Articles tagged "tesla"

Tesla is getting into the holiday spirit and is giving its customers a 30-day trial of its Enhanced Autopilot as a present. Reports confirm its availability in Australia and New Zealand, but it will likely be rolled to other supported...

According to an employee familiar with the matter, Tesla plans to implement a hiring freeze and start a round of layoffs in Q1 2023 in anticipation of worsening macroeconomic conditions. Tesla tried to freeze hiring in mid-2022 but was fast to...

In a recent interview with Reuters, VP of PepsiCo Mike O’Connell confirmed the company is planning to have 100 Tesla Semi electric trucks in its fleet before the end of 2023. That ambitious plan is met with an infrastructure rollout - new 750 kW...

The order backlog for Tesla vehicles is dropping and not by small margins - compared to October when there were estimated 285,000 orders in the pipeline, November was the lowest month in over a year with just 190,000 orders left unfulfilled. Is that...

Consumer Reports has published its yearly reliability report and has some interesting findings. The company gathers data from hundreds of thousands of vehicle owners from the US to build a picture of the reliability of different models. While...

Lucid built the Air Sapphire specifically to beat the new Tesla Model S Plaid, and so the big question is - did it succeed? To find out, the folks over at Hagerty Media thought up one of the most insane drag races of all time. Picture this. A...

Tesla delivered on its promise to integrate Steam into its electric cars and as of now the service is available both in Model S and Model X vehicles. Last time we heard about it was July, Elon Musk was promising to release a demo some time in August...

At the beginning of this month, the Tesla Semi finally became reality, with FritoLay and Pepsi taking the first deliveries at a specially orchestrated event. Now that the truck is ready for the life on the road, Tesla wants more companies to order...

A judge in Washington ordered Tesla to upgrade a customer's self-driving computer free of charge as the company was found guilty of "false advertising". The customer in question has a Model 3 with a Hardware 2.5 computer and was unable to subscribe...

Thailand is one of those markets where cars are excruciatingly expensive thanks to import duties and local taxes. Tesla hasn't officially sold its cars in the country but despite that there are plenty of them on the roads, even the Bangkok Police...

Following last month’s testimony in court from James Murdoch, Tesla director, that Elon Musk already identified a potential new CEO for the company, the latest report from PingWest claims it is Tom Zhu Xiaotong who is going to get the job. Zhu is...

Elon Musk’s controversial approach to autonomous driving has just been made even more confusing. Last year Tesla announced it was removing radars from all of its vehicles and that from now on it was going to purely rely on the cameras for its Tesla...

Tesla just pushed a software update that enhances the popular Sentry Mode. The so-called Sentry Mode works as a smart surveillance system of the car, preventing vandalism and theft or at least giving the police a helping hand when identifying the...

The rumors of an updated and improved Tesla Model 3 have been swirling around the Internet for a while now, the project allegedly known internally as “Highland”. A Twitter user in Santa Cruz spotted a camouflage Model 3, which gives even more...

During today's Tesla Semi Delivery Event, the company surprisingly announced that the new 1MW charging tech supported by the new Semi will also be integrated into the upcoming Cybertruck. Thanks to the new "immersion cooling tech", the...

Rather than focusing on delays and talking about how many years it took Tesla to actually deliver the Semi to its first customer - let’s just talk about the truck itself and what it really can do for the industry. Elon Musk claimed last night that...

It took CharIN (Charging Interface Initiative) a few weeks to respond to Tesla’s offer for its NACS charging solution to be adapted as the global standard. As a reminder, Tesla opened up its charging technology to any company wishing to use it and...

A few days ago a report claimed Tesla's next Gigafactory may be located in South Korea, as CEO Elon Musk talked to President Yoon Suk-yeol about this. At that time, Yoon promised that his government was willing to actively improve any regulations...

Initially, Tesla's mobile app required you to go inside the car when a new update was available, but recently the company changed that and allowed users to install the new version of the app anywhere. However, the changelog after the update was...

It feels like Tesla has left it to the very last minute - managing to complete the first 500-mile trip with a fully loaded trailer 2 days before the official deliveries begin. At the same time it is a vindication of the whole team’s effort to...