Somewhere within these walls lies the dorkiest club imaginablePhoto: Tesla Elon Musk is a dork. He’s a dork who likes things his way, and who’s willing to take his ball and go home when he doesn’t get what he wants. So, after Musk was famously blocked from entering Berghain, it’s only natural that he built … Read more
Image: Lucid The name of the game for Lucid CEO/CTO Peter Rawlinson has always been efficiency. The company claims that its updated Air Pure model will achieve 5 miles of driving for each kilowatt hour of energy onboard (up from 4.1 miles in earlier models), for a record 146 MPGe EPA rating. The brand’s least … Read more
Tesla Inc. is looking to hire nearly 800 new employees, three months after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk hastily ordered the largest round of layoffs in the company’s history. The roles have steadily popped up on Tesla’s careers page in recent weeks, with positions spanning artificial intelligence specialists to more run-of-the-mill service jobs, according to … Read more
Photo: Lcaa9 / Wikimedia Commons Tesla reversed its policy prohibiting Cybertruck resales in direct response to the difficulties of a single Salt Lake City man who couldn’t fit the angular electric pickup in his parking space. Blaine Raddon, a retired CEO, happily reserved a Cybertruck after watching the vehicle’s launch online. However, Raddon and his … Read more
A Tesla sitting at an intersection in Nevada was hit by a Jeep on July 7. Instead of staying on the scene to swap insurance details, however, the Tesla sped away from the crash site and its owner had to fight to stop the car and bring it back under control. Walter Isaacson On Elon … Read more
Good morning! It’s Thursday, July 11, 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: Government Hands GM, Stellantis $1 Billion For More EV Projects The … Read more
Elon Musk’s relationship to Twitter advertisers over the past year can best be described as “adversarial,” but the Tesla CEO announced a new level of combativeness Thursday: He intends to take brands who took their ad spend away from the platform to court in hopes they’ll be criminally prosecuted for not paying him. Tesla’s Cybertruck … Read more
Right now is a weird time to be Tesla. On the one hand, sales are flagging, the company’s newest vehicle is an absolute mess, and its flagship software only works for an elite few. On the other, the stock keeps climbing, with Tesla’s market cap now well over $800 billion. As it turns out, we have … Read more
Despite the fact it’s one of the most divisive – if not the most divisive – vehicles on sale today, the Tesla Cybertruck was apparently June’s best-selling vehicle that costs over $100,000. It’s a pretty impressive feat for a truck that a lot of people absolutely hate. Tesla’s Cybertruck Has Finally Arrived A recent sales … Read more
Photo: Apu Gomes (Getty Images) Just like Elon Musk’s perpetual promises of Full Self-Driving, Tesla is delaying the reveal of its wishfully lucrative Robotaxi from its planned August 8 date all the way to October. Musk is all-in on the autonomous taxi project to reinvigorate the struggling electric automaker, reportedly at the cost of the … Read more
