Articles tagged "Tesla"

Not a day goes by without lithium or Tesla being in the news, Tesla is not alone in the struggle to secure raw materials for battery production. The supply itself is not an issue, apparently we have plenty of lithium around the world. The issues are...

How can Tesla achieve its goal of selling 20 million cars a year by 2030? Building new factories and increasing production rate is just one part of the answer. How to find 20 million customers every year? By offering cheaper cars - that’s simple....

Tesla’s Giga Shanghai is cranking up the production at a steady pace, the factory only produces Model 3 and Model Y and recently lowered waiting times for the entry-level Model 3 down to 4 weeks. Now Model 3 RWD and Model 3 Performance had their...

A resident of San Francisco has filed a class action lawsuit against Tesla due to the phantom braking issue that was reported last fall. The problem forced Tesla to roll back the beta version of the FSD software and a federal investigation is in...

Tesla is not having much luck with its Full Self-Drive system. Once hailed as a pioneer and precursor of what is to come, now is being investigated by NHTSA following a number of accidents and criticism is mounting up. Not deterred, Tesla is...

Interesting development for Tesla car owners is coming from Starlink. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, confirmed that Starlink signed an agreement with T-Mobile to offer mobile coverage pretty much everywhere. The new service offered by T-Mobile...

With all the news around us constantly talking about prices of new electric cars rising, we are happy to report that now you can save at least €3,000 on a new Tesla Model Y. Happy Friday! Until now Tesla only offered two trims of the Model Y -...

Tesla will raise the price of its FSD software from $12,000 to $15,000 in North America starting September 5. However, the automaker will honor the old price for those who've ordered the FSD upgrade before September 5. The date coincides with the...

Quick look at Tesla’s website uncovered changes to the soon-to-be released Semi, the truck that will revolutionize the industry once it eventually hits the road. The pricing information is no longer available, which suggests painful news is on the...

According to the latest research from Canalys, the global EV market continued its rapid growth in the first half of this year. Year-over-year, the global market expanded 63% and the interesting bit about this is that Chinese sales account for 57% of...

After numerous delays due to various factors, including battery supply constraints in 2021, Tesla's Semi Truck may finally hit the streets by the end of this year. That's, at least, what the company's CEO said on Twitter. In a very short tweet,...

BYD is making good on its contract with Tesla to supply the blade batteries for Model Y. First batch of the batteries have already been delivered to Giga Berlin and the cars with this new technology will begin leaving the factory by the end of this...

On several occasions, Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, talked about plans of building a new Gigafactory in North America and he wasn't talking about another one in the US either. During a shareholders' meeting, he hinted that the next factory will be in...

Tesla is once again taking Model S and Model X orders in Europe, after a hiatus of more than eight months. Tesla decided to stop taking Model X and Model S orders outside of North America due to production issues. Those same issues caused a Model S...

With EVs taking off, there's currently a race to secure components going on between various makers. Some have taken a more direct, hands-on approach, like BYD buying its own lithium mines, others aren't going that far but still securing long-term...

You would be forgiven for thinking you have magically been transported to Japan. After all, hot food vending is as common over there as Hot-Dog stalls in New York. Tesla is finally listening to its customers who for years were begging to have...

Range anxiety is real with EVs, and it can definitely be triggered by inaccurate live range estimates shown by the car. Tesla knows this, which is why it's working on integrating a lot more data into its range estimates. With its newest software...

Tesla has expanded its own insurance to Utah and Maryland, making the service available in a total of 11 states. In 10 of those, excluding California, the insurance bases premiums on driver safety data. Tesla hasn't been able to pass its driver...

The Cybertruck from Tesla has to be the most delayed car ever and it has been controversial from the start, to say the least. Never mind its polarizing design or its bulletproof windows that got smashed live on stage. Tesla amassed a reported 3...

The financial report for Q2 is out and Tesla saw a decline in profits and sales. Yet it is also reflecting the fact that Tesla is maturing as a business and that’s a good thing. Let’s have a closer look at the numbers. First is the number...