Following JPMorgan Chase’s lawsuit opened against Tesla last year with proposed damages in the amount of $162.2 million USD, Tesla is countersuing the bank for seeking a “pure windfall” in the original suit. Tesla announced plans to countersue JPMorgan Chase on Monday, claiming that the bank was acting in “bad faith” when proposing it was […]

China and other Asian countries are drawing near to their annual Lunar New Year celebrations, and this year, Tesla customers will do so with a new gift basket from Tesla commemorating the event. Tesla China sent a gift collection to some customers’ offices for China’s Lunar New Year, according to a photo of the gift […]

Tesla is reportedly set to upgrade its V3 Superchargers across North America to charging speeds up to 324kW from the current 250kW, according to a report from insider @Sawyer Merritt on Sunday evening.. Following the upgrade, according to Merritt, Tesla will begin to unveil its V4 Supercharging hardware soon after the update, expected to debut […]

Tesla’s 4680 next-generation battery cell concept is closer than ever to coming to fruition, with a recent update showing one of the automaker’s partners preparing to begin supplying new electric vehicle (EV) batteries. Panasonic plans to begin mass-producing Tesla’s next-generation 4680 lithium-ion batteries by 2023, which are expected to increase the range of EVs by […]

On late Sunday we saw what appeared to be pictures of Tesla’s latest Cybertruck design, and now it’s safe to say we’re seeing the latest look at the company’s new electric truck. According to drone pilot Joe Tegtmeyer, he spotted the Cybertruck unloading at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, January 23, 2022. “Cybertruck […]

Back in December, a new Tesla Cybertruck was spotted at the company’s Fremont factory in California. This new Cybertruck had a new rear bumper, black bed-liner (instead of steel, side mirrors, a longer front windshield and also a single windshield wiper on the driver’s side, plus revised taillight. Now, it appears we have a closer […]

In a recently published YouTube video, automotive inventory and information resource Edmunds compares the Tesla Model Y Performance — the higher-powered trim of the gold standard for all-electric crossovers, against Hyundai’s latest e-CUV — the IONIQ 5. The host noted at the very beginning of the video that this is “not an apples-to-apples comparison” between […]

Jeff Roberts shared a new construction update for Tesla’s American Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, with drone footage captured on Saturday, January 22, which turned out to be quite the busy Saturday at the site. Saturday marked day 549 of construction at Giga Texas. The video showcases some excavation work taking place in the North “cyber […]

YouTube channel and drone pilot, the_wolfpack_berlin, has shared a new construction update for the Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin, Brandenburg, with drone footage from Saturday, January 22. We can see Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg’s parking lot teeming with fully assembled Model Y Performance units throughout the video, but we’ve seen dozens of those parked outside the production facility […]

An apparent internal email sent out by Tesla to employees and shared on the German TFF forums (via @tesla_adri) suggests that the company has started accepting orders for Gigafactory Berlin-made Model Y Performance cars, with deliveries expected to start sometime in March. Screenshot of the internal mail for employees regarding the 2022 model changes for […]

Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta tester, Chuck Cook, has shared his latest video showcasing how FSD beta 10.9 handles unprotected left turns. Cook is again testing unprotected left turns from the same location, as he has done so with previous FSD beta versions. His unique setup offers various vantage points, with a front camera mounted […]

SpaceX has filed plans for a new 320,000 sq. ft. (29,728 sq. m) building at its “Roberts Road On-Site West” project in Cape Canaveral on the “Space Coast” of Brevard County, Florida (via @Harry__Stranger). The plans also propose two smaller, 20,400 sq. ft (1895 sq. m) buildings, along with a proposed 192,000 sq. ft. (17,837 […]

Elon Musk has offered to send over SpaceX Starlink terminals to the South Pacific island nation of Tonga in order to restore internet connectivity in the wake of a tragic natural disaster. Last week, a massive underwater volcanic eruption near Tonga and the resulting tsunami caused massive damage to local agriculture and industry, and also […]

Automotive publication Car and Driver on Friday published the results of a cabin heating test between a 2019 Tesla Model 3 Long Range and a gas-powered 2022 Hyundai Sonata N-Line, that sought to determine how long both cars could keep their cabins heated in subfreezing temperatures. The test was spurred on by a recent cold snap […]

On Friday afternoon, Tesla started accepting questions for its upcoming Q4 2021 earnings call question and answer period, set to take place next Wednesday, January 26, 2022 (via @SawyerMerritt). As of writing, there are currently already 1,237 questions submitted on the Say Technologies platform The top-upvoted question asked by “Anonymous Retail Investor” at the moment […]