The latest part of Tom Randall’s Model 3 Survey is out, and as usual there are lots of interesting tidbits. In particular, I thought their list of top trade-in cars was interesting. Here’s the top 10: Toyota Prius –– Average $27,080 BMW 3 Series –– Average $46,477 Honda Accord –– Average $25,428 Honda Civic –– […]
Wall Street Journal “columnist” Charley Grant was very upset this evening as Tesla accepted the Golden Steering Wheel Award in Berlin. You can’t blame him — his Dad’s friend Jim Chanos, who runs a fund dedicated to short selling, has been shorting Tesla and SolarCity for years. If this keeps up, he may have to […]
Today at Das Goldene Lenkard, the German new car-model award ceremony, Tesla made a surprise announcement: the location for the European Gigafactory will be in the Berlin area. Leaving aside the announcement itself, the video of the ceremony itself feels surprising and historic in a lot of ways –– so let’s pick it apart together […]
Reports are coming in that the Kettleman City, California supercharger, which features solar power and a lounge area, is being upgraded to Tesla’s faster V3 supercharging technology. Only half the stalls are being upgraded at a time, so this should not affect availability of the station. Hopefully, the station will be completely upgraded before Thanksgiving […]
Tesla Inc’s (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said on Tuesday the electric car maker is going to build a new vehicle factory, “Gigafactory 4”, in the “Berlin Area”. Reuters Musk, in an awards ceremony in Germany, said the factory will be near the new Berlin airport, adding it will also create an engineering and […]
Interesting story over at Automotive News this morning: Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler has discreetly warned financial analysts that CO2 compliance costs and market headwinds for next year would be much larger than previously thought and asked them to reduce their earnings estimates for the automaker by billions of euros Automotive News “Hey guys we saw your […]
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Hm, it looks like Tesla is now recognizing dogs as pedestrian objects (19.36.2.1)? Or is it? That was not spelled in release notes! pic.twitter.com/XtvTFoKHKB — green (@greentheonly) November 11, 2019
Tesla will exceed Daimler’s current market capitalization at a share price of $350 or above. This would make it the third most valuable auto maker on Earth, behind Japanese auto giant Toyota and German auto giant Volkswagen. View this spreadsheet I saw on Reddit for more information
The range and performance update is now is in wide release. Here’s a little tip on how to get it faster (unverified by me) Just found a new TESLATIP for an update! If you press advanced 5 times in the software menu it checks for updates then it works. Had 3 friends and me test […]
