Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t necessarily known for getting along with people, and a feud between Musk and JPMorgan Chase’s CEO Jamie Dimon that has lasted for years has recently surfaced with some choice words on the internet. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that JPMorgan has lodged a lawsuit against Tesla, saying that […]

Here’s a list of all the new Supercharger locations 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 Nov. 16, 2021 Stasjonsveien 9, by Tunet kro, Fåvang, Norway 16 250 kW Tesla Nov. 16, 2021 The Delaware Water Gap […]

After Tesla’s software update 2021.36.8 brought Live Camera Access Sentry Mode to drivers in the U.S., the feature has yet to expand outside of the automaker’s home country. One user in Europe created their own Tesla’s Sentry Live Camera Access Mode using a third-party dashcam, as depicted in a video shared on Monday by @Sawyer […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is under the world’s microscope, being one of the wealthiest and highest-profile company heads around, and a new update shows that Musk is quick to send spontaneous updates to his employees at Tesla. Musk has been known, in particular, by his employees for his spontaneous mass communications, including two emails fired […]

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 […]