Earlier on Monday, Tesla’s online store launched new On the Road accessories for your hot and cold beverages, with a new cup, vessel and tumbler available for purchase in black or white, in time for holiday gifts. On the Road Vessel “Fill it, seal it, sip it along the way. Hot or cold,” says Tesla. […]

Update Nov. 28, 2022: Tesla just updated its iOS app and confirmed release notes are viewable in its app now. The release notes for Tesla software updates are only available within vehicles, but that appears to be changing soon. That’s according to information shared by @DirtyTesla and seemingly corroborated by a source to @Teslascope. “Coming […]

Let’s take a look at all the new Superchargers Tesla opened up across the globe this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing November 21, 2022 No. 19, Gulouwai Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China 3 250 kW Unavailable November 21, 2022 Shuangyue Bay […]

SpaceX has launched a referral program for Starlink, available in Germany and received by @awlnx (via @VirtuallyNathan). SpaceX sent out an email to existing Starlink customers in Germany that included a unique referral code link to share. The unique referral URL looks like this: starlink.com/?referral=RC-1173-49138-8 SpaceX says for a limited time, new customers in Germany […]

Electric vehicles (EVs) comprised the displacement of about 700 million gallons of gasoline in 2021, accounting for roughly 1.9 billion miles driven during the year, according to data shared by the Argonne National Laboratory (via @Nat Bullard from BloombergNEF). Additionally, the data states that $1.3 billion was allocated away from gasoline purchases, representing a 0.54-percent reduction […]

Electric vehicle (EV) startups are desperately trying to catch up to Tesla’s reach beyond the U.S. market, with fellow automaker Rivian reaching beyond its home country’s borders this month for the first time. @Rivian had its first deliveries beyond the U.S., as debuted in a Canadian Open House event shared by the automaker on Twitter […]

Tesla Model Y buyers in Australia could bring the SUV’s price down by as much as $10,000, making it as affordable as the Mazda 3 with a new tax deal, according to The Driven. To achieve this level of savings, buyers must qualify for a combination of incentives including the country’s new fringe benefit tax […]

Starlink, SpaceX’s low-Earth orbit satellite internet service, is offering increased internet access in many rural regions where residents do not currently have stable connectivity, and the company has just become operational in one new island country. SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet is now available in Haiti, as the company has officially been registered as “Starlink Haiti […]

A revamped Model 3 is under development at Tesla, according to four people familiar with the plans in a report from Reuters on Monday. The updated model, dubbed “Highland,” is expected to decrease overall complexity and reduce the number of components in the Model 3’s interior. Additionally, the new Model 3 will focus on factors […]

NIO founder, chairman, and CEO William Li said on Saturday that the electric vehicle (EV) maker is making good progress on its smartphone project and teased that the first model could launch within a year (via CnEVPost). Li said back in March that the company started looking into phone manufacturing after customers expressed interest in […]

A 30-foot long, 12,000 lb metal sculpture featuring Elon Musk’s face atop the body of a goat riding a rocket has been spotted on the streets of Austin, Texas (via Fox Business). The statue was commissioned by a group of cryptocurrency enthusiasts who created a project called the “Elon Goat Token.” They wanted the sculpture […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that the company has successfully completed its first 500-mile test drive of a Semi truck with a full load. With its haul, Musk noted that the vehicle weighed in at a whopping 81,000 lbs (or 40.5 tons). Tesla team just completed a 500 mile drive with a Tesla […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2022.44 and 2022.40.8 software updates, as noted by @Teslascope on Thanksgiving Thursday. According to Teslascope, “2022.40.8 is confirmed to not be V11, as it is going out to vehicles on 2022.40.1.” V11 referring to Full Self-Driving beta version 11, which is starting to roll out slowly, with a wide […]

In a recently published YouTube video, Brad Sloan gives us a high-fidelity aerial tour of Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, on the morning of Friday, November 25. While most of the workers had the day off for Thanksgiving, some contractors can still be spotted on the site. A fair amount of ready-to-deliver Model Y units […]

SpaceX today launched its Cargo Dragon capsule’s 26th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-26) mission to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 2:20 p.m. ET/11:20 a.m. PT from the Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/FcVOep82eo — SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 26, 2022 CRS-26 was originally slated […]