Tesla has published its 4th quarter 2018 shareholder letter.
We will pick apart the details and add our own commentary and extra context soon. In the meantime, click here to read the full thing and here are the summary points:
In this article, I remind you that free Supercharging from the Tesla referral program is ending in 2 days. I also go over the reasons for waiting to buy a Model 3 and whether they still make sense. I’ll go over 3 reasons why you might not have already ordered a Model 3.
Tesla moments ago rolled out a change to its online vehicle configuration tool for the Model S and Model X. As Tesla CEO Elon Musk implied last year, the company has done away with any mention of the battery size in the vehicle name or description. Instead, they are describing the vehicle options in terms of the thing we care about — range. As a special bonus, the pricing on every build in the lineup has been dropped a bit, giving buyers a bit more bang for their buck across the board.
I recently met George Miller, a world-renowned puzzle maker. George makes 2D- and 3D-puzzle prototypes and builds hundreds of high-quality puzzles each year, including classic puzzle reproductions, new puzzle designs, and ultra-modern puzzle creations. It turns out both George and his wife Roxanne are Tesla enthusiasts.
This article will focus on Tesla safety, and specifically the safety of the Tesla Model 3. This piece, however, takes a broader look of safety than previous articles. Here at CleanTechnica, we have written a lot about how EVs are safer and why. In fact, I encourage you to read the free report on electric vehicle safety advantages and disadvantages we’ve published. But there’s often more to cover on this topic, and more ways to integrate the various findings.
Tesla drivers were slapped with more speeding tickets in the Netherlands than drivers of any other auto brand. Wonder why…
The most popular CleanTechnica articles of the past week were actually not led by a Tesla story. (Though, Tesla Model 3 is in the title since the featured EV, the Hyundai Ioniq, is being compared to the Model 3.) Other top stories included some findings from a rather limited but interesting survey of Tesla buyers who used the referral code of one of our writers, Tesla layoffs and Wall Street’s response, an open letter to Toyota USA, and a piece rounding up 30 Tesla sales charts from the past month.
The electric vehicle (EV) industry was booming in 2018. It was the most booming year of a booming decade for EVs. Below is a long, long rundown of notables changes in the industry in 2018.
Afraid to drive an electric car in winter? Don’t be. If people in Saskatchewan can do it, so can you.
By now, regular readers of this column are well aware that we (along with most other writers who focus on electric vehicles) consider the threat of the “Tesla killer” to be no threat at all. Yes, Big Auto is producing excellent EVs, some of which are in Tesla’s league, but they’ll never build more than they have to, and they’ll continue steering customers to their gas-guzzling, high-margin models. It’s what they do.
