It’s public knowledge Tesla plans to launch a subscription for its Full Self-Driving Autopilot add-on, but could it coming sooner rather than later? According to Reddit user Callump01 on Saturday, the latter stated, “Did some reverse engineering on the app and Tesla looks to be preparing for subscriptions?”, then shared a screenshot of what appears […]
If your Tesla has 2020.36 installed, a new feature now informs you when your Phone key is disconnected, warning you “Walk-Away lock unavailable”, according to the message. “Phone key disconnected – lock manually”, reads the alert, shared by a user on Reddit. The new warning for Tesla owners means they will now know if their […]
Update: Nikola founder Trevor Milton has announced he has resigned, sharing a note on Twitter at 11:21pm on late Sunday evening: https://twitter.com/nikolatrevor/status/1307927801966866438 Some big news on Sunday night, if indeed true. According to Freight Waves, the site reports Nikola founder Trevor Milton has apparently resigned: Sources close to the embattled fuel cell truck manufacturer are […]
Drone footage recently published on YouTube by Oneshot Creative gives us a visual account of the construction progress made on Nikola Corporation’s $600 million production facility in Coolidge, Arizona. Nikola Corp. broke ground on this project on July 23, 2020. Being built on a 430-acre chunk of land located off U.S Highway 87 on East Houser […]
In a recent YouTube video documenting the progress made in the construction of Tesla’s Berlin Gigafactory, Giga Berlin revealed that contractors have now broken ground on an additional 5 hectares of land for a transformer substation. Construction on the Giga Berlin site, located some 20 miles south-east of central Berlin, is currently underway. Following in […]
A cluster of six giant Tesla batteries was used to supply power to British households for the first time in history, reports Bloomberg. The Holes Bay energy storage project in Dorset, U.K., consists of six of Tesla’s gargantuan Megapack batteries. The cluster of Megapack batteries can store energy generated by sources of renewable energy, and […]
Image via u/StreamKimPetras Tesla has quietly brought back Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) as an in-app purchase Autopilot Upgrade, available for $4,000 USD, targeting older models that do not the functionality. Enhanced Autopilot brings Navigate on Autopilot, Auto Lane Change, Autopark and Summon, at the cost of $4,000 in the United States, spotted on late Friday by […]
After success in the electric car charging business in Norway and other parts of northern Europe, Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. is now looking to make a move on the EV charging market in North America, reports BNN Bloomberg. Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Couche-Tard owns Circle K–a global chain of convenience stores. According to CEO Brian […]
Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting, aptly dubbed Battery Day, takes place September 22, 2020, after being pushed back due to the ongoing pandemic. While there’s rampant chatter of new entry-level models and a revolutionary million-mile battery, both may be a ways away. Patrick Hummel, analyst at the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS), detailed what we can expect to […]
Image credit: u/skaag from Reddit If you live in Santa Monica, California, the Tesla Supercharger in the city is set to get a major upgrade in 2021. According to numerous Tesla owners, the existing Supercharger at Santa Monica Place is showing a sandwich board that reads, “28 V3 stalls coming” and “Santa Monica 2021”, as […]
Tesla has been making some major changes to its designs recently, and the newest update comes to us from its Giga Berlin factory. As reported by Teslarati, a new manufacturing process is set to happen at Tesla’s Giga Berlin which will use a single cast for the front of the Model Y. Similar casting machines […]
Comparisons between Tesla CEO and entrepreneur Elon Musk, and late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs have been circulating quite a bit recently. When asked if he thought Elon Musk was the new Steve Jobs, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates told Bloomberg that the comparison was a “gross oversimplification.” Gates told the reporter, “If you know people personally, […]
The Canadian government has announced a new $117,755 CAD ($89,360 USD) investment to launch 25 new electric vehicle chargers to Whistler, British Columbia, has come to fruition. The winter sport destination and former site of the 2010 Winter Olympics will now has EV chargers installed at public locations such as: main parking access to Whistler […]
A brand new electric vehicle (EV) racetrack record has just been set. In a recent video released by YouTube EV channel The Kilowatts and shared on Twitter by Unplugged Performance, a Lucid Air is shown beating the Tesla-held record at the Laguna Seca racetrack. The previous record on the Laguna Seca track was earned by […]
Tesla (TSLA) has just been given another price target increase from Wall Street analyst Alex Potter, as reported by Barron’s. The Piper Sandler analyst raised his price target from $515 from $480 a share, citing energy storage, increasing battery capacity, and, oddly, CEO Elon Musk’s compensation package as reasons the company would be successful. Musk’s […]