Good morning! It’s Friday, January 5, 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. 1st Gear: Tesla Recalls Every Car It Has Sold In China Safety issues with Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance … Read more
Image: Tesla Some of Tesla’s best selling models have received an adjustment to their posted EPA range estimates, lowering some of them by as much as six percent. It has long been known that Tesla has a tendency to exaggerate its range estimates, failing to bake in any leeway for weather, terrain, or speed. Some … Read more
Photo: Tesla The first weeks of January are always full of number crunching, as automakers start putting out their sales results for the fourth quarter and the previous year as a whole. Tesla is one of the first to release Q4 2023 numbers, announcing that in 2023 it produced 1,845,985 vehicles and delivered 1,808,581 — … Read more
Photo: Josh Edelson (Getty Images) Either the world is not ready for self-driving cars, or self-driving cars are not ready for the world. After all the avoidable crashes and injuries in 2023 — some of which were fatal — I’m going to say that it’s the latter rather than the former. Autonomous vehicles are clearly … Read more
Elon Musk will definitely always be considered one of history’s top weird little guys, and 2023 has only served to cement his image. He managed to poorly run all of his companies, running Twitter (I will not call it X) into the ground, causing Tesla to lose ground in the EV race, allowing The Boring … Read more
Elon Musk is big mad at a report that kind of sort of implied that one of his favorite robots attacked one of his employees at Tesla’s Austin, Texas factory two years ago. The report never actually said it was one of his shiny (fuckable?) Optimus friends, but it didn’t exactly highlight that it was … Read more
Last month American startup Lucid debuted the Gravity, its first entry in the hotly contested three-row SUV segment and an important model for the brand that currently only builds the Air luxury sedan. Speaking with Autocar in a new interview, Lucid CEO Peter Rawlinson says the company’s next focus is on two mainstream models that will … Read more
A new stat has emerged to set Tesla bros alight on social media platforms around the world: prospective Tesla drivers are involved in crashes more than the drivers of any other car brand, a LendingTree analysis reveals. The Hype Behind Tesla Stock Success In 2023 For its analysis, LendingTree analyzed tens of millions of insurance … Read more
