Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

When Tesla unleashed a new 2021 Model 3 refresh, it included a new thicker steering wheel. Many suspected this new steering wheel may include a heating option, that is possibly locked away via software. Hacker @greentheonly, well-known for leaking Tesla details from software code, noted back in October there would be a heated steering wheel […]

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk personally accepted the 2020 Axel Springer Award today in Berlin, Germany. Musk chatted with Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner about a variety of topics, including mentioning how he believes full autonomy would be released for Tesla customers next year. But one of the funniest exchanges in the conversation was […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk personally accepted the 2020 Axel Springer Award today in Germany, and sat down to chat with Axel Springer CEO CEO Mathias Döpfner. One of the questions posed for Musk was regarding when Tesla would be able to release full-self driving vehicles. Musk answered to say he was “extremely confident of achieving […]

According to Reuters, South Korea’s LG Chem, battery supplier for Tesla, will double its production capacity in China in 2021 to meet increased demand for electric vehicles from Elon Musk’s company. The report says LG Chem will “also ship its increased output from China as well as Korea to Tesla’s factories in Germany and the […]

The S&P Dow Jones Indices announced this afternoon Tesla will be added to the S&P 500 “at its full float-adjusted market capitalization weight effective prior to the open of trading on Monday, December 21, 2020.” Back on November 16, it was announced Tesla would be joining the S&P 500. A consultation started to receive feedback to […]

Tesla has launched a new webpage highlighting Commercial Charging for apartments and other businesses. According to Tesla, its Commercial Charging offering will allow apartment owners to “modernize your amenities”, as residents can wake up to fully charged vehicles, while “Property managers will soon be able to seamlessly collect payment for energy consumed.” A Tesla Wall […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2020.48.5 software update to its fleet, according to @Teslascope. We noticed a new Tesla software update 2020.48.5 on a Model Y AWD LR (2020) in West Virginia, United States. View the rollout of this update here: https://t.co/K6riSW4mbn — Teslascope (@teslascope) December 1, 2020 Just ahead of this release, hacker […]

SpaceX recently expanded its Starlink beta invites to Canada, allowing Canadians to also test the satellite internet, which costs $649 CAD for the dish and $129 CAD per month for the service with unlimited data. To better track where these Starlink internet beta invites are being set out, @MFrunker created a map of points across […]

Last night, Tesla released its 2020.44.15.4 software update for Full Self-Driving beta testers. As expected, testers were quick to test this latest beta software and have again shared videos online. The release notes don’t include any major changes, so this update is for bug fixes and ongoing improvements to FSD. 2020.44.15.4 releases notes can be […]

Tesla has shared a new and updated North America Model 3 manual, with a publish date of October 29, 2020. This new manual is found for those running the 2020.44 update released earlier this month, as spotted by Reddit user ‘matt687’. Features from the latest 2021 Model 3 refresh are not included in the manual, […]

Shares of Tesla touched yet another all-time high, reaching $607.80 per share at open on Monday, hitting a milestone of surpassing $600 per share. The stock then proceeded to dip and currently sits at $581 per share as of writing, down just under a percent for the day. #Tesla just hit 600 Dollar, now worth […]

Tesla can now officially sell its Model Y SUV made in Shanghai, as the Chinese government has given approval to the American automaker to proceed, reports Reuters. Tesla applied for approval to sell Shanghai-made Model Y vehicles earlier in November and on Monday, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) published the approval on […]

Tesla has just pushed out its 2020.44.15.4 Full Self-Driving beta update to testers. This release comes just four days after 2020.44.15.3 was released for FSD beta testers. As for what’s new in this Tesla 2020.44.15.4 software update? According to @brandonee916, the release notes “appear identical to previous”, meaning it is just for bug fixes and […]

Tesla launched an Easter egg back in April 2016, aptly dubbed ‘rainbow road’, paying tribute to the famed course in Nintendo’s Mario Kart. To enable the rainbow road Easter egg, all you need to do is activate Autopilot four times in a row. As CEO Elon Musk put it at the time, “Activate autopilot 4X […]

Tesla’s Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai continues its construction for its Model Y factory, as seen in a 4K drone update filmed by Jason Yang. What makes this video shot on November 26, 2020 interesting, is the fact again see Tesla testing its Model Y at the site, explains Yang. “I have seen Tesla Model Y […]