Tesla appears to be preparing to debut its limited-edition $20,000 Model S Plaid Carbon Ceramic Brake Kit. In emails to customers such as Zack (@BLKMDL3), Tesla is asking people to “confirm your interest” in the pricey brake kit. “Thank you for your interest in the Model S Plaid Carbon Ceramic Brake Kit. As we prepare to […]
Tesla issued a recall of 3,470 Model Y vehicles on Saturday, according to a filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall is NHTSA Campaign Number 23V130000 which says the issue is “a loose seat frame bolt may reduce the seat belt system’s performance, increasing the risk of injury during a crash.” […]
A new Tesla Model 3 taxi fleet has launched in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. The announcement on March 1 by the Sharjah Roads and Transportation Authority (SRTA) said a fleet of 10 Tesla Model 3 sedans, part of the emirate’s green economy initiative, according to SRTA Chairman Yousef Al-Athmani. The Authority has launched 10 Tesla 3 […]
Tesla’s Investor Day teased something we’ve never seen before—wireless charging for the company’s vehicles. During the Charging segment of the presentation with Rebecca Tinucci, Senior Director of Charging Infrastructure. Near the end of her presentation, she pulled a Steve Jobs “one more thing” thing moment, showing a slide that said “Can’t Forget To Do Cool […]
Tesla started rolling out its 2023.6.1 software update on Friday, and now we have some release notes thanks to @greentheonly. According to @greentheonly, the following changes are in 2023.6.1: Apple Music: now available Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Morocco, Hong Kong Singapore, Thailand, UAE, Jordan and Israel Zoom app: now available in Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto […]
Tesla has made its 2023 Investor Day slide deck PDF available for the public to download on Friday. The company’s head of investor relations, Martin Viecha, said today, “Due to popular demand, Investor Day deck is now available on our [Investor Relations] website.” The Tesla Investor Relations website now lists a link to the Investor […]
Tesla’s Gigafactory in Sparks, Nevada will receive more than $330 million in tax breaks from the state for the company’s recently announced expansion plans, as gained on Thursday when Republican Governor Joe Lombardo’s office approved the proposal (via ABC News). The approval came from the Governor’s Office of Economic Development, and Lombardo noted that the […]
Tesla’s upcoming Gigafactory in Mexico will have a footprint of almost 4,200 acres, according to Santa Catarina mayor Jesus Nava in a recent interview, taking up almost twice as much space as the automaker’s Austin, Texas plant reports Reuters. The site is also over twice the size of the Mexico City International Airport and will […]
Tesla has dropped the price of its RWD Model 3 in Italy to €41,490 ($44,047.90 USD), now making it eligible for the country’s €3,000 subsidy, and even more in some provinces (via @Mathias Føns). The new list price can be seen on Tesla’s Italian order configurator, representing an 8 percent price reduction for the company’s […]
Tesla is building what appears to be one of the first V4 Superchargers in the world in Harderwijk, the Netherlands, as spotted in a video from the YouTube channel electricfelix shared on Friday. The video shows the site with the Supercharger stalls themselves wrapped and behind a fence. The station seems to have 16 stalls, […]
U.S. automaker Tesla sold 74,402 vehicles in China in February, representing a 31.65 percent increase year over year, according to data shared by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) this week (via @Tslachan). The figure also represents a 12.64 percent increase from the automaker’s 66,051 units sold in January. Tslachan also pointed out that fellow […]
Image: @adityasaielsh A Tesla follower j.aditya (@adityasaielsh) shared some new pictures of videos today of the company’s latest Cybertruck production beta, identified by its latest triangular mirror design. We also get another look at the rear tonneau cover closing on the Cybertruck. You can’t really see from the rear bed into the vehicle it seems: […]
During a presentation of Tesla’s energy business by Drew Baglino yesterday at the company’s Investor Day, a new charging offer was teased and set to launch this summer. Baglino, the Senior Vice President of Powertrain and Energy Engineering at Tesla, detailed how the company’s Megafactory in Lathrop, California, was completed in less than 12 months. […]
Charging station owners in Canada may benefit from a recently passed proposal letting them charge customers for electricity used, rather than time spent charging. Canadian federal agency Measurement Canada has temporarily approved owners of Level 3 DC fast-charging stations to bill users by kWh for energy consumed instead of time charging, as reported on Thursday […]
SpaceX is partnering with Swiss-based telecoms company Salt to increase connectivity across Switzerland using the U.S. company’s Starlink satellite internet, as detailed in a press release on Wednesday. The agreement is set to allow future Salt mobile customers to access Starlink coverage in harsh areas of Switzerland, where connectivity isn’t usually as strong. The partnership […]
