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What’s up with the audio system in the Tesla Model 3 with a “Partial” Premium Interior? Earlier today, we shared a short video detailing the Standard Range Plus Tesla Model 3. Upgrading to the Plus adds $2,500 and gets you a handful of niceties not found in the base interior. While the audio...

Tesla announced Monday a round of price changes that impact the Model Y and inventory cars. The Model Y price was raised $1,000 over the initial pricing given at the unveiling on March 14. The Performance version is now $61,000, the Long Range AWD is $52,000, and the Long Range RWD version is...

Forget about finding your car, the car will find you. Tesla recently upgraded its Summon feature, which originally enabled one to move the cars forward or backward using the smartphone app, to a new kind of “remote control mode” (a big RC car). The new Advanced Summon makes it possible to turn...

March and April could be epically big. Tesla is already the top-selling BEV brand in Western Europe (see report for February) and the latest data provided by industry analyst Matthias Schmidt (schmidtmatthias.de) suggest that the Tesla Model 3 is the top-selling model. In the last month, about...

This is the another big one for the Crew program: a crewed flight! Launch Date: May 30 Launch Window: 3:22 pm EDT (12:22pm PDT, 19:22 UTC). Launch site: LC-39A, Cape Canaveral, Florida Booster Recovery: ASDS Booster Type: B1058.1 Mass: Crew Dragon 12,055 kg Orbit: LEO - ISS Crew: Commander...

Just a few weeks after being introduced, Tesla has dropped the standard-range Model S from its lineup. The standard-range battery first hit the configurator on March 1 at a price of $79,000. The car was advertised with a range up to 270 miles, a 140 mile per hour top speed, and a 0 to 60 mph...

Let’s all just ride this here wave. Tesla CEO Elon Musk emailed all Tesla employees to detail an unprecedented delivery push. The Tesla delivery wave is higher than ever and this is gonna be epic. Of course, it’s driven largely by the Tesla Model 3. The email, which went out today, states: “What...

Tesla’s pricing model has been a bit confusing lately. The company announced earlier this month a plan to close stores and move all sales online in an effort to lower prices. Days later, that plan changed to leaving some stores open, which resulted in raising prices from the previously...

According to Ford, the two vehicles could even arrive on the market at the same time. Ford says that its first dedicated electric car, which will be a Mustang-inspired plug-in crossover, will be positioned to compete with the recently revealed Tesla Model Y. If you recall, Ford posted a tweet in...

Researchers believe Tesla is underperforming in autonomous vehicle development. Each year, Navigant Research analyzes the major players in the Autonomous Vehicle space. The research firm ranks each company on their program strategy and execution in bringing fully autonomous vehicles to market in...

A brief price reprieve. If you want the best deal on a new Tesla, buy before midnight Wednesday. After that, prices on the lineup — save for the base $35,000 Standard Range Model 3 — will rise by 3 percent. That price increase was supposed to happen Monday night, but according to a tweet from...

And, the all-new sub-$40,000 Fisker teaser arrives as planned. We told you about a week ago that Henrik Fisker teased an upcoming prototype. He said his plan was to further tease it on March 18, 2019. However, he was clear that it wouldn’t be any official launch or livestream situation, but...

Teslas go towing. Tesla’s chief designer Franz von Holzhausen says that the recently revealed Model Y will be equipped to tow and he adds that the Model 3 will eventually get a tow bar too, that’s according to Norwegian site Elbilen. Elbilen cites Tesla Owners Club Norway as the source of the...

Tesla’s Model Y presentation this week included a brief flash of the electric automaker’s upcoming pickup truck. Tesla-watchers were hoping, perhaps greedily, that the presentation would include the Model Y crossover SUV and the debut of the pickup. Every Tesla vehicle was rolled out for...

Tesla Model Y Long-Range is one and a half away from today. The recently unveiled Tesla Model Y seems to be well received but – as you can see in this CNBC video – there are some who are disappointed by the roll out plan. Garrett Nelson, senior analyst at CFRA Research said that it... READ FULL...

More space for all your stuff! The freshly revealed Tesla Model Y looks a lot like the Model 3 from the outside. There are tons of similarities on the inside as well. One difference, besides a slightly higher seating position, is the space. With the back seat folded down, this all-electric...

Tesla’s all-electric, mid-size SUV called the Model Y is now available for order. While deliveries won’t start until next year, the car can be configured on the automaker’s website so prospective owners can get an idea of what to expect when the vehicle is in their garage. The Model Y will...

Tesla unveiled its latest vehicle Thursday night – the Model Y crossover SUV. As expected, the vehicle blends the design language of both the Model 3 sedan and the Model X SUV. In an effort to streamline production, the Model Y shares 75% of parts with the Model 3. The vehicle is also...

Your mileage may vary. Prices matter. When the Tesla Model 3 was first revealed, the $35,000 base price was a big part of the excitement. It helped drive a mind-bending 500,000-plus pre-orders for the mid-size sedan just days after the initial launch. Of course, the base price Model 3 didn’t...

$10,000 above the price of a standard Tesla Model 3. If these predictions hold true, then the Tesla Model Y will start at a base priced of just $45,000, which is $10,000 more than a standard Tesla Model 3. Tonight, Tesla will reveal the Model Y to the world, but ahead of that event, which...

Tesla’s debut of the Model Y crossover SUV is scheduled for tonight at 8 p.m. The event will be livestreamed from the Tesla Design Center in Los Angeles. In teasing the livestream in a tweet, Tesla offered the best look at the Model Y to date. While the 7-second video only shows the SUV under...

Las Vegas is willing to take a gamble on the Boring Company’s high-speed tunnels. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority voted Tuesday to continue talks with Elon Musk’s tunnel-digging startup, with a plan to secure a contract by June. The city is looking for a transportation...

[For a short time this post was recording new features in software updates, but it is no longer being maintained, for better updates check out: Tesla Software Updates - Not a Tesla App] I have been looking for a place to keep issues I am having with the car, I keep forgetting about them, or...

The automaker may redeem itself yet. Volkswagen Group is serious about electric vehicles. It may not look that way if you judge by its battery-powered cars on the road today — in the U.S., it currently offers only the Volkswagen e-Golf. But, its various brands will be producing millions in just...

It seems Fisker will provide additional info about its ~$40,000 battery-electric vehicle on March 18. It comes as no surprise that there’s another teaser and an upcoming announcement from Fisker. This latest tease came from the designer Henrik Fisker via his Twitter page. The image doesn’t...

Tesla says the Securities Exchange Commission is attempting to violate CEO Elon Musk’s First Amendment rights in retaliation for his televised criticism of regulators. Musk agreed in October to settle an SEC fraud complaint related to his tweets touting that he had “funding secured” to take...

Believes critics are “over their skis.” The world of investment can be a strange place. That’s especially true when it comes to Tesla. Former bullish (positive) positions can turn bearish (negative). Former bearish positions become bullish. That’s the case in this particular instance. After...

Tesla must secure batteries for China market explosion. There’s little doubt Tesla is going to explode in China, but there’s a lot the company needs to put in place. For starters, finishing construction of its Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai. But also, assuring there are battery suppliers in the area...

Days ahed of the Tesla Model Y unveiling, the carmaker has started shedding more light on the highly anticipated all electric crossover. Tesla has created a landing page for the March 14 unveiling that uses a similar image of the Model Y released at Tesla’s 2017 Annual Shareholder Meeting, but...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, returning to Earth after a successful trip to the International Space Station. All parachute deployments for the Crew Dragon’s atmosphere re-entry went according to plan. A video of the splashdown was shared by the...

Top Gear famed James May is completely enamored by the Tesla Model S. If you’ve been following the EV segement for years, you’re likely well aware of Top Gear’s (and specifically Jeremy Clarkson’s) early opinion about Tesla. It actually caused quite a bit of mess years ago. However, as we’ve...

Tesla is making positive strides when it comes to announcements and transparency. Not too long ago, it seemed Tesla would make an announcement, and we’d still have plenty of questions. Sometimes press releases were few and far between and/or the company wouldn’t update information on its website...

Tesla says its new “V3” Supercharger will cut the amount of time customers spend charging by an average of 50%. The next generation of the electric car maker’s charging stations was unveiled at an event Wednesday at the company’s Fremont, California headquarters. The new hardware will charge...

Right on schedule. Tesla has announced the unveiling of its first-ever Supercharger version 3.0. This higher-powered charger will further enable and encourage long-distance travel. Tesla CEO Elon Musk told us it would open this Wednesday and, sure enough, it will. This new, higher-powered...

Progress is mounting as anticipated on Tesla Gigafactory 3 in China. While the Tesla shorts and naysayers want to prove that the Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai, China will never come to be, we have new information and aerial footage that goes against that narrative. Honestly, what doesn’t go against...

We get up close to this Scandinavian response to the Tesla Model 3. The Polestar 2 has just made its Geneva Motor Show debut. Last week, we got lots of details about the mid-size fastback from Volvo’s electric sub-brand, but there’s no substitute for having people crawling over a vehicle to help...

Nissan LEAF is the first EV in history hit 400,000 sales Nissan happily announced that the cumulative sales of the Nissan LEAF hit 400,000 since market introduction in December 2010. In terms of cumulative sales, LEAF is the best-selling model globally. The total mileage of LEAFs exceed 10...

Tesla’s $35,000 standard battery pack Model 3 won’t hit volume production until mid-year, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Twitter. Tesla started taking orders last week for the highly-anticipated, affordable all-electric sedan, saying that deliveries are starting within the next 2 to 4...

Tesla’s $35,000 standard battery pack Model 3 won’t hit volume production until mid-year, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Twitter. Tesla started taking orders last week for the highly-anticipated, affordable all-electric sedan, saying that deliveries are starting within the next 2 to 4 weeks...

When it comes to Elon Musk’s plan to dig an 18-mile high-speed transit tunnel under Chicago, it seems they’re not “digging” it. “They” being former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, who will be considered by voters in a mayoral runoff election on...

Tesla has confirmed that it will unveil the Model Y electric crossover on March 14. This highly anticipated electric car is expected to outsell the Tesla Model 3. The unveiling will take place at Tesla’s LA Design Studio. Tesla CEO Elon Musk just broke this news via Twitter. We’ve embedded his...

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon space vehicle docked at the International Space Station on Sunday morning. The successful mission brings the U.S. a step closer to using homegrown space shuttles for transporting American astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time since 2011. And for...

Yuan the base (price) drops. Telsa vehicles are now a lot cheaper in China. Yesterday saw the introduction of the $35,000 Model 3 in the U.S. and reductions in prices of all variants of the mid-size sedan, as well as Model S and Model X. But the changes made to the company’s sales structure —...

There’s a lot to like about this battery pack design. The Polestar 2 battery pack layout is very unique. It’s kind of like a marriage between the Chevrolet Volt “T” pack (where GM put cells down the tunnel of the car) and the Bolt EV pack that is essentially a mono-slab pack design with a...

Tucked into the exciting announcement about the availability of Tesla’s $35,000 Model 3 was a significant change to the company’s operations. Tesla surprised watchers with news that it plans to close many of its 378 retail stores worldwide. It’s not immediately clear how many stores or...

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk continues to brazenly trash talk the Securities and Exchange Commission. He does it right out in the open. He does not respect the SEC. In fact he once said these words to 60 Minutes reporter Leslie Stahl: “I want to be clear. I do not respect the SEC.” So, it...

The wait is over – Tesla is now selling a $35,000 all-electric sedan. The announcement was teased by Elon Musk is recent days and Tesla made the budget Model 3 available for order Thursday afternoon. The Standard Range base model will start at $35,000, travel 220 miles on a single charge...

When will the sought-after $35,000 Tesla Model 3 actually come to market? Sadly, there’s no way to really know. But, notoriously Tesla-negative outfit Seeking Alpha seems to think the highly anticipated base Tesla Model 3 might be available in the upcoming months. While some people, in addition...

All-electric Polestar 2 will start around $45,000 and offer about 275 miles of range based on the EPA cycle. We often joke about Tesla killers or Tesla fighters. However, there’s not much truth to either as proven by the incredible success of the Tesla Model 3 as compared to any potential...

Once again, Tesla makes notable feature improvements via over-the-air software updates. At this point, we’re so used to Tesla’s over-the-air software update capability that we almost take it for granted. If you think about it, it’s truly fascinating that the automaker can completely revamp how a...