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
Image: GM Tesla’s Supercharger network has become the North American Charging Standard and tons automakers are building their EVs with this network in mind. While this is good for mass EV adoption, it’s turning out to be a headache in practice. Tesla Had A Very Interesting Week First spotted by InsideEVs, owners of GM EVs … 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
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 30, 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. Paulina Porizkova Had Two Toyota 4Runners Stolen Back-to-Back 1st Gear: Chinese Car Ban Could Cut Car Sales And … Read more
Americans have a huge automotive debt problem right now. A new survey shows that 31 percent of American drivers who financed their car are underwater on their loans. The problem is even worse for EV owners – 46 percent of those folks have negative equity in their electric cars. Furthering the issue is the fact … Read more
Electric vehicle fires have made headlines for years now, but in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, the Category 4 hurricane that caused record devastation from wind, rain, and storm surge, EVs are spontaneously combusting and saltwater is a main culprit. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis urged EV owners to get their vehicles to higher ground before … 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
Good morning! It’s Friday, September 27, 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. Jalopinions | The Best Type is Jaguar’s E-Type 1st Gear: Automakers Now Aim To Sell 23.7 million EVs … 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
