It’s been a whirlwind few months at Twitter, after CEO Elon Musk purchased the company for $44 billion following months of back and forth. Twitter owner Musk is currently looking for a new person to head the company, according to sources who spoke with CNBC on Tuesday. It’s no surprise Musk is finding a new […]

After Lucid Motors announced plans to raise additional funding in August, the startup electric vehicle (EV) maker has officially raised more money, primarily through one large sale of shares. Lucid said on Monday that it has raised $1.5 billion in a planned equity offering, with around $915 million coming from a private sale of around […]

A video shared by Tobias Lindh on YouTube on Tuesday shows updates to Tesla’s Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, showing packed lots full of cars, following a milestone in which it produced 3,000 Model Y units in a week. The drone video, which was taken on Sunday, shows multiple parking lot areas outside of Giga Berlin […]

@Tesla announced on Monday that it has reached 500,000 solar panel and solar roof installations, equating to around 4GW of clean energy. Tesla paused all solar roof installations in July, with some onlookers citing potential supply issues as a cause for the halt. In September, Tesla began requiring the purchase of a Powerwall with all […]

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta is allegedly being tested in the United Kingdom, as noted by @Teslascope on Monday, running off of an internal build of single-stack software. The Teslascope account says Tesla has been testing the FSD beta “with the help of dozens of primarily secret employees.” Later in the thread, the account adds […]

The U.S. Postal Service is planning to announce plans to buy 66,000 electric vehicles (EVs) by 2026 on Tuesday, set to be one of the country’s largest electric fleets, according to a report from the Washington Post. The news is expected to be announced by the Biden administration on Tuesday, with the agency planning to […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2022 holiday software update to Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta users, with software version 2022.44.25.5 bringing FSD beta 10.69.25. FSD V11 is not included in this update. FSD beta testers started receiving this update earlier on Monday evening, according to @TeslaFi. Software version 2022.44.25.5 was just detected as Downloading on […]

Tesla started rolling out its 2022 holiday software update to more vehicles today, and the Tesla North fleet received the highly-anticipated update. This update includes goodies such as Apple Music support and also MyQ Connected Garage. Here’s how to set up MyQ Connected Garage in your Tesla—it was very straightforward. The first step is to […]

Tesla has shared a new campaign on its Engage website, this time asking customers to “thank the Governor and the CPUC for keeping California a leader in clean energy!”. The electric automaker says, “we’d like to share with you some good news for the future of clean energy in California and ask you to take […]

Korea’s LG Energy Solution plans to invest 4 trillion won ($3.1 billion USD) into its Ochang plant between now and 2026 to develop electric vehicle (EV) batteries, according to a statement from the company on Monday (via Reuters). The investment will go toward developing an R&D department and production facilities for EVs at the Ochang […]

Tesla is reportedly building a Model S factory line at its Giga Berlin, along with plans to build the Model 3 at the Grünheide, Germany factory, according to a Giga Berlin worker who spoke with @Felix Kern on Friday (via @Berlinergy). While Kern notes that the news of the Model S factory line isn’t yet […]

The ramp-up to SpaceX’s next-generation satellite launches is nearly complete, with the company set to begin launching the upgraded hardware before the new year. SpaceX plans to start launching its second-generation Starlink satellites by the end of December, according to FCC filings from the company shared by @Nathan Owens on Monday. The company also filed […]

In a letter on Sunday, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass) wrote to Tesla’s board chair Robyn Denholm saying that CEO Elon Musk has failed to meet legal duties following his purchase of Twitter, according to a report from CNBC. Warren posited that Musk’s use of Tesla employees at Twitter could represent major conflicts of interest, […]

SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet has had quite a year, and it has just announced an important milestone heading into 2023. Starlink has reached a milestone of one million active subscribers worldwide, according to an announcement shared by @SpaceX on Monday. “Starlink now has more than 1,000,000 active subscribers — thank you to all customers and […]

Following reports last week that said Tesla would be announcing a factory in Mexico in early 2023, a new story says the automaker could share news of the new Gigafactory this week. Tesla may announce the construction of a Gigafactory in Mexico’s Nuevo León as soon as Friday, according to a report from local outlet […]