Customers in Europe who have a reservation for a Volkswagen ID.3 First can place their orders starting June 17. The company says it plans to deliver all 30,000 of them simultaneously.
I think it’s safe to say that the one thing from Tesla people have been waiting for more than any other these past several months is Tesla Battery Day. This is where Tesla will presumably tell us some of its battery secrets, grandiose battery plans, and mind-blowing battery milestones. There are many questions leading into this, and there will probably be more questions on the way out.
With 500,000 Teslas generating data, no other auto manufacturer can offer the constant improvements that Tesla does, says beleaguered exec.
Tesla tech guru Green says a subscription option for Full Self Driving is already included in the latest firmware updates. Tesla has released no information about how that might work.
There were some things that surprised me about this new “Autostopping” (as I am calling it) feature, and some aspects of it worth highlighting. Below are top notes from my first day (first drive) with the updated Autopilot capabilities.
Tesla’s technological innovations position it as the most elite car company — with others desperate to catch up.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed on Twitter that the Smart Summon feature in the future will use the GPS points from the maps/navigation data generated by Tesla cars that have previously been at that location in order to further refine this feature. He was responding to the following tweet directed at him by @thirdrowtesla podcast.
A recent quick tweet by Elon Musk has spurred new debates about the possibilities of AI to exceed human intellectual capacity.
Last month, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released its seasonal forecast for the spring flooding season, I was jolted into a reality that some people in the US are already experiencing: extreme weather stops for no virus. Just days after NOAA’s forecast came out, the flooding arrived: floodwaters from heavy rains in central and southern Ohio required the evacuation of dozens of people, leading one local sheriff to state, “God knows how we will figure it out with COVID-19.”
In 2003, a new automotive startup was founded in California, but had only a 10% chance of success, according to its current CEO. By 2019, the same company had already made close to a million passenger cars and had become the leading EV maker in the world.
