Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Earlier today we saw a video showing Tesla’s Model S refresh being delivered with a motorized left-right tilt display. If you had doubts it was real, you can rest assured it’s legit, as Tesla has taken the wraps off a similar Model S refresh on display in Taiwan. When Tesla first announced its Model S […]

Tesla’s estimated delivery dates for its Model 3, Model S and Model X continue to slip further into 2022 and 2023, depending on configuration (via @SawyerMerritt). Check out the changes below: Model 3 RWD: Aug – Nov 2022 (was June – Aug 2022) Long Range: Jul – Oct 2022 (was June – Aug 2022) Performance: […]

Lucid Motors has shared a short video offering what it says is a rare look into its private Design Studio in Newark, California. The video features Senior Vice President of Design and Brand, Derek Jenkins, sharing the company’s vision with CEO Peter Rawlinson. The Design Studio is a building inside a building, with an open […]

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk currently has agreed to acquire social network Twitter in a $44 billion deal, taking the company private. Now, it appears Twitter could return to public ownership in a few years, according to unnamed sources speaking with the Wall Street Journal. People familiar with the matter claim Musk plans to […]

Tesla appears to have started delivering its Model S refresh with a built-in “left-right tilt” screen, as it had originally stated when it first advertised the 17-inch cinematic display. A video shared by @TeslaFrunk (an aftermarket power frunk installer) shows the left-right tilt screen in action, in a Model S refresh. The action of the […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared the latest stats on how many direct and indirect jobs the electric automaker supports. Musk said on Tuesday morning, “Tesla is now over [110,000] direct jobs and roughly [500,000] indirect, factoring in suppliers.” Tesla is now over 110k direct jobs and roughly 500k indirect, factoring in suppliers — Elon […]

Tesla announced on Monday evening the date of its 2022 annual shareholder meeting, set to take place on Thursday, August 4. The company says the shareholder meeting will take place at its headquarters in Austin at Giga Texas. “Thank you for your support of Tesla!”, said the company on Monday. It’s unclear if the company […]

Rivian announced on Monday its second U.S. plant has been approved by the State of Georgia. The electric automaker’s Georgia plant was approved and signed by all parties, which includes the Economic Development Agreement (EDA) between the Joint Development Authority (JDA) of Jasper, Morgan, Newton, and Walton counties, the State of Georgia and Rivian. “The […]

The U.S. government says it will invest over $3 billion USD to boost domestic electric vehicle battery output and for energy storage. The announcement was made on Monday to reporters in a briefing, according to Bloomberg. Dave Howell, principal deputy director in the Energy Department’s Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains, says roughly $3.16 […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2022.12.22 software update, as noted by third-party software @TeslaFi. The update was detected on a Tesla Model S 90D in Istanbul, Turkey, that previously had 2022.12.3 installed, with the latter released last month. No word on what’s new or the 2022.12.22 release notes, but stay tuned for updates. If […]

The latest Tesla mobile app update, version 4.8.0, has removed the max charge limit range indicator in the latter’s slider bar. Before, when sliding your charge limit in the mobile app to 100%, you would be able to see the max estimated range of your battery at a full charge. But after this latest app […]

SpaceX and its Falcon 9 rocket launched 53 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Friday at 2:27 PM PDT. This particular Falcon 9 rocket, B1062, successfully launched and landed for the sixth time; previous missions included GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, Inspiration4, one Starlink mission and the Ax-1 mission from […]

Tesla shared a new video on Friday, highlighting its recent Cyber Rodeo event at Giga Texas, where the company kicked off the first deliveries of its Model Y compact crossover with 4680 structural battery packs. The video below highlights the factory itself, along with the festivities at Cyber Rodeo, including its live music, factory tour, […]

Tesla is set to release its next Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta version starting next week, according to CEO Elon Musk. When asked when the next FSD beta update would be coming, Musk responded to @teslaownersSV to say, “Update probably goes to wide release next week. This is a big one.” Update probably goes to wide […]

Elon Musk was busying selling shares of Tesla earlier this week, to the tune of $4 billion worth. The transactions happened on Tuesday and Wednesday after his deal to purchase Twitter was approved. Filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday revealed Musk sold about 4.4 million shares of Tesla, worth roughly $4 billion. FINAL […]