Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Tesla’s Model Y has just made history in Norway, becoming the new single-year car sales record in the nation. The record held since 1969 was by the iconic Volkswagen Beetle and its 16,699 vehicles sold in one year, but the Model Y just eclipsed that with 16,701 sold, according to data tracked by Norwegian Road. […]

After adding a $3,750 discount to Model 3 and Model Y deliveries in the U.S. until the end of December, Tesla has now doubled this amount to $7,500. According to a screenshot from Tesla received by WaitingforTesla.com and shared with Tesla North, the electric automaker says there’s now a $7,500 price adjustment until December 31, […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2022 holiday software update to Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta users, with software version 2022.44.25.5 bringing FSD beta 10.69.25. FSD V11 is not included in this update. FSD beta testers started receiving this update earlier on Monday evening, according to @TeslaFi. Software version 2022.44.25.5 was just detected as Downloading on […]

Tesla started rolling out its 2022 holiday software update to more vehicles today, and the Tesla North fleet received the highly-anticipated update. This update includes goodies such as Apple Music support and also MyQ Connected Garage. Here’s how to set up MyQ Connected Garage in your Tesla—it was very straightforward. The first step is to […]

Tesla has shared a new campaign on its Engage website, this time asking customers to “thank the Governor and the CPUC for keeping California a leader in clean energy!”. The electric automaker says, “we’d like to share with you some good news for the future of clean energy in California and ask you to take […]

Earlier this week Tesla announced its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, had ramped up to 3,000 Model Y cars made in one week. Now just days later, Tesla says its Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, has achieved the same. Tesla said on Saturday, “Congrats to the Giga Berlin team on building 3k Model Y this week!”, while […]

Ford Motor has increased the price of its F-150 Lightning Pro electric truck, now from $55,974 USD, a nearly 8% increase. According to a Ford spokesperson in a statement to CNBC, the price hike was related to higher raw material costs for the electric truck. The F-150 Lightning Pro’s starting price increased $4,000 USD for […]

Tesla is rolling out an update for its iOS and Android app to bring new features to its Charge Stats, with the addition of one year of charging history and savings. The 4.16 update is now available for iPhone users, with the Android update to follow. The Charge Stats page now shows a tab for […]

We’ve been sharing news about Tesla’s Model S and Model X Plaid launching Europe, but now the automaker has officially shared a video detailing the debut. On Thursday, Tesla shared a video saying, “Deliveries of the new Model S and Model X have started in Europe.” The video shows customers reacting to the acceleration of […]

Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, hit a milestone today as it reached 3,000 Model Y builds per week. That milestone means Tesla’s Giga Texas factory is on pace to produce over 150,000 Model Y vehicles annually. A picture of employees surrounding a Midnight Silver Metallic Model Y and also celebratory balloons “3K” was shared by […]

SpaceX has reached a milestone with its Starlink satellite internet constellation, now hitting 3,000 satellites in operational orbit, according to astronomer Jonathan McDowell’s tracking page (via @VirtuallyNathan). There are now 3,230 “working” satellites out of 3,267. The tracking page shows SpaceX has launched a total of 3,558 Starlink satellites to date. Starlink’s low-Earth orbit satellite constellation […]

This morning we reported on Tesla offering 10,000 km of free Supercharging for those in Europe, to incentivize December deliveries. Now, Tesla North can confirm the automaker is offering up the same promo for the United States. A text message from Tesla was sent to prospective customers today, urging them to take delivery from now […]

Tesla has launched Tesla Electric in Texas, a retail electricity offering for retail Powerwall customers. Tesla Electric is an “electric plan designed for Powerwall,” says the company. It offers real-time pricing for Solar and Powerwall exports. According to Alex Guichet from Tesla’s Mobile App Product team, he says “It’s a pretty competitive rate offer. It […]

Just when Tesla investors thought CEO Elon Musk was done selling shares, he caught them off guard again. In filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed on Wednesday, Musk sold about 22 million shares worth $3.58 billion. The share sales took place sometime between Monday and Wednesday of this week. It’s unclear what […]

Tesla’s 2022 holiday software update brings MyQ integration for the first time, allowing owners of vehicles to seamlessly integrate their compatible garage door openers from Chamberlain’s MyQ lineup. The integration allows a Tesla owner to open and close their garage from their car’s display, plus check the open/close status. A geofence feature will also automatically […]