Elon Musk’s hosting gig at Saturday Night Live was, in a lot of ways, better than expected. Kicking off the episode with a witty and surprisingly vulnerable monologue and following up with several legitimately funny sketches, Musk proved to be a hit among SNL’s viewers. To date, the May 8 episode gave the late-night show its third-highest ratings this season–but this…
Param Sharma, 25, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol’s Golden Gate Division for recklessly driving a Tesla Model 3. Param Sharma was charged with reckless driving for allowing his Tesla Model 3 to cruise down Interstate 80 (I-80) without a driver, according to a CHP social media post about the arrest. Sharma sat in…
A Tesla Model S Plaid has been spotted with a new version of the now infamous yoke steering wheel, as well as a few other changes. A photo of a pre-production Tesla Model S Plaid sedan in the wild was posted by car enthusiast @AaronS5_. He found that the Model S Plaid’s yoke steering wheel…
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, polled his nearly 54 million Twitter followers last night, asking a simple question: “Do you want Tesla to accept Doge?” The survey had received over 3.06 million responses by 1:15 p.m. EST, with 77.5 percent of respondents voting “Yes.” Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency, has gained attention in recent months as…
Tesla has appointed a Director for its operation in India. The company has chosen Prashanth R. Menon, who has been with Tesla for four years, to oversee the company’s introduction into the Indian market. Menon’s LinkedIn was updated recently, and his job title now indicates that he is the Director of Tesla’s India operation. Previously, he acted…
Tesla will wait to expand Giga Shanghai as the United States’ relationship with China intensifies, with tensions reaching peak levels. According to people familiar with the matter, Tesla has reportedly decided not to purchase a plot of land located next to its Chinese production facility Giga Shanghai. The root cause of Tesla’s decision not to…
nElon Musk is working hard on a 360-degree clean energy strategy at Tesla. With solar, battery storage, and electric cars, Tesla is poised to reshape the global energy paradigm. However, Tesla’s products can only go so far. According to Mike Brown at Inverse, there’s something else — and it happens to be “the one big thing Elon Musk says…
When Tesla started constructing Gigafactory Berlin, the company stated that every tree cut down for the upcoming electric car factory would be replaced threefold. Tesla, together with the Naturraum für Generationen (NfG), started planting the first batch of seedlings to replace the trees that would be cut in Giga Berlin in October 2020. And the…
Following a blockbuster March that saw Tesla China selling an impressive 35,478 vehicles domestically, the EV maker continued to hit its rhythm in April 2021. This was evident in Tesla’s total sales of 40,019 vehicles, comprised of 25,845 units sold domestically and 14,174 exported to other territories. With these results, Tesla China effectively dominated the…
The California Highway Patrol is looking into an incident involving a Tesla that was spotted on an Oakland freeway with no driver and a lone passenger in the backseat. The California Highway Patrol’s Golden Gate Division reported on Facebook over the weekend about a “unusual incident involving a Tesla.” “The California Highway Patrol (CHP) has…