Last December, reports emerged from the Tesla community indicating that a Model S with a new taillight design and revised charging door had been sighted on public roads. The changes were subtle, featuring the removal of a black bar connecting the car’s taillights and a Model 3-esque charging door, but they were distinct enough to give the…
Almost five months after SpaceX began the process of filling and testing the first custom-built propellant storage system for Starship, the largest rocket ever built, the company has finally begun to fill the fuel half of the ‘tank farm’. SpaceX began delivering truckloads of liquid nitrogen (LN2) to the LN2 and liquid oxygen (LOx) sections of the…
Neuralink has been dragged into a lawsuit by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine against the University of California at Davis. The lawsuit, which is amended from its initial filing date of May 2021, seeks to have UC Davis release images and video of inhumanely-treated test subjects, including monkeys, who died after participating in some…
Tesla China’s January 2022 results have been released, and they are pretty impressive. As per data released by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), Tesla China’s wholesale figures last month reached 59,845 vehicles. This represents an increase of 286.5% year-over-year but a slight 15.5% decline compared to December 2021’s record-setting results. Among this number, a total…
Piper Sandler analyst Alex Potter recently increased Tesla’s price target from $1,300 previously to $1,350, maintaining a BUY rating. Potter’s price increase is based on Tesla’s recent 10-K annual filing. Piper Sandler forecasts that Tesla will deliver 1.58 million vehicles in 2022, implying a 69% growth compared to 2021. For reference, Tesla had a total…
Transport Canada issued a recall for the Tesla Model 3, Model Y, and Model S on February 3, 2022, the agency told Teslarati recently. The recall was issued after the agency discovered an issue with the heat system in certain Tesla vehicles. Transport Canada reported that a little over 2,084 Tesla vehicles were affected by the recall. The recall…
Every crisis presents opportunities, ‘tis said — but when looking at facts and figures in the midst of the chaos, it can be hard to identify what represents crisis and what represents opportunity. Last quarter, overall auto sales in the US slipped, but EV sales surged. Kelley Blue Book reports that total car sales fell by 21.3%…
There is a reason why the apocalyptic black comedy film Don’t Look Up is now being considered as one of the nominees for Best Picture in the 2022 Academy Awards. The movie’s message is timely, its satire is frighteningly realistic, and its characters are very compelling, from Leonardo DiCaprio’s exasperated Dr. Randall Mindy to Sir Mark Rylance’s…
Real-world CO2 emissions of plugin hybrid cars (PHEVs) are on average 2–4 times higher than official values, which for most plugin hybrids are less than 50g/km on paper. Almost 1 million of them will have been sold in the EU in 2021 alone — carmakers are pushing their sales because their unrealistically low official CO2…
The auto industry’s burgeoning transition to electric vehicles poses new challenges to auto service centers, as higher hybrid and EV adoption rates require companies to understand and manage new hardware. One such service company is Bridgestone Americas, which owns roughly 2,200 tire and vehicle service centers across the U.S, as detailed in a report last…