Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Interbrand has released its 2021 Best Global Brands report, detailing the top brands worldwide, including Tesla. Elon Musk’s automaker saw the biggest leap in brand rankings, seeing its value increase by a 26-point rise to 14th spot, placing it behind Louis Vuitton and ahead of Facebook, in a 184% jump. “Tesla’s meteoric rise was achieved […]

Tesla started rolling out its 2021.36.5.5 software update tonight for numerous owners (including those in Australia), as noted by services @Teslafi and also @Teslascope. Software version 2021.36.5.5 was just detected on a Tesla Model 3 Performance in California United States on https://t.co/uh4cmhSoAQ. Follow the release at https://t.co/w2jbOhlIQb — TeslaFi (@teslafi) October 25, 2021 As for […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed Hertz paid full price for its massive 100,000 Model 3 fleet, with no discounts. Responding to a tweet earlier on Monday evening, Musk said, “to be clear, cars sold to Hertz have no discount. Same price as to consumers.” To be clear, cars sold to Hertz have no discount. […]

Hertz announced on Monday it would start electrifying its rental fleet by ordering 100,000 Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles, set to be delivered by the end of 2022. The deal is said to be worth about $4.2 billion dollars, according to Bloomberg. As for how existing Tesla owners can rent Hertz vehicles? The company’s website […]

Earlier on Monday morning, shares of Tesla opened to new all-time highs, and eventually the company’s market cap touched $1 trillion for the first time ever, when shares reached a historic $998.74. Tesla joined Apple, Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Alphabet and Amazon as the only companies to reach a $1 trillion market share. Breaking: Tesla is […]

Shares of Tesla reached a new all-time high on Monday morning, reaching $972 per share. The company’s market cap neared a $1 trillion market cap, and currently stands at $973 billion as of writing. Earlier on Monday, news of Hertz’s order of 100,000 Tesla vehicles for its rental fleet boosted Tesla, along with Morgan Stanley’s […]

Florida-based Hertz announced on Monday it will be investing in the largest electric vehicle rental fleet in North America, which includes an initial order of 100,000 Tesla vehicles by the end of 2022, to go with new EV charging infrastructure worldwide. “Electric vehicles are now mainstream, and we’ve only just begun to see rising global […]

Tesla has released its 2021.36.5.3 software update, bringing with it Full Self-Driving beta 10.3. The release comes less than 24 hours after Tesla removed FSD beta 10.3 due to bugs related to Autopilot. Tesla then reverted all FSD beta testers to a production build, which removed FSD beta altogether in a temporary move. Tesla CEO […]

Tesla has removed its FSD 10.3 beta update, due to issues related to Autopilot being disabled and more with the test software. The FSD beta 10.3 update was released less than 24 hours ago. “Seeing some issues with 10.3, so rolling back to 10.2 temporarily,” said Musk on Sunday. “Please note, this is to be […]

YouTube channel Dave Lee on Investing has landed an exclusive interview with Leo Koguan, Tesla’s third-largest individual shareholder. Koguan says he’s trying to create a $100 billion endowment to give away his fortune to charity. “All my money in the end will go to charity,” says Koguan, who says he believes Tesla is going to […]

Tesla has released its 2021.36.5.2 software update on late Saturday evening PDT (early morning EDT), which brings Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.3, as promised by CEO Elon Musk earlier today. We noticed a new Tesla software update 2021.36.5.2 on a Model 3 AWD LR (2020) in California, United States. View the rollout of this update […]

Tesla has increased its prices in the USA and Canada across its line up, with changes made on Friday night. We saw the Model Y increase in price by $4,000 CAD (a total of $5,000 CAD in increases in one month alone), but there are also price increases to Model S and Model X as […]

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.3 release date won’t be coming until Sunday, says CEO Elon Musk, citing a delay. “Regression in some left turns at traffic lights found by internal QA in 10.3. Fix in work, probably releasing tomorrow,” said Musk on early Saturday morning. Regression in some left turns at traffic lights found […]

Tesla has updated its Android mobile app to debut widgets, to let owners quickly view vehicle status such as charge status, Sentry Mode and lock/unlock status. The Tesla app update is version 4.2.0-693 in Google Play. The release notes also detail the following: Solar and Powerwall supports Tesla-maintained utility rate plans. Utility rate plans now […]

It’s been a historic day for Tesla shares, as they not only reached all-time highs of $910, but closed the day at $909.68 per share, the first time the company’s stock has closed above $900. As it stands, Tesla closed up 1.75% for the day and its market cap now stands at $900.6 billion. The […]