Tesla’s long legal battle with Martin Tripp is finally over: A former Tesla Inc. employee who locked horns with Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk has agreed to pay the company $400,000 […] The payment is part of a proposed settlement of a lawsuit Tesla filed in 2018 that accused Martin Tripp of illegally divulging trade secrets about the production […]
Wow, who could have seen this one coming? GM is backing away from an agreement to take a stake in electric automaker Nikola Corp., marking the collapse of a deal that has been problematic since it was announced just two months ago. Nikola shares fell nearly 25% on Monday. TechCrunch After the Hindenburg report, Jonny […]
Remember that guy who co-founded Zoox and then got fired a year before they sold to Amazon? No? Well, he has a new self-driving startup that’s probably funded by that Bezos money he got out of Zoox’s exit. Early-stage HYPR, created by Zoox co-founder Tim Kentley Klay, says it’s using reinforcement learning, a branch of machine […]
We’ve lost our form of government. We don’t pick the best candidates. I don’t think anybody’s here to say that Joe Biden and Donald Trump were the best and brightest that this country has to offer, or even out of the primaries from either party. We are now seeing the downside of having a political […]
Tesmanian has the scoop: The China-made Tesla Model Y has received a sales permit and has been included in the list of new energy vehicle models exempt from purchase tax. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has included the domestic Model Y in the list of new energy vehicle models exempt from vehicle purchase tax, […]
Nothing is worse than when you need to use a charger, only to find that it’s being blocked by a gas car looking for an easy parking space. New rules in Victoria, Australia hope to change that: Drivers who block electric vehicle chargers in Victoria will be fined under new road rules. Non-electric vehicles, or […]
Some new bug fixes for the FSD beta are rolling out now. Old version was 2020.44.15.3 so probably just some minor improvements. Just did a first drive on the latest #Tesla #FSDbeta version 2020.44.15.4 and the car took several turns it was not able to do before. Video soon! — Sofiaan Fraval (@Sofiaan) November 30, […]
When Trump became President of the United States in 2017, the government suddenly became less excited about transitioning the country to electric vehicles quickly. Trump always liked coal, not renewable power. Well now it looks like we’ve got a new administration coming into the White House in January (assuming they can get the current President […]
Before you start to take the Supercharger network for granted, check out this story from a couple in Kent, England who decided to take their beautiful new Porsche Taycan (a $200,000+ sports car) on a 130 mile drive: A couple from Kent have described how it took them more than nine hours to drive 130 […]
From JATO: 2020 has been a turbulent year for the car market globally, and particularly in Europe. Although car registrations dropped by 29% during the first nine months of the year – to 8.54 million units –there are clear signs that Europe is all set for an electric revolution. In fact, according to JATO’s figures […]
