UBS analysts compared the batteries of seven all-electric vehicles, including Tesla, Volkswagen, General Motors and Toyota, among others. Tesla is considered one of the best in the industry when it comes to battery technology. Now that major names have entered the EV market, UBS analysts decided to see if that was still the case. The…
While researching my book, Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, I was fortunate to be able to interview two of the Tesla founders, Marc Tarpenning and Ian Wright. Wright offered some keen insights about Tesla’s systems approach to its software, which was the opposite of…
Elon Musk noted in a recent Twitter post that Tesla Superchargers are being made available to other electric cars. This statement received polarizing reactions from the EV community, with some owners noting that such a strategy may result in some of the convenience provided by the Supercharger Network being lost to Tesla customers. After all,…
Elon Musk recently mentioned that Tesla could introduce the recently released Boombox feature to the company’s older vehicles. The Boombox feature was born from the pedestrian warning system of the electric car manufacturer, which was carried out to adhere to the mandate of the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). This year, Tesla’s holiday update…
A newly leaked email from Tesla CEO Elon Musk indicates that its highly ambitious delivery goal for 2020 is within reach of the electric car manufacturer. Tesla retained its target of producing half a million cars this year amid a pandemic that virtually brought the broader automotive industry to its knees. The email from Musk…
This article is an excerpt from the new book, Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, by Charles Morris. The five co-founders of Tesla—Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard, Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright—were certainly greenies, and the environmental value of EVs was one of their prime…
Tesla has plans to support multiple digital display layouts for its vehicle’s center touchscreen through a future over-the-air software update, thereby enabling owners to customize a user experience that best suits their preferences. Having an option to toggle between pre-defined touchscreen display layouts would give both drivers and passengers alike easier access to vehicle Navigation,…
This article is an excerpt from the new book, Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, by Charles Morris. It sometimes happens that a symbolic event marking the end of one era neatly coincides with an event that ushers in the next, although no one notices the…
Elon Musk said Friday that taking Tesla private is now “impossible” even though doing so could lead to further innovation at the electric car manufacturer. The share price of Tesla is almost eight times higher than it was at the beginning of the year and, on December 21, it joined the S&P 500 as its…
The Tesla driver of the TESLAPEG YouTube channel sneakily turned on the Autopilot system of his all-electric car to retake his driver’s license test. Unfortunately, the apparently very observant DMV examiner didn’t seem to be fooled. During Shpataj’s license test, the DMV examiner found the blue steering wheel in the driving visualizations of the infotainment…