The final day to purchase a Tesla with lifetime Standard Connectivity for free has passed. The automaker no longer offers lifetime Standard Connectivity on any vehicle orders placed after July 20, 2022. It will expire after eight years. Tesla offers two connectivity packages with its vehicles: Standard and Premium. Tesla says that the features are “an…
At the recent TSLA earnings call, Elon Musk briefly highlighted how Tesla Vision enhanced a seat belt safety feature introduced in Update 2022.20. “Our safety team also introduced a feature that tensions seat belts if the vision system detects [an] imminent collision, which has never been done before. So, you can imagine that if you…
Tesla aims to start ramping 4680 cell production at Gigafactory Texas by the end of Q3 2022. By the end of the year, Tesla hopes the battery factory in Austin can exceed the Kato line’s weekly output. Tesla Giga Texas already produced its first 4680 cells. Tesla has started “commissioning its first car sets of…
Tesla’s V4 Supercharger appeared in new project plans for a site in Danvers, Massachusetts, with a design that is strikingly similar to the company’s 72 kW Urban Supercharger. However, project details outlined in blueprints for the Danvers Supercharger seem to indicate this is Tesla’s next big development in its next-gen charging posts, but some questions…
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is holding its second-quarter earnings call after markets close today, July 20, 2022. As in previous quarters, Tesla investors have voted for the top questions that they want the company’s executives to answer at the upcoming Q2 2022 earnings call. As noted by Say, the questions that Tesla investors have submitted for the second…
Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) is poised to report its second-quarter earnings after markets close today. Following a challenging quarter that saw the company’s primary vehicle export hub, Gigafactory Shanghai, get halted for over three weeks, all eyes are now on the company’s Q2 results to see if it could maintain its profitability. Tesla is currently facing a…
Tesla dominated the used vehicle market in June 2022 with its Model Y mid-size SUV. The fasted-selling used vehicle was the Model Y last month, in a list ruled by electric vehicles and hybrids. According to an iSeeCars study, the average used car took 52.1 days to sell in June 2022–a little longer compared to May, when…
In a recommendation on Monday, proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) advised Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) investors to vote against the re-election of Ira Ehrenpreis and Kathleen Wilson-Thompson into the electric vehicle maker’s Board of Directors. Explaining its recommendation, the ISS stated that it has concerns about “the board’s risk oversight in light of the pledging…
Amid the auto industry’s transition to electric vehicles, lithium powerhouse Australia needs to add capacity in refining and manufacturing to help the world meet its battery demand. This was according to Tesla Chair Robyn Denholm, who has served as the EV maker’s Chair since Elon Musk was forced to step down from the post in…
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) is presenting a “compelling opportunity” for investors, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Emmanuel Rosner, who believes the company’s third and fourth quarters of 2022 will be a crucial time as it fights to maintain its delivery goals. Tesla maintained that it would aim for a 50 percent increase in delivery growth in…