Tesla

Tesla has increased the price of its Model 3 sedan for customers in the United States. Changes to the company’s website note a $500 USD increase to the entry Standard Range Plus and Long Range AWD versions. Check out the new prices below, spotted by @Tesla_adri: Standard Range Plus RWD: $37,990 USD (was $37,490) Long […]

In an electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure deployment update from Natural Resources Canada, the federal government in Canada has announced plans and funding efforts to install 129 new Tesla Supercharger stalls across British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan (via @MontrealTesla). The new Tesla Superchargers, as listed on Canada’s website, are shared below, revealing locations not seen before. […]

Talks of the Tesla Semi are heating up, with more sightings in the wild coming up in recent months than ever before. However, there is still more work to be done for the electric semi-truck to reach Australia. On Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Tesla’s first-generation Semi will be delayed in Australia due to a law […]

Tesla AI Director Andrej Karpathy has been working on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) platform for several years now, and in a new Robot Brains Podcast with Pieter Abbeel, Karpathy details his path to working with artificial intelligence, how Tesla’s FSD is going, what it’s like to work with CEO Elon Musk, comparisons between Waymo and […]

On Tuesday, Twitter user @sumitgrrg summarized Elon Musk’s 2013 handshake deal with Google to acquire Tesla, which was struggling to survive at the time. If you haven’t heard of this story, it’s one for the ages as part of Tesla’s evolution into a dominant electric automaker. Dealing with tons of bugs, and an inability to […]

Tesla’s newly-refreshed 2021 Model S began delivering to customers over the past few weeks, even after the National Highway Safety Traffic Administration (NHTSA) expressed safety concerns over the electric vehicle’s (EV’s) yoke-style steering wheel. On Wednesday, a Reddit user shared photos of the new 2021 Tesla Model S Plaid with the yoke-style steering wheel to […]

Occasionally, Teslas have been known to have accidents while on Autopilot. However, despite the scrutiny Tesla’s Autopilot systems have undergone in recent months, the electric vehicles (EVs) are still considered safer than if they weren’t engaged, according to the company itself and other data. A new report from Loup Ventures echoes the past claim that […]

Earlier this week video leaked of a Tesla Model S refresh, showing ‘Smart Shift’, which is the vehicle predicting which drive mode you should be in based on data from Autopilot cameras. Now we have a video of how to manually change drive modes in the upcoming Model S and Model X refresh, according to […]

You can now buy a Tesla with Bitcoin, according to a change on the company’s website on Wednesday evening. Back in February, Tesla disclosed it made a $1.5 billion in Bitcoin and mentioned it would soon accept the cryptocurrency as payment in the “near future”. Fast forward just over a month and Bitcoin payment on […]

Tesla has increased the price of the Model Y in China, raising the price by CNY 8,000 ($1,226 USD). The announcement was made by Tesla China’s Global Vice President Grace Tao on Weibo on Wednesday afternoon in the country local time (via @42how_). According to Tao, she said (via Google Translate), “The price of Model […]

Viewing Angle of the Model 3 In-Cabin Camera According to Consumer Reports, it believes Tesla in-car cameras raise privacy concerns, just like the Chinese military, it seems. Consumer Reports references Tesla noting it reviews some footage recorded from in-car cameras, to help improve its self-driving technology, after the fact. According to Consumer Reports, this action […]

Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai has been hard at work since its completion last year, even expanding to include a new Supercharger factory earlier this year. Internal sources discovered that Tesla is likely buying a 460,000 square-meter plot of land to the south of Tesla’s Gigafactory Shanghai, according to Tesmanian. The land, as sold by the city […]

In what could become the world’s largest Tesla V3 Supercharger station, Santa Monica’s city council approved a project for the construction of 62 V3 Supercharger stalls earlier this month. Later that week, however, the project was effectively paused through a zoning loophole placing the project in an Emergency Ordinance, and casting the fate of the […]

Perhaps the biggest barrier to mainstream adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) is the charging infrastructure currently available in most places. However, Tesla China has been building new Supercharger stations rapidly, with new charging stalls popping up nearly every week. According to @42how_, five new Tesla Supercharger stations opened last week in mainland China for a […]

Tesla came under fire from the Chinese government in recent weeks, when the country’s military personnel were officially banned from driving Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs) due to security concerns. However, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has since denied the security claims and has even taken his praises for China one step further. In an interview published […]