Tesla is indeed working on upgrading its “gigacasting” technology, which allows all parts of the car’s underbody to be injection molded as a single unit, as reported on Wednesday, September 27, by Shanghai Securities News, citing its own sources close to the automaker. The state-run Chinese newspaper, which published the...
Elon Musk is so obsessed with the idea of a robotaxi that he has repeatedly vetoed the idea of creating a $25,000 electric car, Musk biographer Walter Isaacson told Axios. Elon Musk believes that Tesla owners will earn more than $30,000 a year by sending their cars to transport people...
Tesla has its own chips for both car computers and supercomputers, but the company could not get past the Nvidia H100 accelerators. Tesla reportedly launched a cluster of 10,000 H100 boosters on Monday. Photo: @SawyerMerrittThe cluster will be used to train the autopilot of Tesla vehicles. The Tesla AI 10k...
Tesla’s chief financial officer, or “Master of Coin” as Tesla called him, Zachary Kirkhorn stepped down after four years and six months in the position. Kirkhorn joined Tesla 13 years ago as a senior financial analyst, according to his LinkedIn profile, rising to chief financial officer in 2019. In a...
Walter Isaacson, biographer of billionaire Elon Musk, continued to shed light on the mystery of the creation of the Tesla Cybertruck. He previously spoke about how the Tesla CEO came up with the idea for a futuristic electric pickup truck about six years ago. Now, another of his finds has...
Tesla has funded a glass house project for CEO Elon Musk in Austin, Texas. The leak of information caused indignation of investors, after which an internal investigation began on the topic of whether this was an inappropriate expense for the company, as The Wall Street Journal writes. The alleged secret...
The Chinese government has demanded a truce between leading electric vehicle manufacturers, with Elon Musk’s Tesla becoming the only foreign firm to sign a joint letter of commitment to the country’s “core socialist values”. According to the FT, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, along with 15 other automakers, including BYD (Tesla’s...
In the Tesla store in New York, you can already see the Tesla Optimus robot. But this does not mean that it can be bought or that the launch is close. In fact, this is not even a robot, but only its layout. The company noticed that Optimus was attracting...
In May, Tesla announced its decision to stop producing right-hand drive versions of its cars, which led to outrage from fans. Now the story has continued. Tesla has decided to stop selling Model S and Model X vehicles altogether in relatively small markets such as Australia, Singapore and Thailand. However,...
Tesla has set a new record for lap times at the famed Nürburgring race track among production electric vehicles, with the Model S Plaid equipped with the Track package. The Nürburgring has been a battlefield for Tesla and Porsche for the last few years. After Porsche set a new record...
Tesla this year is the most likely to change prices for its models. This time around, the prices of Tesla’s best-selling vehicles have come down, with the biggest drop exceeding $3,000. Model Y prices were already slightly lowered in the second half of May after being raised earlier that month....
Tesla has leaked personal data of users, as reported by CNBC with reference to the German newspaper Handelsblatt. The Handelsblatt article says the American electric car maker has failed to adequately protect data from customers, employees and business partners. As a result, 100 GB of confidential data leaked onto the...
For the first time, a fully electric car, namely the Tesla Model Y, has become the best-selling car in the world. According to analysts at Jato Dynamics, the Tesla Model Y surpassed the Toyota RAV4 and Corolla to take first place in the global sales rankings in the first quarter...
Tesla’s new Powerwall 3 battery pack will hit the market soon, with a capacity of up to 11.5kW, according to internal Tesla documents obtained by Electrek. Last month, Electrek first reported that Tesla was preparing to launch Powerwall 3. The resource then revealed that the new battery had been certified...
In an interview with CNBC, Elon Musk called remote work “morally wrong bullshit,” arguing that it’s unfair to people who can’t work from home. Musk, who banned telecommuting from Twitter after acquiring the company, has spoken out about it before. This time, he said remote work is counterproductive. “I truly...
Tesla showed what its robots have learned lately. Now they can move, albeit slowly, pick up objects and recognize objects. The new video was presented by Elon Musk during a shareholder meeting, while the billionaire said that the presentation was prepared just the day before the event. The Tesla Bot...
