Fast Charging a Porsche Taycan Costs 5X more than a Tesla

The first Porsche Taycan test cars have started appearing at Electrify America charging stations across the country… and pricing is not looking pretty. By doing some simple math on the above image, you can see that Volkswagen charges about $1.50 / kWh making a fast charging stop almost as expensive as filling gas. By contrast […]

Bloomberg Journalist Tom Randall Added to $TSLAQ Block List

A group of Tesla short sellers maintains a shared block list of anyone who tweets positive things about $TSLA. Today I was added to it for posting a summary of today's terminal news. Creating a bulletproof echo chamber seems like unwise investing strategy🤷‍♂️https://t.co/V1ejTII9od — Tom Randall (@tsrandall) November 6, 2019 The $TSLAQ block list, maintained […]

Tesla Reaches Preliminary Battery-Supply Deal with CATL

This is big. Tesla Inc. has reached a preliminary agreement to start using CATL as a battery supplier for cars made in China from as early as next year, and the companies are in talks to expand the relationship globally, according to people familiar with the matter. Bloomberg Globally, you say? Interesting… does that mean we could start […]

Tesla Expands in China in Preparation for Gigafactory 3

 Tesla Inc plans to double the number of repair and maintenance shops, add about 100 charging stations and revamp showrooms in China as the electric vehicle maker gears up to open its Shanghai plant. Reuters The work doesn’t stop at the factory. Building cars from the Shanghai factory is just the first step. Next we […]

What we (think) we know about the Tesla Cybertruck

The Tesla Cybertruck is the most interesting new product to come out of Tesla in a long time. There’s going to be a lot of new features and surprises when we see the truck in two weeks, so to tide us over until then, let’s go over what we know: Tesla will unveil its “Cybertruck” […]