Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

SpaceX Has Launched 240 Starlink Satellites into Orbit in a Single Month

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit on early Wednesday morning, part of the Starlink-22 mission. The launch took place at Space Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The company’s B1060 Falcon 9 booster completed its sixth launch and landing, with the latter aboard the autonomous drone ship Of Course I Still […]

Tesla Now Lets You Purchase a Car with Bitcoin

You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin, according to a change on the company’s website on Wednesday evening. Back in February, Tesla disclosed it made a $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and mentioned it would soon accept the cryptocurrency as payment in the “near future”. Fast forward just over a month and Bitcoin payment on […]

Tesla Increases Price of Model Y in China by Just Over $1,200 USD

Tesla has increased the price of the Model Y in China, raising the price by CNY 8,000 ($1,226 USD). The announcement was made by Tesla China’s Global Vice President Grace Tao on Weibo on Wednesday afternoon in the country local time (via @42how_). According to Tao, she said (via Google Translate), “The price of Model […]

Consumer Reports Says Tesla’s In-Car Cameras Prompt ‘Privacy Concerns’

Viewing Angle of the Model 3 In-Cabin Camera According to Consumer Reports, it believes Tesla in-car cameras raise privacy concerns, just like the Chinese military, it seems. Consumer Reports references Tesla noting it reviews some footage recorded from in-car cameras, to help improve its self-driving technology, after the fact. According to Consumer Reports, this action […]

Tesla Full Self-Driving is ‘Vaporware’ Says Ford PR Manager

Ford North American Product Communications Manager, Mike Levine, got into a Twitter spat with Tesla investor Ross Gerber on Sunday morning. The resulting exchange online resulted in Levine calling Tesla’s FSD ‘vaporware’, alluding to the ongoing promise of the autonomous software’s release by Elon Musk. “Dear Ford. It serves no value to try to compare […]

Tesla 2021.4.12.5 Software Update Rolling Out: What’s New

Tesla released a new software update on late Friday and early Saturday morning, as version 2021.4.12.5 is now rolling out to the fleet. Nikola found a new Tesla software version "2021.4.12.5 20c6f86fefd2" running on a Model Y. https://t.co/19uzXC7mam — Nikola / Tesla Software Version Bot 🤖 (@TeslaVersion) March 20, 2021 According to those who have […]