Last August, legendary racecar driver Randy “The Rocket” Pobst, undoubtedly one of the industry’s most admired racers, took his battered Unplugged Tesla Model 3 Performance up Pikes Peak, only a few days after crashing spectacularly at the Bottomless Pit. Pobst finished second in the Exhibition Class of the meet, just behind another Model 3 Performance…
After Tesla reported a $1.5 billion investment, Bitcoin soared to a record on Tuesday above $48,000. That capped Elon Musk’s years-long cryptocurrency flirtation, which has played out mainly in Twitter memes, some of them moving markets. The decision of Tesla to accept Bitcoin as payment for its electric cars may help bring the digital currency…
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…
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, announced via Twitter that he would be writing a book about the stories of the two companies. The long and tumultuous story of Musk’s endeavor of running an automaker and a space program at the same time will be told by the man who experienced it himself. To…
Kate Kegans doesn’t own a Tesla or any other products from Elon Musk’s many entities. Still, his Neuralink program could be her last chance at a normal life after experiencing vision impairments nearly nine years ago. “I started having double vision, especially when I looked down,” Kegans said about her initial symptoms in 2011. “I…
As Tesla reaches new heights and Wall Street firms start acknowledging the electric car maker’s potential, CEO Elon Musk has blazed the trail for a new breed of billionaires across the globe. Interestingly enough, Musk and his fellow billionaires are making their fortune not through non-sustainable commodities like fossil fuels. Instead, they are creating empires…
The advent of COVID has brought about a myriad of problems in the world to the forefront, including hard-to-swallow realizations about the systems that surround, forge, and often dictate human society. Education was among these systems affected by the global pandemic. As students moved their learning experiences from the classroom into their living rooms, it became evident…
Over the past five years, the major auto companies have invested massively in electric vehicles (EVs). The Volkswagen Group in 2017 announced that they would offer 80 new electric vehicles across their brands by 2025 and electric versions of every one of its models by 2030. In the same year GM went public with plans to put at least…
While electric vehicles like Tesla have continued to grow in sales exponentially in recent years, they are still a fairly new concept for many people. A majority of consumers purchasing EVs have never previously owned one and may not be aware of the ways traditional ICE vehicles differ. Since these vehicles are electric, the battery is essentially…
The prospect of a revised design of the Model S and Model X is one of the more common Tesla rumors that has made its way through the community. Since their launch in 2012 and 2015, the two cars have seen very slight cosmetic changes. Although they contribute to the quarterly sales and distribution figures…