Tesla

By Joey Klender Posted on March 3, 2023 Tesla stock (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock found its grove on Friday following a tougher week on Wall Street. The over 4.5 percent pop in stock price is likely due to the company’s strong sales figures out of China for February. In February, Tesla sold 74,402 units from its

By William Johnson Posted on March 2, 2023 An Energica Experia electric motorcycle has been spotted at a Tesla Supercharger following the opening of the charging network to other electric vehicles. News of Tesla opening its fabled Supercharger Network in the United States has been met with a combination of excitement and dread. But there

By Maria Merano Posted on March 1, 2023 Tesla Gigafactory Mexico will build the company’s next-generation vehicle. During Investor Day 2023, Elon Musk confirmed Gigafactory Mexico’s location and Tesla’s plans for the new production facility. Just a day before Investor Day 2023, Mexico’s President Andrès Manuel Lopez Obrador announced Tesla’s new gigafactory location in Monterrey.

By William Johnson Posted on February 28, 2023 Rivian has revealed that it narrowly missed earnings expectations for Q4 2022 but has set sky-high production and earnings goals for the new year. Rivian (NASDAQ: RIVN) reported total revenues of $663 million vs. the $742.4 million estimated by Wall Street. However, the automaker did improve its

By Joey Klender Posted on February 27, 2023 Tesla’s Investor Day on Wednesday will lay a foundation for the green tidal wave that will help the global shift to electric vehicles, but the expectations for the event are truly monumental, Wedbush’s Dan Ives said in a note to investors on Monday. Tesla will hold its

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 26, 2023 SpaceX has released official specifications and photos of its next-generation Starlink V2 Mini satellites, which are set to launch for the first time as early as Monday, February 27th. The new satellites are the future of SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, and the information the company revealed helps demonstrate

By William Johnson Posted on February 25, 2023 Tesla has applied for a set of patents that are set to significantly improve virtualization, recognition, and Full Self Driving overall. Tesla has worked tirelessly to improve full self-driving technology in the first two months of the year. Most recently, Tesla pushed its most significant improvement to

By Joey Klender Posted on February 24, 2023 Tesla’s preferred choice for its potentially-upcoming vehicle production plant in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, has one major roadblock if the automaker eventually lands there: water. Tesla has been mulling several locations in Mexico for its newest EV production plant, and its ideal location is Nuevo Leon, a Mexican

By Joey Klender Posted on February 23, 2023 Tesla has evidently started testing Superchargers equipped with the ‘Magic Dock,’ as one has been spotted for the first time in the United States. There is even a sign next to the station that shows how the automaker will initiate charging for non-Tesla vehicles. For several months,

By William Johnson Posted on February 22, 2023 Atlis Motor Vehicles, an electric truck startup, has posted a video online demonstrating its megawatt charging technology on its new EV charger. As electric vehicles have gained prominence in recent years, more and more emphasis has been placed on the charging speed of the vehicles and chargers

By Joey Klender Posted on February 21, 2023 Yet another Tesla Cybertruck prototype was spotted in a video where the all-electric pickup’s air suspension is jacked up, giving viewers an impression at potentially its tallest ride height. Shared by Trucky on the Cybertruck Owners Club forum (don’t blame us for the video quality), the Cybertruck spotted

By Joey Klender Posted on February 20, 2023 Tesla has entered a binding offtake agreement with Magnis Energy Technologies, an Australian company that will supply the company with anode active material (AAM) for three years. Magnis announced on Tuesday (via Sawyer Merritt) that it would begin supplying Tesla with a minimum of 17,500 tonnes per

By Joey Klender Posted on February 19, 2023 Tesla recently launched a new incentive to its Ownership Loyalty Program that is attempting to woo Model S and Model X owners to trade in vehicles with Free Unlimited Supercharging, but is the $5,000 trade-in boost enough? “Current Tesla Model S or Model X owners with active

By William Johnson Posted on February 18, 2023 The now well-known Cheetos branded Tesla Semi has made an appearance at the Tesla Takeover event at Harris Ranch, one of Tesla’s first Supercharging stations. Today’s Tesla Takeover event is put together by the numerous Tesla Owners Clubs from Southern California. The event at the massive 98-stall

By Simon Alvarez Posted on February 17, 2023 Among the references present in the recent Hardware 4 leaks was the new heated radar unit in Tesla’s next-generation Autopilot system. As per data shared by prolific Tesla hacker @greentheonly, the radar used in Tesla’s Hardware 4 system was listed as “Phoenix.”  Radar: Yes, there’s now the

By William Johnson Posted on February 16, 2023 Rivian has patented an air-conditioned EV charger that attempts to increase charging speeds by heating or cooling a vehicle’s battery during charging. One hurdle in the way of unlocking faster charging for EVs is the problem of battery temperature. As an EV’s battery charges, particularly at high

By Joey Klender Posted on February 15, 2023 When Tom Burick, a teacher at PS Academy in Gilbert, Arizona, told his students they had four weeks to build something that would normally take six months, they did not shy away. In fact, they embraced the challenge and wanted to show their resilience, and what they

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 14, 2023 President and COO Gwynne Shotwell says that SpaceX has temporarily abandoned plans for floating Starship launch platforms to ensure it’s fully focused on gaining flight experience with the next-generation rocket. On February 13th, a NASASpaceflight.com forum member reported that a pair of oil rigs were scheduled to

By Joey Klender Posted on February 13, 2023 Tesla gave a series of fresh, new looks inside Giga Berlin, its electric vehicle production facility located in Germany. The videos show how the factory is truly “the machine that builds the machine,” as automation, as well as a few helpful hands on the manufacturing line, help

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 12, 2023 SpaceX has rolled a strange, naked Starship prototype from its Starbase, Texas factory to a nearby test site. Beginning with its cone-tipped nose section, SpaceX started stacking Starship S26 in October 2022. By early January 2023, the prototype had been stacked to its full 50-meter (~165 ft)

By William Johnson Posted on February 11, 2023 The Tesla Model X Plaid is still dominating drag races nearly two years after its launch, showing just how much legacy automakers have to catch up. There is nothing new about the concept of the super-high-performance SUV. Mercedes has long made the G-Class with its incredible Bi-Turbo

By Joey Klender Posted on February 10, 2023 Tesla’s road to $7.5 billion in government subsidies that would help it expand electric vehicle charging means giving up its biggest strength: an exclusive charging network for its owners. Tesla will have to expand its charging infrastructure to include the Combined Charging System, or CCS, connectors, which

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 9, 2023 SpaceX’s Starship rocket has survived a record-breaking engine test – potentially the most powerful static fire in the history of rocketry. According to CEO Elon Musk, Super Heavy Booster 7 (B7) ultimately ignited 31 of its 33 Raptor engines. One engine was manually disabled “just before” the

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 8, 2023 President and COO Gwynne Shotwell says that SpaceX’s Starlink satellite internet program had a “cash flow positive quarter” in 2022 and “will make money” in 2023. The update is major news for a program that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has stated should be considered a success if

By William Johnson Posted on February 7, 2023 Rivian has placed its first Adventure Network fast charger on the U.S. East Coast as it works to introduce 600 fast charging locations across the country. For those unfamiliar, the Rivian Adventure Network is the truck maker’s answer to the Tesla Supercharging Network. At Adventure Network charging

By William Johnson Posted on February 6, 2023 Following Nissan and Renault’s new partnership deal, Nissan has invested in Renault’s EV development unit, showing the Japanese brand’s intent to grow its EV focus under the new structure. Nissan and Renault have had a strange and, at times, uneasy partnership. But thanks to a new deal

By Simon Alvarez Posted on February 5, 2023 Tesla’s FSD Beta V11 is an incredibly important release. It’s the first version of the electric vehicle maker’s advanced driver-assist system that utilizes a single software stack for both highway and inner-city driving. Expectations are high for the update, as it is believed to feature notable improvements

By William Johnson Posted on February 4, 2023 General Motors (GM) has announced that it will partner with Netflix to have its EV offerings displayed in shows on the streaming platform, but they are far from the only automaker looking to show off its upcoming EVs. GM is no stranger to marketing its EVs in

By Joey Klender Posted on February 3, 2023 Tesla CEO Elon Musk was found not liable in a case where investors sought to recover losses after he Tweeted that he had secured the necessary funding to take the automaker’s stock private in 2018. Investors sued Musk, Tesla, and the company’s board, claiming that the CEO’s

By Eric Ralph Posted on February 2, 2023 SpaceX is preparing for a surge of geostationary communications satellite launches after several slow years. In the late 2010s, orders of large geostationary commsats plummeted. Formerly a mainstay of the commercial launch industry, western geostationary satellite launches became much rarer in 2019 and the early 2020s. That