Tesla

Tesla’s recent price hikes have caused the automaker to price out of California’s rebate program, the Clean Vehicle Rebate Project, according to Forbes. The program offers rebates of up to $2,000 for qualifying electric vehicle (EV) purchases, and it can be applied to models costing up to $45,000 or $60,000 if they’re crossover vehicles. Due […]

U.S. safety regulators have called for a series of recalls over Tesla in the past six months, with Tesla forced to comply with certain standards amidst the rollout of its Autopilot and Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta systems. Upon the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) early encounter with Musk in 2016, following a fatal tractor-trailer […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is thinking about creating a new social media platform, following tweets suggesting that Twitter doesn’t adhere to free speech, according to CNBC. @ElonMusk tweeted a poll saying “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy,” then asking, “Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to this principle?” The poll resulted in 70.4 […]

As Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs) increase in popularity, it’s getting tougher for some owners to land a spot at Superchargers, which has caused the automaker to limit charging for some drivers, by default. Owners in Australia were given a notification in their cars saying they were at a “High-usage Supercharger station,” with the message noting […]

Let’s take a look at all the new Tesla Superchargers that went live across the world this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing March 21, 2022 Carl-Zuckmayer-Straße 4, Salzburg, Austria 10 250 kW Tesla March 23, 2022 445 Rte du N, Montauban, […]

Tesla has announced plans for a second stock split in the span of a little less than two years, giving a slight bump in prices to shares that had been trading lower following reports of Tesla’s COVID-19 woes — reports Yahoo Finance. In a tweet published early Monday morning, the company said it will “ask […]

Image via Gary (@akidesir) Tesla released Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta for Canada last night, as part of its 2022.4.5.20 software update, unleashing FSD beta 10.11.1 for Early Access Program testers. Canadian FSD beta tester, Gary (@akidesir), shared a first look earlier of his late-night drives in Toronto, Ontario, with the test software, which Elon Musk […]

Last night Tesla released Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta in Canada finally, offering the test software for Canadians that paid the $10,600 CAD add-on for Autopilot. Those with Safety Scores of a perfect 100 (and some with 99) received FSD beta 10.11.1, including Gary (@akidesir), who shared a couple of videos of his first experience with […]

Last night Tesla expanded its Full Self-Driving beta to Canada, marking the first time the test software has gone officially beyond the United States. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been responding about FSD beta on Sunday morning and in response to one question about the Canadian release, the leader added its Senior Director of Artificial […]

Tesla will suspend production at its Gigafactory in Shanghai for five days, from Monday, March 28, to Friday, April 1, due to a full COVID-19 lockdown being imposed by the local government to curb China’s largest COVID-19 outbreak in two years (via @JayinShanghai). BREAKING: TESLA TO PAUSE PRODUCTION AT GIGA SHANGHAI DUE TO FULL LOCKDOWN […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk met with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer SE and reporter for Welt Online, at the company’s Fremont Factory for a rare interview following the Gigafactory Berlin delivery event earlier this week. .@elonmusk im Gespräch mit @welt-Reporter Mathias Döpfner: „Es ist sehr wichtig, dass Deutschland seine Kernkraftwerke nicht abschaltet. Ich denke, […]

Tesla’s plans to convert a former Porsche garage in Dorset, U.K., into a sales and service center have received almost unanimous backing from both residents and the Dorset Council as they inch closer to approval — reports The Bournemouth Echo. Tesla originally submitted plans to take over the site, located at New Road, Ferndown, and turn […]

Tesla has finally launched Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta in Canada on late Saturday evening and early Sunday morning. A public release of 2022.4.5.20 has brought FSD beta 10.11.1, as noted by Zack (@BLKMDL3) in California. Internal testers saw this software release earlier this week. However, Canadians such as Gary (@akidesir) noted they are now downloading […]

After seeing black and white Tesla Model Y vehicles rolling out of Giga Texas, we now have what appears to be the first red version of the car. That’s according to drone pilot Jeff Roberts on Saturday, sharing a clip from his latest footage. “I bet this is the one I saw speeding up the […]

A newly discovered permit application filing from March 25 indicates that Tesla is planning on building an up to 53-acre on-site battery energy storage system (BESS), along with a switchyard, at its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas (via @SawyerMerritt). Tesla enthusiast and sleuth Sawyer Merritt, who uncovered the permit filing, wagers that Tesla would use its […]