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Attorney General Jeff Landry has chimed in on a lawsuit from Tesla against Lousiana car dealers, saying that state laws prohibiting direct car sales protect the consumer (via NOLA.com). The lawsuit was filed by Tesla in the U.S. District Court in Louisiana’s Eastern District in August, claiming that direct-sales laws “effectively shut out of Louisiana […]

Electric vehicles (EVs) are on the rise in most of the U.S., with California leading the charge and Tesla pioneering a new milestone. California reached a milestone of 17.7 percent EV market share during the first three quarters of this year, with Tesla’s vehicles accounting for over half of the record-breaking figure, as Business Journals […]

After Elon Musk’s $44 billion deal to buy Twitter was re-initiated this month, the billionaire entrepreneur has stated plans to make serious job cuts upon taking over. Musk is looking to make substantial job cuts at Twitter if the deal goes through, slashing as much as 75 percent of the company’s 7,500 employees, according to […]

Tesla has launched new colors for the Model Y in Germany, debuting ‘Quicksilver’ and ‘Midnight Cherry Red’, as spotted by @MilMileBattery (via @SawyerMerritt). Quicksilver is essentially silver and it’s available for a 3,000 euro upgrade, while Midnight Cherry Red is an extra 3,200 euro for the Model Y Long Range and Performance. These new colors […]

Back in September, Tesla announced Supercharger voting would be coming soon and today the company launched its online platform for owners to do so. “Vote on Tesla’s next Supercharger site. Every 3-month voting cycle, you can cast multiple votes to help us decide on new Supercharger locations. Check the leaderboard to see which proposed locations […]

Last week, it was discovered that Tesla had started upgrading the cameras on its vehicles, specifically seen on a 2023 Model 3 without ultrasonic sensors in the front and rear bumpers. New side repeater cameras were seen, along with a slightly modified B-Pillar camera as well. Many suspect these camera upgrades are the next step […]

One of Tesla’s newest Superchargers is set to be built in Southern California and it will be one of the largest stations yet. A new Tesla Supercharger with 63 fast-charging stalls and nine regular stalls is headed to the California Grapevine, according to a permit application dated October 7, reports @MarcoRPTesla. The Supercharger application also […]

Tesla and SpaceX head Elon Musk is hardly the character today that he was a decade ago when just starting out with the two companies. A new set of interviews compiled by BBC shows the earlier landscape, in which the entrepreneur was weathering a financial crisis and pushing progress forward in two emerging industries: electric […]

Despite disappointing revenue and sales numbers from Tesla in the third quarter, the automaker’s electric SUV is climbing sales leaderboards — and surpassing some surprising model names on the way up. Although Tesla doesn’t report specific sales numbers for its different models, Bloomberg’s research arm estimates that the automaker sold roughly 200,000 Model Y units […]

Tesla is celebrating 10 years of Supercharging, as shared on the company’s Twitter on Wednesday. 10 years of Supercharging. 46 countries.35k+ stalls.20 billion miles charged. 🚘⚡️ pic.twitter.com/m3H2Hry719 — Tesla (@Tesla) October 20, 2022 In addition to the accomplishment of a decade of deploying its charging equipment, the company also noted that it has Superchargers in […]

During Tesla’s Q3 2022 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk reiterated the company is expecting to expand its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta to wide release this year in North America, in the fourth quarter. “So, this quarter, we expect to go to a wide release of full self-driving Beta in North America. So, anyone who has […]

Tesla on Wednesday afternoon started to roll out its 2022.36.5 software update and now we have release notes. The 2022.36.5 release notes can be seen below, thanks to Tesla North reader Mikhail Babaian. They are the same as 2022.36.1 released back in the first week of October: Caraoke: Model S/X Energy App: new graph and […]

On Tesla’s Q3 2022 earnings call, the automaker reiterated it is ramping up production of its Semi, an electric Class A truck that will have 500 miles of range with cargo on level ground, with the new vehicle already in early production. According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, it takes “about a year” to ramp […]

According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, on the company’s Q3 earnings call, he now sees the potential for the company to be worth more than Apple and Saudi Aramco, combined. Musk said at the beginning of the call he believes it is possible for Tesla to be worth more than Apple, but it will require […]

Tesla today announced record Q3 earnings for 2022 and the automaker continues to share more information regarding the development of its product roadmap. In Q3, Tesla said the Cybertruck has reached the ‘tooling’ stage and Semi is now in ‘early production’. The company also reiterated how its factory in Berlin, Germany, has already reached 2,000 […]