Tesla

Dan O’Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software and the founder of The Dawn Project, today shared a Super Bowl ad demonstrating alleged “critical safety defects” in Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Beta and said that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) “must turn off FSD until Tesla fixes all safety defects.” O’Dowd’s advertisement claims that FSD […]

Tesla’s Hardware 4.0, the much-anticipated successor to the Hardware 3.0 computing system that currently powers the Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) features in the company’s electric vehicles (EVs), was recently referenced in type approvals for the Model S and Model X in Europe. References to FSD Hardware 4.0 were originally discovered in documents Tesla filed […]

Tesla has increased the price of the Model Y in the United States, yet again. This time, the price increases affect the Model Y AWD (with 4680 cells) and Model Y Performance, with changes happening on Friday, as spotted by @Tslachan. Check out the price changes below, with increases of $500 USD: Model Y AWD: […]

Veteran investor Keith Fitz-Gerald said to CNBC that those betting against Elon Musk are comparable to those who bet against Apple co-founder Steve Jobs years ago, adding that he thinks Tesla stock could still grow as much as 44 percent from current trading prices. Fitz-Gerald said that he thinks Tesla’s stock is “just getting started,” […]

Tesla is applying to expand its Gigafactory Berlin to include rail transport and a train shuttle service, according to documents seen by German publication Moz.de dated January 13 (via @Berlinergy). The documents show Tesla’s designs for concrete to support passenger transport, using the current Deutsche Regionaleisenbahn GmbH (DRE) tracks alongside plans to build a new […]

ARK Invest CIO Cathie Wood said on Thursday that buying Tesla stock is the best way to add artificial intelligence (AI) to an investment portfolio. Tesla is a top holding in three of Wood’s funds, and she said on Thursday that she thinks the company’s stock price has the potential to surge by up to […]

Tesla continues to tweak its prices worldwide and its latest price hike comes in China. The electric automaker on Thursday evening increased the price of the Model Y rear wheel drive (RWD) by 2000 RMB, now starting at 261,900 (was 259,900), reports @Tslachan. That’s the equivalent of a $294 USD price jump. The price increase […]

A group of photos shared by @munybrr on Wednesday shows one of Frito-Lay’s Tesla Semi trucks in downtown Phoenix ahead of this Sunday’s Super Bowl. The user also said he was told that the Semi would be parked in downtown all weekend near other activities. The photos show the Semi parked near an outdoor event […]

After a fatal accident in Spring, Texas involving a Tesla Model S garnered widespread attention and a probe from federal vehicle safety regulators claiming that Autopilot had been engaged, results from the study showed no signs of the driver assistance system’s use. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) completed an investigation into the 2021 accident […]

Tesla’s Master Plan 3 is set to be unveiled at the automaker’s upcoming Investor Day event on March 1, according to a statement from CEO @Elon Musk on Tuesday. Musk called the plan “the path to a fully sustainable energy future for Earth,” adding “The future is bright,” in the tweet. Last year, Musk said […]

The President of Mexico says two locations may be in the running for Tesla’s upcoming factory. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said that Tesla is considering plants in either Nuevo Leon or Hidalgo in a statement on Wednesday, according to Reuters. Although Tesla hasn’t commented, President Lopez Obrador called both Mexican states potential options […]

Canada’s National Police Force, the RCMP, is debuting its first all-electric patrol cruiser in Langford, British Columbia. West Shore RCMP unveiled its first Tesla Model Y on Tuesday, set to be used on southern Vancouver Island, according to CTV News. The Model Y is expected to help reduce emissions and decrease maintenance costs compared to […]

The California New Car Dealers Association released a new auto outlook report for the fourth quarter of 2022, noting that the quarter was a “bright spot” amidst a year otherwise plagued with supply chain issues, as detailed in a press release on Tuesday. The report noted that supply chain problems and vehicle production cutbacks remained […]

Tesla detailed new results from a study on the economic impact it has had in Canada, noting that it has come a long way since it first delivered the Model S in 2011 and opened its first store in Toronto in 2012. According to the email received by Tesla North on Monday, the commissioned EnviroEconomics […]

Hertz has less than half of the Tesla vehicles in its fleet it planned to have by the end of 2022, according to a filing on Tuesday detailed by Bloomberg. In the filing, Hertz said its rental fleet had 428,700 vehicles last year, with 11 percent of those being Teslas. This equates to under 50,000 […]