Chinese electric vehicle (EV) automaker sales surged in January, with one such company recently providing some updates at a workshop held in Shanghai. NIO held a marketing workshop on Tuesday, located at the automaker’s NIO House in Shanghai, as detailed in a post from @42how_. During the workshop, the company shared a number of highlights […]
Amidst increasing competition over electric vehicles (EVs) in China, Tesla’s Model Y enters its second year of availability as the second most-sold new energy SUV in the country, as shown in new data. Tesla was China’s second best-selling new energy SUV in January, according to data released by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), as […]
As Fisker prepares to start producing the Ocean electric vehicle (EV) for reservation holders later this year, the company has said it plans to begin taking reservations for another more affordable EV. Fisker will open reservations for its second EV, set to be a five-passenger vehicle aimed at young buyers, starting at a price of […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk still holds a significant stake in Tesla, even after selling off many of his shares last year. Tesla’s stock jumped nearly 5 percent on Tuesday after a securities filing revealed that Musk still owns over one-fifth of Tesla’s shares despite recent stock selloffs, according to Business Insider. The filing was made […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk donated 5,044,000 shares to an unnamed charity, reveals a Form 5 filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday. The filing shows Musk donated the shares starting on November 19, 2021, with following transactions on the 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 29th of the same month. Reuters says the […]
SpaceX has announced Starlink customer terminals have now reached 250,000, as shared by CEO Elon Musk on Monday afternoon. Over 250k Starlink user terminals — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 14, 2022 When asked if upload latency would improve when all Starlink satellites have transitioned to lasers for faster transfer speeds, Musk replied, “yes, but more […]
While “Teardown Titan” Sandy Munro focuses his efforts on tearing down the Tesla Model S Plaid one component at a time, his associates at Munro Live pivoted to the Hyundai IONIQ 5 for a recent video. Munro shared a quick review of the IONIQ 5 last month, and his team now walks us through the […]
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ $52 billion USD investment fund expanded its position on Tesla during Q4 2021, adding 118,380 shares of the electric vehicle (EV) company, with a market value of $755.6 million, to its portfolio — reports Markets Insider. At the same time, the fund also cut back its positions […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to joining podcasts to give interviews with various independent outlets. On Monday morning, Musk agreed to join Rob Maurer on the latter’s podcast ‘Tesla Daily’, with other notable podcast hosts as well. “Hi @elonmusk, I just published episode 1,000 of Tesla Daily. I’ve been doing this […]
According to drone pilot Jeff Roberts (@peterdog15), we may have our first look at a batch of Tesla Model Y vehicles leaving the production lines of the company’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas. “A batch of Model Ys fresh off the production lines of Giga Texas,” said Roberts just moments ago, sharing an image of a […]
Tesla announced on Monday morning it has now opened up all of its Superchargers in the Netherlands to non-Tesla vehicles. The company originally launched its Supercharger expansion in the Netherlands to non-Tesla vehicles back in November 2021, as part of a pilot. At the time, it was limited to select chargers in Sassenheim, Apeldoorn Oost, Meerkerk, Hengelo, Tilburg, Duiven, Breukelen, Naarden and Eemnes. […]
As Tesla’s China-built electric vehicles (EVs) are continuing to surge in the country and beyond, the automaker is denying rumors of a second location in the capital of Liaoning. Tesla has denied rumors lodged over the weekend saying it is building a new factory in Shenyang, China, according to CNEVPost. The rumor originally came from […]
Beep announced a partnership with companies Benteler and Intel-owned Mobileye to develop autonomous moving vehicles on Monday. The project is expected to begin deploying the autonomous movers as soon as 2023, and the company says the program plans to begin “addressing ‘micro-transit’ inequities in first and last-mile transportation networks, including road congestion, road safety and […]
As Tesla continues to expand its presence in the U.S., some users are celebrating the arrival of a showroom — and hopefully more — to a new location in Texas. Tesla is building a showroom in Lubbock, Texas, also expected by some to include a service center and Supercharger station, as detailed in a post […]
Following last year’s Inspiration4 mission with SpaceX, the company is again partnering with the mission’s commander to conduct research and raise more money. SpaceX will work on another mission, called the Polaris Program, to research tech during spaceflight and to raise funding for St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, according to a post on Monday from […]