Tesla

After Tesla increased the price of multiple of its vehicles in China, the company has managed to pull off record deliveries in the last month of Q1, as shown by new sales data in the country. Tesla sold 65,814 Shanghai-built vehicles in March, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) and as […]

After acquiring a 9.1% stake in Twitter, and then being offered a seat on the company’s board, Elon Musk “has decided not to join our board”, explained Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Sunday evening. “Team, Elon Musk has decided not to join our board. Here’s what I can share about what happened,” wrote Agrawal on […]

While Tesla delivered its first Texas-made Model Y vehicles at its Cyber Rodeo event, the company was mum on details about who took the first deliveries. According to information received by Tesla North, one of the first Austin-made Model Y vehicles with the newest 4680 structural battery packs went to Tesla employee, Regan, a Process […]

Popular children’s toys and entertainment company Mattel on Monday announced the release of its highly anticipated Matchbox Tesla Roadster, the toymaker’s first die-cast vehicle made from 99% recycled materials and certified CarbonNeutral. Mattel originally unveiled the die-cast Tesla Roadster back in April of last year. It is quite fitting to manufacture a toy modeled after the […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday evening that Twitter users who pay $2.99 USD/month for the Twitter Blue subscription “should get an authentication checkmark.” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512957577092608004 The authentication checkmark “should be different from ‘public figure’ or ‘official account’ checkmark,” Musk clarified in a follow-up tweet. The Tesla CEO’s original tweet has received […]

Image via Akashdeep S.G. via Facebook Tesla has expanded Disney+ beyond the United States, bringing the streaming service to Canada. According to the latest 2022.12.1 software update, in addition to new bottom bar customizations, expanded child lock features, mobile app controls for Dog Mode and Camp Mode and also Turkish, Canadian users are seeing Disney+. […]

Attending Tesla’s ‘Cyber Rodeo’ grand opening event for Gigafactory Texas on Thursday, “Teardown Titan” Sandy Munro talked us through the new 4680 battery cells and structural battery packs the electric vehicle (EV) maker is manufacturing at the $1.1 billion USD factory. Not only will Giga Texas be piping out Model Y cars, but it will […]

Giga Texas Model Y; Image via @BLKMDL3 According to changes made in Tesla’s website code, the company may be starting Giga Texas-made Model Y Standard Dual Motor vehicles soon. This is according to website code changes spotted by @Tesla_Adri, shared on Saturday morning. Seems like Tesla is preparing the order page for the Texas Model […]

Tesla started rolling out its 2022.12.1 software update on Friday as noted by @Teslascope, and with it comes some new updates, including highly-requested bottom bar customizations. According to screenshots of 2022.12.1 release notes shared on Reddit, the following updates are now available: Additional Bottom Bar Customization  You can now add vehicle controls such as defrost, […]

To celebrate the grand opening of its $1.1 billion USD Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, Tesla held the ‘Cyber Rodeo’ event at the facility on Thursday. Check out a 3-minute-30-second “Gigacut” of the entire live event below, courtesy of Sam Alexander: After a mesmerizing drone light show, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to the stage and […]

With lithium prices skyrocketing from $17,000 per tonne in 2021 to a whopping $78,032 per tonne in 2022, Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks the electric vehicle (EV) maker may itself have to get into mining and refining the mineral at scale to keep production costs in check. “Price of lithium has gone to insane levels! […]

During Tesla’s ‘Cyber Rodeo’ grand opening event for Gigafactory Texas on Thursday, company CEO Elon Musk announced plans for a dedicated, “futuristic” Robotaxi from the electric vehicle (EV) maker. “What I can say is we’re gonna move to truly massive scale – scale that no company has ever achieved in the history of humanity. That […]

Tesla plans to roll out its Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta to all of its North American customers who have purchased the $12,000 USD ($10,600 CAD) upgrade sometime this year, said CEO Elon Musk during the ‘Cyber Rodeo’ grand opening event at Gigafactory Texas on Thursday. “The Tesla Autopilot and AI teams have done an incredible […]

Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs) primarily come in just a few different models, but a new custom EV for transporting the deceased has emerged and it’s like nothing we’ve ever seen before. Funeral Director Stuart James Pilkington has debuted the funeral home’s new Tesla Wisper e-hearse, a fully-electric hearse in Warmley, South West England, according to […]

The Tesla Cybertruck may come with huge tires, if the ones being displayed at the automaker’s Cyber Rodeo event are any indication of the production models to come. Tesla’s Cybertruck on display at the Cyber Rodeo has huge 35-inch tires and 20-inch wheels, as seen in a photo from @BLKMDL3 shared on Thursday. The photos […]