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Month: December 2019
New Software Update at Jaguar Dealerships Extends Range
Fred has some good news for I-Pace owners: Software enhancements will be provided free of charge and will deliver up to 8% range improvement. Jaguar, via Electrek Alright! That’s what I’m talking about Jaguar! This should bring the $70,000 I-Pace’s range from 234 miles to around 250 –– in line with the $40,000 base Model […]
Re-attempted Dragon Launch in 45 Minutes
Yesterday’s launch attempt had to be aborted (due to weather I believe), so they’re going to try again in 45 minutes. The new launch time is 12:29 EST, 9:29 PST, and 17:29 UTC. You can catch the YouTube Livestream below.
Nissan Orders Two-Day Furlough for U.S. Employees Amid Falling Sales
Legacy auto continues to thrive: Nissan is doing worse than expected in the U.S., and its North American chairman is taking steps to cut costs across the company, slashing employee travel expenses and putting the entire U.S. organization on two days of unpaid furlough next month. Automotive News The company also will remain closed for […]
Jim Chanos Defends Short Selling
After Elon Musk tweeted that “short selling should be illegal”, famous short seller and $TSLAQ leader Jim Chanos took to Twitter to respond. According to Chanos, selling airline tickets and Full Self Driving packages are examples of short selling. Gotcha Elon! Of course, this justification makes absolutely no sense. Selling a plane ticket is just […]
Tesmanian Products on Amazon
Our favorite Tesla China expert, Vincent with a bunch of numbers after his name, has started making Tesla accessories under the Tesmanian brand. Right now they have floor mats and trunk mats that are perfectly fitted to the Model 3. If you need all-weather mats, they’re definitely worth checking out. Shop for Tesmanian Products on […]
Brand New Redesigned Mast App Launches for iOS
If you haven’t read about Mastodon, you should join –– it’s an open source distributed alternative to Twitter based on the ActivityPub W3C standard. It’s like a cool, open, federated Twitter with no trolls allowed because every server can take charge of moderating their own community in a common sense way. We have our own […]
Deutsche Bank: Model Y Deliveries Begin Q1 2020
A new research note from Deutsche Bank estimates that Tesla will start deliveries of their Model Y crossover in the first quarter of 2020: If Tesla could begin Model Y deliveries in the first-quarter of 2020, that would be a full season ahead of CEO Elon Musk’s promised schedule. Early production and deliveries would be […]
John Gruber on Alphabet
John Gruber has a great take on yesterday’s Alphabet news: This whole “Alphabet” thing is a joke. I still don’t get what they’re even trying for with it. The company is Google and we all know it. The subsidiary owns the parent and everyone knows it. No one is fooled by this. Nothing has changed […]
Bloomberg: German Prosecutors Raid Volkswagen Offices in Diesel Probe
New from Christoph Rauwald and Birgit Jensen: Volkswagen AG offices were raided by German prosecutors as part of a probe into diesel engines, marking a fresh setback for the manufacturer’s efforts to draw a line under an emission-tests cheating scandal that erupted four years ago. Bloomberg Surprise, surprise: It turns out when you illegally poison the […]