Volvo plans to build its upcoming crossover EV at its Ridgeville, South Carolina plant, according to unnamed sources speaking with Automotive News. Though it doesn’t yet have a public name, the electric crossover is internally termed V546 and is expected to be the company’s third battery-electric vehicle (BEV), ahead of Volvo’s plans to go all-electric […]
SpaceX is renaming its Dragon recovery ships to celebrate two female astronauts. The names on SpaceX’s Dragon recovery ships have been painted over, with the company set to rename them, Megan and Shannon, after the company’s first two female astronauts, according to @SpaceOffshore. The post also points out that the change comes just six months […]
Electric pickup trucks are just beginning to be revealed and released by automakers, and one vehicle company is doing a little extra work to collect feedback from its customers. Ram is collecting input from fans ahead of an expected 2024 release of its Ram 1500 EV truck, as part of a new social media campaign. […]
President Biden announced that Australian EV charger manufacturer Tritium will build a charger production facility in Tennessee, according to Automotive News. The announcement took place alongside Tritium CEO Jane Hunter on Tuesday, who said the company chose to invest in the U.S. market after seeing demand for EVs increase following Biden’s infrastructure plan last year. […]
As electric vehicles (EVs) shift to become the best-sold vehicles in the years to come, one European automaker has announced new investments for upgrading a production facility to be more EV-forward. Volvo announced plans on Tuesday to invest SEK 10 billion ($1.09 billion) into its manufacturing plant in Torslanda, Sweden to develop its next-generation of […]
Tesla’s newest Superchargers are constantly being added, but this week fans are praising the automaker for how quickly it restored a Supercharger station following an incident with cable thieves. Tesla’s Oakhurst, California Supercharger station (8 stalls; up to 250kW) is back up and running just days after each stall had its cables cut, according to […]
According to CNBC, Tesla continues to deal with the ongoing chip shortage, this time excluding a redundant part from the steering racks of select Model 3 and Model Y cars made at the company’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, China. Unnamed sources claim Tesla shipped tens of thousands of cars in China, Australia and Europe with a […]
The Boring Company has completed the first station in the expansion of its Las Vegas Hyperloop, company founder Elon Musk said in a tweet on Sunday. The new station is the Boring Company’s first outside the Las Vegas Convention Center campus, which houses 1.7 miles and three stations of the Hyperloop that became operational in […]
Ford Motor Co.-owned luxury car brand Lincoln has a long and arduous road ahead in its transition to battery electric vehicles (BEVs) — reports an Automotive News editorial. Lincoln shift to EVs will be toughest pivot yet https://t.co/TwlvEELxIt pic.twitter.com/d6nU59e9uy — Automotive News (@Automotive_News) February 7, 2022 Lincoln turns an entire century old this year, and […]
Image via @Brangwyn With today’s 2022.4.5 software update, Tesla has launched its Car Colorizer feature outside of China for the first time. According to 2022.4.5 release notes shared by Brangwyn (@Brangwyn) in Canada, we see release notes add Regenerative Braking in Autopilot, Car Colorizer and Save Dashcam Clips. Oh hello. 2022.4.5 CAR COLOURISER! @teslascope @DriveTeslaca […]
Tesla has started rolling out its 2022.4.5 software update as noticed by @Teslascope, which is expected to fix a seatbelt chimes issue as part of a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) safety recall. This 2022.4.5 update is confirmed to be rolling out in Canada and the USA, notes @Teslascope and @TeslaFi. Last week, Tesla […]
YouTube channel ‘Met God in Wilderness’ has shared its latest ongoing flyovers of Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California. The video shared on Monday and filmed today, shows a short glimpse of Tesla’s Cybertruck at Fremont, seen at the beginning of the video. We don’t get a very good look at the Cybertruck (via @SawyerMerritt). https://youtu.be/9INjWECFJyo […]
Update Feb. 8, 2022: According to George Doddworth, the husband of Christine Doddworth below, he is casting heavy doubts on this unofficial speed run. Chalk this up as something that didn’t happen as explained by situation_coyote, whose Instagram has since been deleted. === One Tesla Model S Plaid owner unofficially set a new record for […]
Tesla faces continued legal battles as the company has revealed that it received a subpoena from a U.S. financial regulator last year. The automaker shared that it received a subpoena from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday, according to its 10-K filing reported by MarketWatch. Tesla said in the filing that the subpoena […]
A local bowling alley in Ann Arbor, Michigan is set to close in April and reopen as a Tesla Service Center, according to M Live (via Reddit). The lot is located on 3530 Jackson Road in Ann Arbor, with the bowling alley having been sold to real estate developers who are planning to turn the […]
