Articles tagged "tesla"

Tesla is starting a free 30-day trial of FSD (Supervised) V14 in North America. This is meant for the 1.5 million Tesla owners, with HW4 cars, who haven't purchased FSD. FSD, of course, stands for "Full Self Driving", which is an outright lie, so...

Elon Musk just told the public that Tesla would "roughly double" the size of its Robotaxi pilot fleet in Austin, Texas, next month. This might seem like a win for users who struggle to hail one of these electric taxis. A closer look at the numbers...

An announcement from Tesla about its advanced driver assistance system, Full Self-Driving (Supervised), set off a brief wave of excitement across Europe. The EV maker claimed that the Netherlands' vehicle authority RDW had agreed to grant national...

The world's shift to battery power is accelerating, and the fight for supremacy in the EV market is tighter than ever. New figures show global sales of New Energy Vehicles (NEVs), which include all battery-powered and plug-in hybrid models, hit 5.39...

Tesla just hit a big speed bump on the way to fully self-driving robotaxis. Elon Musk confirmed a big delay for the company's next-generation AI5 chip. This new hardware, which Tesla sees as the key to unlocking true, unsupervised autonomy in its...

The latest reports from Texas suggest that the future where vehicles drive themselves safely and efficiently is still far away, at least for one major automaker. Tesla recently told federal regulators about three new accidents involving its Robotaxi...

A major shift is quietly happening on the assembly lines of America's biggest automakers. Giants like Tesla and General Motors are hitting the brakes on using Chinese-made parts for the cars they sell in the United States. Far from being just a...

The Tesla Model 3 and Model Y are the two most popular electric cars on the planet. Owners love their performance, range, and high-tech feel. But many drivers share one big complaint: the dashboard. Or rather, the lack of one. Tesla's design choice...

A massive shift might be coming for Tesla owners who own an iPhone. A new report claims the biggest name in electric cars is testing Apple CarPlay. This news comes as a shock to many people in the auto industry. For years, Tesla refused to add this...

Google Maps now shows live charger availability information for Tesla Superchargers, at least in North America. So if you search for Superchargers, you'll instantly see how many stalls are actually available, in real time, on the search results page...

A second Tesla program manager announced their departure from the company. The senior leader responsible for the best-selling Tesla Model Y followed the Cybertruck leader in stepping down, marking the end of eight-year career at the company. The...

Tesla, a company that wants to transition from making and selling electric cars to robotics and AI, is now trying out the rental business. The automaker has launched a new, in-house rental program, which is nothing like borrowing a car from Hertz or...

Tesla is facing a serious chill in China, with the American automaker's local sales hitting a wall in October and posting their worst performance in years. This slump comes even as the overall market for EVs in China continues to grow, leaving Tesla...

Tesla's Cybertruck program has lost its leader. Siddhant Awasthi, the head of the Cybertruck program, announced he is leaving the electric car maker after more than eight years. Awasthi, who was also put in charge of the Model 3 program last year,...

The Cybertruck was supposed to keep the Tesla hype train going for many years, but it failed at that rather miserably. Then came the Robotaxi - anything to keep the share price high. And while that one hasn't necessarily failed yet, it's also not a...

After the federal tax credit of $7,500 for new electric vehicles is no longer active, manufacturers are thinking of other creative ways to lure buyers into their showrooms. Tesla, being the biggest American EV manufacturer, has a new promo that lets...

Less than a month ago, Tesla introduced new, more affordable trims of its popular Model 3 and Model Y vehicles called Standard. However, the Model 3 Standard isn't exactly new as the trim has been on the streets of Europe for some time now, but the...

The Tesla Roadster is an electric car that feels more like a myth than a real machine at this point, but there still might be some life left in this fantasy. Suddenly, after years of silence and missed deadlines, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is making big...

Tesla has recalled 6,197 Cybertrucks that were part of the limited edition Foundation series. These were the first Cybertrucks to be delivered to customers, starting in late 2023. If you bought one of these, you had the option to get a full-width...

The future of driving, where software handles the heavy lifting, is already a reality. As electric cars move toward full automation, the way vehicle incidents are tracked by the government is changing as well. Tesla used to primarily report...