The National Transportation Safety Board revealed on Thursday that California firefighters used 50,000 gallons of water to extinguish a Tesla Semi fire last month. The electric truck crashed on Interstate 80 in Northern California and burst into flames. The resulting 1,000-degree fire shut down the highway for 16 hours and drew federal investigators to the … Read more
Is Tesla a car company or a tech company? It’s a question not even analysts on Wall Street can agree on. CEO Elon Musk seems to split the difference between the two, and it’s hard to argue the cars his companies build aren’t more tech-forward (for better or worse) than most other cars currently for … Read more
An aerial view of a Tesla Cybertruck being driven on July 24, 2024 in Burbank, California (not the Cybertruck mentioned in the story)Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) Stainless steel often proves to be anything but—anyone with stainless steel appliances can tell you that—but the Tesla Cybertruck’s steel body panels have made a mockery of the … Read more
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has built and opened what will allegedly soon be the world’s largest supercomputer structure in the world. The facility is located in Memphis, Tenn, to the surprise of the City Council. The goal of this computer is allegedly to “understand the universe” and “accelerate human scientific discovery,” but for … Read more
Good things can’t last forever, which is why we had to say goodbye to the abandoned Seattle Cybertruck tourist destination. It would appear that the badly damaged Tesla, dubbed the “CyberStuck,” has been towed away from its now-iconic parking spot in the city. Walter Isaacson On Elon Musk(s) A video was posted to the r/CyberStuck … Read more
We recently reported that Lucid is going to start aiming downmarket with a lineup of cheaper vehicles, and just a few days later we’re getting our first real look at what one of those cars will look like. Lucid posted a teaser image of its upcoming midsize crossover, giving us a pretty good look at … Read more
2024 Kia EV9Image: Kia Kia’s EVs are some of the best on the market right now, and the EV6 and EV9 are selling in record numbers for the automaker. But the industry is in a tumultuous place, especially for electric cars, so automakers are looking for any way to juice up sales. Kia’s latest solution … Read more
Good morning! It’s Monday, September 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’s Autopilot Labeling Site Sound Like Hell In order for … Read more
As it turns out, you can make a Tesla Cybertruck catch on fire and burn to the ground simply by towing it the wrong way. Nope, I’m not joking. It’s right there in the Cybertruck’s owner’s manual under “Instructions for Transporters.” For a truck that is meant to go anywhere and do anything, I feel … Read more
When Jeremy Clarkson was leading the charge at “Top Gear,” the team came under fire for faking all kinds of stunts and tricks, but he maintained through it all that the show’s road tests were fair. However, his successor at “Top Gear,” Chris Harris, claimed on Joe Rogan’s podcast that a review of the original … Read more
