April 15th, 2019 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Tesla CEO Elon Musk had a busy weekend on twitter, and a decent number of snippets of information emerged that will be of interest to current and future Tesla owners. Let's dive in and review what we learned
April 14th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
It this article, I'll highlight the points Elon Musk and Lex Fridman made in a recent YouTube video on Artificial Intelligence and give you the timestamps for the different topics in the video. For more context, we also published an overview of the video on Friday
April 13th, 2019 | by Jennifer Sensiba
Elon Musk and Tesla have been making big promises about Full Self Driving for years, but recent announcements show us that they are confident enough to bet big on it within 3 years. They wouldn’t be this confident if they didn’t have it largely finished, and will probably be showing us something exciting on the 22nd
April 12th, 2019 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
In a must-watch interview with MIT artificial intelligence researcher, Lex Fridman, Elon Musk has revealed that he believes the move towards Full Self Driving functionality will cause the asset value of current Tesla vehicles to appreciate, rather than depreciate. This is a game-changing contrast with traditional vehicles, which typically lose around half of their value over the initial 3 years of ownership
April 12th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Tesla announced in a new blog post today that it was phasing out the $35,000 Standard Range Model 3. The car will not go away completely, but in an awkward reversal of its online-only sales policy, will instead only be available by visiting or calling a Tesla store and specifically requesting the base configuration
April 4th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Tesla never stops moving, and its software is the most dynamic part of the machine. This week, Tesla announced via a blog post that it is rolling out a more polished version of its popular Navigate-on-Autopilot feature that includes an option to automatically change lanes, without confirmation from the driver
April 3rd, 2019 | by Steve Hanley
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.
March 23rd, 2019 | by Kyle Field
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
March 12th, 2019 | by Paul Fosse
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
March 2nd, 2019 | by Kyle Field
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
February 28th, 2019 | by Maarten Vinkhuyzen
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
February 28th, 2019 | by Kyle Field
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted out that the company would spill the beans on a big announcement at 2pm on Thursday, February 28th
December 30th, 2018 | by Steve Hanley
Elon Musk has called for hundreds more beta testers for Tesla's upcoming Full Self Driving system. Does that mean the release date for FSD has been pushed back?
November 12th, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
In the past week, CleanTechnica stories of all stripes were popular and spread far and wide across the internet, but the most popular stories were the 20 below. The biggest eyeball earners covered: 5 years of poor Tesla analysis by one prominent short seller, an estimate for the introduction of Tesla Model 3 deliveries in China, Tesla Autopilot vs lidar-based autonomous driving, automotive giants vs. the EV revolution, Jaguar I-PACE efficiency, China's electric car sales, and more Tesla, autonomous vehicle, EV, and cleantech fun
November 4th, 2018 | by Paul Fosse
In this article, I'm going to try to take a very technical and complicated subject — namely, the technical details of Tesla's and others autonomous driving systems — and make it understandable for non-engineers
November 3rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
There have been a couple of big Tesla autonomy announcements in the past couple of weeks. First of all, Tesla pushed out a Navigate on Autopilot feature. Basically, the update lets Tesla cars go from onramp to offramp without driver intervention and just based on the route you have in the Tesla navigation system
October 29th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla has started rolling out the software update that brings the latest version of Autopilot to its vehicles, including the Navigate on Autopilot feature. This brings the capability to provide driver assistance from the freeway onramp to the freeway offramp
October 23rd, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter a few hours ago to break the news that an update to version 9.0 of its vehicle firmware would be rolling out soon with "Navigate on Autopilot."
October 18th, 2018 | by Dr. Maximilian Holland
Tesla has unexpectedly dropped a "Mid Range" battery option into its Model 3 variants, officially the Tesla Model 3 Mid Range Rear-Wheel Drive, priced competitively and still offering great real-world driving range. The additional good news is that this variant has expected delivery dates of 6–10 weeks, meaning that early signups should still receive the full US federal tax credit
September 4th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla Hacker Jason Hughes Gets Early Look At Firmware Version
August 29th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla opened up its 14-day Enhanced Autopilot (EAP) trial for some Model 3 owners over the weekend and we were included in the update. We wanted to share our learnings from the first few days of using the solution around town and on the highway
August 23rd, 2018 | by Zachary Shahan
What's Tesla's best asset? Elon Musk? Its battery expertise? Its production facilities? Haha — you gotta think bigger
June 27th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla has opened the Model 3 order floodgates and added a number of new options, including a Performance version, all-wheel drive, and an exclusive white interior, among other things
June 26th, 2018 | by Kyle Field
Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter again recently to share the first look at Tesla's highly anticipated Full Self-Driving feature. The image shares a satellite map of the Bay Area behind a new options screen that shows off a few of the new Full Self-Driving options within Autopilot
