An accident involving a Tesla vehicle and a Semi truck in Detroit last Thursday is being subjected to an investigation from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), sources reveal. Last Thursday, around 3:20 AM local time in Detroit, Michigan, a white Tesla Model Y drove through an intersection, striking a Semi truck and becoming stuck underneath…
Elon Musk and Tesla’s board of directors have been sued by investor Chase Gharrity, who accuses the electric car company’s CEO and board of “Tweeting about specified information without the pre-approval of a mandated ‘Securities Counsel’ and Tesla’s Disclosure Committee.” Gharrity says Musk has proceeded to break the terms of the settlement announced in the…
A recent carjacking attempt in Jacksonville, Florida, shows us that the quick acceleration electric vehicles give isn’t just a fun feature. It might also save your life. https://twitter.com/WholeMarsBlog/status/1370156332217593856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1370156332217593856%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fcleantechnica.com%2F2021%2F03%2F11%2Ftesla-model-3-acceleration-may-have-saved-owner-from-carjacker%2F Draper Younce, a Naval officer in Jacksonville, got a nasty surprise in a parking lot. A man ran from around the side of an apartment building and…
Tesla seems to be hitting its stride with the rollout of its in-house insurance service, with the electric car maker looking to expand the business outside California. The first of these new states are Texas, Illinois, and Washington. Tesla Insurance was launched in 2019 partly as a way to provide electric vehicle owners with an…
The Tesla Cybertruck is an unashamedly futuristic pickup, and being a futuristic truck, it deserves to be built in an equally futuristic facility. Fortunately for the Cybertruck, it appears that its future manufacturing facility, Gigafactory Texas, is starting to look pretty “cyberpunk” itself, with its thick concrete walls and massive steel frames. Recent flyovers of…
One of Tesla’s Giga Press machines at the Fremont Factory was recently involved in a small fire, prompting the city’s fire department to deploy some of its fire engines and trucks to the electric car plant. The fire was addressed using sand instead of water, and no injuries from the incident were reported. Aerial footage…
The Tesla Model 3 has been hailed as the vehicle with the least number of complaints from its owners, as per recent data from China’s car quality statistics. Based on recent rankings, the Tesla Model 3 only had an annual complaint sales ratio of 0.7 per 10,000 units. This proves once more that the quality…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, recently hinted at the possibility of traveling or even staying in a Cybertruck fifth wheel RV or tiny home. In a Twitter conversation, the CEO reported that tiny home owners will be able to use the huge all-electric pickup truck to power their homes. Soon after the Cybertruck was…
Anyone following the Tesla story will also be familiar with the stereotype that Tesla owners are rabid fans of Elon Musk, and their electric car purchases are driven by their admiration of the CEO. If the results of a recent survey are any indication, however, it appears that Tesla buyers actually have a much more…
Many of Tesla’s battery cells come from third-party manufacturers such as Panasonic, LG Chem, and CATL. According to a new study from Cairn Energy Research Advisors, Tesla is paying considerably less per kilowatt-hour than its rivals because of the large cost at which it buys these cells. Since battery packs account for the majority of…