Tesla Giga Berlin’s construction continues to move along at a rapid pace, and the first beams of the “Body in White” portion of the facility have been erected as of this morning. Body in White is the stage in automotive manufacturing where the frame of a car body is joined together. It is often the […]
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Automotive veteran Sandy Munro thinks that Tesla’s build quality issues can be solved by one simple step: caring more about the product. A recent interview with Alex Guberman of E for Electric revealed that Munro, while a Tesla fan, is concerned about the build quality issues that have been talked about with the company’s most recent […]
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Lucid’s upcoming all-electric luxury sedan, the Air, will boast 517 miles of battery range per single charge, making it the longest range electric vehicle in the industry. Lucid’s range tests for the Air were secured at FEV North America, Inc. in Auburn Hills, Michigan where it conducted trial runs utilizing the EPA’s Multicycle Test Procedure […]
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A Tesla Model S was destroyed after a collision with an 18-wheeler nearly tore the electric sedan to shreds. However, the two passengers inside escaped from the accident with some injuries, but their lives completely intact. Reddit user u/quarm813 share photographs of his Model S P90D on Sunday, August 9, to the r/TeslaMotors subreddit. The […]
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Tesla is looking to hire a new Senior Vehicle Designer at its company’s Design Center in Hawthorne, California. However, whoever assumes the role may be required to expand their design ideas outside of the electric automaker’s realm and into SpaceX territory. The Senior Vehicle Designer position will require the employee to help with the design […]
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Tesla chose to build its next Gigafactory production facility in Austin, Texas, and not in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Even though the Oklahoman city that has housed several automotive manufacturing plants in the past didn’t land the electric automaker’s next facility, it is still looking to develop its car industry by bringing in suppliers. Oklahoma Secretary of […]
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Tesla has released the “Dynamic Brake Lights” functionality to several new international markets with Software Update 2020.32.1 that aims to decrease the likelihood of a rear-end collision. The safety feature will use quickly flashing brake lights when a driver is traveling over 31 MPH or 50 km/h and is forced to slow down forcefully. The […]
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Tesla’s recently purchased Giga Texas property set the electric automaker back $97 million. But while that sounds like a substantial sum for a 2,100-acre piece of land, the deal ended up being Tesla’s best real estate transaction for a Gigafactory yet. The land that Tesla purchased is located just 15 minutes outside of downtown Austin, […]
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The first renders of Tesla’s electric vehicles for its Driving Visualization feature have been spotted. The improvement in the Driving Visualization feature will accurately depict each Tesla vehicle model, improving from the generic cars that currently appear when using the functionality. Tesla owner/hacker “green” has released the first images of the Model S, Model 3, […]
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The Tesla Cybertruck is so “Tesla,” it’s not even debatable. To me, at least. The truck is the true embodiment of everything the electric automaker had stood for during the last seventeen years when it was established in 2003. It breaks all the rules; it goes against the look and feel of “traditional” automotive manufacturing. […]
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