Tesla Autonomy Deep Dive Planned For April 19 In Palo Alto
On April 19, Tesla will host a deep dive for investors into its autonomous driving program. The event will be live streamed and CleanTechnica will be there to bring you all the latest news.
On April 19, Tesla will host a deep dive for investors into its autonomous driving program. The event will be live streamed and CleanTechnica will be there to bring you all the latest news.
Tesla started pushing out a new software update (2019.8.3) last night to Model 3 owners that adds capability to detect and warn the driver in the event that it looks like the driver is going to run a red light. The new update is some of the first functionality in Tesla’s Autopilot solution with a specific non-freeway driving focus.
News broke overnight that it isn’t just car prices that are going up Monday, March 18th, but the prices for Autopilot and Full Self-Driving are also going up. As you can see, the pricing of these features has become a bit of a mess.
Tesla stirred up quite a controversy amongst buyers of its vehicles over the last few months when it slashed prices across its fleet from a few thousand dollars up to more than $50,000 on some configurations. That’s great news for new buyers, but puts existing owners in a quandary since their resale values drop instantaneously.
Thursday, February 28, 2019, after markets closed: After creating a lot of anticipation with some cryptic tweets, Tesla announced the base Model 3 and a new, more reasonable, pricing structure. The big question for all of us was, how did Tesla get production costs down enough to offer the $35,000 base model? Short answer: it didn’t. Let us look at the new prices first.
With Tesla, Elon Musk set out to accelerate the advent of sustainable energy. With solar, battery storage, and electric cars, Musk is looking (deeply) at practical clean energy solutions for the planet. He’s even opened the company’s patents to expedite EV adoption by others in the auto industry.
Elon Musk sat down with Tasha Keeney and Cathi Wood of ARK Invest for a conversation about Autopilot and autonomous cars. He said Teslas will be capable of Level 4 self driving by the end of this year.
Long before $TSLAQ was a thing, long before $TSLA was a thing, certain critics were predicting — obsessively — Tesla’s flaming death. I’m not sure what has stimulated so much animus over the years, but the grave predictions get more humorous as the years go by.
The top 20 CleanTechnica stories last week were led by a reported GM electric pickup truck plan that GM wouldn’t comment on and Tesla denied any connection with. Next in line was our second review of the Hyundai Kona EV, this time from longtime EV reviewer Nicolas Zart. (The Hyundai Kona EV also won the 2019 CleanTechnica Car of the Year award, another story on the list.)
Taking a long stroll through some personal and global EV history that has to give you a smile.