While Tesla managed to achieve a Model 3 production rate of 5,000 units during the last week of the second quarter, it doesn’t mean that they are out of “production hell”, which is what CEO Elon Musk has been calling the difficult par…
Author: Fred Lambert
Tesla confirms hitting federal tax credit threshold, $7,500 credit cut in half at end of 2018
After refusing to confirm the timing of the federal tax credit phase-out for months, Tesla has now confirmed that it has hit the 200,000th US delivery threshold, which triggered the phase-out period.
Tesla buyers will lose the full $7,500 credit by the…
Tesla finally starts deliveries of long-awaited Powerwall 2 Founders series signed by Elon Musk
Tesla has finally started delivering and installing the Powerwall 2 Founders series, a long-awaited Tesla referral program reward. more…
Ontario shuts down EV rebate just as Tesla Model 3 was blowing it up
As the Conservative party is officially talking over the Ontario government, they announced that they are officially shutting down the province’s generous electric vehicle rebate program effective immediately.
The move comes after Tesla’s r…
The Tesla Solar Roof and Powerwall in one chart
Tesla’s rollout of the solar roof tiles is much slower than anticipated, but the few customers who have Tesla solar roof installations seem pretty happy about it.
One of the very first homeowners to get a solar roof shared an impressive chart sho…
Hyundai invests in solid-state battery startup claiming ‘breakthrough’ to bring long-promised tech to market
For a while now, automakers have looked to solid-state batteries as the next-generation of batteries to enable better electric vehicles.
There are many different timelines that could bring the technology to market and now Hyundai is getting on board by…
Tesla pushes to make another major batch of Model 3 dual motor Performance vehicles
A month after opening orders for the Model 3 Dual Motor and Performance versions, Tesla has yet to deliver the vehicle.
That’s about to change based on the Model 3 VINs that Tesla is registering since they are mostly all dual motor vehicles these…
Porsche connects its first ultra-fast 800-volt charging station to the grid ahead of the Taycan
Last year, Porsche deployed its first new ‘ultra-fast’ charging station that will work with the Mission E, now Taycan, 800-volt charging system.
Now the company announced that they are connecting it to the grid. more…
Tesla tries to get Model 3 buyers out the door in 5 mins during delivery as it ramps up
Tesla CEO Elon Musk saw it coming over a year ago. He thought that as Model 3 production increases, the delivery process would actually become the bottleneck to get cars to customers.
The automaker has been experiencing with different methods to delive…
Tesla expands Model 3 Performance fleet for test drives, received ‘over 30,000’ drive requests
As we have been reporting, Tesla is rapidly moving away from its ‘anti-selling’ of the Model 3 with now sales commission for its staff when selling the Performance version and moving away from the reservation process.
Now Tesla is trying to…
