tesla

  1. Jan

    Buttons better than touchscreens in cars - Swedish test

    Test shows how rubbish car touchscreens are compared to buttons Swedish car publication Vi Bilägare recently performed a test which showed that physical dashboard buttons in cars were much easier and faster to use than touchscreens. The publication had drivers perform four tasks — including...
  2. Hanno Labuschagne

    US auto safety regulator calls on people to stop testing Tesla Autopilot with kids

    US auto safety regulator calls on people to stop testing Tesla Autopilot with kids US auto-safety regulators have a message for Tesla Inc. owners intending to use their children to test automated-driving technology: Don’t. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it uses...
  3. Hanno Labuschagne

    Musk sold over R114 billion in Tesla shares

    Musk sold over R114 billion in Tesla shares Elon Musk offloaded $6.9 billion (R114.6 billion) of stock in Tesla Inc., the billionaire’s biggest sale on record, saying he wanted to avoid a last-minute selloff of the electric-car maker’s shares in the event he is forced to go ahead with his...
  4. Hanno Labuschagne

    Elon Musk wil sell more Tesla shares — with or without Twitter deal

    Elon Musk wil sell more Tesla shares — with or without Twitter deal Investors expect Elon Musk to sell more shares of his electric carmaker Tesla Inc. by the end of 2022, according to the latest MLIV Pulse survey. About 75% of 1,562 respondents, who include portfolio managers and retail...
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    Tesla Remotely Disabled 128 km Of Range From Customer’s Car Demanding R74 000, Backtracks When The Web Finds Out

    https://www.carscoops.com/2022/07/tesla-remotely-disabled-80-miles-of-range-from-customers-car-demanding-4500-backtracks-when-the-web-finds-out/
  6. Jan

    Elon Musk says Tesla hopes to ship Cybertruck by mid-2023

    Tesla Cybertruck could be ready by mid-2023 During a call for Tesla investors, Elon Musk said that the company hopes to start shipping its Cybertruck in the "middle of next year", according to a report from The Verge. The news provides a more-specific timeline than the Tesla CEO has given...
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    Elon Musk wants more investment in lithium refining to ease battery material shortages

    Lithium refining is "a licence to print money" — Elon Musk Elon Musk has called for more investment in global lithium refining to ease shortages in battery materials — and promised those who seize the opportunity it's as lucrative as "basically minting money." "I'd like to once again urge...
  8. Jan

    Elon Musk says Steam demo for Tesla likely next month

    Tesla owners could soon play Steam titles in their car Tesla's vehicles could soon see its list of in-car games expand further, with CEO Elon Musk saying that the company is making progress on its integration with Steam. The company already offers a range of games available through Tesla...
  9. Jan

    Makro "Powerwall" supplier renames product after Tesla trademark warning

    Makro "Powerwall" gets a new name after Tesla trademark warning The company planning to sell a load-shedding backup system called "PowerWall" through Makro will rebrand it after an intellectual property expert raised concerns it would infringe Tesla's trademark. In a statement sent a day after...
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    Tesla's director of AI, Andrej Karpathy, resigns

    Tesla Autopilot boss resigns Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Inc.’s top artificial-intelligence executive and an architect of its Autopilot self-driving system, is planning to depart the maker of electric vehicles. The executive, who joined Tesla in 2017, announced his departure in a series of tweets...
  11. Jan

    Makro planning to launch "Powerwall" battery-and-inverter combo, except it's not Tesla

    Makro "Powerwall" is not from Tesla — and it could spell legal trouble Makro's plan to start selling a "Powerwall" product could land it in legal trouble with Tesla, which owns the trademark in South Africa. That is according to Barnard Inc. Attorneys senior associate, Stefaans Gerber.
  12. Jan

    Tesla Powerwall and Freedom Won home battery comparison

    Tesla Powerwall 2 vs Freedom Won Lite Home — Ultimate load-shedding battery battle With no end in sight for load-shedding in South Africa, many people are looking for backup power to carry them through the outages. Small backup systems like power trolleys and UPSes might be able to run a...
  13. Hanno Labuschagne

    Tesla taken to court for failing to give 2-month notice of retrenchments

    Tesla taken to court for failing to give 2-month notice of retrenchments Former employees at Tesla Inc. asked a federal judge to stop the electric-car maker from pursuing separation agreements with workers it’s laying off, saying it’s just a way to get them to surrender their legal rights...
  14. Jan

    Tesla update adds pothole defence feature

    Tesla update helps cars avoid pothole damage A new Tesla software update allows its electric vehicles (EV) to scan for road defects such as potholes, according to an Electrek report. The EV can then use the data to enable adaptive suspension in supported vehicles to prevent damage and provide...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    Tesla records first quarterly delivery slump in two years

    Tesla records first quarterly delivery slump in two years Tesla Inc. delivered 254,695 cars worldwide in the three months to June, snapping a two-year streak of quarter-on-quarter gains, as a Covid-related shutdown at its factory in Shanghai crimped production. The results, posted Saturday...
  16. Jan

    Tesla doesn't have enough desks or parking spaces for employees to return to the office

    After Elon Musk's remote work threat there aren't enough desks at Tesla Tesla is reportedly ill-equipped for employees to return to the office, despite CEO Elon Musk telling remote workers that they would lose their jobs if they didn't. The Information reported that employees at Tesla's...
  17. Jan

    Musk says he supports Dogecoin after people encouraged him to

    Elon Musk backs Dogecoin It’s official, yet again: Elon Musk supports Dogecoin. Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, reiterated his support of Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency created as a joke in 2013, on Tuesday. He noted that Tesla accepts Dogecoin for merchandise and...
  18. Jan

    Get back to the office or get out - Elon Musk to Tesla execs

    Elon Musk's ultimatum to Tesla execs — return to the office or get out The world’s richest man appears to have had it with this whole working-from-home business. Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., waded into the return-to-office debate on Twitter by elaborating on an email he...
  19. Hanno Labuschagne

    Tesla wants to use Powerwalls as small power plants

    Tesla wants to use Powerwalls as small power plants Tesla Inc. is hoping to turn some Texas homes into “virtual power plants” after tests showed its home batteries can be quickly tapped to reduce stress on the state grid. Tesla is making the push after trying a project that pooled together 64...
  20. Jan

    Elon Musk's $21 billion mystery - where will he get cash for Twitter?

    Big Twitter mystery — Elon Musk needs to raise R330 billion in cash Elon Musk and Twitter Inc. reached an agreement for the world’s richest man to buy the social networking platform for $44 billion, resolving the pressing question of whether the company’s board would consent to the leveraged...
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