Instead of focusing on Tesla’s plummeting profits and sales slump, CEO Elon Musk is busy suing various companies and organizations for taking issue with his bigotry. The lawsuits are generally laughable, but he does have an ace up his sleeve — a Texas judge who’s proven to be incredibly friendly to Musk. NPR reports the … Read more
Happy Monday! It’s August 12, 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: Musk Backs Trump, But Tesla Lobbies Against His Policies Elon Musk … Read more
The Tesla Cybertruck has been a menace on America’s roads ever since it finally went on sale late last year. The angular electric vehicle has been causing a ruckus in Maine, has been bricked by car washes and has failed at basic truck stuff. Now, one budding car modder has uncovered a neat way to … Read more
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 has stopped taking orders for the least expensive version of its Cybertruck, which is priced at $61,000, while making the $100,000 version available for immediate order and delivery as soon as this month, its website showed. Demand and supply for the Cybertruck are closely monitored by Tesla investors and fans, because Chief Executive Elon … Read more
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
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
As one Subaru Crosstrek owner recently learned the hard way, it bears repeating that all-wheel drive is not the same as four-wheel drive. A Subie owner posted a warning letter they received a month after driving on Colorado River Overlook Road in Canyonlands National Park to the r/NationalPark subreddit. The letter notes that this particular … Read more
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
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
