Tag: Tesla

September 16, 2019

The electrification of our streets is fully engaged. But is it time to start looking up? Now that motorists are embracing EVs for the morning commute and both enterprises and transit operators are actively exploring battery-powered vehicles to replace fossil-fuel […]

August 7, 2019

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration sent Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk a cease-and-desist letter last year regarding Model 3 safety claims and has subpoenaed the carmaker for information on several crashes, according to documents posted by a nonprofit advocacy […]

July 3, 2019

THE FIRST WEEK of July is shaping up to be a good one for Tesla. On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s automaker announced the results of a tremendous second quarter: Tesla delivered about 95,200 cars between April and June, a new quarterly […]

June 19, 2019

An autonomous systems defense company contends it has successfully spoofed the GPS mechanism of a Tesla Model 3 using the automaker’s latest Autopilot technology, sending the vehicle off its intended route. Regulus Cyber said it used commercially available hardware and […]

April 24, 2019

TESLA CEO ELON Musk showed investors on Monday a custom-designed artificial intelligence chip his company recently began installing in its vehicles. He claimed it was powerful enough to allow Teslas to pilot themselves without supervision by the end of this […]

April 11, 2019

This doesn’t seem right. As of next year, the European Union is introducing really tough standards for CO2 emissions, with a requirement for fleet average emissions of 95 grams per kilometre. Fiat Chrysler (FCA) was up there at 123g last […]

April 5, 2019

NOTE TO READERS: The author aware that these games do not work when the car is moving. It was an attempt at sarcasm, about attitudes to distraction, of which there is still plenty. A few years ago, author and urbanist […]

March 15, 2019

Elon Musk’s unveiling of a new electric vehicle that Tesla Inc. won’t deliver to customers for another year and a half rekindled concerns about the company’s cash position. The Model Y crossover the chief executive officer debuted late March 14 […]

March 1, 2019

It was a while coming, but this could be a pretty big deal for your average buyer. Ever since Tesla started talking about the Model 3, electric car nerds (and just about everyone else too) has been talking about its […]

February 25, 2019

Tesla Inc.’s Model 3 sedan took command of the global electric-car market last year, outselling the nearest competitor by about 50%. In its first full year on the market, Model 3 sales surged to about 138,000 units, easily beating the […]

January 30, 2019

Lately, Tesla has been keen to emphasize the performance of its cars on snow and ice, tweeting out a video of the Model 3 swashbuckling about a winter proving grounds and running a promotion in which customers can win the […]

December 24, 2018

When I first drove the Tesla Model 3 in March 2018, I attracted so much attention from the denizens of Los Angeles that it bordered on embarrassing. The hoi polloi of Beverly Hills walked right by Lamborghinis and Aston Martins […]

December 24, 2018

This is where electric cars really come into their own. There’s a strong case to be made that private car ownership is an inefficient use of resources, even if those cars are electric. But it’s hard to imagine a world […]

November 26, 2018

New electric vehicle stratups can’t avoid comparisons to Tesla. Elon Musk’s automaker is the only one selling EVs en masse today, and remarkably, it’s done it chiefly making sedans, when trucks and SUVs are the most popular vehicles in the […]

November 14, 2018

It’s rough timing for Tesla. Just as Elon Musk’s automaker has started to hit its stride – churning out Model 3s, outselling Audi and Cadillac, making a profit – the federal tax credit that can knock $7,500 off the price […]

November 13, 2018

It will be interesting to watch how and if the trend spreads. As I’ve written before, it’s rare for me to leave my house and not see at least a few Teslas, a couple of Nissan Leafs and maybe a […]

November 7, 2018

Look at the latest data on US car sales, and you won’t find much in the way of surprises. Ford’s F-Series pickups reign supreme. SUVs and other pickups dominate the 20 most popular models in the country, along with cheaper […]

October 25, 2018

When I recently said that I had stopped writing about Tesla (but might just start again), I focused more on Elon Musk’s questionable tweets, and less on debates about the company’s financial stability—using my by now patently obvious lack of […]

September 7, 2018

REPORTED SEC PROBES. Snowballing shareholder lawsuits. Email fights with reporters, a possible libel suit in the offing, a brow-furrowing interview with The New York Times. Yes, you could say Tesla’s Elon Musk has had quite the summer. And despite Thursday […]

July 20, 2018

IF YOU’RE READING a story about Tesla, you’re likely ingesting the level of drama you’d normally expect from a RuPaul drag race. That’s what happens when you combine a high-profile electric car maker, a Harvey Dent-ish stock price, and a […]