Check out all of the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up across the world this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing August 1, 2022 8 Seeweg, Hemsbach, Germany 12 250 kW Tesla August 2, 2022 The Boynton Town Center at 650 North Congress […]
Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg has been busy building car bodies, as evidenced in a recent video showing drone footage of the Grünheide site. A video shared by drone videographer and Tesla enthusiast Tobias Lindh on Monday shows Giga castings everywhere at the factory. In the video’s description, Lindh writes, “There are a lot of castings all […]
After what seemed to be some of the first Tesla Model Y deliveries in Australia, more people have received the country’s first deliveries as officially announced by the automaker. Tesla announced the first customer deliveries of the Model Y in Australia, as shown in a series of photos shared on the automaker’s Instagram on Monday. […]
New financing options are available for select German buyers of Tesla’s Model Y Performance, as detailed in an email shared on Sunday. Tesla is emailing some customers in Germany with a promotion offering new financing deals for the automaker’s Model Y Performance (via @Tesla_adri). In the emails, Tesla offers financing at 475 euros per month […]
Another Tesla deal has been announced for minerals necessary in the automaker’s electric vehicle (EVs) battery packs, this time coming from Indonesia. Tesla has signed a contract for a $5 billion nickel processing deal for multiple products in Indonesia, as detailed by a senior cabinet member from the country, reports Reuters. In an interview with […]
Tesla has launched a new “Ownership Loyalty Program” in China that offers existing customers a 50% discount on the company’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) upgrade, among other things (via Not a Tesla App). FSD is an optional add-on comprising a suite of advanced driver assistance features. It costs $12,000 USD in the U.S. and 64,000 Yuan […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk in a Friday tweet challenged Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal to a “public debate” about the platform’s claimed bot account percentage. The electric vehicle mogul invited Agrawal to “prove to the public that Twitter has <5% fake or spam daily users” as the company claims in its SEC filings. I […]
The Teesside Built-up Area (BUA) in the United Kingdom wants Tesla to build a new Gigafactory in the North East of England — reports Yahoo Finance. “In the UK, where we have an £82bn automobile industry which leads the world in production of high end vehicles, it would surely make sense for Tesla to develop […]
According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the next version of Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta, is set to come on August 20, 2022. That’s according to Musk’s early Sunday morning tweet. FSD beta 10.13 will be released as version 10.69, as stated by Musk at the company’s annual shareholder meeting held last week. The new FSD […]
Tesla owners can now beat the heat while charging their cars, at least at one German Supercharger. Earlier this week, the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer installed a pool at a Supercharging location in Hilden, Germany. Tesla Welt Podcast on YouTube recently shared a detailed look at the pool, along with an interview with the charging […]
California’s Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has alleged that the marketing around Tesla’s advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD), is deceptive — reports CNBC. Autopilot is a suite of driver assistance technologies that come standard on all of Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs). FSD, meanwhile, is a set of advanced driver assistance features […]
Tesla may be lobbying the Canadian government to make Ontario the home of its next Gigafactory, according to recently filed lobbyist registry documents — reports Electric Autonomy Canada. The electric vehicle (EV) maker is seeking to convince Canada to adopt policy reforms that would make Ontario more hospitable to an “advanced manufacturing facility,” which is […]
Tesla announced the date its 3-for-1 stock split will begin: Thursday, August 25, 2022. Company shareholders approved Tesla’s proposal for a 3-for-1 stock split at the company’s annual meeting of shareholders on Thursday. On Friday afternoon, Tesla announced the following: Tesla, Inc. (“Tesla”) announced today that the Board of Directors has approved and declared a […]
A new series of attacks on Tesla owners has been gaining steam in Iowa, with other drivers showing outright animosity toward owners of the electric vehicles (EVs). Tesla owners in Iowa are being aggressively targeted by other drivers, often being yelled at, cut off in traffic or blocked from using Superchargers, according to Axios. One […]
Image via @WholeMarsBlog Tesla CEO Elon Musk dropped a few brief notes about the upcoming Cybertruck, including the fact that it won’t be the same price as when it was first announced back in 2019. The Cybertruck will be more expensive than when its pricing was originally launched in 2019, according to statements from Elon […]
