Late Monday night, Elon Musk and his girlfriend, Grimes, welcomed the birth of their new baby boy! Since hinting at the upcoming delivery on Twitter Monday, Musk has been giving small glimpses into the health of both mom and baby to his followers on Twitter. Tuesday morning, he responded to fan requests for a … Read more
As many eagerly await their Tesla Solar Glass roofs and Powerwalls, the company has gone the extra mile and applied to the UK’s Gas and Electricity Markets Authority. At first glance, this application for approval to operate as a utility provider seems related to their home solar and battery solutions. However, while that wouldn’t … Read more
One major upside of EVs that doesn’t get enough mainstream attention is their cheaper assembly costs. With an exponentially fewer moving parts, assembly can take far fewer hours, and the Model Y is continuing that trend in a big way. After innovating towards a new wiring architecture, which cuts cost by simplifying assembly for … Read more
Buckle up, because a series of strange tweets from Elon Musk just erased billions of dollars from Tesla’s recent stock gains. After many exciting developments for the automaker this week, which posted surprising earnings for Q1, the pendulum was bound to swing in the other direction. As history tends to repeat itself, the cause … Read more
With every Tesla Gigafactory, the plans keep getting larger. First, the original Gigafactory, which has the largest planned footprint of any building on Earth, with an insane square-footage of 5.3 million. Next came their battery plant in New York, before the China Gigafactory, and now upcoming German Gigafactory. Well, those will all pale in … Read more
A couple of days ago, we reported on a hacker finding some interesting subscription clues in their Tesla’s source code. It seemed as if Tesla was on the verge of releasing a pay-per-month version of Full Self Driving, which would act as an alternative to the $7,000 upfront purchase. Well, according to CEO Elon … Read more
In a total gangbuster move, Tesla has announced surprising earnings and production levels this quarter, despite the global pandemic and economic turmoil devastating their competitors. The company stated that they are at a level of production capacity to exceed half a million deliveries this year, which was what they estimated before Covid-19 interrupted production in … Read more
A few months after its initial debut, the Cybertruck and Elon Musk were both spotted hitting the streets of LA with Jay Leno. Of course, they were filming for his CNBC show, Jay Leno’s Garage, which Musk has taken Tesla vehicles on before. In a new trailer for the show’s fifth season, we can … Read more
According to a discovery made by a Tesla hacker, @greentheonly on Twitter, a subscription plan for the ever-improving “Full Self Driving Capability” may be coming down the road for Tesla’s lineup. The decision to monetize the AI’s capabilities would be in line with comments Elon Musk has made in the past, and would be a … Read more
Just days after Tesla has doubled down on its lawsuit against Chinese EV manufacturer, Xpeng, their new P7 has been highlighted in an interview with Fully Charged’s Robert Llewellyn. Naturally, the internet mob has caught on, and the drama has intensified. Over a year ago, Tesla accused an ex-engineer of downloading the source code … Read more
In a seeming repeat of the past, Tesla’s newest vehicle launch has been riddled with quality control issues. The long-awaited Model Y, which shares many aspects with its smaller Model 3 brother, also seems to share its troubling assembly flaws in early examples. Youtuber, Car Confections, takes a closer look at an early Model … Read more
