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Easthampton Police to Get Tesla Model Y Cruisers

The local Police Department in Easthampton, Massachusetts has received approval to purchase two Model Y police cruisers for its fleet — reports the Daily Hampshire Gazette. The all-electric crossovers will be retrofitted into police cruisers before replacing two of the Easthampton Police Department’s gas-powered Ford Interceptor fleet vehicles. According to Conservation Agent Cassie Tragert, the switch […]

New Tesla Superchargers Global Overview: May 16–22, 2022

Here’s a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that opened up over the past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing May 16, 2022 6527 Pacific Coast Hwy, Long Beach, CA, USA 20 250 kW Tesla May 16, 2022 3390 North Williston Road, […]

Tesla Continues Model Y 4680 Cell Testing at Giga Texas [VIDEO]

A new 4K drone video shared by Jeff Roberts on Thursday shows some of Tesla’s crew continuing its work on 4680 battery cell charging testing at Gigafactory Texas. An earlier video by Roberts showed these same Model Y vehicles charging at Superchargers on the Giga Texas site. Papers on the vehicle dashboard noted the vehicles […]

Tesla’s U.S. Luxury Lead Surges in Q1, Other Automakers Decline

Analysts expected Tesla to dethrone BMW for the top-selling U.S. luxury sales title last year, and now the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer is pulling even further ahead. Tesla saw registrations increase by 59 percent year-over-year in Q1, selling 113,882 vehicles total and outpacing last year’s leader BMW by an impressive 33,400 units, according to Automotive […]

Tesla Cybertruck Put on Display at Formula SAE Michigan

Tesla’s Cybertruck was recently spotted by a contestant at the Formula SAE competition in Michigan (via Reddit). Formula SAE challenges teams of university students across the globe to conceive, design, fabricate, develop and compete with small, formula-style vehicles. As of 2013, the competition has a dedicated class for battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). Tesla started sponsoring teams […]

Tesla Liberty Lake Service Center Holds Grand Opening Event

Image credit: Adithya K. via Facebook Tesla held a grand opening event to celebrate its new showroom and service center at Liberty Lake, located in Spokane, Washington, at 1805 North Pepper Lane. The event took place on Saturday, May 21, 2022, from 10am-12pm. Baker Construction & Development, Inc. started construction at the site last July, […]

Tesla Giga Berlin Reportedly Making 86 Model Y Performance Cars Daily: Report

According to the German publication TeslaMag.de, Tesla’s Berlin-Brandenburg Gigafactory is currently producing 86 Model Y Performance cars per day, claim unnamed sources. That works out to just over 600 cars per week — almost double the 350 units per week we reported the plant was piping out in April, but significantly less than Tesla’s goal […]

Tesla Reveals 2-Storey Diner, Drive-In Theater for Hollywood Supercharger

According to @MarcoRPTesla, a sleuth of upcoming Supercharger locations, Tesla has officially filed plans for a drive-in movie theater and two-storey diner at a Supercharger station in West Hollywood, California. This just in: Tesla has officially filed plans for the Hollywood Diner and Drive-In Theater at 7001 Santa Monica Boulevard!!! (H/T @benh57) pic.twitter.com/jVE4xlxn53 — MarcoRP […]

Tesla ‘Agreed’ to Build a Battery and EV Plant in Indonesia, Says Government

Tesla has “agreed” to install production capacity for electric vehicles (EVs) and the batteries they run on in Indonesia, the country’s head of investments, Bahlil Lahadalia, recently said, reports Benar News (via Electrek). The news comes a week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Indonesian President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo in Texas to reportedly discuss […]

First Drives: Tesla FSD Beta 10.12.1 Brings New Visuals, Impresses Testers [VIDEOS]

Tesla released Full Self-Driving 10.12.1 beta yesterday to its Early Access Program (with software update 2022.12.3.15), after previously releasing FSD 10.12 to employees only. Full Self-Driving Beta 10.12.1 baby! pic.twitter.com/5ZQsarmwr4 — Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) May 20, 2022 FSD beta 10.12.1 includes new visuals for open car doors and also displays turn signals on other cars. […]

Tesla’s Giga Shanghai Has Made 26,000 Cars Since Resuming Production

According to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory has only produced a total of 26,000 vehicles in the 30 days since it resumed operations on April 19 (via CnEVPost). The deputy Communist Party secretary of the Lingang free-trade zone administration said on Tuesday that Gigafactory Shanghai was only operating at about […]