Jameson Dow

Tesla held its quarterly report yesterday, and stated that six major products would be ready for action next year. This would suggest that Tesla has a truly historic year coming up for it, set to disrupt trucking, affordable EVs, sportscars, taxis, driving in general, and, oh, just all human work.

But we’ve heard all this before, and forgive us for saying that it seems slightly more likely that the boy is crying wolf.

Epic Games has announced that the Cybertruck is coming to its popular video games Fortnite and Rocket League starting tomorrow, sharing images of the vehicle in both games.

Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone-maker that has recently taken a dip into electric cars with the SU7 has now unveiled a hyper-sports version of its 4-door EV in the SU7 Ultra, which it aims to be the fastest 4-door car in the world, gas or electric.

At tonight’s Republican National Convention speech, Donald Trump declared that he’ll “end the electric vehicle mandate.” The only problem is, there is no electric vehicle mandate.

The regulations he’s talking about are probably the most recent EPA regulations, which notably do not mandate electric vehicles at all. Those regulations were supported by Tesla – whose CEO just committed $180 million to the same person who seems to know nothing about the industry Tesla operates in.

After stopping shipment of Cybertruck’s original aerodynamic wheel covers due to unusual tire wear in early February, Tesla is finally starting to install redesigned wheel covers on Cybertrucks that were delivered without them in the interim, and we’re finally seeing pictures of what they’ll look like.

A Hyundai Ioniq 5 and Kia EV6 have been spotted at a supercharger, but not charging with an adapter – this time they were using a native NACS port, suggesting native NACS support could be coming soon.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who said he would stay on the sidelines during this election, will spend $45 million per month to elect Donald Trump, a presidential candidate who has repeatedly targeted EVs during his campaign and who has promised to end EV incentives in exchange for a billion dollars in bribes from the oil industry.

The Goodwood Festival of Speed happened this weekend, and Ford’s electric SuperVan managed to beat every other vehicle, gas or electric, to the top of the hill.

Just days after a massive election win, UK’s new Labour government has hit the ground running and is already making progress on increasing solar power deployment.

Tesla has started offering an “energy boost” software unlock to recent buyers of the Model Y RWD, allowing them to unlock more battery capacity – for a price.

The 2024 hurricane season is here, and we’ve already had our first record-breaking hurricane in Beryl, which caused billions in damage and deaths in Texas, Grenada, Venezuela and nearby areas.

Importantly, climate change helped this storm break these records and do so much damage. But if you watched the news, you likely didn’t hear about that.

The Department of Energy announced $1.7 billion in grant awards today targeted at helping automakers keep 11 troubled manufacturing plants open and to start building EVs there.

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has signed a new law ensuring Michigan homeowners can install a variety of energy efficiency improvements on their homes, including EV chargers, solar panels, heat pumps and more.

You’ve perhaps heard of the original Tesla Roadster, the car that started Tesla and the EV revolution. Now, a Roadster you probably haven’t heard of is for sale – a one-of-a-kind prototype for a performance package that never saw the light of day.

Update: The car has now been listed for auction on Cars & Bids. The auction ends July 15th at 10:30AM PDT.

Tesla’s third instance of its ‘one-time-only’ Full Self-Driving transfer scheme is in full effect now, allowing owners to transfer their purchase of FSD capability to a new vehicle on purchases before August 31.

Tesla is using this as an opportunity to boost demand, rather than doing the right thing by letting owners transfer the still-unreleased software they spent thousands of dollars on.

Tesla Cybertrucks without the $20,000 “Foundation Series” package will now start delivery in “late 2024,” rather than this quarter as previously expected.

The US “Supreme” Court has just issued an opinion that would overturn Chevron v Natural Resources Defense Council, ensuring more government gridlock and casting activist judges in the place of career scientists to decide specific answers to some of the most crucial questions of the day, such as those related to climate emissions and other environmental issues.

Among many incredibly stupid opinions the court has issued recently, this is among the stupidest, and we’re going to go into why.

Extreme E, the electric off-road racing series, is transitioning to using hydrogen instead of batteries for the 2025 season, and today it unveiled the car it plans to use next year – when it will also change its name to Extreme H.

Honda has announced lease pricing for its upcoming CR-V e:FCEV fuel cell plug in hybrid, which operates either on electricity or hydrogen.

On top of Rivian’s big VW partnership news today, we also got a look at what some of Rivian’s future plans might include – including some vehicles that we haven’t heard anything about before.

VW and Rivian have just announced that the two companies will form a joint venture, bringing Rivian’s software expertise to VW’s products and providing an initial $1 billion, and potentially up to an eventual $5 billion, in capital for Rivian to get through its push to deliver its upcoming R2 vehicle.

Tesla’s NACS support webpage now lists Mercedes along other automakers in its “coming soon” section, though the timeline for Supercharger support has been pushed back for other automakers as Tesla sorts through a chaotic reorganization of its charging team at the behest of CEO Elon Musk.

The Pike’s Peak International Hill Climb had its 102nd running today, and several EVs which set out to post new records have done so today, with the Rivian R1T and Ioniq 5N both claiming records, and the Ford SuperTruck being the fastest vehicle up the hill on the day.

Rivian’s new high-powered Ascend Quad Max R1T variant will race up Pike’s Peak, one of the longest-running and most difficult races in the world, this weekend.