Tesla’s former Director of Artificial Intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, recently sat down for an interview with MIT researcher Lex Fridman on the latter’s podcast. The engineer, also one of the founding members of OpenAI, talked about everything from aliens and the universe to Tesla Autopilot and working with Elon Musk. According to Karpathy, he learned “how […]

Rivian has pushed back deliveries of R1T electric trucks configured with Max packs, the automaker’s largest battery option, to Spring 2023 at the earliest for Dual-Motor variants, and 2024 for top-of-the-line Quad-Motor versions (via @klwtts). “Your delivery window estimate has been updated in your account. R1T Quad-Motor + Max pack deliveries are now planned to […]

According to a report from MySA, Tesla has become one of the largest tenants in all of San Antonio, Texas, after signing a lease for a 439,809-square-foot industrial park space at Foster Ridge 2, located at 7015 Lancer Blvd. on the Far Eastside. Dallas-based real estate company CBRE said in a separate report that Tesla accounted […]

Tesla continues to test its Semi truck ahead of its first deliveries slated for December 1, 2022, to PepsiCo. According to a new video and picture shared by Semi-stalker @HinrichsZane, we see the Semi drive through a roundabout in Silver Springs, located about 40 miles east of Reno, Nevada. The Semi stops ahead of the […]

Tesla announced another milestone at Gigafactory Texas on Sunday morning, and that’s hitting 20,000 Model Y SUVs built at the factory to date, as part of the latter’s production ramp. 20k Model Y built at Giga Texas to date! pic.twitter.com/8Rl5ZqgqQq — Tesla (@Tesla) October 30, 2022 Back on September 17, Tesla announced 10,000 Model Y […]

General Motors is “pausing” all paid advertising on Twitter after Elon Musk completed his $44 billion USD acquisition of the social network and assumed corporate control on Thursday — reports CNBC. The veteran automaker told the outlet that it will maintain a presence on the platform and continue to interact with customers as it evaluates […]

Newly minted Twitter CEO Elon Musk on Friday announced plans for a “content moderation council” at the social media company. Musk said in a tweet that the company will form a “content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.” It appears this council will be responsible for developing and enforcing content rules at Twitter. According to […]

Tesla has shared a new video on its YouTube channel, showing its Optimum robot’s leg actuator lifting a half-ton piano. “One of Tesla Bot’s two primary leg actuators lifting a half-ton/500kg concert grand piano. Piano recital by Tesla Principal Motor Designer, Konstantinos,” said Tesla, with the designer playing the iconic classical song Nocturnes, Op. 9: […]

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 […]