Tesla has huge competitive advantages over other automakers in the US. Below are what I consider to be Tesla’s 5 biggest advantages over the competition. 1) Tesla’s Battery Supply Chain: Tesla currently produces 4 all-electric vehicles — the Tesla Models S, X, 3, and Y, all of which require significant battery capacity. Tesla broke ground on its…
The next-generation Tesla Roadster may be dubbed by Elon Musk as the “dessert” to the main course of the company’s EV offerings, but the all-electric supercar is still one of the most captivating vehicles poised to come out of the Silicon Valley based carmaker. The next generation Tesla Roadster, with its crazy performance and specs,…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s Twitter account was compromised today as part of a huge crypto scam. For years now, Musk’s popular Twitter account with more than 30 million followers has been a target of crypto-currency scammers trying to make money out of their followers by creating accounts that look like his and responding to fans.…
Thanks to the help of a Tesla owner and Tesla’s Sentry Mode, a Porsche owner was reunited with his stolen car. Tesla’s Sentry Mode is an integrated monitoring device used by the Autopilot cameras around the car inside Tesla’s vehicles. The system detects when there’s a “threat,” which basically consists of anyone or anything approaching…
Tesla Motors was a marginal startup outsider in the car industry in the early 2000s. It faced naysayers because “no one was doing electric cars,” CEO Elon Musk said in February on the podcast “Third Row Tesla.” Yet despite the odds, Tesla became the most successful automaker in the world-on July 1, for the first…
Since his childhood, books have played a crucial role in fueling Musk’s ambitions. It’s said that he read the entire Encyclopedia Britannica at age nine and would pore through science fiction novels for more than 10 hours a day. When asked how he learned about rockets, Musk reportedly said, “I read books.” His voracious reading habit was essential…
Tesla Cybertruck is set to be the first solar-powered Tesla vehicle. A recent design video of deployable solar from the electric pickup truck may look ridiculous but it may not be too far-fetched. Elon Musk shocked everyone after the launch of the Cybertruck when he said Tesla’s new electric pickup truck will have a solar…
Tesla needs to succeed in China if it wants to dominate the world of electric cars—especially in a post-virus world. To do that, Elon Musk is turning to a battery engineer who once helped Apple Inc. extend the life of its MacBook laptops. Zeng Yuqun, 52, built Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. into China’s battery champion…
Elon Musk is headstrong about his vision of a world where sustainable energy meets a large portion of our life needs. He kicked off his dream of the first-ever Tesla Roadster making it into assembly lines in February 2008 and then finishing a 500-car batch by June 2009. That was an eye-opener for the world…
Fully self-driving vehicles which can go wherever they please and operate wherever regulators allow them to do so are a tricky thing to consider. At the World AI Conference 2020 this week, Elon Musk said that he is super optimistic that Tesla can get to full autonomous driving with its current hardware only by continuing…