Tesla

Around the holidays, Tesla has been known to offer free off-peak hours Supercharging rates, and the upcoming Monday off in the U.S. is set to gain the same treatment. Tesla is offering free Supercharging during off-peak hours for the upcoming Memorial Day holiday weekend, as detailed on the company’s website. From Friday, May 27, 2022 […]

As Tesla’s cars remain the dominant seller in the electric vehicle (EV) market, the automaker is still looking to expand into new countries. Tesla reportedly plans to expand into Thailand after registering in the country on April 25, as detailed in a filing shared on Tuesday. The filing is signed by Tesla’s Global Senior Director […]

Following Tesla’s deployment of many solar panels, Megapacks and Powerwalls, the company is apparently looking to give owners of the energy systems a leg-up in Texas’ notoriously bad utility system. Tesla is lobbying for Texas residents with solar power and energy storage systems to participate in the state’s energy market, as detailed by Arushi Sharma […]

After Tesla’s 22-day production halt at Gigafactory Shanghai, the automaker had its employees sleeping on floors in a closed-loop output system created to help stop the spread of COVID-19. As it ramps up to add another shift, Tesla is isolating thousands of its Giga Shanghai workers in an old military camp and unused factories in […]

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 […]

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, […]

If you look at any of Tesla’s vehicles, there’s no denying that the models have changed quite a bit over the years, and the Model Y is no different as shown in a new video from an industry expert. In a new video on the Model Y shared on Monday, Sandy Munro noted that Tesla […]

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 […]

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 […]

Following strict COVID-19 lockdowns implemented by China, Tesla’s factory in Shanghai is finally getting back in the swing of things with pre-lockdown levels of production. Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai is planning to ramp up production output levels to pre-lockdown levels on Tuesday, set to more than double production to around 2,600 vehicle units per day, according […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Image credit: Bobby M. via Facebook A Tesla owner says he escape his smoking Model Y before flames erupted by kicking out his window, in an incident that took place on Friday morning in North Vancouver, B.C., Canada. According to CTV News, Jamil Jutha says he was driving his 2021 Model Y when suddenly power […]

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 […]