As Tesla begins to go all-out in its push to deliver the Model 3 en masse to reservation holders, the company has rolled out a new “Sign & Drive” program that would enable owners to drive away with their new electric car in as little as five minutes. The new delivery process was recently shared […]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently provided a brief update on the production of the Model 3 Performance. According to Musk, Tesla has already made around 100 units of the vehicle, which would, in turn, be used as test drive cars in showrooms. Musk’s update came as a response to an inquiry from Ride the Lightning podcast […]
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A Chinese factory would give Tesla some cover in an extended US-China trade war.
Elon Musk has signed a preliminary agreement with the Shanghai government to build a Tesla factory in China. According to reports, the upcoming China factory will be capable of manufacturing 500,000 vehicles per year, rivaling the output of Tesla’s main electric car plant in Fremont, CA. Reports of Musk’s trip to China emerged yesterday after […]
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Elon Musk recently announced on Twitter that Tesla would introduce automatic functions to the Model 3’s air vents to prevent the car’s front seats from getting too hot when the vehicle is left out in the sun. The request for the Model 3’s automatic A/C vents feature was initially posted on the r/TeslaMotors subreddit on […]
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Tesla’s capability to sustain its rate of manufacturing 5,000 Model 3 per week this third quarter remains in question, but an online tracker by Bloomberg suggests that the Silicon Valley electric car maker is on pace to hit peak production levels in the next few weeks. Tesla was finally able to manufacture 5,000 Model 3 […]
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If there is one thing that Texas-based engineering student Matthew Piccolo and his girlfriend Jessica Kuzma have in common, it is their love for Tesla’s electric cars. For Matthew, he was sure that she was the one. Thus, when it came to ask Jessica the all-important question, he knew he had to come up with […]
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Tesla is beginning to offer its first Model 3 test drives in the San Francisco Bay Area to US customers that placed a reservation deposit on the all-electric compact sedan. The Silicon Valley electric carmaker chaperoned Model 3 test drives on Friday from its Dublin-Amador Plaza, Corte Madera, Sunnyvale, and Palo Alto showroom stores, and expected […]
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Tesla has shared a video of the Model 3 Performance during skidpad testing. The short clip, which was uploaded by the Silicon Valley carmaker on Twitter, featured the high-performance variant of the compact electric car burning rubber and drifting around what appears to be a closed area of the company’s test track. Skidpad tests usually […]
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Tesla could soon revisit the idea of using its electric cars as a battery power source, likely as part of the company’s Vehicle-To-Grid (V2G) bi-directional solutions. Musk’s recent update came as a response to a request from Cody Walker, a Tesla enthusiast, on Twitter. Walker inquired if Tesla would eventually introduce a feature where one […]
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