Tesla

In a recently published YouTube video, “Teardown Titan” Sandy Munro continues his teardown of the Tesla Model S Plaid, this time walking us through the high-performance all-electric sedan’s front cradle, including the steering rack, and the suspension. We get to see Munro and his team remove the front cradle and suspension from the Model S Plaid, […]

Tesla has plans to build a cathode building at its Gigafactory Texas site, as revealed by a building permit application seen by Electrek. “The applicant is proposing an Industrial Use facility along with associated improvements,” reads the permit application. Now, an Austin spokesperson has confirmed to Reuters the permit is indeed for a proposed cathode […]

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has said she would be open to input from Elon Musk on how to better navigate the ongoing chip shortage affecting the automotive industry, even though President Joe Biden has snubbed Tesla and its CEO time and again — reports Bloomberg. President Biden’s Build Back Better plan locks Tesla out of […]

The latest Tesla Fremont factory flyover by drone pilot ‘Met God in Wilderness’, filmed on Thursday, February 3, 2022, shows the company’s overflow lot remains jam-packed full of vehicles. Filmed this morning, we don’t see any test vehicles on the track at Fremont, but we continue to see a flurry of action at the factory. […]

One NFL team has a new name, and the freshly-renamed Washington Commanders are apparently using electric vehicles (EVs) to promote their new merchandise and team. Tesla Model Y units sporting the new NFL team’s name and branding were seen leaving the stadium to hand out Washington Commanders merch around DC, Maryland and Virginia, as shown […]

  Tesla removed the wording on its Tesla Model 3 order configurator for the Performance variant’s lowered suspension last month, but the animation remained when switching between the latter and the entry Long Range version. Now, Tesla has removed the animation altogether on its website, to go with the wording’s removal last month, seemingly confirming […]

Legacy automakers like Ford and General Motors (GM) are scrambling to deliver their first electric vehicles (EVs), and one analyst says Tesla is uniquely poised to overtake them both within the next five years. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas shared a new note on Wednesday saying he expects Tesla’s revenues to surpass those of Ford […]

Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin is still awaiting final approval, with a new update this week showing newly-added construction nearing the building’s completion. The roof on the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin Central Utilities Building was being built on Tuesday, as shown in photos shared by drone pilot @Gf4Tesla. The photos show cranes and construction workers surrounding the new […]

Tesla has issued a safety recall for over 817,000 U.S. vehicles due to the seat belt reminder chimes not making a sound when starting the vehicles with an unbuckled seat belt, according to AP News. The recall was discovered in documents posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Tuesday, and they apply […]

Tesla has updated its Supercharger map for 2022, now outlining new locations coming soon in the United States, Canada and beyond, as spotted by @MarcoRPTesla on Wednesday. If you navigate over to this page on Tesla’s website, you can see “coming soon” locations that have either been removed or added, compared to yesterday. Tesla’s Supercharger […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2021.44.30.12 software update on Wednesday evening, as noted by @Teslascope. The update was detected on a Model Y Long Range in Alberta, Canada. According to KKVR (@kkvr2823), their Model Y looks to be the vehicle that received this update. According to 2021.44.30.12 release notes shared by KKVR below, they […]

Image via u/dappermarketer on Reddit While President Joe Biden has yet to mention Tesla by name, the White House has acknowledged Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company. According to Bloomberg, an unnamed person “familiar with the president’s thinking” says the reason Biden hasn’t mentioned Tesla, but only the likes of GM and Ford, is because unions […]

Following Transport Canada’s move to open an active defect investigation into HVAC systems in some of Tesla’s vehicles late last month, the automaker has apparently opened communication with the agency. Tesla’s “communication is ongoing” with Transport Canada after the government agency opened a defect investigation into Model 3 and Y unit HVAC systems last month, according […]

Reports of Tesla’s vehicles unexpectedly braking have been way up in the past few months, as shown in data collected from a U.S. regulator. Tesla drivers have been reporting phantom braking at increasing rates, according to a report from The Washington Post analyzing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) complaints. The analysis looks at complaints […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said his 2018 tweet about taking Tesla private was “entirely truthful,” amidst claims that the statement was a fraud, reveals new court filings, reports Bloomberg. In a court filing on Tuesday, Musk’s lawyers said that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund agreed to support plans to take the automaker private. Musk’s tweet […]