Articles tagged "tesla"

Samsung is reportedly becoming Tesla's biggest supplier of camera modules for its cars, following a recent multi-billion-dollar deal between the two companies. So far, LG Innotek was supplying around 70% of the camera modules Tesla needed, with...

BYD might be one of Tesla's biggest competitors in the very lucrative Chinese EV market, but it's also the country's second biggest battery maker - in fact it recently surfaced that it's buying its own lithium mines in Africa to ensure supply for...

Tesla has just officially opened the Moss Landing Megapack project in California. The energy storage facility is being built for PG&E and is one of the biggest such projects in the world with 730MWh capacity. It was switched on for the first time...

Elon Musk is not a stranger to tough decisions and after only recently telling all Tesla staff to return to office or leave the company, he has just sent a gloomy looking email to the executives of the company. The email was titled: “pause all...

On Wednesday Tesla officially filed an application to expand the Giga Berlin to adjacent land to its current location. Currently Giga Berlin sits on 300 hectares (741 acres) and the company wants to add another 100 hectares (250 acres) of land to...

Tesla is seeding a new software update (2022.16.0.2) to its fleet of cars that brings a few key improvements. The main one is a better navigation energy prediction, which will take into account forecasted crosswind, headwind, humidity, and ambient...

Today Tesla has released the latest version of its Full Self Driving (FSD) beta software to those cars which are enrolled in the testing program. Currently there are around 100,000 owners that are actively testing Tesla's FSD software, and the...

Tesla has opened its Supercharging stations to other EVs in five new countries - Austria, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, and the UK, bringing the total of countries where its Non-Tesla Supercharger Pilot program is operating to 8. It was previously...

The American RV maker Bowlus has tested the Tesla Model X towing the Terra Firma RV, a 4,000 lbs (1,814 kg) and 8.25 meter (27.1 foot) long camping trailer. The test was carried out in real life conditions, with highway driving at speed limits of 55...

According to officials from Shanghai, Tesla’s factory, despite still working a single shift, has already reached 45% of its production capacity. Shanghai has been in a COVID lockdown for a while now with manufacturers and component suppliers...

Tesla is having talks with the Indonesian government since 2020, initially it was only the nickel venture that was discussed but the most recent rumors point to the discussions about a fully fledged battery manufacturing facility in Indonesia. Elon...

Yes, we all know Tesla is not that good at making deadlines but at the same time we can’t really argue that once they deliver the wait is usually worth it. Tesla Semi has been promised to truckers for years, last year deliveries were said to start...

Tesla has been trying to expand into the Indian market for over half a decade, taking "pre-orders" since 2016. It has been negotiating with the government for over a year and it looks like the outcome is not really positive - neither for Tesla or...

Not so long ago we all heard and watched news from China with owners blaming their cars for causing accidents. Most claims focused on faulty brakes and some even went as far as accusing Tesla cars of accelerating randomly. The automaker’s reputation...

According to an internal memo seen by Reuters, Tesla was forced to stop the majority of production today at its Shanghai facility. It is the latest in a long running series of supply chain issues that trouble the entire industry. Tesla has just...

Canadians woke up this morning to find out that the price of Tesla’s Full Self Driving Capability (FSD) has gone up by CA$2,200. It wasn’t cheap to begin with at CA$10,600, but now those who didn’t take advantage of lower pricing will have to shell...

Tesla has finally updated both the Model S and Model X with swiveling screens, we know the hardware has been installed in those cars for a while now but finally the software side of things has been updated. Here’s a video of the screen in action...

Tesla's brand-spanking-new Giga Berlin factory is pretty huge as it is, occupying 300 hectares of land, which makes it among the largest commercial properties in the German state of Brandenburg. And yet, it's only going to get bigger, as a new...

The US saw a record-breaking first quarter of 2022 with a total of 208,411 EVs sold. That brings the total of electric vehicles sold in the US since 2011 to more than 2 and half million cars. As usual, it was California's high EV adoption...

The 800V architecture is all the rage these days, with Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, Audi, and Porsche all using it for their EVs. Tesla, however, has been a holdout, at least so far, but that may very well change in the near future. During the Q&A...