Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

If you’re looking for one of the best Tesla Model Y delivery checklists, the following from ‘polymorphic’ from GitHub is one of the most comprehensive we’ve seen. The checklist is crowdsourced from tips shared by Tesla Model Y owners from Reddit. It also includes tips and suggestions prior to delivery, during and after. Click here […]

YouTube channel ‘Gabeincal’ has again shown some impressive drone footage over Tesla’s Fremont factory in California. This time around, according to Gabeincal, the highly-anticipated ‘yoke’ steering wheel was spotted inside a Model S refresh, aboard a car transport, suggesting deliveries may be imminent. You can see from the screenshot below the ‘yoke’ steering wheel is […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been very active on Twitter on Saturday, detailing the roll out of Full Self-Driving beta and now answering a question related to the company’s upcoming Cybertruck. When asked by Gary Black about Cybertruck updates, Musk said, “Update probably in Q2. Cybertruck will be built at Giga Texas, so focus right […]

Tesla CEO has been providing more updates for the expansion of the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta on Saturday afternoon. Earlier, Musk said there were “high levels” of demand for FSD beta and coming soon would be a “download beta” button in roughly 10 days. “Availability varies by region due to regulatory approval delays and/or […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared on Saturday afternoon the company is seeing “high levels” of demand for its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta sign ups, following yesterday’s invite for people to contact the company to register for the beta. Earlier today, Tesla outlined how to sign up to be a FSD beta tester, by emailing […]

On Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced the company was doubling its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta program, while planning to grow it possibly by ten-fold in the next 8.3 update. Musk asked Tesla owners to contact the company if they wanted to become a FSD beta tester, but did not clarify how to do so. […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday the company plans to expand its Full Self-Driving beta program, starting with the current version 8.2, released earlier this week. “If you want the Tesla Full Self-Driving Beta downloaded to your car, let us know. Doubling beta program size now with 8.2 & probably 10X size with 8.3. […]

Tesla on Friday launched a new engagement hub called Engage Tesla, to let owners “take actions on behalf of Tesla and the movement for cleaner energy.” The new social platform allows owners to get directly involved with Tesla’s political actions, whether it’s for drawing attention to disaster relief, learning about official club events or pushing […]

YouTube channel The Kilowatts recently picked up a new Ford Mustang Mach-E Extended Range All-Wheel Drive and have now put the new electric crossover to the test, in a drag race versus Tesla’s Model Y Dual Motor with Acceleration Boost upgrade. Check out the video below: The Mach-E Extended Range All-Wheel Drive has a range of […]

Tesla has started emailing Model S and Model X owners about reimbursing 8GB eMMC repair costs, according to @Model3Owners. 🚨 BREAKING: if you paid out of pocket for the eMMC repair you can submit to be reimbursed for the repair. This is *not* the MCU 2 upgrade rumor going around. I got this email for […]

Tesla is planning to open up a new Service Center and Showroom in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The location is at 2919 29th Street SE, according to Reddit user u/MichiganGeek. According to an image shared of the site, we can see Tesla signage up. Others spotted this location with signage up earlier this week as well, […]

Image via TMC Forum User ‘Richteer’ There are some Tesla Supercharger updates for Canadians living in British Columbia, Canada. The Tesla Supercharger in West Kelowna in the Okanagan has opened, according to @MontrealTesla, with the location showing as open on some owners’ car maps. The West Kelowna Supercharger has 8 V3 stalls with charging speeds […]

SpaceX launched 60 more Starlink satellites into space on early Thursday morning, from Kennedy Space Center at 3:24am EST. The launch comes after a previous bid to send its reusable Falcon 9 rocket into space was scrubbed with under two minutes to spare, earlier this week. Falcon 9 successfully returned to Earth and landed on […]

On Wednesday evening, Tesla released a new software update for its Full Self-Driving beta testers. Software update 2021.4.11.1, also known as FSD beta 8.2, has impressed early testers so far. New Tesla FSD Beta updating pic.twitter.com/cN0a4prKhs — vincentyu.eth (@vincent13031925) March 4, 2021 Wow!!!!!!! Awesome! Editing videos 🤯🤯🤯@elonmusk #FSDBeta 8.2 is amazing! — James Locke (@arctechinc) […]

Santa Monica’s Planning Commission in California has approved the conditional use permit for Tesla’s proposed 62-stall V3 Supercharger, according to those who attended tonight’s review on the matter. As per Robert (@rrosenbl), the debate lasted three hours and in the end, the Supercharger site was passed, with a vote of 5-2. But seriously, that discussion […]