Some of the most prestigious cars currently available are built by Tesla. They have a lot of innovative, sophisticated, and even creative features, such as Sentry Mode. Nevertheless, they lack certain elements conventional vehicles have. One of those facets? A spare tire. That’s right — Tesla lacks a decades-old feature that cars have had. Practicality,…
A lot more people will soon have access to the satellite-based broadband internet service Starlink from SpaceX. The CEO of the company, Elon Musk, tweeted on Monday that “several thousand more Starlink beta participation invitations” are coming this week. However, this is just for U.S. customers. But in response to a couple of other Twitter…
Kenya is one of the best places to drive electric vehicles (EVs). Kenya’s grid is very green thanks to awesome geothermal, wind, utility-scale solar, and hydropower plants. All of these make up 93% of Kenya’s generation capacity. Kenyan organization Drivelectric has also shown over a year-long exercise that driving electric in Kenya is so much cheaper than driving a…
In a recent tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently congratulated the Texas team working on the Austin Gigafactory. Tesla seems to be moving along with its construction right on time, based on videos of Giga Texas’s development. The Tesla Texas team is making tremendous progress! Musk responded to a tweet from the Austin Tesla Club,…
Elon Musk noted that, in a recent tweet, Tesla is making “minor changes” to the current version of the Cybertruck to make it “better.” Musk may have tweeted about the “minor tweaks” made to the Cybertruck’s design earlier this year by Tesla’s chief designer Franz von Holzhausen and his team. Musk recently responded to an…
\n Who said 2020 has been a disaster? Certainly not Elon Musk. He is storming his way up the Bloomberg Billionaire Index rankings, breathing down the neck of regulars like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Tesla’s shares and stock value are climbing, its market value surging past the $100 billion mark. And, to add to…
A shoo-in for success was the Nissan Leaf. A Chevrolet Bolt that can’t be missed. The Audi e-tron, an EV to show Tesla what the big boys could do. Those electric models were praised early on as game changers, but they didn’t change the game. In the United States, hybrid cars have had a tough…
A complete teardown of a Tesla Model 3 was recently commissioned by Nikkei Business Publications. What they learned amazed them and made them announce that Tesla is at least six years ahead of the competition. Without significant disruptions to their supply chains, other automakers may never be able to keep up. And the reason? That…
Tesla has substantial influence on the automotive industry, and that’s pretty remarkable for a business that’s only been making cars for 12 years. The company has not only shown that cars can be driven by batteries and still be cool, but other, more subtle aspects are changing. For starters, cars don’t need buttons and knobs…
Tesla launched the beta version of the next big Full Self-Driving (FSD) update on October 20th, which should greatly upgrade the proprietary Autopilot system from the current Level 2 to the highest, Level 5, giving the company’s vehicles the ability to travel independently without any driver assistance. Based on the reviews from the owners who…