This revelation hit me at different times in different ways, but the headline above struck me today and inspired this short piece. There are several ways that living with a Tesla makes you feel like you’re living in the future. I’m sure I’ll miss some here, but the ones below stand out to me.
After chatting with Tesla CEO Elon Musk about the breadth, depth, and size of Tesla’s Autopilot team, we slipped into another matter, “the machine that builds the machine.”
Tesla CEO recently took to Twitter to share a variety of updates on Tesla Autopilot and Full Self Driving. I don’t normally do list posts, but there were several interesting nuggets in this long tweetstorm and a list post seemed like the best way to roll through them in a clear way.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and CFO Zachary Kirkhorn opened up about the possibility of monetizing some of the lower hanging fruit in the software world via an app store, “or whatever.”
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving functionality could be released by the end of 2020, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In today’s Tesla earnings call, Musk stated that he is confident in FSD functionality being released by the end of 2020.
Last night, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke at the virtual World AI Conference 2020 in Shanghai. He shared just how close Tesla is to reaching “Level 5” autonomy. He also said that Tesla China will get a chance to create original designs and engineering in the future.
The 20 most popular stories of last week on CleanTechnica were led by an interesting story of a solar manufacturing equipment maker moving into the solar cell manufacturing game (got that?), followed by a lot of Tesla stories, some hype for lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, Toyota announcing that it had done a horrendous job forecasting demand for the RAV4 Prime (leading to a battery shortfall and production suspension), Sydney inspiring the world by going 100% renewable (for electricity).
There are many things about Tesla ownership that are different from conventional car ownership, and even different from ownership of other electric cars. However, I think one is both particularly special and also hard to convey effectively to non-owners.
Curb rash has been the bane of many a Tesla Model 3, S, and X owner over the years. I think the first Tesla Model 3 aftermarket accessory colleague Kyle Field got for his car in 2018 was rim protectors from EV Annex.
Rumor is, Tesla is going to remove the requirement to tell the car to go through a green light in the next software update. Or, more precisely, the rumor is that it’s going to soon update the software for some Early Access drivers to do this.
