Following up on General Motors’ (GM) plans to become all-electric by 2035, the company has shared plans to build a network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations GM announced plans on Tuesday to build 40,000 EV charging stations across the U.S. and Canada, according to Reuters. The project will be funded as a piece of […]
Tesla unveiled designs for its AI training supercomputer D1 Chip in August, and now the company has released a detailed report of the program, dubbed “Project Dojo” internally. On Tuesday, Tesla officially released a whitepaper for Project Dojo, to which @Elon Musk responded saying, “This is more important than it may seem at first.” @Musk […]
In a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent on Monday, U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) head called on Tesla to fulfill past recommendations in which Tesla was asked to limit where the company’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving system can operate, according to MarketWatch. The letter also asked Tesla to put more parameters in […]
Jaguar plans to go all-electric by 2025, and with electric vehicle (EV) Land Rover variants coming as soon as 2024, and in order to do so, the company will need to significantly drop its supply chain emissions – though a new report shows that won’t happen yet this year. Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has agreed […]
Tesla and SpaceX head Elon Musk’s net worth is now greater than the total valuation of the fossil fuel company ExxonMobil, according to CNN. With Musk’s net worth touching $289 billion USD as of Monday, ExxonMobil’s market value is only $272 billion USD, even as new EVs begin to overtake gas cars as the most […]
Interbrand has released its 2021 Best Global Brands report, detailing the top brands worldwide, including Tesla. Elon Musk’s automaker saw the biggest leap in brand rankings, seeing its value increase by a 26-point rise to 14th spot, placing it behind Louis Vuitton and ahead of Facebook, in a 184% jump. “Tesla’s meteoric rise was achieved […]
Tesla started rolling out its 2021.36.5.5 software update tonight for numerous owners (including those in Australia), as noted by services @Teslafi and also @Teslascope. Software version 2021.36.5.5 was just detected on a Tesla Model 3 Performance in California United States on https://t.co/uh4cmhSoAQ. Follow the release at https://t.co/w2jbOhlIQb — TeslaFi (@teslafi) October 25, 2021 As for […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed Hertz paid full price for its massive 100,000 Model 3 fleet, with no discounts. Responding to a tweet earlier on Monday evening, Musk said, “to be clear, cars sold to Hertz have no discount. Same price as to consumers.” To be clear, cars sold to Hertz have no discount. […]
Hertz announced on Monday it would start electrifying its rental fleet by ordering 100,000 Tesla Model 3 electric vehicles, set to be delivered by the end of 2022. The deal is said to be worth about $4.2 billion dollars, according to Bloomberg. As for how existing Tesla owners can rent Hertz vehicles? The company’s website […]
Let’s take a look at all the new Supercharger installations that opened up across the globe this past week, courtesy of data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing Oct. 19, 2021 3035 Clarence Ave S, Saskatoon, SK, Canada 6 250 kW Tesla Oct. 19, 2021 109 Blue […]
Earlier on Monday morning, shares of Tesla opened to new all-time highs, and eventually the company’s market cap touched $1 trillion for the first time ever, when shares reached a historic $998.74. Tesla joined Apple, Microsoft, Saudi Aramco, Alphabet and Amazon as the only companies to reach a $1 trillion market share. Breaking: Tesla is […]
Following glowing first reviews for the Lucid Air Dream Edition, the company is officially set to deliver the first units of the vehicle to its customers later this month. The Lucid Air Dream Edition will reportedly deliver its first units to customers later this month at an October 30 delivery event, held at Lucid’s California […]
An abnormal and torrential rainstorm in Zhengzhou, China at the end of July rendered over 400,000 vehicles useless, and among them are a handful of Tesla’s electric vehicles (EVs). As a result, Tesla has officially locked the DC fast-charging abilities of a number of its vehicles affected by the flooding, according to a report from […]
Tesla was set to respond to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA’s) probe by last Friday, either requesting an extension or completing the questions in the agency’s 11-page letter – and a new report shows that the company has now partially responded to the investigation. On Friday, Tesla submitted a partial response to the […]
As Tesla’s presence continues to grow in what is the world’s largest auto market, the company is continuing to expand its developments even within Shanghai. On Monday, U.S. automaker Tesla announced that it has officially built a research center and a separate data center in Shanghai, where its Gigafactory is also located, according to Reuters. […]
