As of Dec. 20, Ford has issued 54 vehicle recalls, potentially affecting 5,692,135 vehicles in 2023, the most of any automaker, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). For the third year in a row, Ford ranked number one in vehicle recalls in the United States. If we...
Tesla has unveiled Optimus Gen 2, the next generation of its humanoid robot that will be able to take on various tasks to help people. Tesla wants to create a humanoid robot that could be versatile enough to replace human labor, but many doubt that this is achievable in the...
The United Auto Workers (UAW) announced that workers at more than a dozen automakers have simultaneously launched campaigns across the United States to join the union. Automakers targeted by the UAW include Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Subaru, Mazda, Hyundai, Tesla, Rivian and Lucid. Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn’t...
As Tesla prepares to begin delivering the first Cybertrucks to customers, reports from the Texas plant paint a rather disturbing picture, including explosions in the foundry and a robot that “attacked” a worker. TheInformation reported on a number of incidents at the Gigafactory in Austin, where one in 21 workers...
Elon Musk and Company X filed a lawsuit against Media Matters, which accused the social network of allowing anti-Semitic publications. X’s lawsuit alleges that Media Matters for America “manipulated” data in an attempt to “destroy” the platform formerly known as Twitter. Companies including Apple, Disney, IBM and Comcast suspended advertising...
Tesla’s board of directors should remove Elon Musk from his post for supporting anti-Semitic views on social media, according to a company investor and leading management expert. Jerry Braakman, president of First American Trust, wants Tesla’s board to make clear that Musk went too far by agreeing with an anti-Semitic...
During the 2022-2023 winter season, startup Recurrent collected data on the battery health and range of 10,000 electric vehicles to analyze how freezing temperatures affected their range. Analyzing 18 electric vehicle models in the US, they found that the average observed winter range (taking into account real-world variables such as...
Billionaire Elon Musk once again praised Chinese workers during his latest interview. Musk talked about China and said that there are many more truly smart and hardworking people in China than in the United States. He invited everyone to go to China to see for themselves. This is not the...
Under Tesla’s updated vehicle purchase agreement, Cybertruck buyers will be prohibited from reselling their vehicles for a year after receipt. Last month, the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles held an auction where a Cybertruck with an early VIN number was auctioned off for a cool $400,000. However, it is...
Tesla has launched a virtual power plant in Puerto Rico, which could become the largest such system in the world. A virtual power plant is a system for aggregating distributed energy assets. In particular, households with solar panels, Tesla Powerwall home storage devices, and so on. If desired, the owner...
Tesla cars belong to the category of cars in which control of almost all systems is placed on the main screen, while all physical buttons have been removed from the dashboard. Image by MidjourneyHowever, the Chinese have already released a panel that connects to the car’s multimedia system and adds...
Tesla is going to build something it calls the Giga Water Loop. Mention of this facility was found in Tesla documentation related to the Gigafactory under construction in Texas. This is a Tesla project called Giga Water Loop. Very close to our proposed pipe on the north side of the...
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...