Tesla

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 30, 2023 General Motors (GM) is suing the city of San Francisco for allegedly taxing the automaker unfairly by using its self-driving unit Cruise to subject the company to $108 million in taxes over a seven-year period. Last week, GM filed a lawsuit against San Francisco — dubbed General

By Simon Alvarez Posted on December 29, 2023 Elon Musk has announced that he will be holding company talks for his two biggest businesses, SpaceX and Tesla, next month. The talks will be publicly posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter.  Musk’s company talks for Tesla and SpaceX were mentioned by

By Simon Alvarez Posted on December 28, 2023 Longtime Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) bull Ross Gerber of Gerber Kawasaki recently shared his thoughts on the electric vehicle maker’s challenges and CEO Elon Musk. During an interview with Yahoo Finance, Gerber, who has adopted a more critical stance on Tesla as of late, noted that the EV maker could

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 27, 2023 Tesla has officially started rolling out its highly anticipated Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta version 12 to a wider audience, after the system first began going out to a limited number of employees last month. Software update tracker Teslascope confirmed on Wednesday that FSD beta v12.1 has begun

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 26, 2023 After launching its first showroom and service center in Thailand earlier this year, Tesla has launched an additional store in the country’s capital city. Tesla Asia announced the new “experience store” on X on Tuesday, along with three photos of the Central Bangkok site. The store is

By Richard Angle Posted on December 22, 2023 SpaceX has begun testing Ship 28 and Booster 10 as they look to fly the third Integrated Flight Test as soon as possible once given regulatory approval from the FAA. Both Ship 28 and Booster 10 were moved from the production facility to the launch last site

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 23, 2023 Tesla has highlighted its use of the Cybertruck to deliver part of an art installation in California, along with a Powerwall 3 and a Solar Roof used to keep the exhibit lit 24 hours a day. Entwined: Elder Mother is an interactive art installation by industrial artist

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 23, 2023 After Tesla put up some Christmas decorations at its German Gigafactory last month, the automaker has shared footage from an employee holiday party held at the plant. Tesla was seen preparing its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg with decorations at the end of November, and now the automaker has shared

By Joey Klender Posted on December 22, 2023 Tesla is fixing issues with cabin doors in over 120,000 Model S and Model X vehicles, as they may become unlatched during a crash, which does not comply with certain Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published a Safety Recall

By Maria Merano Posted on December 21, 2023 Stellantis recently announced its first employee share purchase plan, called the “Shares to Win” program.  Shares to Win is an incentive program enabling Stellantis employees to become shareholders of the legacy automaker on preferential terms, listed below. No minimum subscription in France, and from one share subscribed in Italy

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 20, 2023 General Motors (GM) has resumed production at a Detroit assembly plant, after a fire broke out at the plant earlier this week. On Wednesday, GM said it had resumed production at its Detroit-Hamtramck “Factory Zero” following a fire on Tuesday, which an investigation has determined was likely

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 19, 2023 Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) has nearly been adopted by every automaker in the industry, now including Volkswagen’s entire lineup of brands. Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche will adopt Tesla’s NACS charging port beginning in 2025, as announced on Tuesday in a press release. Electric vehicles (EVs)

By Maria Merano Posted on December 18, 2023 Tesla announced plans to compensate for electric vehicle (EV) subsidies in Germany after the government abruptly ended the incentives program for EVs. The Texas-based automaker said it would also maintain its manufacturer’s share of €2,250 in its new Model 3 and Model Y orders, starting December 18

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 17, 2023 A Mercedes-Benz dealership in Texas has reportedly handed out a printed copy of an article detailing the recent Tesla Autopilot recall, which was announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) last week. Tesla immediately deployed a software update to fix issues stated in the recall,

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 16, 2023 After overseeing the investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot system over the past couple of years, the acting chief of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Ann Carlson, has announced plans to step down. Carlson has been the regulator’s chief administrator since September 2022, and she emailed employees

By Joey Klender Posted on December 15, 2023 Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai is producing Model Y vehicles at a rate that is quickly outpacing that of the Model 3, showing the demand for the all-electric crossover is larger than that of its smaller sibling. The factory in China has been Tesla’s biggest producer of vehicles in

By Maria Merano Posted on December 14, 2023 Tesla Gigafactory Mexico will receive $153 million worth of incentives from Nuevo León as state officials seek to temper concerns about delays in the new factory.  Nuevo León’s state economic development council approved Tesla Giga Mexico’s incentives, which include the buildout of basic infrastructure like roads and

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 13, 2023 Tesla has faced significant scrutiny over water use at its Gigafactory Berlin over the years, though the automaker has recently highlighted its water recycling efforts in production at the plant. On Wednesday, the Tesla Manufacturing page on X stated in a post that up to 100 percent

By Maria Merano Posted on December 12, 2023 Tesla Gigafactory Mexico received approval for construction in the form of federal land use permits. Mexico’s Federal Ministry of the Environment recently notified Tesla in the United States of the permit approval.  According to Milenio, The Department of Natural Resources and Wildlife of the Management of Subdelegation for

By Maria Merano Posted on December 11, 2023 Ford plans to cut its F-150 Lightning production by about half in 2024.  “We’ll continue to match production with customer demand,” said a Ford spokeswoman. The legacy automaker’s new plan for the all-electric F-150 Lighting is to produce about 1,600 units weekly at Ford’s Rouge Electric Vehicle

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 10, 2023 Rivian is laying off some of its in-house battery workers at its factory in Normal, Illinois, including the company’s head of cell engineering. Earlier this week, a report from The Information revealed that Rivian is laying off roughly 20 workers on its in-house battery cell development team

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 9, 2023 Tesla’s order configurator for the limited launch edition “Foundation Series” Cybertruck has been revealed, as shared in a video over the weekend. After invites to order the Foundation Series Cybertruck went out to select reservation holders earlier this week, multiple people have said that they completed an

By Richard Angle Posted on December 8, 2023 You may have seen the formerly wrecked, then gutted 2022 Tesla Model S Plaid that had most of its body cut off and set the quarter mile record back in August, but now, it is a completely different creation dubbed the “Plaidessey.” YouTube channel BoostedBoiz is making

By Joey Klender Posted on December 7, 2023 Plans for a major shift in the U.S. automotive market over the next decade have taken a drastic hit as today, the House of Representatives, which is led by Republicans, blocked a Biden Administration-pushed vehicle emissions regulation that would have resulted in two-thirds of new vehicles being

By Joey Klender Posted on December 6, 2023 Tesla Cybertruck has a new feature called “Wade Mode” that will help the all-electric pickup navigate through water and avoid damage that could come from doing so. CEO Elon Musk has maintained through the past four years that the Cybertruck would be able to travel through water,

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 5, 2023 Tesla CEO Elon Musk has shared some new details about the automaker’s plans for its next-generation, $25,000 electric vehicle (EV), including that it will be built first in Austin, Texas. On Tuesday, longtime auto industry veteran Sandy Munro shared a new interview with Musk, held following the

By Richard Angle Posted on December 4, 2023 SpaceX launched the Korea 425 reconnaissance satellite and 24 other rideshare payloads Friday morning at 10:19 am PT from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This is the first of 5 reconnaissance satellites from the South Korean Defense Acquisition Program Administration

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 3, 2023 Tesla, General Motors (GM) and others have signed an agreement to use a database tracking greenhouse gas emissions, with this year’s report having been shared by U.S. Vice President Al Gore at the COP28 climate conference this weekend. The database, dubbed Climate TRACE, was created by Gore’s

By Zachary Visconti Posted on December 2, 2023 Elon Musk-led tunneling company The Boring Company has completed a new tunnel in Las Vegas as it continues to make progress on a larger loop covering much of the city’s downtown. On Friday, The Boring Company page on X posted saying that the Prufrock-1 tunneling machine has

By Richard Angle Posted on December 1, 2023 Amazon announced today they have bought 3 Falcon 9 launches to deliver their Project Kuiper internet satellites to low Earth orbit in mid-2025. This wouldn’t be the first time SpaceX has launched a competitor satellite as they have now launched 4 times for one of their other