Tesla CEO Elon Musk may be polarizing to some, and now a new candidate for Senate in California is using his bid solely to take Musk and the company’s Full Self-Driving program down. California Senate candidate Dan O’Dowd launched a multimillion-dollar television ad campaign on Tuesday to push for a ban on Tesla’s self-driving vehicles […]
As Tesla continues its expansion throughout the world with the opening of two new Gigafactories, the automaker is also bolstering its network of showrooms and service centers with a new pair of them set to arrive in Hungary. Tesla plans to open a showroom and service center in Budapest, Hungary soon, according to the Hungarian […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is looking to partner with co-investors in his $43 billion USD bid to buy social media platform Twitter — reports The New York Post. Earlier this month, Musk revealed he had bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter for $3.4 billion, becoming the company’s largest shareholder. Musk was originally going to […]
Image via u/naturebrah Back in January, it was discovered Tesla had fixed an issue with its blind spot cameras to reduce glare using a simple old-fashioned method: tape. When Tesla’s holiday software update was released in December, a new blind spot camera feature was introduced. The feature would show the side repeater cameras on your […]
YouTuber Ben Vallack recently traded their Fremont-built Tesla Model 3 for a Giga Shanghai-made 2022 Model Y in the U.K. and shared his first impressions of the electric crossover in a video. Having already owned a Tesla, Vallack noticed a number of differences and improvements Tesla has made to the 2022 Model Y. One of […]
The 2022.12.3 Tesla software update has started rolling out, as noted by third-party companion service @Teslascope. Tesla’s 2022.12.3 update was detected on a 2018 Model 3 Long Range in Idaho. We noticed a new Tesla software update 2022.12.3 on a Model 3 RWD LR (2018) in Idaho, United States. View the rollout of this update […]
Tesla entered the S&P 500 index in December 2020, and the automaker has also made some pretty big moves since, with some analysts expecting the company to overtake others on the index in a big way. A new report from Austin, Texas firm Worm Capital says Tesla is likely to dominate the rest of the […]
Tesla is at risk of being pushed out of Oklahoma due to the bill SB512, which would effectively ban direct sales of vehicles to customers. Oklahoma’s SB512, dubbed the “Hometown Auto jobs Act of 2022,” could push Tesla out of the state entirely as expressed by concerned drivers of the brand, according to KFOR Oklahoma. […]
Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) has been working with Tesla to improve energy storage in California for the past few years, and now one of its projects has come to fruition. The Tesla Megapack at PG&E’s Moss Landing Monterey Bay, California utility site is now operational, according to the electric utility. This is one of […]
After Tesla’s halt on production at its Shanghai factory lasted for over three weeks, the automaker is officially producing electric vehicles (EVs) once again. Tesla has resumed production at its Gigafactory Shanghai as of Tuesday, according to the Xinhua News Agency (via Reuters). The production facility was shut down due to a major COVID-19 surge […]
After announcing Tesla would no longer be including its Gen 2 Mobile Connector Bundle with new car purchases, owners and soon-to-be owners let CEO Elon Musk how they felt about the new change. In response, Musk said Tesla would drop the price of the Gen 2 Mobile Connector to $200, down $75. While many questioned […]
Tesla’s Insurance offering has launched in Oregon, Virginia and Colorado (via @SawyerMerritt). The program which offers insurance based on real-time driving behaviour is available in Arizona, Illinois, Ohio, Texas and now Oregon, Virginia and Colorado. Any Tesla vehicle such as the Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y in the United States can sign […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week said he doesn’t think Twitter’s board of directors shares the same financial interests as the social media platform’s investors. “With Jack [Dorsey] departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares,” Musk said in a tweet, replying to a shareholding breakdown of each of the members of Twitter’s board. […]
According to Automobilwoche, Tesla’s German Gigafactory in Berlin-Brandenburg is currently producing 350 Model Y units per week (via @SawyerMerritt). Tesla will ramp production at the facility up to 1,000 units per week by the end of this month, but the report also says that Giga Berlin won’t see another significant increase in output for the rest […]
Last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed that the company would no longer include a basic Gen 2 Mobile Connector Bundle with new vehicle purchases. Instead, customers who want a mobile charger would have to buy a standalone Corded Mobile Connector with a fixed 14-50 adapter for $400 USD. Now that Tesla does not include […]
