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“What about the glass? It seems like a vulnerability,” Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said during the Cybertruck debut. It’s a good question. Glass is vulnerable. For instance, if you throw a heavy steel ball at a truck window, it would probably shatter. “It’s transparent metal glass,” Musk...

The Model Y is the next big thing for Tesla. Chief Elon Musk has said he expects the all electric SUV to outsell all of the automaker’s other offerings. Among Tesla’s announcements during Wednesday’s Q4 earnings call were some exciting updates on the Model Y. Production and Delivery...

Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report beat expectations with $7.38 billion in revenue and a message that the company expects to be cash flow positive going forward. The company added $930 million in cash and cash equivalents in Q4 to $6.3 billion. The company called 2019 “a turning point.”...

Tesla has unlocked free Supercharging in China as the country deals with the health emergency caused by Coronavirus. Tesla owners in China received a notification the the offer would be available for an indefinite amount of time, as citizens try to flee exposure to the deadly virus. “To...

Rivian will price its electric pickup and SUV for less than previously announced, Reuters reported. “Rivian founder and chief executive R.J. Scaringe told Reuters the mid-range R1T pickup truck with a glass sky panel that can change from blue to clear was about $69,000,” the report said...

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk said the company has a new naming system for its factories. No longer a Gigafactory, just a Giga.  Musk said on Twitter the factory names will reference the area it’s located rather than a number – Giga Shanghai instead of Gigafactory 3, for example...

Tesla reportedly sent a notice to Semi reservation holders that the all-electric big-rig will go into production in the second half of 2020. The leaked email was shared to Twitter, the user saying it was distributed in a newsletter to reservation holders. The Semi was first...

Rivian will integrate Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant into its upcoming electric vehicles. The feature was announced this week at CES. Amazon is providing the feature to a long list of automakers including Ford, Audi, BMW, GM, and Toyota. But, Amazon has been an enthusiastic supporter of...

Tesla will invest in a new vehicle to be designed and produced in China for worldwide consumption, Chief Executive Elon Musk said Tuesday at an event at Gigafactory 3.  “I think something that would be super cool would be to – and so we’re gonna do it, we’re gonna try to do it – would be to...

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk attended an event Tuesday at Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai to celebrate mass delivery of Chinese-built Model 3s. Tesla also officially launched the Model Y at the factory, which is expected to go to production this year. While Tesla’s advancement in the...

Tesla delivered an impressive 112,000 cars in Q4, marking a record quarter. The company delivered a total of 367,500 vehicles in 2019, a 50% increase over the previous year.  Tesla’s previous delivery record for a single quarter was 97,000 cars in Q3. Tesla produced 104,891 vehicles during...

Tesla is planning an event for Jan. 7 at its Shanghai plant to deliver the first China-made Model 3s to the public, according to a report from Reuters. Tesla held an event early this week to hand over the earliest Model 3s to be produced at Gigafactory 3 to 15 Tesla employees who had...

Ford says the “First Edition” of its recently-unveiled, Mustang-inspired, all-electric Mach E is officially sold out. The Premium edition and the GT are still available for pre-order.  The limited First Edition comes with extended-range all-wheel drive, with red painted brake calipers...

Tesla is already producing more than a thousand cars a week at Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, according to media reports in China.  Several executives at Gigafactory 3 gave interviews at a ceremony this week to celebrate the first deliveries of cars produced in the factory. A group of 15...

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk says the company’s astronaut-transporting Crew Dragon capsule “should be physically ready” at the Cape Canaveral launch site in February. But it will take “a few more months” to complete all safety reviews to authorize the flight. The Demo-2 mission would mark...

As if receiving a new Model 3 isn’t exciting enough, a recent delivery in China also included a marriage proposal. During a celebration of the first deliveries from Tesla’s Gigafactory in Shanghai, a customer surprised his partner by filling the frunk of the car with flowers, then dropping on...

Tesla has officially delivered Model 3s built in its Chinese Gigafactory. A ceremony was held Monday at the factory, which included handing over 15 cars to employees in China. Tesla seems to now be ready to start delivering in mass to the largest electric car market in the world...

A new music video from rapper Travis Scott would be a pretty good advertisement for Elon Musk companies.  While Scott is a Grammy-nominated musician and a regular in celebrity gossip publications, the star of his recent video was the Tesla Cybertruck. In addition to Tesla’s futuristic pickup...

Tesla will start delivering on Dec. 30 Model 3s built at its Shanghai plant, according to a report from Reuters.  The deliveries will take place just 357 days after the factory’s construction started in an empty field, a new record for global automakers in China. The 15 customers that will...

Rivian has raised a giant $1.3 billion round of funding as it gets ready to deliver its all-electric pickup and SUV next year. The financing was led by funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates. Previous investors Amazon, Ford, and BlackRock also participated in the round...

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk took the radically-styled Cybertruck out on the town over the weekend.  Musk was photographed by TMZ driving the recently-revealed all-electric pickup in the parking lot of Nobu restaurant in Malibu, California. The Cybertruck was also captured...

Tesla has pushed a new update that offers new features for Autopilot like speed adjustments and stop sign warnings. The new features continue to advance the software toward a “feature complete” version of Tesla’s full self-driving version of Autopilot. Chief Executive Elon Musk has said that...

Hansjörg Gemmingen, a Tesla owner in Germany, has put more than 1 million km (621,000 miles) on his Tesla Model S. Gemmingen puts as much as 600 km a day on his 2013 Model S P85. The car has held up well with the exception of the battery pack and drive unit. The battery has been replaced...

Tesla showed a video during the Cybertruck unveiling event of the all electric pickup dragging a Ford F-150 in a tug-of-war. Ford has called the video absurd. Some challenged the fairness of the video. In fact, scientist Neil deGrasse Tyson chimed in with a suggestion, saying it...

Tesla debuted the Cybertruck Thursday, saying it is designed to have the utility of a truck and the performance of a sports car. Cybertruck will come in three variants: Single Motor Rear-Wheel Drive, Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive, and Tri Motor All-Wheel Drive. Vehicle Specs: Range: 500+...

Ahead of the Tesla Cybertruck reveal, Chief Executive Elon Musk tweeted that the truck design was partly inspired by the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. The tweet shared a clip from the 1977 film that shows the Bond character driving a Lotus Esprit that turns into a rocket-firing...

Tesla’s giant battery installation in Australia is about to get a lot bigger.The Powerpack farm is already the world’s largest lithium-ion battery, but the plan is to grow it by 50%. Renewable energy company Neoen said in a press release that the Hornsdale Power Reserve will receive a 50...

Bollinger recently debuted the the all-electric B1 SUV and B2 pickup, and today they announced that both models will start at $125,000. The Bollinger truck has been teased by the company for a couple years. And, while many agreed that the truck is an exciting entrant into the EV marketplace...

The Model Y production timeline has been moved up from fall 2020 to spring, Tesla said in its Q3 update. Tesla hoped that by sharing the same platform as the Model 3, the Model Y crossover SUV would have an advantage when time to go to production. The Model Y shares about 70 percent of the...

Tesla posted a surprise third quarter profit on Wednesday. The company reported revenue of $6.3 billion versus estimates of 6.45 billion with a gross margin of 18.9% versus estimates of 17.7%. According to the company’s Q3 2019 Update: Last year, our story was about ramping the Model 3...

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Tesla has received approval to begin production of vehicles at Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, but still needs a “product certification” to start selling the cars in China. That final certification requires an initial run of vehicles to be inspected by the Chinese government. Model 3 sedans in...

Porsche has announced a lower-priced version of its highly-anticipated Taycan electric vehicle, which could further entice consumers to stray from Tesla. The model is called the Porsche Taycan 4S, which will carry the same battery size as the Taycan Turbo and Turbo S that were previously...

Tesla’s $6,000 Full Self Driving option will receive a $1,000 price bump next month, Chief Executive Elon Musk said in a tweet. While Tesla is happy to sell the Full Self Driving feature, owners who elect to purchase the technology can’t use it for full self driving. The full promise of the...

Nothing says get out of the way like the sound of farts and goats.  Soon, Tesla owners will be able to choose from a silly batch of sounds as their car horn and low-speed noisemaker. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk announced the upcoming feature on Twitter.  In addition to farts and goats...

SpaceX shared new details Saturday on its plan to make humans interplanetary. Chief Executive Elon Musk stood in front the the company’s next-generation Starship spacecraft built in Boca Chica, Texas and delivered a more thorough overview of the company’s plans for the rocket program. Musk...

Bollinger, which has been hyping a “sport-utility truck” concept for about four years, held a “reveal” Thursday to give a better look at what to expect when the trucks go to production. There wasn’t much news at the event. Chief Executive Robert Bollinger said it himself. “It’s not a...

A police officer’s Tesla Model S patrol car in Fremont, Calif. ran out of battery while pursuing a suspect.  Police said the chase was called off when the suspect started driving in a dangerous manner. The suspect’s car was later found abandoned.  Geneva Bosques, a spokeswoman for the...

South Korean tech publication THEELEC has reported that LG Chem has ramped up production of battery cells to support Tesla’s new plant in China.  Additionally, the outlet said that Tesla will use NCM 811 cells containing a nickel proportion of 80% or more. The cells have previously been used...

A Tesla owner in Ireland, Ross Hunt, was cleared of breaking animal welfare laws after a judge accepted that the owner’s beloved poodle was actually safe inside the climate-controlled electric vehicle. A concerned passer-by saw the poodle, Loki, sitting inside the Tesla Model S on a hot day...

SpaceX wants to buy out residents of a community near its planned rocket launch site in Texas, according to a report from Business Insider. Boca Chica Village is a a small community of mostly elderly in South Texas. SpaceX has reportedly offered a non-negotiable deal to buy homeowners out of...

Editor’s note: This article was updated after readers pointed out that Musk’s comments could be referring to a Plaid version of the Roadster, not necessarily the entire production run. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk’s comments on Twitter have caused some to wonder if the new Tesla Roadster...

Tesla’s solar sales model received another update last week when the company launched a subscription option for commercial applications. The company launched an online portal that offers price comparisons with or without incentives, as well as the benefits of choosing a rental option...

Tesla is reportedly retrofitting vehicles with its next-generation Hardware 3 computer that the company says will make autonomous driving possible. Tesla owner Sofiaan Fraval shared on Twitter that his 2018 Model S P100D went into the the Tesla service center to replace a HEPA filter and came...

Rivian, which has developed an electric SUV and pickup, today announced an equity investment of $350 million from global automotive services company Cox Automotive.  Cox Automotive, a subsidiary of Cox Enterprises, is the home of nearly 30 automotive brands, including Autotrader, Kelley Blue...

The wait for the coolest car Elon Musk has ever seen will be a bit longer. Musk said on Twitter that the highly-anticipated Tesla Pickup, which was previously expected to debut during the summer, won’t be shown until “November most likely.”  Musk has said the company aims to...

Tesla vehicles will be exempt from a purchase tax in China, the country’s automotive regulatory body announced Friday. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the memo, which outlined broad tax exclusions for electric vehicles, but did not give a reason why the car’s were...

A German media outlet has reported that Tesla is considering locations in Lower Saxony as potential sites for Gigafactory 4. Nordwest Zeitung quotes German minister of economics Bernd Althusmann showing enthusiasm for the project and confirming that the ministry had presented “potential...

There was a time when a TV screen tucked into a car headrest was the ultimate showy in-car extravagance, usually reserved for luxury or custom cars. But, advances in screen technology and a lower cost of production meant it didn’t take long before video entertainment systems were fairly common...

A new report from the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), a nonprofit organization that researches and publishes statistics on vehicle losses in the United States, says Teslas are among the least stolen cars for the model years of 2016, 2017 and 2018. The report looked at claims per insured...