One controversial topic I’ve covered here, much to the chagrin to the Tesla faithful, is the reliance on touchscreens in automobiles. The Touchscreen Debate In some ways, touchscreens are super awesome. It’s like Star Trek: The Next Generation 30+ years ago, where Lt. Commander Data piloted the Enterprise D around … [continued]
I was on Google News and I saw a headline “8 Electric Cars to Avoid Buying.” I couldn’t help myself, of course. I shouldn’t have clicked it, but I had to. I don’t recommend reading it separate from this article, but here’s the link if you want to. Apparently, it … [continued]
The US electric car market continues to grow strongly. Yes, Tesla still dominates (that’s not changing anytime soon), but several other automakers are also seeing fast-growing full electric vehicle (BEV) sales, and the number of BEV options on the market has exploded in recent quarters. Overall (lacking just a little … [continued]
Ahead of the release of the highly-coveted Cybertruck and an expected debut of the simplified Model 3 Highland, Tesla has also shared new trim offerings for its Model S and X in the U.S. The automaker has added a third “Standard Range” trim for both its premium sedan and SUV, … [continued]
The Tesla Semi is hard at work at the PepsiCo terminal in Sacramento where it is in use daily to transport products to local distribution points.
Tesla released a new video on its YouTube channel and on sister social media platform X (formerly Twitter) on Friday. This video takes us to the electric automaker’s dedicated extreme cold weather testing facility developed just a few kilometers below the Arctic Circle in Norway. Tesla’s field quality engineers from … [continued]
Coming off the company’s best quarter ever in deliveries, Tesla doesn’t seem to be suffering from any issues with demand. And yet the company just unveiled a new wave of discounts on all four of its current models. As of today, the company is offering a $500 instant discount on … [continued]
Tesla has released its second-quarter production and sales numbers. The take-home summary: they crushed Wall Street’s expectations. I’ll just focus on deliveries (aka sales) here, but here’s a screenshot from Tesla’s press release showing both production and sales: We wrote about expectations for Tesla sales a couple of times in … [continued]
UPDATE: Almost the entire article below can be ignored. The reason for Tesla’s dramatic drop in US inventory in the past couple of days is actually that Tesla has blocked the site behind these charts from accessing the root data. So, we are simply losing insight into US Tesla inventory … [continued]
