A new Tesla Model 3 touchscreen simulator is now online so people waiting for their car to be built can familiarize themselves with how the device will work when their car finally lands in their driveway.
The charge port door on the Tesla Model 3 can open and close itself, leading the way to fully automatic charging.
During a conference call on Monday with financial analysts to discuss a new bond offering, CEO Elon Musk let slip that his original estimate of annual Tesla Model 3 totals was about 200,000 short — now he’s saying that the all-electric car company will likely produce 700,000 units of the Model 3 annually one day.
“We are announcing an end to the sale of petrol and diesel cars by 2040,” Nicolas Hulot, France’s new ecology minister, said last month, adding that the move was a “veritable revolution.” It looks like England may follow suit. Jesse Norman, from England’s Department for Transport has announced, “a manifesto commitment for almost all cars and vans on our roads to be zero emission by 2050. We believe this would necessitate all new cars and vans being zero emission vehicles by 2040.” How many countries are actually moving in the direction of eventual gas and diesel car bans?
Coming off a landmark Tesla Model 3 launch event, Elon Musk sounded upbeat, positive and somewhat relieved on Tesla’s recent conference call discussing the company’s second quarter financial results*. He explained that this was: “maybe the best I’ve ever felt about Tesla. Last week stressed the hell out of me but I really think this is probably the best I’ve ever felt about the company.” At one point, Elon said bluntly: “At a systemic level we are substantially more efficient than other carmakers.”
Revolutionary change is coming to the auto industry, and no one can say at this point what the transport system of the future will look like. All kinds of theories are flying around — and most of them seem to include Tesla.
With Tesla [NASDAQ: TSLA] announcing its second quarter financial results this week, Wall Street sent the stock rocketing upwards once again. Short sellers lost almost $800 million in the last two days as a result of Tesla’s explosive rally.
The EPA has rated the long-range version of the Tesla Model 3 at 126 MPGe, the second highest rating ever given by the agency, only trailing the Hyundai Ioniq Electric.
The price of the base Tesla Model X has been slashed by $3,000 — bringing the price down to “just” $79,500 — going by the pricing listed on the company’s website.
Editor’s Note: Tesla Shuttle (I’m a cofounder), CleanTechnica (I’m the director), and Quriers are going to try to break the record in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned….
Just a few months after a team in Belgium broke the previous record, a team in Italy has now gone and set yet another new record for hypermiling in an electric car. The Tesla Owners Italia team managed to take a Tesla Model S 100D 1078 kilometers (~670 miles) on a single charge … meaning that the record set in Belgium in June 2017 (~560 miles) was surpassed by a margin of around 110 miles.
