A worker unloads a new Tesla Model 3 from a truck at a logistics drop zone in Seattle, Washington, US, on Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tesla posted its third-quarter vehicle production and deliveries report on Wednesday. The stock fell about 3.5% in premarket trading after the report. Here are the … Read more
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
NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars back in 2012 and since then it’s been put to work exploring the surface of the Red Planet. In the process, it’s traversed more than 20 miles of the lunar surface, which hasn’t been too kind on its little roving wheels. I Need A Sporty Ride That Can Haul … Read more
The Cybertruck has been on sale for nearly a year at this point, but it’s finally getting Tesla’s flagship (in Elon Musk’s mind, at least) piece of technology: Full Self-Driving. Members of the Cybertruck Owners Club forum are saying that the update enabling FSD has been installed on their trucks. Tesla Had A Very Interesting … Read more
An Impulse employee works on assembling a Mira vehicle. Impulse Space Los Angeles-based space startup Impulse, which is led by renowned rocket specialist Tom Mueller, has raised $150 million in a new fundraising round led by venture capital firm Founders Fund. Impulse is scaling a product line of orbital transfer vehicles — colloquially known as … Read more
A select number of all-electric Tesla Cybertrucks now have the ability to drive on US highways hands-free, after the automaker pushed an update to vehicles this morning. Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy wrote on X that Cybertrucks will be the first Tesla vehicles to receive the “end-to-end on highway” driving feature, which the company says … Read more
I do not like Elon Musk or the Tesla Cybertruck, and if that’s news to you, I hope you enjoy your first day on Jalopnik. I won’t pretend the Model S isn’t the most important car of the 21st century because it just is, but Musk and the Cybertruck are hot garbage. The great thing … Read more
For years, Tesla has proudly paraded its advanced driver assistance system, Full Self-Driving as being the real deal. It’s claimed the system can navigate traffic, manage highway driving and repeatedly claimed it’s the future of driving, despite the number of crashes, collisions and even deaths linked to the system mounting. Now, a new study has … Read more
The Federal Supreme Court (STF) in Brazil suspends Elon Musk’s social network after it fails to comply with orders from Minister Alexandre de Moraes to block accounts of those being investigated by the Brazilian justice system. Cris Faga | Nurphoto | Getty Images X has to pay one last fine before the social network owned … 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
