Data shows that Tesla has significantly ramped up its own external communications over the last few months as Elon Musk becomes more controversial.
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Data shows that Tesla has significantly ramped up its own external communications over the last few months as Elon Musk becomes more controversial.
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Ross Gerber, a major and vocal Tesla investor, says Elon Musk broke the Tesla stock when he sold it to buy Twitter.
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Tesla and Audi are the first two automakers to participate in the Global Battery Alliance’s battery passport proof-of-concept. You can take a look at what it looks like here.
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Tesla has increased the price of its home charging station by 20% after several price drops made it the cheapest option available.
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There are a lot of media reports about Tesla having “staged” or “faked” a self-driving video in 2016 today after the testimony of a Tesla Autopilot executive was released, but here’s the full story.
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Tesla (TSLA) is currently experiencing “unprecedented demand” in the US following the significant price cuts that happened last week.
Many stores are hitting new records and inventories are dwindling.
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Hertz and Uber announced today that they are expanding their partnership to electrify their fleets, and they are deploying 25,000 electric cars in Europe.
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Tesla has clandestinely downgraded its performance brakes on the Model Y Performance and even put a cover to hide the change in a deceptive move.
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Tesla has been spotted assembling its giant new casting machine for Cybertruck production at Gigafactory Texas.
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This week on the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. This week, we discuss the massive Tesla price cuts, the Autopilot hardware update, the Corvette E-Ray, and more.
Tesla is expected to release a new Autopilot/Full Self-Driving hardware suite imminently and now more details have leaked.
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Tesla has commented on the new massive overnight price cuts on Model 3 and Model Y and claimed that they are due to “a partial normalization of cost inflation.”
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Tesla has secured a new 1 million-square-foot building near Brookshire, Texas. It’s not known what it’s for yet, but there’s a rumor that it is for battery storage.
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Tesla released a white paper on its new string solar inverter and claims that it is much cheaper than competing inverter solutions from Enphase and SolarEdge.
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Tesla has become the top luxury brand in the US automotive market – the first time an American automaker claims the title.
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Tesla vehicles moved almost 100,000 people inside the Boring Company tunnels under Las Vegas in only a few days during CES last week.
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Tesla is again rumored to be nearing a deal to build a factory in Indonesia, which would secure a lot of nickel supply for the automaker.
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Footage of the Tesla vehicle allegedly on “Full Self-Driving” that caused an eight-car crash pile-up in San Francisco in November has emerged.
It appears to show a classic case of phantom braking but also during Level 2 autonomy, the driver should have responded.
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Tesla has started to release its quarter Autopilot safety reports after stopping for a year. The automaker claims some improvements.
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Tesla has applied with the Texas state department of licensing for a massive $700 million expansion of Gigafactory Texas in Austin.
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Tesla is shutting down buyers in China who are protesting after missing out on significant price drops in the country. The company stated that it will not compensate them.
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Tesla Model 3 has ended the Toyota Camry’s 28-year run as the best-selling car in Australia and even drew a small reaction from Toyota.
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Tesla is continuing its discounts on its electric vehicles in several markets as inventory has piled up, which is abnormal for the automaker this early in the year.
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Tesla is planning to remove a driver monitoring feature from Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta, and it got the attention of regulators.
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