Ford Motor Company said it would cut 3,000 jobs in a letter to employees that was obtained by Automotive News. The affected employees will be informed this week. “Building this future requires changing and reshaping virtually all aspects of the way we have operated for more than a century,” CEO Jim Farley and Ford said in the…
If Elon Musk’s recent comments are any indication, the Tesla Semi will be entering production later this year. Interestingly enough, the EV maker has updated the vehicle’s official webpage, including, among other things, what appears to be a teaser of the Tesla Semi production interior. Needless to say, it looks fantastic, but might also be…
Recent comments from Brandenburg’s Economics Minister Jörg Steinbach have revealed that Tesla Gigafactory Berlin’s workforce ramp is right on schedule. The minister also highlighted that Tesla’s Germany-based electric vehicle factory is now the largest industrial employer in Brandenburg. Steinbach also noted that Tesla would soon be the largest training company in Brandenburg. Apart from this,…
Tesla released FSD Beta 10.69 to the first round of testers over the weekend. Read v.10.69’s release notes below to check out the latest improvements. STAY IN YOUR LANES Added a new “deep lane guidance” module to the Vector Lanes neural network which fuses features extracted from the video streams with coarse map data, i.e.…
Elon Musk announced a price increase for FSD Beta once Tesla starts 10.69’s wide release. Tesla expects the long-anticipated update to introduce significant improvements to FSD. Tesla started its initial release of FSD Beta v.10.69 over the weekend, and testers are already starting to share their insights on the update. It might have even solved Chuck’s…
During his latest drone flyover of Giga Texas, Jeff Roberts spotted what looks to be a new helipad in an area of the parking lot that is near several Cybertruck-themed planters. Jeff shared the photo along with three others noting that there is a lot happening a Giga Texas and highlighted the white Model Ys in the…
Two videos debunking the claim that Tesla’s Full Self-Driving runs over children have been removed by YouTube. The videos were in response to a television ad campaign put forth by Green Hills Software CEO, Dan O’Dowd. O’Dowd aired television ads with the claim that Tesla’s FSD software “repeatedly hits child-sized mannequins,” and thus, the clickbait headlines poured in.…
Tesla short seller, Scott Burg, placed a multi-billion dollar bet against Tesla (TSLA) in the second quarter of 2022. He recently deleted his Twitter account. According to a report in Bloomberg, the Tesla short seller added puts on 4.8 million Tesla shares during the last quarter. In 2020, the Deer Park Road Management Co.’s chief investment officer wrongly…
Tesla and Canada are showing their support for one another. After hosting Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and Industry, Francois-Philippe Champagne, Tesla’s climate policy expert with public, private, and non-profit sector experience, Iain M., shared his thoughts on LinkedIn. Recently, Minister Champagne visited Tesla’s automation facility in Markham and took a tour and a test drive. Tesla’s Iain…
Earlier this month at Tesla’s 2022 Annual Shareholder Meeting, CEO Elon Musk joked that FSD Beta 10.13 would present significant changes and improvements to the company’s advanced driver-assist system that it should probably just be called FSD Beta 10.69. Recent comments from Musk have now revealed that Tesla is being extra careful with the update’s…