After Ford announced mandatory upgrades to dealerships that want to sell electric vehicles (EVs), and now the company is pushing back its deadline for dealers to decide on the investment. Ford is delaying the deadline for dealers to decide whether to add charging hardware and more at dealerships by about a month, as detailed in […]

Tesla’s software update 2022.40.1 includes a yet-unannounced feature set to come in a future update called Radio Traffic Announcements, according to Not a Tesla App, which spotted an image in the software’s code. The feature was reportedly expected to be added to update 2022.40, though it wasn’t and may require further development before being released. […]

Tesla’s energy business is becoming a bigger part of its repertoire, and its Powerwall energy storage systems have become a regular part of discussions surrounding natural disasters in the past few years. In a post on Twitter on Thursday, @Tesla Solar announced that its Powerwalls powered around 44,000 homes in Puerto Rico, averaging about five […]

Tesla’s Optimus robot will be shown off at China’s International Import Expo on November 5-10, according to Shanghai Securities News (via Pandaily). The event marks the fifth China International Import Expo, set to include Tesla’s energy products, Gigafactory information and all of its electric vehicles (EVs) — including the highly coveted Model S Plaid and […]

Elon Musk officially took over at Twitter on Friday, and he has already begun dismissing senior management and appointed himself as CEO, according to a person familiar with the matter (via Bloomberg). Musk is set to replace former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, who was immediately fired along with three other high-level executives, the anonymous source […]

Tesla’s set to begin preparing for an expansion of Gigafactory Berlin according to a statement from the automaker on Friday reported by Berliner Abendblatt (via @alex_avoigt). The company says this particular expansion will increase production capacity, and to do so, Tesla will begin clearing trees away from a nearby pine forest starting on Friday. Tesla […]

SpaceX successfully launched 53 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Thursday evening, from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch took place at 6:14 p.m. PT and the first stage Falcon 9 booster successfully landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship in the Pacific Ocean. This […]

Back in December 2021, Tesla launched sales of its Cyberquad for Kids, manufactured by Radio Flyer, selling the all-electric kids ATV for $1,900 USD. On Thursday, a recall was announced by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), citing one instance of a bruised shoulder from an adult and child operating the Cyberquad for Kids […]

After entering Twitter headquarters yesterday literally with a sink, and today penning a letter to advertisers on the social network, Elon Musk has not wasted any time in diagnosing what needs to be done at the company he just purchased. According to Bloomberg, Musk has already asked Tesla engineers to meet with Twitter product leaders […]

Tesla’s discussions with the Australian lithium mining company Core Lithium Ltd have ceased after skyrocketing prices have increasingly become a theme during the talks (via Bloomberg). In March, Core Lithium announced a deal with Tesla for 110,000 tonnes of lithium spodumene concentrate. The mining company’s contract was set to provide lithium to Tesla starting in […]

Petro-Canada has been working on building out a charging network across the country for well over a year now, and new updates show the company working to improve a few key factors based on user feedback. Canada’s so-called Electric Highway is set to gain charger reliability improvements from Petro-Canada, including both hardware and software features, […]

During the third quarter, Ford shifted away from capital spending on Level 4 advanced driver assistance systems that were in development by Argo AI, instead choosing to focus on its own internally made Level 2 and 3 technology. The news, as detailed in a press release from Ford and on CEO Jim Farley’s Twitter, also meant […]

New data from London-based Jato Dynamics says Tesla’s Model Y was the best-selling car in Europe for the month of September, out of electric and gas vehicles, reports Reuters. This is the first time the Model Y was the best-selling car in Europe, says Jato, with 29,367 Model Y SUVs registered in September, up 227% […]

Image credit: Tesla Girl (@somi_teslagirl) Tesla looks to have introduced a new status bar icon with its 2022.40.1 software update, for users in Canada. According to an image shared by Tesla Girl (@somi_teslagirl) on Wednesday evening, she asks followers what the new icon shown above represents. We see a bolt outlined with dots and lines […]

A new safety recall has hit Tesla, this time affecting seat belts in the back seat of Model 3s made within the last five years in the U.S. market. Tesla has reported a recall notice of over 24,000 Model 3 units to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) this week, according to a report […]