Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

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 […]

Rivian announced its 2022 Q4 earnings after the bell on Tuesday, and they’re short of expectations. As a result, the company’s stock is down 8% in after-hours trading. The electric automaker announced it produced 24,337 EVs in 2022, below its guidance of 25,000, while only 20,332 of these cars were delivered last year. In Q4, […]

Back in September, Tesla launched CCS Combo 1 Adapters for purchase, while also said retrofits for vehicles that require hardware upgrades will be coming in 2023. Fast forward to February 2023, and Tesla customers can now place orders for a CCS Combo 1 Adapter Retrofit—that is if you have a Model S or Model X. […]

SpaceX today launched its first batch of Starlink ‘V2 Mini’ satellites into low-Earth orbit, the next generation of its internet satellites, that offer 400% more capacity than previous iterations of its Starlinks. At 6:13 p.m. ET (23:13 UTC), Falcon 9 launched 21 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has regained the title of the world’s richest man, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which tracks the daily ranking of the globe’s richest people, based on the stock prices of their companies. With Tesla stock rebounding from an ugly 2022 and has surged 24.58% in the past month, and 92% […]

Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, hit another milestone yesterday as part of its plans to ramp up production of the company’s Model Y compact crossover. The Tesla Europe Twitter account announced on Sunday evening, “[4,000] Model Y built at Giga Berlin this week. Congrats to the Tesla team!”. A picture was shared of the factory […]

Earlier this month, Tesla launched a voluntary ‘recall’ to ease Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta concerns by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Tesla will issue a software update to address some FSD beta issues that might be unsafe, affecting 362,758 cars consisting of Model S/X and Model 3/Y. Since then, Tesla recently added a […]

SpaceX on Sunday showed a glimpse at its new ‘V2 Mini’ Starlink satellites, which the company calls a “step forward” in capability for the low-Earth orbit satellite internet. “We call them “V2 Mini”. They represent a step forward in Starlink capability,” said SpaceX, showing two photos today. “V2 minis include key technologies—such as more powerful […]

Canada’s largest pension plan has trimmed its investment in Apple, while also picking up more shares of Tesla plus Chinese electric vehicle makers NIO and Li Auto, in Q4. The Canada Pension Plan manages the largest pension plan for Canadians and an SEC disclosure detailed recent stock trades for the fund that has total assets […]

Back in September 2021, Tesla ended its popular referral program “until further notice”, but then relaunched a new program in China in October 2022, then expanding the latter to the U.S. one month later. Now, the new referral program has launched in Australia, according to techAU. The new program, instead of just offering free Supercharging […]

Image credit: @MayTheFunkoBWY Tesla and the White House recently announced it would be opening up its Supercharger network to non-Tesla vehicles, for the very first time, at select locations. The move was part of a planned expansion of EV charging options along major highways being pushed by the Biden administration. Now, we’re seeing what looks […]

Earlier on Wednesday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and California Governor Gavin Newsom jointly announced the automaker’s new global engineering headquarters, located in Palo Alto. Tonight, Musk kicked off a grand opening party at the new global engineering headquarters, the original site owned by computer company Hewlett Packard. “Welcome to the grand opening of Tesla engineering […]

Tesla and California have just announced that Elon Musk’s automaker has announced a new worldwide engineering headquarters in the state. “There’s a lot to be excited about,” said Governor Gavin Newsom, standing alongside Tesla CEO Elon Musk during the announcement. Tesla is taking over office space in Palo Alto previously occupied by Hewlett Packard. Tesla […]

Hyundai released 2023 IONIQ 6 pricing for the U.S. today, with the electric vehicle starting from $41,600 USD for its SE Standard Range trim, set to launch this summer. The vehicle looks to rival the Tesla Model 3. There are 7 total trims for the 2023 IONIQ 6, with Hyundai saying dealerships will get most […]

We’re not sure how The Kilowatts do it but they always seem to be in the right place at the right time, and now they have come across the latest Model S and Model X builds from Tesla’s Fremont Factory, that contains new upgrades. The most interesting discovery by The Kilowatts was new Autopilot cameras […]