Articles tagged "Tesla"

Potholes are a real nightmare for any driver - often difficult to avoid safely, they cause damage to tires, wheels and suspension. In the worst case scenario, they can even cause an accident. Tesla has now introduced a feature to its Autopilot that...

Good news for Toyota but not so good for its customers. The automaker has just crossed the threshold of 200,000 EVs sold which means its customers no longer qualify for the $7,500 federal tax credit. Toyota has joined Tesla and General Motors in...

When Tesla first announced the Model S Plaid it promised a truly groundbreaking performance and a 200 mph top speed. They delivered on the performance promise for sure but the top speed never really materialized. First cars had 163 mph top speed and...

Teslas are known for popularizing the massive touchscreen on the dashboard, but as Tesla owners know all too well, that screen can’t be used to connect your phone using Android Auto or Apple CarPlay. But what if there was a way, a very convoluted...

No more big changes are coming to the Cybertruck according to Elon Musk. The car we recently spotted is pretty much the car that will roll off the assembly line at Giga Texas. When it will roll off is a completely different question with an answer...

Tesla has now opened its Superchargers, in some capacity, to non-Teslas in most of the European countries it operates in. The latest five countries to join the Non-Tesla Supercharger Pilot program are Germany, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, and...

It has been less than 3 months since Tesla last increased the prices of its vehicles citing inflation and supply chain issues. Now the automaker is back at it with price hikes across the range and it has done it overnight without any warning. Let’s...

Samsung is reportedly becoming Tesla's biggest supplier of camera modules for its cars, following a recent multi-billion-dollar deal between the two companies. So far, LG Innotek was supplying around 70% of the camera modules Tesla needed, with...

BYD might be one of Tesla's biggest competitors in the very lucrative Chinese EV market, but it's also the country's second biggest battery maker - in fact it recently surfaced that it's buying its own lithium mines in Africa to ensure supply for...

Tesla has just officially opened the Moss Landing Megapack project in California. The energy storage facility is being built for PG&E and is one of the biggest such projects in the world with 730MWh capacity. It was switched on for the first time...

Elon Musk is not a stranger to tough decisions and after only recently telling all Tesla staff to return to office or leave the company, he has just sent a gloomy looking email to the executives of the company. The email was titled: “pause all...

On Wednesday Tesla officially filed an application to expand the Giga Berlin to adjacent land to its current location. Currently Giga Berlin sits on 300 hectares (741 acres) and the company wants to add another 100 hectares (250 acres) of land to...

Tesla is seeding a new software update (2022.16.0.2) to its fleet of cars that brings a few key improvements. The main one is a better navigation energy prediction, which will take into account forecasted crosswind, headwind, humidity, and ambient...

Today Tesla has released the latest version of its Full Self Driving (FSD) beta software to those cars which are enrolled in the testing program. Currently there are around 100,000 owners that are actively testing Tesla's FSD software, and the...

Tesla has opened its Supercharging stations to other EVs in five new countries - Austria, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, bringing the total of countries where its Non-Tesla Supercharger Pilot program is operating to 8. It was previously...

The American RV maker Bowlus has tested the Tesla Model X towing the Terra Firma RV, a 4,000 lbs (1,814 kg) and 8.25 meter (27.1 foot) long camping trailer. The test was carried out in real life conditions, with highway driving at speed limits of 55...

According to officials from Shanghai, Tesla’s factory, despite still working a single shift, has already reached 45% of its production capacity. Shanghai has been in a COVID lockdown for a while now with manufacturers and component suppliers...

Tesla is having talks with the Indonesian government since 2020, initially it was only the nickel venture that was discussed but the most recent rumors point to the discussions about a fully fledged battery manufacturing facility in Indonesia. Elon...

Yes, we all know Tesla is not that good at making deadlines but at the same time we can’t really argue that once they deliver the wait is usually worth it. Tesla Semi has been promised to truckers for years, last year deliveries were said to start...

Tesla has been trying to expand into the Indian market for over half a decade, taking "pre-orders" since 2016. It has been negotiating with the government for over a year and it looks like the outcome is not really positive - neither for Tesla or...