According to DW, the final round of discussions on public objections against Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory has officially come to a close (via @SawyerMerritt). The site is still on track for a December opening, pending final operating permits from local authorities that can be expected anytime now. The Gigafactory, located in Grünheide, Brandenburg, completed construction last month […]

Late Sunday evening, Elon Musk said in a tweet that the Tesla Model S Plaid will “probably” arrive in China “around March” of next year. The Tesla CEO was responding to a tweet from @JayinShanghai, who inquired when the Model S Plaid would be available in China after Musk raved about how “sickkkk” the all-electric […]

On Friday, Tesla filed for final approval of five of the production facilities at its under-development Gigafactory in Austin, TX, with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation and the Texas Appraisal Review Board (ARB) — via @SawyerMerritt. The filings disclose exact construction start and completion dates for each of the production sites, along with […]

According to Reddit user timdorr, Tesla has put at least 2,000 Model S units on a nationwide delivery hold as of Sunday, November 14, awaiting a mandatory firmware update that needs to be completed before they can be handed over to customers. The hold affects both the Model S Long Range, and the Model S […]

A Tesla employee has reportedly confirmed that a new Tesla software update (version 2021.36.8.7) that was spotted rolling out late Saturday evening is indeed Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.5. The update is being pushed to employee-owned vehicles for final checks before a full public release (via @teslascope). Provided that last-minute checks go well and we […]

According to Reddit user u/110110, the recently released update for the Tesla mobile app, version 4.3, adds a lot of additional delivery information for ordered vehicles that was previously only available on customers’ Tesla.com accounts (via @terjeholden). What’s more, the update also lets customers complete pre-delivery tasks such as adding insurance information and making the final payment […]

In a recently published YouTube video, Charging Chats puts Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.4 through the paces of a typical U.S. Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) road test for student drivers, with a driving instructor from the Courtesy Driving School in Michigan in the passenger seat (via InsideEVs). The road test included navigating a parking […]

On Friday, SpaceX announced that the static fire test for NASA’s experimental Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission had been completed successfully and that the pair are now targeting Tuesday, November 23 at 10:21 p.m PT for launch. NASA will intentionally crash the DART spacecraft into an asteroid to see if that is an effective […]

According to a Friday tweet from Karen Baumer (@phibetakitten), who owns both a Model 3 and a Model S, Tesla’s cabin User Interface (UI) has gained a pretty handy new feature: the ability to display exactly which stalls at a Supercharger site are currently ‘out of order’. https://twitter.com/phibetakitten/status/1461824835047153666 Prior to the change, the UI simply […]

Tesla has released its 2021.40.6 software update on Thursday evening, as noted by the @Teslascope service, detected on a 2021 Model S Plaid in Kentucky, United States. We noticed a new Tesla software update 2021.40.6 on a Model S Plaid (2021) in Kentucky, United States. View the rollout of this update here: https://t.co/ZmjaaN2gtr — Teslascope […]

Update Nov. 19, 2021, 6:26pm: everything is back online now: Should be coming back online now. Looks like we may have accidentally increased verbosity of network traffic. Apologies, we will take measures to ensure this doesn’t happen again. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 20, 2021 Can’t connect to your Tesla via the mobile app? You’re […]

Ford and Rivian had plans to jointly develop an electric vehicle together, but that idea has been canceled, confirmed both companies to Automotive News. According to Ford CEO Jim Farley, he cited “growing confidence” in the automaker’s ability to “win in the electric space”, in an interview on Thursday with the publication. Farley said Ford’s […]

Rivian’s first electric vans being tested by Amazon may have less range than expected, depending on the HVAC system’s heating and cooling operations. Details were reported from a driver to The Information, citing how the Rivian van’s battery drained 40% faster than normal, when heating or cooling was turned on. Rivan disclosed in recent filings […]

According to a tweet from the official Twitter account of Tesla’s Supercharging team (@TeslaCharging), the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s first Supercharger site in Alaska is now online. Supercharging goes to Alaska New Tesla Supercharger: Soldotna, AK (4 stalls) https://t.co/PKX4aoe0lM pic.twitter.com/WTadfeTlsK — Tesla Charging (@TeslaCharging) November 19, 2021 Tesla is rapidly expanding its Supercharger network across […]

Jessica Barraza, 38, has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Tesla, alleging “nightmarish” conditions of unchecked inappropriate behavior from coworkers at the electric vehicle (EV) maker’s factory in Fremont, California — reports Reuters. Barraza, who works night shifts at the Fremont factory as a production associate, says she endured “near-daily” catcalls and inappropriate touching during […]