Articles tagged "tesla"

Only last week we learned that Tesla is finally venturing into the world of advertising, and now we have what looks like a first, albeit early, result. The official Twitter account of Tesla Asia just published a short video of a Tesla Model 3 owner...

Tesla scored a rare victory in a legal case that is being watched by other manufacturers, the automotive franchise industry, and other states. The case revolves around the highly contested right to sell vehicles directly to customers. Tesla...

Last year, Tesla asked the Indian government to lower the import tax on cars, since it can be as high as 100%. The government refused, preferring that the carmaker build its vehicles inside the country, while Tesla itself wanted to test the market...

Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting was held yesterday at Giga Texas, and Elon Musk, in his usual manner, sent the world into a tailspin when he confirmed Tesla is working on two new “products.” Elon Musk took to the stage to further explain the...

During Tesla's annual shareholder meeting yesterday, Elon Musk shared some long-term and short-term plans for the company. And in addition to the good news, there were some bad ones too. Musk said that Tesla is "building" another EV that will be...

Tesla’s Giga Shanghai is about to get much bigger - the company has applied for a substantial expansion of the production facility. According to Reuters’ reports, the company plans to add another production line that, for the first time in Tesla’s...

According to Bloomberg, trial production of the updated Tesla Model 3 is nearing its end at Giga Shanghai. Tesla is so protective of the details, it has banned all mobile phones from the production line, and workers involved in the trial assembly...

Tesla is facing a new class action lawsuit in the US District Court of the Northern District of California. The court filing claims that the company issued a software update that, unbeknownst to Model S and Model X owners, depleted their battery...

During its recent visit to the US, Samsung's Executive Chairman Lee Jae-yong met with Tesla's CEO Elon Musk to discuss future partnership involving automotive chips. According to people familiar with the matter, Tesla is looking for a supplier of...

Tesla is trying to catch up to the rest of the automotive field with its driver monitoring. While other automakers have been using cameras for a while now to ensure the driver is paying attention to the road, Tesla has been relying on steering wheel...

Reports are surfacing on Tesla owners' forums that vehicles booked in for routine servicing have had the radar sensors removed without the owner’s request. Few people questioned Tesla technicians who replied they were simply following the latest...

Tesla is issuing a voluntary recall of all vehicles sold in China between January 12, 2019, and April 24, 2023. The company will push an OTA update to 1,104,622 vehicles beginning May 29 to address the “energy recovery braking strategy.” It’s an...

Tesla will not bring back the Model S and Model X to the UK or Ireland. The carmaker has confirmed that it won't make right-hand drive versions of the two cars and that people that have pre-ordered will be offered a choice between £2,000 (€2,000...

Tesla has raised the US price of the Model Y, Model S, and Model X, but left the price of the Model 3 unchanged. On Tesla's site, the Model S and X are now $1,000 more expensive, while the Y is $250 more than it was yesterday. Those represent a...

The global plug-in market kept booming in March - a total of 1 million battery electric and plug-in hybrids sold - 28% jump over the same month of last year. Breaking down the numbers, around 823,000 EVs shipped - that's around 12% of all cars -...

The 5,000 units is a magic number for Tesla, the company considers it to be a sign of the factory actually mass-producing vehicles. It’s not the end goal, it’s a point at which apparently every Gigafactory becomes profitable as it further scales up...

The Cybertruck production has been pushed too many times to count in the last couple of years, but given how often we get to see the vehicle tested on the streets and Elon Musk talking about it, at least some customers will finally get to drive it...

Tesla’s Gigafactory in Berlin has the most advanced paint shop out of all Tesla’s manufacturing plants and the company is ramping up its marketing efforts for the Model Y now available to order in a Midnight Cherry red. This multilayer finish joins...

Tesla Model S finally has a chance to fully live up to its potential. Nobody in their right mind would ever dispute the Model S being powerful or fast but everyone knows how inadequate its standard brakes are. For that reason alone, and lack of...

Local German publication Teslamag is reporting that Giga Berlin began production of the Tesla Model Y equipped with the LFP battery pack manufactured by BYD. The report states that the battery is installed in the new base trim of the Model Y...