Articles tagged "Tesla"

Not so long ago we all heard and watched news from China with owners blaming their cars for causing accidents. Most claims focused on faulty brakes and some even went as far as accusing Tesla cars of accelerating randomly. The automaker’s reputation...

According to an internal memo seen by Reuters, Tesla was forced to stop the majority of production today at its Shanghai facility. It is the latest in a long running series of supply chain issues that trouble the entire industry. Tesla has just...

Canadians woke up this morning to find out that the price of Tesla’s Full Self Driving Capability (FSD) has gone up by CA$2,200. It wasn’t cheap to begin with at CA$10,600, but now those who didn’t take advantage of lower pricing will have to shell...

Tesla has finally updated both the Model S and Model X with swiveling screens, we know the hardware has been installed in those cars for a while now but finally the software side of things has been updated. Here’s a video of the screen in action...

Tesla's brand-spanking-new Giga Berlin factory is pretty huge as it is, occupying 300 hectares of land, which makes it among the largest commercial properties in the German state of Brandenburg. And yet, it's only going to get bigger, as a new...

The US saw a record-breaking first quarter of 2022 with a total of 208,411 EVs sold. That brings the total of electric vehicles sold in the US since 2011 to more than 2 and half million cars. As usual, it was California's high EV adoption...

The 800V architecture is all the rage these days, with Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Audi, and Porsche all using it for their EVs. Tesla, however, has been a holdout, at least so far, but that may very well change in the near future. During the Q&A...

That’s $3 billion in profit, $1 billion a month or about $33 million a day - in operating profit. This is when every manufacturer out there is struggling with chain supply issues and shortages of raw materials. Even the factory lockdown in China...

This year has started with three price rises for Tesla and we are sure that’s not the end of it. As Tesla is getting bigger and bigger, the costs are getting higher and the pursuit of profits is intensifying. The victim - Tesla’s original policy of...

Did you enjoy Cyber Rodeo? We did, as usual Tesla put on an amazing show but the fun didn’t stop anyone at Giga Texas from working. In fact the first deliveries have already started. Happy owners sharing their joy on social media: Tesla is...

After only recently adjusting prices due to inflation for all models, now Tesla was forced to further increase the price of Model 3. This increase affects only models with nickel based batteries, so all Long Range Model 3 will add $1,000 to their...

Without braking any windows this time, Elon Musk confirmed that the Cybertruck will enter production at the newly unveiled Texas Gigafactory. During the Cyber Rodeo that celebrated the opening of the new factory, Elon spoke at length about the...

Norway is on the run - electric run. Their plan is to have only electric cars sold by 2025 and it looks that they will achieve the target much earlier. They threw caution out the window, stopped worrying about range, cold temperatures and became the...

In its Q1 2022 report, Tesla confirmed it broke another record for deliveries. Even though the company's CEO, Elon Musk, said on Twitter that it was an "exceptionally difficult quarter" due to supply chain issues of varies origins. Tesla was even...

Tesla has reportedly stopped production at its Gifactory in Shanghai due to the city's surge in COVID-19 cases. The move is part of a mandatory two-stage lockdown of the 26 million city by the government. The Gigafactory will be closed for up to...

In a recent interview, JB Straubel tried to answer one of the most important questions about EVs - how long will their batteries last. The short answer is at least 15 years but, of course, there are other factors involved in this. JB Straubel is...

Tesla's new factory in Europe is now open. Officially called Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg, the $5.5 billion dollar plant will produce around 54,000 cars in 2022, up to 280,000 in 2023, and ramp-up to 500,000 by 2025. Gigafactory Berlin already has...

This is the second time Tesla increasing its prices for the Model 3 and Y this month but this time around, it's also upping the price tags of its Model S and X cars too. Although the price hikes are made rather quietly, the company's CEO, Elon Musk,...

It was expected that the rising price of gas would push well-to-do buyers towards EVs. And it seems that's already happening in certain parts of the US this week. According to a reported insider, talking to Electrek, Tesla has enjoyed a huge...

In an open letter sent to two US senators from the Democratic Party, Senior Director of Tesla Rohan Patel tries to convince the ruling party that the current Autopilot and Full Self-Driving features are safe. This letter comes as a response to an...