Image credit: @Gf4Tesla Onlookers were quick to notice Tesla’s graffiti art at Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg upon the facility’s opening, and now a new piece has been spotted showing off the automaker’s upcoming Optimus robot. Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin has an Optimus Tesla Bot painted in graffiti art on a wall, as shared by @Gf4Tesla. #GigaBerlinBrandenburg" Our technology […]
A former elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont, California factory has denied a judge’s settlement of $15 million following a racial discrimination and harassment case in 2017, according to Reuters. Owen Diaz, a former contract worker at Tesla who is Black, was awarded a $137 million settlement by a jury last year, following the judge’s ruling […]
Tesla’s Model Y production line in Shanghai is getting a capacity upgrade, though it will cause the factory to pause most production for it to be possible. Tesla is halting production and renovation plans from July 1 to July 4 to expand the Model Y production line to a daily capacity of around 2,000 units, […]
The annual Cars.com American-Made Index for 2022 tracks the ‘most American-made’ cars, ranking 95 cars through five criteria related to assembly location, parts content, engine origins, transmission origins and U.S. manufacturing workforce. For 2022, Tesla’s Model Y takes the crown as the number one most-American made vehicle, only surpassing its sibling, the Model 3. Tesla’s […]
Tesla has started rolling out its 2022.16.2 software update, as detected by third-party companion software @Teslascope. The update was seen on a 2022 Model S Long Range in the Teslascope fleet, located in Illinois, USA. This vehicle was previously on 2022.11.102. Similar third-party software @TeslaFi saw the 2022.16.2 update hit a Model Y Long Range […]
Last week, Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time since the initial $44 billion offer, and now the company’s board of directors has officially endorsed the takeover. The Twitter board of directors unanimously urged the company’s investors to approve Musk’s takeover of the social media site on Tuesday, according to an SEC filing, […]
Tesla inked a deal with Australia’s Core Lithium in March, and the company is now officially getting ready to send its first mineral shipment out to the electric automaker. Future Tesla supplier Core Lithium Ltd. is expecting its Finniss, Australia project to have the first shipment of minerals out by the end of this […]
Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software, Ashok Elluswamy, shared on Tuesday the company’s Autopilot team is at the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) this year in New Orleans. “The Tesla Autopilot team is at CVPR this year! If you are in New Orleans, do stop by the booth, talk to the […]
After a pair of former Tesla Nevada employees sued the automaker over job cuts, CEO Elon Musk says the layoffs will actually affect a smaller amount of employees than many expect. Musk said that the job cuts at Tesla will affect only 3.5 percent of Tesla’s total workforce, saying that the actual amount is “not […]
Here’s a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up across the globe this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing June 14, 2022 Hotellplan 2, Gäddede, Sweden 3 250 kW Tesla June 14, 2022 Hai’an St, Budai Township, Chiayi County, […]
Tesla, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is scheduled to appear at this year’s Qatar Economic Forum in Doha, Qatar. The Qatar Economic Forum is an annual gathering of world leaders and entrepreneurs organized by Bloomberg. For this year’s event, the organizers settled on the theme “Equalising the Global Recovery.” The event will run from June 20 […]
After design firm von Holzhausen teased a “Caramel” vegan leather upgrade for a Tesla Model S last week, the new product has been unveiled on Monday, part of a custom offering from Unplugged Performance, an aftermarket parts maker for Tesla vehicles. These new handmade interiors will leverage von Holzhausen’s proprietary Banbū Leather with 83% plant-based […]
After Tesla’s vehicles were briefly barred from certain areas of Chengdu, China during President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to the central city, another area of the country is also set to ban Tesla’s cars starting on July 1. Tesla’s cars are being prohibited from entering China’s coastal district, Beidaihe, for at least two months while […]
Corporate customers of Tesla’s arm in China are being asked to pay back subsidies on electric vehicle (EV) purchases due to not being driven enough. Tesla is asking some corporate customers to return purchase subsidies in China, after the vehicles failed to achieve the requirements allowing them to get the subsidies, according to CnEVPost. A […]
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the automaker would be cutting 10 percent of salaried staff, the company faces yet another lawsuit from former employees claiming they were laid off without proper notice. Tesla is being sued by two former employees of its Nevada factory, alleging that the automaker violated U.S. laws against mass layoffs […]
