Tesla has rolled out Live Chat for it’s MyTesla webpage, aiming to to help owners solve problems more efficiently. The page now includes a red chat bar located in the lower right corner of the screen that enables a live chat with a Tesla representative.
Consumer Reports has named Tesla America’s top car brand based on owner satisfaction, road tests, predicted reliability, and safety. Tesla placed eighth overall on the annual Brand Report Card, with only foreign brands besting the carmaker. Tesla’s overall score of 73 consisted of high marks for owner’s satisfaction and road-testing, but its reliability score took…
San Francisco has introduced legislation to require all new buildings and parking structures to be 100% EV ready. Under the 100 percent EV Ready ordinance all new residential and commercial buildings are to configure 10 percent of parking spaces to be “turnkey ready” for EV charger installation, and an additional 10 percent to be “EV…
An executive team shake-up was part of the news from Tesla’s Q4 2016 earnings report. Below are a few noteworthy items from the call. Tesla announced the resignation of CFO Jason Wheeler and the hiring of Deepak Ahuja, who served as Tesla’s CFO from 2008 until 2015. The Model 3 on track for initial production…
Motor Trend’s recent testing of the Tesla Model S P100D named it the fastest accelerating production car in the world – 0-60 mph in 2.275507139 seconds. But, the test also included a 0–100–0-mph. The result? The P100D captured a combined time of 10.2 seconds – 6.0 seconds to 100 mph and 4.2 more to stop…
Tesla announced that CFO Jason Wheeler has decided to leave the company in April to pursue opportunities in public policy. Wheeler will be replaced by Deepak Ahuja, who was Tesla’s first CFO and worked for the company for more than seven years before stepping away in 2015. Deepak will formally take over as CFO in…
Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division, has filed a lawsuit that claims a former engineer and current executive at Uber stole 14,000 confidential documents that were used to build Uber’s self-driving vehicles. The suit specifically points to Anthony Levandowski, who was influential in Google’s self-driving car efforts and later left the company to co-found Otto, a…
Construction costs for the Tesla Gigafactory in Nevada have crossed $1 billion, according to public records. BuildZoom, a site connecting construction contractors with homeowners, has been tracking permits filed for the project, which is expected to exceed $5 billion in total. Tesla has been issued 153 building permits from Storey County Community Development. The largest…