Elon Musk’s Support For Trump Finally Hits Tesla’s Sales

Elon Musk’s Support For Trump Finally Hits Tesla’s Sales

Good morning! It’s Friday, August 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 Orders Canceled Over Musk’s Support For Trump For months, … Read more

Tesla Cuts $61,000 Base Cybertruck, Raises Prices On All Others And Says You Can Have One Right Now

Tesla Cuts ,000 Base Cybertruck, Raises Prices On All Others And Says You Can Have One Right Now

Tesla is big on dynamically changing its pricing, raising or lowering costs to boost sales or extract more profit as the company needs. It also has a history of scrapping the base models of its vehicles after advertising their accessibility with a low introductory price. Now, it seems the company has put the two together, … Read more

This Is How Tesla’s NACS Charger Won

This Is How Tesla’s NACS Charger Won

For a couple of years, there was a war among the makers of electric vehicle charging plugs over which company would win market supremacy. Well, now it seems we’ve got a clear winner, and it’s Tesla’s North American Charging Standard. For a long time, it didn’t seem like this would be the case, with automakers … Read more

Tesla Robotaxi Looks A Lot Like A Ploy To Pump The Stock

Tesla Robotaxi Looks A Lot Like A Ploy To Pump The Stock

Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 8, 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: Happy Telsa Robotaxi Release Day! In a parallel universe, today … Read more

The AI Bubble Is Bursting, And Tesla Is Going To Get Burned

The AI Bubble Is Bursting, And Tesla Is Going To Get Burned

Tesla is a car company, no matter what Elon and his army of Long $TSLA hodlers will tell you. Artificial intelligence, or the fancy machine learning models and response generators often referred to as AI, is proving (at least in the short term) to be an expensive boondoggle aimed at replacing workers with computers. If … Read more

Feds Probing Deadly Tesla Cybertruck Crash

Feds Probing Deadly Tesla Cybertruck Crash

Yesterday, we reported on a gruesome Tesla Cybertruck crash that left one person dead after their truck burst into flames following the initial impact. Now, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is opening an investigation into the incident, according to Reuters. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived Not too much is … Read more

Tesla Worker Dies At Texas Factory As Feds Investigate Working Conditions

Tesla Worker Dies At Texas Factory As Feds Investigate Working Conditions

Tesla is facing an investigation into safety at its Texas Gigafactory after a worker died on site last week. The Tesla employee died on Thursday after a reported cardiac arrest and investigators are now looking into whether workplace hazards and safety violations could have contributed to the death. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In … Read more

Tesla Cybertruck Driver Killed After Crashing Into Culvert, Bursting Into Flames

Tesla Cybertruck Driver Killed After Crashing Into Culvert, Bursting Into Flames

A Tesla Cybertruck driver is dead after their truck left the road, hit a concrete culvert at considerable speed and burst into flames near the Grand Parkway in the greater Houston area. Texas State troopers are now investigating what happened during the crash that took place in the early morning house of August 5. Tesla … Read more

Tesla Cybertruck Snaps Its Subrame In YouTube Durability Test

Tesla Cybertruck Snaps Its Subrame In YouTube Durability Test

Screenshot: WhistlinDiesel When Tesla officially revealed the new Cybertruck, it made some big claims about how the Cybertruck was designed to survive the apocalypse and off-roading on Mars or whatever. While it won’t be crash-tested anytime soon, we can at least say it’s been durability tested by YouTuber WhistlinDiesel, and let’s just say this was … Read more

Another Deadly Airbag Recall Could Hit 49 Million Cars

Another Deadly Airbag Recall Could Hit 49 Million Cars

Good morning! It’s Thursday, August 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. Max Burkholder’s First Car Was A Recall Nightmare 1st Gear: U.S. Pushes For Recall Of 51 Million Faulty … Read more