Good morning! It’s Tuesday, October 1, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) 1st Gear: 45,000 Dock Workers Strike On East Coast Dockworkers on the U.S. … Read more
Tesla’s factories and other facilities have been dealing with nasty issues – whether it’s sexual harassment, racism or unsafe conditions – for a really long time, and it seems that poisonous work environment has reached its Gigafactory in Autin, Texas. A number of employees at the plant – which began operations back in 2021 – … Read more
In This Story It’s pretty obvious by now that Elon Musk doesn’t really care about the environment. While he was once a warrior in the battle against climate change, or claimed to be, he has evolved into a climate denialist and seems intent on kneecapping whatever environmental and emissions gains Tesla may have made. So … Read more
Even the techiest tech bros in the world are starting to turn on Tesla and its CEO, Elon Musk. Car buyers in California’s Silicon Valley – where Tesla was started – are leaving the brand as its lineup rapidly ages, the competition gets stronger and Musk becomes even more of a right-wing piece of shit … Read more
Is Tesla a car company or a tech company? It’s a question not even analysts on Wall Street can agree on. CEO Elon Musk seems to split the difference between the two, and it’s hard to argue the cars his companies build aren’t more tech-forward (for better or worse) than most other cars currently for … Read more
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 9, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week 1st Gear: Tesla’s Autopilot Labeling Site Sound Like Hell In order for … Read more
When Jeremy Clarkson was leading the charge at “Top Gear,” the team came under fire for faking all kinds of stunts and tricks, but he maintained through it all that the show’s road tests were fair. However, his successor at “Top Gear,” Chris Harris, claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that a review of the original … Read more
Fred Lambert, editor and lead content producer of EV-centric blog Electrek, has been a homer for Tesla since the early days. For years he was a leader in the cultural phenomenon that is/was Tesla, and seriously financially benefitted from his position as an OG Tesla Stan. But on Thursday, Lambert posted that he had sold … Read more
Tesla, the EV maker famously led by notorious bigot and billionaire Elon Musk, has a tendency of struggling to meet its self-imposed deadlines. In another egregious example of this, the company’s latest software update makes “Actually Smart Summon,” or ASS, available after initially promising owners the availability of this feature by September of 2022. Walter Isaacson … Read more
Good morning! It’s Friday, August 23, 2024, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived 1st Gear: Tesla Is Losing Its Sales And Technology Lead Tesla is having … Read more
