Tesla

As China’s power crisis worsens amidst record heat, many charging stations for electric vehicle (EV) automakers Tesla and NIO are becoming temporarily inoperable in certain regions. Tesla and NIO have been forced to halt charging operations in two cities in the Sichuan province, due to an ongoing heatwave that’s putting pressure on the area’s grid, […]

Sandy Munro’s team has been making its way through a teardown of the Tesla Model Y 4680 battery cell structural pack while Sandy was traveling, and now Sandy’s finally back and is taking a look at the disassembled hardware. In a new video shared by Munro Live this week, Sandy finally got a chance to […]

Twitter misled federal regulators about its defenses against spam accounts and hackers, according to reports from CNN and the Washington Post on Tuesday (via Reuters). The reports noted whistleblower disclosures from Twitter’s former security head Peiter Zatko. In the original complaints, Zatko reported that executives at the social media company didn’t have the resources to […]

After rumors surfaced that Tesla would be adding a new battery configuration to the Model 3 earlier this month, the automaker is officially denying the claims saying it was all a rumor. Tesla denied rumors that it would use new batteries at its Giga Shanghai, including the 4680 cells, as the automaker stated in a […]

Tesla released its 2022.24.5 software update on the weekend and now we’re seeing some undocumented changes in this release, according to Not a Tesla App. The major feature change in the 2022.24 update was the ability to customize your Blind Spot Camera location to show in the upper left of the display. But now there […]

Check out a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing August 15, 2022 The Great World City at 1 Kim Seng Promenade, Singapore 3 250 kW Tesla August 17, 2022 The Landmark […]

Tesla is hiring for Autopilot data collection operators in Europe, as seen on the automaker’s careers page (via @Tesla_Adri). The full-time position is set to be based at Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, located in Grünheide. The employee will be in charge of managing data-recording devices and driving around test areas to collect data. The position also […]

After reports showed that Tesla’s Q3 exports from China are expected to be massive, the automaker has officially broken a new record for the most vehicles loading on a ship to be exported. A record 10,000 Tesla vehicles were spotted in a video from Wu Wa taken at China’s Luchao Port Shanghai Nangang Terminal over […]

Tesla and SpaceX are among two of Elon Musk’s most notable companies and the billionaire CEO recently outlined his primary goals for the remainder of the year. @ElonMusk said on early Monday that his two main goals for the year are getting SpaceX’s Starship reusable rocket into orbit and facilitating a wider release of Tesla’s […]

A new 4K drone video shared by Jeff Roberts on Saturday showcases a brand new addition to Gigafactory Texas — the “cyber helipad,” as Roberts called it. Drone footage captured by Roberts on Friday gave us a look at a now-completed new parking lot on the Giga Texas premises, which also houses a helipad. It is […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2022.24.5 software update, as detected on a Tesla Model Y Performance, using third-party companion software @TeslaFi. Software version 2022.24.5 was just detected on a Tesla Model Y Performance in Norway on https://t.co/uh4cmhSoAQ. Follow the release at https://t.co/uDCrLGQ1o4 — TeslaFi (@teslafi) August 21, 2022 Vehicles that are receiving 2022.24.5 were […]

Tesla Autopilot prevents an average of 40 collisions from drivers accidentally stepping on accelerators instead of brakes every single day, Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software, Ashok Elluswamy, said during a keynote presentation in June. His talk was uploaded to YouTube on Saturday. Elluswamy presented some of the Autopilot team’s recent work at the Conference on […]

Tesla released Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.69 last night, and in the release notes, it specifically mentions again tester Chuck Cook in Florida’s unprotected left turn. Cook received FSD beta 10.69 on his Tesla and started testing it on Sunday morning and shared his 15-minute video to YouTube. According to FSD beta 10.69, it will […]

After releasing Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.69 to employees and some beta testers late on Saturday evening, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Sunday the price of the software feature is going up next month. “After wide release of FSD Beta 10.69.2, price of FSD will rise to $15k in North America on September 5th,” […]

After releasing Tesla software update 2022.16.3.10 tonight—which is Full Self-Driving (FSD) 10.69, we now have release notes shared by @ACPixel. Check out the FSD beta 10.69 release notes below we have transcribed for you below: Added a new “deep lane guidance” module to the Vector Lanes neural network which fuses features extracted from the video streams with […]