Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison is changing his tune on electric vehicles with the rollout of a new 250 million Australian dollar ($185 million) plan that will assist private businesses in accelerating the rollout of 50,000 EV charging and hydrogen refueling stations. In 2019 during elections, Morrison stated that the introduction of EVs to the…
Interim CEO of Hertz and former Ford frontman Mark Fields hopes to lead a charge of car rental agencies that will transition to a strategy of adding more electrified models to their fleets. In essence, Hertz is attempting to become the Tesla of the rental car sector by showing that EVs will increase consumer interest.…
In a recent interview with Chinese publication The Paper, Tesla China VP Grace Tao revealed that the company’s vehicle production operations in the country are nearly 100% localized. Tao also remarked that she is hoping that vehicles that are independently designed and manufactured by the Tesla China team will be on the roads in the near…
Tesla has started sending out Autopilot Camera Upgrade invites to Model S and Model X owners who purchased Full Self-Driving when it was initially launched years ago. As per the communication, Tesla is now poised to start camera retrofits for its older cars, which would allow Model S and Model X vehicles with FSD to…
Tesla Giga Texas might be getting bigger already before even starting Model Y production. Recent documents came to light hinting that Tesla has added more acres of land near the Gigafactory Texas complex. According to property records from Travis County, Jared Birchall, who is closely associated with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, is now listed as…
PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta has shared a pleasantly surprising update on his company’s Tesla Semi orders. While speaking with CNBC‘s Jim Cramer, Laguarta remarked that the first deliveries of the Tesla Semi for PepsiCo’s operations would be starting this Q4. This bodes well for the ramp of the all-electric Class 8 truck, which has already seen…
Gigafactory Shanghai may have been on break for a week last month due to China’s National Day celebrations, but Tesla was still able to maintain a remarkable pace in October nonetheless. As shown by recent figures from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA), Tesla’s wholesale vehicle figures were still at 54,391 units, with 40,666 being exported…
The Boring Company’s (TBC) unsolicited proposal to Fort Lauderdale for a Las Olas Loop was recently made public, revealing some more details about the Miami tunnel project. The Boring Company submitted an unsolicited proposal for the Las Olas Loop in Fort Lauderdale on June 21, 2021, paying a $25,000 fee to the city. Full details…
Tesla released FSD Beta 10.4 this weekend. The latest FSD Beta release included improved emergency vehicle detection, which has caused tension between Tesla and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the past. As could be seen v10.4’s Release Notes, however, it appears that Tesla really worked on increasing its driver-assist system’s safety with…
Elon Musk has decided to launch a 24-hour Twitter poll that will determine whether he will sell 10% of his Tesla holdings to pay for taxes on unrealized gains. “Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock,” Musk Tweeted around 3:15…