Amidst Tuesday’s steep drop in Tesla stock (NASDAQ:TSLA) due to reports of the US Department of Justice’s investigation on Elon Musk’s “funding secured” tweet last August, former GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz has aired his prediction about the electric car maker’s future. While speaking in a segment of CNBC‘s Closing Bell, Lutz noted that Tesla […]
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Tesla stock (NASDAQ:TSLA) is maintaining its gains during Tuesday’s early morning trading, closing in on the $300 per share mark amidst a rather surprising acknowledgement from one of the company’s most prominent skeptics after the reveal of a highly-anticipated rival to the Tesla Model X — the Audi e-tron. UBS Group AG is not a […]
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Tesla’s highly-anticipated built-in dashcam feature is getting closer to its release. The feature, which is expected to utilize the vehicles’ array of Autopilot cameras to record and save footage around the electric car, is currently in its final testing phase, and it will be rolled out as part of Software Version 9. The updates to […]
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Fully Charged’s presenter Jonny Smith recently went to Colorado to test drive the Tesla Model 3. Tesla sold 17,800 Model 3s in August. That’s the highest ever for sales of a single plug-in car in any month. The year-to-date number so far stands at 55,8…
Amidst the company’s continued push for the Model 3, Tesla has shared a video of the electric car being subjected to a road simulator, a machine that is usually utilized to test the durability of a vehicle and evaluate a car’s ride quality. The machine being used by Tesla on the Model 3 appears to […]
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It shakes, wobbles and rolls. Watch as the road simulator tries to rattle the Tesla Model 3 for testing purposes. Testing Model 3 durability on our road simulator pic.twitter.com/Yw06OxJQaZ — Tesla (@Tesla) September 17, 2018
Can Tesla produce Model 3s in volume, and make a profit? That’s the question of the day (or maybe, of the century). Investment management firm Worm Capital (among others) believes that the answer depends on how efficiently the company is able to manufacture its battery packs, and it recently sent a team to visit Tesla’s… Read more »
Three models. One automaker. Controls half of the U.S. market. So far this year Tesla sold in the U.S. some 84,000 cars, which is around 44% of total plug-in electric car sales. Those sales divide into three models (S, X and 3), from which the 3 is the biggest with over 55,000 sales by the […]
Today’s low is approximately $160 per mile of range. Decreasing battery prices and competition on the all-electric car market leads to a more and more attractive ratio of price (MSRP + destination charge) per mile of EPA range. Data coming from our Compare EVs card indicates that today’s benchmark for a long-range BEVs is at around […]
Tesla is now on full throttle as it attempts to deliver as many vehicles as it can to Model 3 reservation holders before the end of the third quarter. As the company hits new production levels for the electric car, Tesla is now finding itself facing yet another challenge — a new type of hell, […]
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