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In an interview, Panasonic CEO Kazuhiro Tsuga called the company's relationship with Tesla "one-legged". As Panasonic restructures its business Tsuga emphasized the company's need to diversify from Tesla.
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Elon Musk said Tesla has removed drivers who aren't paying attention from the company's FSD testing program. However, Tesla has also doubled the number of FSD beta testers.
In addition, in the next FSD iteration, Tesla will stop using radar and move to a "pure vision" system.
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Another Tesla tragedy involving its vehicles hitting semi-trailers from the side. This time it is Tesla's newest model, the Y
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In a wide ranging revision of the company's vehicles prices, Tesla has increased prices starting from up by $500 all the way up to $10,000. The price hikes include the Model 3, Y, and S.
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Tesla is ramping up the rollout of its new FSD beta update. There is much excitement over this as the software is reaching critical milestones. However, Elon Musk cautions that the tech has room to improve.
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Tesla has increase the delivery estimate date for the refreshed Model S and X by few weeks up to few months. There are signs pointing to both increased demand and production problems being the cause.
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Even though Starlink has filed with the FCC to put its Starlink terminals onto moving objects, Elon Musk has said this won't include Tesla vehicles. According to Musk, the focus is aircraft, ships, trucks, and RVs.
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Solid state battery technology is a hot topic these days. The thing is most people do not understand how revolutionary it is. I believe it will significantly change the automotive industry in 3 ways.
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A drone flyover of Tesla's Berlin Gigafactory on March 5 shows Tesla starting to assembling the Giga Press at the plant. This is a good sign for the start of production in the middle of 2021.
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Tesla has launched a new social media platform by a San Fransisco-based company called Countable Corporation. The company is behind similar initiatives for the DNC, Mayor Pete 2020 Campaign, Uber, and Starbucks.
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In a statement to Teslarati NHTSA said the organization is reviewing Tesla's use of the yoke steering wheel. For the review, Tesla has been providing the regulatory agency with more information about the safety of the feature.
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Elon Musk on Twitter has said Tesla will launch the FSD subscription service in Q2 2021. This might coincide with the wide release of the FSD beta currently only available for customers in Tesla's early access program.
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Tesla's president for Greater China Zhu Xiaotong gave an interview to China Liberation Daily and Shangguan news. In the interview, he discussed Tesla's quality assurance systems and a whole lot more.
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A drone flyover of Giga Berlin by Jurgen from @GF4Tesla Twitter account show earthwork being done on a large piece of land. This could be the location for what will be the world's largest battery factory.
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In a new leaked Tesla memo, Elon Musk says retooling of the Model S & X lines is almost complete. And due to the high demand, they will be going 2 shifts in the production line.
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Tesla's market cap has gone down by more than $270 billion in just the last month. There are several possible reasons for the slide including short sellers and many more.
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In his latest tweets, Elon Musk says bitcoin is 'BS" but better than fiat currency. Also alludes to Tesla buying dogecoin if the company's actions were directly reflective of Musk's opinions.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk's suspicions about Bill Gates having a short position against Tesla might be right. Bill Gates in a CNBC interview given the opportunity to set the records straight ended up fueling the speculation even more.
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Continouing with its price cuts, Tesla has once again lowered the price of the Model 3 & Y. The price cuts come as the recently proposed law to renstate the $7,000 EV tax incentive makes EV buyers hold off their purchases.
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Does anyone remember what was going on 100 years ago before the market crash? We are entering a time period we have seen already with the rise of gasoline.
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The success of Telsa Motors happened 15 years ago. It was not because Tesla Motors is an electric car. Sure, that is cool but it is deeper than that. Take a look at why Tesla will succeed moving forward.
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Tesla’s two original founders share a lot of backstory on how and why Tesla was founded and also on Elon Musk’s role. The video is fascinating. Particularly since the word “Autonomy” or the phrase “self-driving” is never the focal point.
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Tesla is moving towards bitcoin. Here's what is happening and what sources are reporting these changes.
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Tesla has bought 1.5B in Bitcoin. The company to also accept bitcoin payments. While Elon Musk's recent tweets supporting cryptocurrencies questioned for their legality.
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Tesla's owner satisfaction scores reveal some interesting things about how owners view their Tesla. Here is how Tesla did on this annual survey of owners.
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Consumer Reports is a big fan of Tesla products. Here’s one critical area that they find the new Mustang Mach-E is “definitely better” than the Tesla Model Y.
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Elon Musk sat down for an interview with veteran engineer Sandy Munro. In their talk, they discussed the new 12v battery in the Model S & X, engineering changes coming to Tesla vehicles, and many more topics.
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For the refreshed Model S & X, Tesla has chosen to go with a yoke steering wheel and replaced the gear and turning stalk with AI. These changes have had a mixed reaction. However, they will undoubtedly be embraced since, like all Tesla vehicles, were underpinned with first principles design.
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Tesla has released the refreshed Model S and X with the plaid powertrain. The new vehicles come with several changes to the powertrain, interior, and functionality, including replacing turning stalk and gear selector, rectangular steering wheel and Plaid powertrain.
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According to Teslarati, the site has been able to get pictures of the refreshed Model S testing in the Fremont track. This further corroborates reports by The Kilowatts youtube which posted pictures of the vehicle driving around Fremont.