Articles tagged "tesla"

Tesla has started sending out a new software update to its cars, labeled 2022.40.1. It's currently rolling out, and it comes with a bunch of various enhancements here and there. Perhaps the most important is a promised improvement of charging...

The rumors were swirling for a couple of weeks that Tesla was considering lowering its prices in China and now they've been proven true. The Model Y dropped below RMB 300,000 and thus qualifying for EV subsidies. Tesla Model 3 in the entry RWD...

Tesla just released two new colors for its Model Y produced in Gigafactory Berlin. This in turn means that for now only customers buying the Model Y in Europe and the Middle East can get get the new colorways. The two new colors are Midnight Cherry...

Tesla Semi has entered the “early production” stage at the Reno factory in Nevada with first finished trucks heading to Pepsi. The class 8 electric truck deliveries will slowly ramp up from December and Tesla is expected to produce at least 50,000...

Last night’s earnings call from Tesla caused all sorts of ripples through the industry. Its shares are still nearly 6% down in the pre-market but there was a lot of good news and interesting announcements made during the call. Elon Musk himself...

The whole electric car world has been waiting for this moment, somehow Tesla’s performance is taken as a sign of how well or how bad the industry is doing. Tesla’s shares have been falling for the last couple of weeks but it was due to a wider...

Tesla's cars have aced every safety test, including Euro NCAP and Australia's ANCAP. More recently, the Model Y achieved an impressive safety score under Euro NCAP's new testing protocol. However, a known "Tesla hacker" revealed that Tesla...

Tesla is manufacturing only the Model 3 and Model Y in China. The two larger cars in its lineup went on sale in the country a long time ago, but the Plaid versions are yet to make it across. Elon Musk did promise that the Model S Plaid would be...

According to the German press, Tesla has set ambitious plans for its Giga Berlin factory. So far, in the first 8 months of this year, the company managed to sell 25,000 vehicles in Germany. That number puts Tesla at 16.5 percent of market share in...

A market research for September in Germany shows some promising results for the automotive industry in the country. The total amount of cars sold in September 2022 compared to the same month in 2021 grew 14,1% and 19.7% of those are fully...

Tesla's long-awaited Semi truck faced multiple delays. Initially, the plan was to start mass production in 2019, but multiple external and internal factors pushed that date back. One of the reasons outlined by the company's CEO, Elon Musk, was the...

Tesla's Autopilot feature has been under scrutiny for the last couple of years despite the company's efforts to improve the functionality. Tesla's vision of self-driving cars, however, largely differs from that of other automakers. It wants to...

Tesla confirmed its Q3 sales and production numbers and the company employees and shareholders have a lot of reasons to celebrate. The company delivered a record of 343,000 electric cars between July and September of this year. The production record...

Tesla employees at the Giga Berlin had good reasons to celebrate - for the first time in the history of this young manufacturing team, they have managed to produce 2,000 units of Tesla Model Y. It’s a very important milestone, both for the team...

A report has arrived from China that claims, by way of multiple unnamed sources, that Tesla is about to drop the price of the Model 3 and Model Y in China by as much as CNY 40,000 ($5,600/€5,750, converted). The Model 3 currently starts at CNY...

No, it’s not April’s Fool today, it’s just another day in the Twitterverse courtesy of one and only Elon Musk. Entertaining as usual, Elon took to his favorite social media platform and declared that Cybertruck will be “waterproof enough to serve...

When Tesla was in the early stages of negotiation with the German government, activists were against the company building its Gigafactory Berlin on the grounds of potential water contamination and other environmental issues that may arise. Well, a...

Tesla’s AI Day turned into an annual showcase of the company’s technology and progress in various disciplines, not necessarily connected to electric cars. Unlike Tesla’s Battery Day, the focus is more on advances in artificial intelligence and often...

Tesla opening its network of Superchargers to non-Tesla users has been amazing for some EV owners but it created unexpected traffic at some destinations. Tesla owners noticed as well that it was rather a one-way solution with non-Tesla electric cars...

Energy prices are going up to levels we have never seen before and there is no sign of respite. Those rising prices affect everyone without an exception and now Tesla announced that it is about to increase the rates at the Superchargers. It’s not...