Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

According to the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on Tuesday, it has closed an investigation into a fatal Tesla crash from August of last year, reports Reuters. A 2019 Tesla Model 3 was being driven in Saratoga, California, using the car’s Autopilot feature. The driver did a manual override and pressed the accelerator while on Autopilot. […]

Elon Musk exercised options to buy 2,107,672 shares of Tesla at $6.24 each on Monday, then proceeded to sell 934,091 of them, to pay income tax obligations on the difference in prices from the exercise price and market value, reveal Form-4 filings with the SEC. Given the low price of Tesla’s stock at $980 on […]

JPMorgan Chase & Co. has filed a lawsuit against Tesla, for the amount of $162.2 million, reports Reuters. The issue at stake? According to JPMorgan’s lawsuit filed in Federal Court in Manhattan, the investment firm alleges Tesla breached a contract related to stock warrants, after CEO Elon Musk tweeted in 2018 there was “funding secured” […]

Image via @SawyerMerritt Tesla’s Semi trailer truck was spotted charging today while carrying a load at the automaker’s Gigafactory Nevada. According to @SawyerMerritt, “a source sent me a photo today of a Tesla Semi at the Giga Nevada production building offloading a trailer. The white Semi looks to be the latest prototype design. Tesla has been […]

Last month it was rumoured Tesla was set to open a temporary service location in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. Now, it appears the address of the temporary location has been revealed. According to Kay Tee from the Tesla Owners Club Vancouver Island group on Facebook, an address showed up as 721 Pembroke Street in Victoria, […]

YouTube channel Wu Wa has shared an impressive video of Tesla vehicles in Shanghai being driven from Luchao Port, onto the ship Grand Dahlia Panama, as these vehicles get ready for export. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I72n_M-Q-64 In the video, we see Luchao Port full of hundreds of Tesla vehicles, which are driven to a loading lot on the […]

Canada’s AutoTrader has announced its 2022 automotive awards, and when it comes to green vehicles and tech innovation, Tesla didn’t make the cut. In the “Green Vehicles Under $50K CAD” category (about $40K USD), five finalists included the Hyundai Ioniq 5 (EV); Kia Soul (EV); Tesla Model 3 (EV), Toyota RAV4 Hybrid / RAV4 Prime […]

After Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners in the United States were surprised to find the lack of USB-C ports in their new vehicle deliveries, due to the ongoing chip shortage, the electric automaker confirmed they are also suffering the same problem in China. According to the South China Morning Post, Tesla confirmed to […]

Tesla Full Self-Driving beta tester and Canadian James Locke (@arctechnic) normally works and resides in Santa Clarita, California, but his latest video shows him testing FSD beta 10.4 back in Victoria on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Locke, the former President of the Vancouver Island Tesla Owners, shares a video of his Model 3 […]

Tesla has added a new feature to the Model Y, but only for vehicles made at Gigafactory Shanghai in China. The Model Y now comes with a factory cargo cover, as shown in a video shared by @EVOffer_HK. MIC Model Y now comes with OEM Cargo Cover!Car delivered in Hong Kong starting from yesterday comes […]

SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to speak at an upcoming joint meeting of the Space Studies Board and Board on Physics and Astronomy. Open virtual sessions are set to take place from November 15-18, 2021, with Musk speaking on November 17 at 6pm to 6:30pm ET, about the SpaceX Starship program. “Explore the […]

SpaceX launched 53 more Starlink satellites into orbit on Saturday, with Falcon 9 taking off at 7:13am EST from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. This was the ninth launch and landing of this particular Falcon 9 booster, onto the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. […]

General Motors announced on Friday it will launch 10 electric vehicles in South Korea by 2025, according to Steven Kiefer, the head of GM’s international operations, reports Automotive News. Despite the launch of new EVs in South Korea, GM has no plans to build cars in the Asian nation yet, said Kiefer at a media […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2021.36.5.8 software update, as noted by @Teslascope and detected in Pennsylvania in the United States. We noticed a new Tesla software update 2021.36.5.8 on a Model S Performance (2020) in Pennsylvania, United States. View the rollout of this update here: https://t.co/j8vlma3rfO — Teslascope (@teslascope) November 12, 2021 The 2020 […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has provided Canadians with an update on when Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta will release in Canada. On Thursday evening, Musk responded to the question with, “no guarantees, but maybe next month. Requires quite a lot of incremental testing & code tweaks for different road system in Canada.” No guarantees, but maybe […]