Tesla short seller, Scott Burg, placed a multi-billion dollar bet against Tesla (TSLA) in the second quarter of 2022. He recently deleted his Twitter account. According to a report in Bloomberg, the Tesla short seller added puts on 4.8 million Tesla shares during the last quarter. In 2020, the Deer Park Road Management Co.’s chief investment officer wrongly…
Tesla and Canada are showing their support for one another. After hosting Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, Tesla’s climate policy expert with public, private, and non-profit sector experience, Iain M., shared his thoughts on LinkedIn. Recently, Minister Champagne visited Tesla’s automation facility in Markham and took a tour and a test drive. Tesla’s Iain…
Earlier this month at Tesla’s 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting, CEO Elon Musk joked that FSD Beta 10.13 would present significant changes and improvements to the company’s advanced driver-assist system that it should probably just be called FSD Beta 10.69. Recent comments from Musk have now revealed that Tesla is being extra careful with the update’s…
Lucid Motors introduced a new tri-motor EV that is named after a gemstone: the Lucid Air Sapphire. Earlier this week, Lucid Motors hinted at some extraordinary news to be announced today (August 19) which sparked rumors of a tri-motor Air variant being launched soon. Today, those rumors have been proven true. https://twitter.com/LucidMotors/status/1560674502521921536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1560674502521921536%7Ctwgr%5E74d20f94d49eef4e6b149a8ceaa2bbd9c62c7697%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.teslarati.com%2Flucid-air-sapphire-ev%2F The three-motor powertrain has a twin…
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is nearing the completion of 1,300 EV charging locations in its parking areas. According to local news station KTLA 75, LAX is nearing completion of 1,300 EV charging locations in its parking lots, capable of either level 2 or level 3 fast charging. According to ABM, the contractor in charge of…
Ex-Tesla engineer Alexander Yatskov, who is accused of stealing trade secrets, is upset that his case is going to arbitration. Yatskov has noted that it was “humiliating” to be sued by his former employer in open court, only to be pushed into a closed-door arbitration later. This, according to the ex-Tesla engineer, does not provide…
Tesla recently updated the order page of the Semi. It seems like Tesla has temporarily removed the reservation option on the page. Plus, the company no longer lists a quad-motor variant but mentions a tri-motor Semi instead. Before Tesla updated the Semi’s order page, Elon Musk reiterated that the 500-mile range variant of the Semi would…
In a response to a recent tweet, Elon Musk highlighted Twitter’s avoidance of sharing how it verifies ads on the platform. Who does the audits? Where are the audits? These questions were brought up by Andrea Stroppa who noted that the only information about these audits can be found on a Twitter blog post titled, “Expanding our…
A new Tesla job posting on its website shows that Tesla has plans to launch a retail electricity business in Texas. The posting is for Product Operations Manager, Retail Electricity and the job category is in Energy- Solar and Storage. The position is based in Austin and will support the launch and growth of Tesla as the…
SpaceX’s next-generation Starship rocket has secured its first satellite launch contract. On August 18th, Japanese satellite operator Sky Perfect JSAT announced that it selected SpaceX’s Starship rocket to launch its Superbird-9 satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) as early as 2024. It isn’t the first time that SpaceX or another company has floated the…