Tesla Owner Builds Awesome DIY Outdoor Charger [PICS]

Tesla fans have been known to get crafty surrounding their at-home charging setups, but a new DIY charger project takes this idea to the next level. One Tesla owner built a custom outdoor charging station at their home, according to a post on Reddit. The charger features a wood post on top of a concrete […]

Tesla Model 3: Britain’s Best-Selling Car in June

Tesla’s Model 3 has remained the most popular electric car in a number of countries around the world, and in the United Kingdom, the car has clinched the title of June’s top-selling vehicle. The Tesla Model 3 was named Britain’s top-selling vehicle in June with 5,468 units sold, according to Yahoo Finance. The electric vehicle […]

Tesla Owner Drives 248,000 Miles on One Set of Brake Pads

Tesla’s regenerative braking automatically uses the electric vehicle’s (EV’s) motor to convert kinetic energy into electricity to both charge the battery and reduce wear on a person’s brakes – and it’s also one of Tesla’s most popular features. In a new update, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said that regenerative braking “means brake pads almost […]

Oklahoma’s Cherokee Nation Now Using SpaceX Starlink Internet

Starlink, a satellite-based internet company from SpaceX, offers the greatest connectivity improvements to rural and remote communities, and in a recent update, the company is now offering better speeds to the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma has started installing SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet to help increase connectivity throughout the region, according to a […]

Tesla Model Y Pure Vision Autopilot Impresses in Rainy Test Drive [VIDEO]

In a recently published YouTube video, Kevin Smith shares part two of his experience driving his camera-dependent, radar-less 2021 Model Y in the rain to see how Autopilot holds up with changing weather conditions. Tesla removed radar from the 2021 Model Y and Model 3 with units delivered in May, replacing it with the camera-based Pure […]

Porsche Recalls Taycan EV Globally, Over Sudden Power Loss Issue

Porsche has announced a recall of all 43,000 units of its Taycan electric vehicles (EVs) across the globe over a confirmed issue involving sudden, unexpected power loss to the entire vehicle — reports Autoblog. The recall covers all Taycan units produced and delivered by June 2021. According to Porsche, each of the recalled cars will […]

Tesla FSD 9 Beta is ‘Shipping Soon’ Says Elon Musk, Again

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta 9 is supposed to come out soon, as promised numerous times by CEO Elon Musk. On Saturday morning, Musk responded to a tweet from Zack (@BLKMDL3), to say, “Haha, FSD 9 beta is shipping soon, I swear!”. Zack shared a picture of his renamed Tesla Model 3 to “two weeks”, a […]

GM to Source U.S.-Based Lithium for Next-Gen EV Batteries

General Motors announced a multi-million dollar strategic investment in and commercial collaboration with Controlled Thermal Resources (CTR) to source locally extracted, low-cost lithium in a press release on Friday. At its Hell’s Kitchen Lithium and Power development in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field, located in Imperial, California, CTR is working on a closed-loop process to […]

New Tesla Superchargers in the U.S., Canada Overview: June 26-July 2

Courtesy of data from Supercharge and the TMC Forums, here’s a list of all the new Tesla Supercharger stations that went live in the U.S. this week: Date Opened Location Number of Stalls Power Rating Official Listing June 28, 2021 The Mountain Mile at 2655 Teaster Lane, Pigeon Forge, TN 12 250 kW Tesla June 28, 2021 […]

Tesla Cybertruck Will Have Rear Wheel Steering, Confirms Elon Musk

In response to a tweet congratulating Tesla and CEO Elon Musk on yet another record-breaking quarter while also probing for information on the Cybertruck, Musk said that the highly anticipated all-electric pickup truck will feature 4-wheel steering for increased maneuverability. Friday afternoons are usually Tesla design studio time. Cybertruck will be almost exactly what was […]