing grid with renewables, switching to electric vehicles, switching over to heat pumps for homes, businesses and industry, plus electrifying high temperature […]

Image: Rob Maurer Ahead of Tesla’s Investor Day set to kick off in about 2.5 hours, attendees have arrived at Giga Texas for the event. On site are Quicksilver and Midnight Cherry Red Tesla Model Y vehicles parked out front, while inside we see the latest production beta Cybertruck. Rob Maurer from the Tesla Podcast […]

On Tuesday afternoon Tesla opened up selected Superchargers in the U.S. to non-Tesla vehicles for the first time, allowing other electric vehicles to use their chargers. Select Superchargers retrofitted with a Magic Dock allows non-Tesla EVs to charge with CCS, and now we’re already seeing early adopters try out their vehicles at Superchargers. David Conner […]

Earlier this month, Tesla and the White House announced the electric automaker’s Supercharger network would soon open at select sites to non-Tesla vehicles. Today, the non-Tesla Supercharging pilot has gone live in the United States, allowing other EVs to charge their vehicles with a CCS adapter. Last week, Tesla started retrofitting numerous Superchargers with a […]