There’s no denying that the meteoric rise of Tesla transformed Elon Musk into a mainstream celebrity. While most tech CEOs are rarely covered outside of traditional tech circles, Musk has become something of a pop culture icon. He’s been lampooned on shows like Family Guy and even hosted Saturday Night Live last year. Of course, …
Tesla announced a recall of over 817,000 vehicles in the United States this week over safety concerns. On Tuesday, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) issued a safety recall report for 817,143 Tesla Model S, Model X, Model 3, and Model Y vehicles which fail to comply with a federal motor vehicle safety standard …
Tesla made waves about a year ago when it started selling electric cars for bitcoin. Separately, Elon Musk was promoting dogecoin, a meme cryptocurrency that saw a meteoric rise as a result. Since then, the Tesla exec confirmed that he was looking into making dogecoin a viable payment option for online goods. That was back …
Tesla is voluntarily recalling hundreds of thousands of Model 3 and Model S cars due to trunk issues. The recall affects every Model 3 vehicle sold between 2017-2020, as well as certain 2014-2021 Model S vehicles. Documents posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) website show that the Tesla recall includes 356,309 Model …
What would you do if your 2013 Tesla Model S started showing error codes after less than 1,000 miles, and the only fix was a $22,600 full battery replacement? Would you pay about half of what the electric car retails for? Or would you call up the Bomb Dudes to help you strap 30 kg …
Tesla is the biggest electric vehicle maker on Earth, but the company sometimes can’t get out of its own way. This week, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) opened an investigation into Tesla’s “Passenger Play” feature. In recent years, Tesla has been installing video games in its cars that can be played on the touch …
Full self-driving mode is one of the most anticipated features that Tesla fans are looking forward to. While the idea of autonomous vehicles isn’t new—everyone including Apple is working on one—Tesla has come the closest with delivering one, thus far. The problem, though, is that Tesla’s self-driving mode is still a long way from being …
One of the more unheralded but crucial aspects behind Tesla’s meteoric success has been its aggressive rollout of Superchargers across the world. Say what you will about Elon Musk, but the mercurial Tesla CEO knew from the very beginning that a compelling electric car would need to be accompanied by a sufficient number of charging …
Elon Musk: Space enthusiast, technoking of Tesla, enthusiastic tweeter, meme connoisseur — and, now, the richest man on the planet, as the Tesla stock price also just hit an all-time high. Plotted on a graph, the share price of his electric carmaker Tesla since early last year has produced the kind of image that pretty …
Carmakers are in a hurry to “fix” two electric car battery issues that buyers are concerned with more than anything else. One is the range and the second is charging anxiety. Drivers aren’t just worried about not having enough juice in the tank to get to their destination. They’re also concerned they’ll have to waste …
