Even humans drive better than Tesla’s automatic pilot
Consumer Reports warning
Consumer Reports has rubbished a new feature on Tesla cars which will allow them to change lanes automatically saying that it doesn’t work very well and could create potential safety risks for drivers.
Tesla solar cells are being exported
The US is not the best place to sell them
The “great majority” of solar cells being produced at the Tesla factory in upstate New York are being sold overseas.
Elon Musk says Lidar is fool’s gold
Lidars are unnecessary
Tesla has shared a vast amount of details about its FSD (Full Self Driving) dual SoC 14nm computer and said that the 12 ARM core chip has a modest GPU, a custom neural network compute part, while the SoC packs 250 million gates, 6 billion transistors at 260 mm2. More importantly, Elon addressed Tesla’s apparent desire to stay away from Lidars.
Panasonic wants to invest more in Tesla
Quashes rumours that the two outfits had fallen out
Panasonic is looking at further investments in battery production at its Gigafactory venture with Tesla and quashed rumours the two outfits had fallen out.
Tesla Model Y starts at $47K in late 2020
And in Europe will cost €56.000 in early 2021
Tesla has announced its next car and simply calls it Tesla Y. This is a higher version of Tesla 3 that has a similar interior - read no interior but a single 15inch tablet - but is slated to have three sitting rows and a range of 300 miles (482 km). Elon doesn’t tell you that a fully self-driving vehicle costs an additional $8,000 in the US and €9,200 in Europe.
VW to seriously undercut Tesla
Plans to sell electric Tesla rival for less than $23,000
Adolf Hitler's favourite car company plans to sell a reasonably priced electric car which should kick Telsa to the curb.
Elon Musk fired as chairman of Tesla
By SEC, still remains the CEO
Twitter is a dangerous tool and there is no going back when you are followed by millions. Due to his tweet about Tesla becoming a private company, after perhaps an ill-judged tweet, Tesla and Elon have to split a $40 million fine and Elon has to resign as chairman of the board within 60 days.
US regulator sues Musk for fraud
Might try to get him fired
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has accused Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the electric car company.
Tesla defies Trump's Chinese stance
Cars for everyone
The tariffs imposed on US imports of cars caused prices of Tesla vehicles to rise by 20 percent over the weekend in China.
Tesla Model 3 gets self-parking with Summon feature
Can open/close the garage door
Thanks to an over-the-air software update, Tesla's Model 3 finally got the "Summon" feature which was already available on the Model S and the Model X cars.