Following news over the weekend that Tesla was considering building a service center in Lenexa, Kansas, the automaker has moved forward with a proposal to the city’s planning commission. Tesla has requested a service center in Lenexa, which would become the first Tesla repair shop in Kansas, according to the Kansas City Business Journal. The […]

The head of NIO’s Europe Operations says the company may be open to sharing its battery swap technology with other automakers, according to Automotive News Europe. Managing Director of NIO Europe Hui Zhang said to journalists at a Norwegian event last week that the EV startup was already talking to other automakers, without naming any […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk became Twitter’s largest stakeholder with a 9.2 percent stake in the company earlier this week, and now the social media company’s CEO has detailed a specific role Musk will fill. Musk has joined the Board of Directors at Twitter after becoming a stakeholder in the company, according to CNBC. After the […]

Roughly seven months after the Tesla Model Y was registered with Israel’s Ministry of Transport, Tesla has officially started taking orders for the all-electric crossover in the country through its website (via @ConnectingODots). Israelis looking to get a Model Y will have to pay a pretty steep premium for the electric vehicle (EV), though, much […]

Tesla’s yoke steering wheel in the Tesla Model S contains a button for the horn, located on the right side of the steering wheel. To honk the horn, owners need to press and hold the button. In some situations, owners are finding it hard to locate the horn button as there’s no physical raised button, […]

Yesterday we shared a video that compared a made in Germany Tesla Model Y Performance versus a made in China Model Y Long Range. One of the differences worth highlighting is the addition of lined front pocket doors on the Model Y Performance made at Giga Berlin. According to the video from Nico PQ – […]

Tesla continues to prep Giga Texas for its Cyber Rodeo grand opening event set for April 7, 2022. We saw some images of the site on Sunday, but now we have fresh teasers from Monday morning. According to new images shared on Monday by drone pilot Joe Tegtmeyer, we see preparations are moving along. Tesla’s […]

Tesla has started rolling out its 2022.4.5.21 software update, which brings Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.11.2 to testers. #FSDBETA 2022.4.5.21 incoming 🎉 pic.twitter.com/8gryNKbNQR — Brandon 🌎☮️🚗⚡️🔋 (@brandonee916) April 4, 2022 According to images of FSD beta 10.11.2 release notes shared on Reddit, they appear to be the same as the previous FSD beta 10.11,1 update, […]

Tesla’s Model Y Performance made in Berlin come with revised T1 Pirelli P-Zero PZ4 tires, as detailed in a pair of photos shared on Sunday (via Reddit). Pirelli’s T1 tires are a revised version of the company’s previous T0 tires, and they may include different compounds, structures and tread patterns, due to the way the […]

Here’s a list of all the new Tesla Superchargers that went live globally this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge.info and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing March 28, 2022 1 An der Autobahn Schkeuditz, Sachsen, Germany 16 250 kW Tesla March 29, 2022 The Waterway Point at 83 […]

Electric vehicles (EVs) are making their way through luxury vehicle markets, even in their infancy, and one high-speed luxury automaker has announced plans to unveil its first EV later this year. DeLorean Motor Company will reveal its concept EV on August 18, 2022, at the Awards Ramp at Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance during Monterey Car […]

Unplugged Performance shared footage from testing its Tesla Model 3 Ascension R at the Buttonwillow Raceway on Monday, as tested against a Porsche 991 GT2 RS. The two-minute video is shown from inside the cabin of the Model 3, as it completes a full lap at Buttonwillow. In the video’s description, Unplugged Performance says “The […]

Just a month after the U.S. approved new rules for self-driving vehicles, one semiconductor and wireless communications company has purchased a fellow self-driving software company to further expand its driver assistance systems. Qualcomm has acquired automated driving software company Arriver, according to a press release. The acquisition lets Qualcomm use Arriver’s computer vision, drive policies […]

After Hertz announced plans to purchase Tesla Model 3 units to lead electric vehicle (EV) adoption in the rental space last year, the company has shared a new partnership with a fellow EV automaker. Hertz has announced a strategic partnership with Polestar, with the rental company ordering the Polestar 2 for both its rental and […]

After Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s recent run-ins with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the billionaire entrepreneur has officially purchased some stake in Twitter in a surprising turn of events. Musk now owns a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, for a total of 73,486,938 shares worth around $2.89 billion, according to an SEC 13G filing […]