After Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners in the United States were surprised to find the lack of USB-C ports in their new vehicle deliveries, due to the ongoing chip shortage, the electric automaker confirmed they are also suffering the same problem in China. According to the South China Morning Post, Tesla confirmed to […]
Courtesy of data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums, let’s take a look at all of the new Supercharger locations that went live across the world this past week: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing Nov. 8, 2021 No. 3, Lane 9, Qingnian Rd, Yangmei District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan 3 250 kW Tesla […]
Tesla Full Self-Driving beta tester and Canadian James Locke (@arctechnic) normally works and resides in Santa Clarita, California, but his latest video shows him testing FSD beta 10.4 back in Victoria on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Locke, the former President of the Vancouver Island Tesla Owners, shares a video of his Model 3 […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Saturday that the way he went about liquidating around $7 billion USD worth of Tesla stock this week was “closer to tax maximization than minimization.” Musk was responding to a Twitter user who asserted the CEO would benefit more financially from exercising options and selling the common stock he already […]
After Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed on Twitter last month that the entirety of the company’s Supercharging network would be getting its own Wi-Fi, Reddit user HollywoodSX on Saturday spotted a Starlink terminal at a Supercharger location in Lake City, FL — the first discovery of its kind. When a couple of Twitter users noted the absence […]
Tesla has added a new feature to the Model Y, but only for vehicles made at Gigafactory Shanghai in China. The Model Y now comes with a factory cargo cover, as shown in a video shared by @EVOffer_HK. MIC Model Y now comes with OEM Cargo Cover!Car delivered in Hong Kong starting from yesterday comes […]
Tesla makes hiring veterans a priority, and hopes that other companies will follow in its footsteps — reports KPIX-TV’s Len Ramirez (@lenKPIX) from the company’s Fremont factory in California (via @WholeMarsBlog). Why Tesla makes hiring veterans a priority $TSLA @elonmusk pic.twitter.com/lZaaCVnml0 — Whole Mars Catalog (@WholeMarsBlog) November 11, 2021 Not only does the world’s fastest-growing […]
After picking up their 2022 Model 3, Reddit user CalligrapherNo4617 made a peculiar discovery — the car had no wireless charging functionality, and the two USB-C ports in the front center console were outright missing. Upon calling Tesla support, CalligrapherNo4617 was informed that Tesla is aware of the problem. Both wireless charging and the front center […]
In a recently published YouTube video, Brent Ely documented his Model S Plaid’s performance at an Autocross event. Autocross, also known as AutoX or Autoslalom, is a timed competition in which drivers are required to navigate a course, defined by traffic cones, that consists of several turns, twists, lane change maneuvers, slaloms, and more. Participants […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has handily scored the top spot in Bloomberg‘s recently published list of the wealthiest ‘green billionaires’ — billionaires who have amassed a significant portion of their fortune from businesses that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, in the world. As of the list’s publication, Musk’s total net worth weighs in at a whopping […]
Tesla has started rolling out its 2021.36.5.8 software update, as noted by @Teslascope and detected in Pennsylvania in the United States. We noticed a new Tesla software update 2021.36.5.8 on a Model S Performance (2020) in Pennsylvania, United States. View the rollout of this update here: https://t.co/j8vlma3rfO — Teslascope (@teslascope) November 12, 2021 The 2020 […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has provided Canadians with an update on when Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta will release in Canada. On Thursday evening, Musk responded to the question with, “no guarantees, but maybe next month. Requires quite a lot of incremental testing & code tweaks for different road system in Canada.” No guarantees, but maybe […]
According to Tesla enthusiast Tesla_Adri (@tesla_adri) the company has just launched leasing options for its all-electric Model Y CUV in a number of European countries. BREAKING NEWS: Model Y leasing in Europe is now available! pic.twitter.com/OXC3hMOuZR — Tesla_Adri (@tesla_adri) November 12, 2021 Leasing mostly makes sense for businesses and enterprise customers. It is unclear […]
According to Reddit user deeebug, Tesla is proactively recalling certain Model S and Model X units over a minor issue with driver airbags. The company is notifying Model S/X owners subject to the recall via email. The recall only applies to specific Model S/X units produced in 2021 at a certain manufacturing location where a […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold another 639,737 shares of the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer for around $687 million USD through his trust on Thursday, according to regulatory filings discovered earlier today (via CNBC). Last week, Musk asked the masses whether he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock in a Twitter poll. With nearly 58% of […]
