Elon Musk is a gamer from way back—his early love of computer games led him to programming, which led to Zip2, PayPal and Tesla. So it wasn’t too surprising to see the introduction of the Tesla Arcade, which allows Tesla owners to play a variety of vidgames on the cars’ screens, even using the steering wheel…
While researching my book, Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, I was fortunate to be able to interview two of the Tesla founders, Marc Tarpenning and Ian Wright. Wright offered some keen insights about Tesla’s systems approach to its software, which was the opposite of…
This article is an excerpt from the new book, Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, by Charles Morris. The five co-founders of Tesla—Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard, Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright—were certainly greenies, and the environmental value of EVs was one of their prime…
Tesla has plans to support multiple digital display layouts for its vehicle’s center touchscreen through a future over-the-air software update, thereby enabling owners to customize a user experience that best suits their preferences. Having an option to toggle between pre-defined touchscreen display layouts would give both drivers and passengers alike easier access to vehicle Navigation,…
This article is an excerpt from the new book, Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, by Charles Morris. It sometimes happens that a symbolic event marking the end of one era neatly coincides with an event that ushers in the next, although no one notices the…
The Tesla driver of the TESLAPEG YouTube channel sneakily turned on the Autopilot system of his all-electric car to retake his driver’s license test. Unfortunately, the apparently very observant DMV examiner didn’t seem to be fooled. During Shpataj’s license test, the DMV examiner found the blue steering wheel in the driving visualizations of the infotainment…
A Tesla Mobile Service technician recently showed true dedication for the job when they were spotted remotely servicing a Model Y during a snowy winter holiday. Tesla enthusiast @JARE_ee shared pictures of the Tesla Mobile Service technician, driving a modified Model S, to repair a Model Y alone in the snow. “Which other company will service your…
All Electric Family set out on a 2,000-mile road trip through many U.S. states. Their goal is to check out some of Arkansas, Tennessee, and Missouri’s best Christmas light displays. However, the other goal is always to spend time road-tripping in the Tesla Model X and share range and charging information with the EV community.…
This article is an expanded version of material that appears in Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, Edition 4.1. This history of Tesla, written by Charged Senior Editor Charles Morris and originally published in 2014, has now been completely revised and expanded, with new chapters on Model Y, Cybertruck,…
Mark Rober, one of YouTube’s notable personalities, recently took the wraps off his new project—the Glitterbomb 3.0. Part experiment and part petty revenge, the Glitterbomb has become an annual tradition of sorts for the former NASA engineer. This year, Rober opted to introduce some interesting upgrades to his contraption. Right off the bat, the inventor…