After the company’s recent round of price cuts to the Model Y crossover, Tesla China appears to have seen a substantial volume of orders for the vehicle. This was hinted at in the estimated wait time for Model Y orders placed on Tesla China’s website today. A look at Tesla China’s Model Y page shows that the…
After a challenging December, Tesla China adopted a number of strategies designed to improve its vehicle sales in the country. Among these was a price reduction on the domestically-produced Model 3 sedan and Model Y crossover. Recent comments from Tesla VP Grace Tao have now provided some insights into these price adjustments. In a recent interview…
Tesla owners in China credit the company’s Supercharging network for a successful trip to the western Sichuan region for aid education. In a video shared by Tesla Asia, a group of owners traveled to the Yama Snow Mountain region to visit a welfare school that assisted over 300 children with special needs. Those children were…
In another installment of the Twitter Files released on Monday, screenshots of an email conversation between Scott Gottlieb, a board member at Pfizer, with Todd O’Boyle, a senior manager of public policy at Twitter. Alex Berenson, a former reporter for the New York Times, shared this installment. Berenson noted that Gottlieb “used the same Twitter lobbyist as the…
SpaceX has assembled Falcon Heavy and rolled the rocket out to the launch pad for its first mission of 2023. This particular Falcon Heavy – the fifth overall – is reusing both of the side boosters recovered from the rocket’s fourth launch. Originally scheduled to launch in late 2020, Falcon Heavy Flight 4 finally lifted…
Twitter moved to the number one spot for news in the Apple App Store following Elon Musk’s takeover of the platform. Twitter has only been at this ranking since January 9, 2023, but this isn’t the first time it has ranked at number one since Elon Musk purchased it. The graphs by Data.Ai below show that as of October…
IDRA has announced that it is sending a 9,000-ton Giga Press to Asia. IDRA has gained notoriety over the past year for being the supplier of the “Giga Press,” which allows massive metal castings to be made, including the Tesla Cybertruck frame. This allows the manufacturer to limit the number of parts per vehicle and simplify…
The Texas State Legislature is considering levying a tax against EV owners to fund road upkeep and improvement, and EV owners are on board. Electric vehicles are the choice for many consumers not only due to their environmental benefits but also due to their reduced cost of ownership. However, that reduced cost is now being…
Tesla’s planned removal of the “steering wheel nag” that reminds drivers to hold the steering wheel while using the Full Self-Driving suite has gained the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) attention. On December 31, @WholeMarsBlog suggested to CEO Elon Musk that, “Users with more than 10,000 miles on FSD Beta should be given the…
Update: 12:23pm EST: Tesla Cybertruck pricing was not leaked, but instead the screen shown in the Tweet was previous pricing with old Full Self-Driving suite pricing. The Tesla Cybertruck tri-motor’s price has been found on a reservation holder’s Tesla account. While countless customers have been waiting patiently for their upcoming Tesla Cybertruck, knowing the truck’s impressive…