In the latest edition of “Fun Autopilot Fails,” a 2018 Tesla Model 3 rammed a parked state police car in Connecticut on Saturday. The highway patrol vehicle had stopped behind a stranded car on I-95, and the Tesla slammed into it. The police car, while a Ford, was fortunately not a Crown Victoria; those had […]
General Motors (GM) was actually a pioneer in electric cars, with the creation of the Bob Lutz-sponsored Chevy Volt, followed by the Bolt. While it was critiqued by many for not being a Tesla, the Bolt did have two major advantages over the Model 3: it was well made, without the rather insane defects of […]
Serious sports cars of the future will be electrically powered. It’s not a new thought. Tesla, if nothing else, proved that gasoline engines were on the way out for high-end cars. Dodge, often the most innovative muscle-car maker, did its best with the relatively low-buck, insanely high-horsepower Hellcat series. The original 707-horse Hellcats held their […]
In a recent announcement by Elon Musk on Twitter, the highly anticipated Tesla pickup truck (Cybertruck) will finally be revealed on November 21 in Los Angeles near the SpaceX rocket factory. Musk has said some ambitious things about the upcoming pickup truck. The starting price will be below $50,000 and Musk has also said that […]
China built a Tesla trap, and Elon Musk dove in with both feet. One thing American and European manufacturers, from chips to cars, have noticed about China is that it doesn’t take long for their products to be duplicated. Local construction companies, seeing plant blueprints, have even helped build clone plants in other towns or […]
The original Tesla Roadster was introduced a little over a decade ago in 2008 and lasted up until 2012. It was a quirky but fairly obscure car at the time and did not populate many driveways. The new Tesla Roadster was introduced almost two years ago and it shook the internet. The performance numbers announced […]
[the_ad id=”429″] In a nod to Spaceballs, Tesla has been recently testing a new powertrain for its Model S. The new powertrain utilizes a three-motor system which means that this powertrain will accelerate the car faster than “Ludicrous” mode. Yes, that’s right, the masterminds at Tesla plan to release something crazier than the already crazy Ludicrous mode. […]
Tesla has decided to launch their brand in Iceland. Likely being its only location, Tesla will offer the Model X, S, and 3 for now. Ordering has opened for those who are interested in purchasing a Tesla. Even though the population of Iceland is around 350,000, EV sales have been growing and a request to […]
This week, there were two interesting and related events in the electric-truck industry: Tesla announced it was pushing back its electric pickup to November, and Medium published a story claiming Amazon was planning to buy electric pickup company Rivian. Tesla is always pushing back its vehicles and features, so another pushback isn’t too surprising, but […]
Tesla has delayed the “smart summon” feature, which it claimed would be on its cars by now—and, with that delay, has also pushed back a $1,000 price increase for the “self-driving” package. Elon Musk, head of Tesla, had claimed that the feature would be available in mid-August, but it’s been delayed by around one or […]