The 2021.04.05 Software Update was officially rolled out by Tesla China celebrating Chinese New Year. “The Year of the Ox” update includes new features such as TikTok, sing-a-long capabilities of QQ Music Lyrics, and improved functionality for voice recognition. Chinese New Year has officially begun on Friday, February 12th in China, marking the beginning of…
Tesla introduced a steering wheel that looked a bit cut off in the recently refreshed Model S and Model X, and it has many questioning if it’s even legal. Motor Biscuit noted that the NHTSA does not know whether or not it is legal, but what we do understand is that if there are no…
Thanks to a bill from the Biden administration, another 400,000 Teslas sold in the United States are poised to obtain a tax credit worth $7,000. A variety of initiatives aimed at promoting sustainable technology are included in the bill, called the Growing Renewable Energy and Efficiency Now (GREEN) Act. Under the GREEN Act, after the…
In a Clubhouse meeting, Tesla CEO Elon Musk and hip hop phenomenon Kanye West are expected to meet, allowing anyone to listen in to the conversation between the two well-known icons. On Twitter, Musk revealed that he and West had agreed to meet on Clubhouse, an invitation-only social networking audio-chat program. The app has become…
In 2020, almost 90% of the batteries deployed by Panasonic in passenger xEVs went to Tesla. Here is Adamas Intelligence’s very interesting study on the impact of Tesla on the xEV battery cell market in 2020 (total of 134.5 GWh) – specifically on the top three battery suppliers (LG Chem’s LG Energy Solution, CATL and…
Benzinga conducts a weekly survey to gather sentiment on what traders are most excited about, interested in, or concerned about as they manage and build their private portfolios. Now that rumored talks have been put on hold with Hyundai and its affiliate Kia about developing an electric vehicle with Apple, Benzinga readers were asked who…
Laszlo Hanyecz said he wouldn’t purchase a Tesla using Bitcoin. Hanyecz knows what he is talking about: he paid 10,000 Bitcoins for two pizzas in 2010, worth about $446 million at current prices. It was the first known crypto-currency commercial transaction. The price of Bitcoin stood at less than a penny back then. On Tuesday,…
Tesla owners clubs are valuable resources, helping current owners get the most out of their vehicles, and bringing new buyers into the electric fold. The largest Tesla owners club in North America is Tesla Owners of Silicon Valley, which has over 2,000 members, and 64,000 Twitter followers. At the moment, most of the club’s activities are…
Tesla significantly expanded manufacturing in 2020, broke ground on new plants, and launched the Model Y, and hired like crazy to accomplish this. Tesla had 70,757 full-time staff around the world as of December 31st, documents filed this week show with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That figure is up more than 47 percent from…
Days after SpaceX won a NASA contract to launch a space telescope for galaxy mapping, Falcon Heavy was chosen by the space agency to launch a small space station on the Moon some four years from now. For years, NASA and some of its “centers” have floated the idea loosely known as Gateway, partly on…