Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

In a move many suspected might happen, Tesla has announced today a 5-to-1 stock split, as approved by its Board of Directors. According to the company’s afternoon press release: Tesla announced today that the Board of Directors has approved and declared a five-for-one split of Tesla’s common stock in the form of a stock dividend...

After releasing a teaser earlier this week, electric vehicle company Lucid Motors has announced its Lucid Air will be able to go 517 miles (832 km) on a single charge, based on estimated EPA range. "Raising the bar with 517 miles on a single charge. It’s the new EV benchmark for estimated EPA range—and the...

Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, continues to progress at a steady pace, according to the latest construction update from August 9, 2020. https://youtu.be/_N4d2_sYprc Tobias Lindh has again shared a drone flyover video of the Berlin site, which shows off the high pace of roof structures at the site, as trusses are being installed. The whole...

Tesla recently opened new Superchargers in California and Colorado, as its charging stations continue to expand in the United States. The new Tesla Superchargers in Los Altos, California, are located at the Whole Foods parking lot at 4800 El Camino Real. There are 16 Urban Superchargers capable of up to 72kW max charging rates. According...

Tesla hacker ‘green’ has shared an image of what Tesla’s upcoming Autopilot visualizations will look like of the company’s own fleet of vehicles, confirming what CEO Elon Musk announced last month. “It looks like Tesla is planning (already doing?) display of (recognized) Tesla cars on autopilot cars visualization as such. Keep your eye on it?” […]

Tesla’s latest factory in Austin, Texas, continues to progress at a fast pace. This new terafactory is being documented on YouTube by Terafactory Texas, and the latest update from August 7 filmed by drone shows just how quickly things are moving. “In this video, we’re taking a look at footage of the main site from […]

For fans of the Disney Pixar animated movie, Cars, a Tesla Model 3 was spotted looking like the film’s star character, Lightning McQueen. Shared on Reddit by user ‘camel747’, the Tesla Model 3 looks like a replica of Lightning McQueen, although a glaring error is the fact the Disney movie’s star is number ’95’ and...

Earlier this morning, Tesla started rolling out its 2020.32.1 software update, introducing more features for its electric vehicle fleet. The release notes note improvements to Tesla Powerwall Coordination across all Tesla vehicles (some vehicles got this update in April 2020) in Canada, Japan, Mexico and the U.S.: During a power outage, your car will charge...

Tesla has quietly launched leases for Model 3 and Model Y in Canada, expanding the option beyond the Model S and Model X for the country. To lease a Model Y Long Range AWD (starting at $69,990 CAD) for example, Tesla is showing a monthly price of $724 per month for a customer in Canada....

SpaceX is launching Falcon 9 tonight, delivering yet another satellite payload into space, which includes 57 Starlink satellites. https://youtu.be/KU6KogxG5BE SpaceX is targeting Friday, August 7 at 1:12 a.m. EDT, 5:12 UTC, for launch of its tenth Starlink mission, which will include 57 Starlink satellites and 2 satellites from BlackSky, a Spaceflight customer. Falcon 9 will...

Tesla has launched a new petition through its Engage Tesla platform, to ask its community to lobby the Canadian government to adopt dollars per kilowatt-hour ($/kWh) as the electric vehicle charging standard. For those unaware about Engage Tesla and its mandate: Engage Tesla is a new platform for both Tesla's public policy team and Tesla...

Some Tesla Model 3 owners have long complained about an apparent design flaw when it comes to opening their car’s rear trunk in the rain, causing water to spill into the trunk and potentially soak contents within the vicinity. We’ve seen an example of this from the following video from i1Tesla on YouTube, showing how...

Back in May, Tesla Motors Club forum user ‘CanadaGoose’ stated that Tesla would be building a new Supercharger at Peterborough Landsdowne Place. According to Supercharge, this Supercharger in Ontario will have eight 250kW stalls located in the parking lot and is now open. The exact location of this Supercharger was mentioned by ‘CanadaGoose’. 645 Lansdowne […]

Tesla shared a new promo spot today from its Twitter account, titled “Looking up in Model Y”. The 39-second clip shows the company’s newest Model Y compact SUV driving, but from the point of view of someone sitting in the rear seat, showing off the expansive panoramic glass roof in the vehicle. https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/1291176823557099520 Check out...

Tobias Lindh has shared another construction update of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, showing more progress at the site. https://youtu.be/3r7H-bMKdls This latest video is a timelapse of construction from August 5, 2020, filmed in the air by drone. According to Lindh, the building to house production of drive units looks to be taking shape, with...