Tesla

At a recent event hosted by the Minerals Council of Australia, Robyn Denholm, chairperson of Tesla, said her company plans to spend more than USD 1 billion a year to procure raw materials from Australia. Tesla especially wants to tap into the country’s rich reserves of lithium and nickel. Presently, Tesla sources three-fourths of its lithium and over a one-third of its nickel from the country. ...  more

On June 11, Tesla officially began sales of the Model S Plaid. Musk indicated that this vehicle is the fastest accelerating, with the lowest drag coefficient among all production cars in the world, while also featuring PS5-equivalent entertainment capabilities. Tesla began making scheduled deliveries starting on June 11, with the first 1,000 vehicles already on the way to owners. ...  more

In about two weeks’ time, Tesla will release the FSD beta v9, which, as has been recently planned, will feature a “pure vision” architecture, meaning Teslas will no longer rely on radar assistance, but rather on camera-produced images, which the vehicles then analyze and use to assist driving. ...  more

As the COVID-19 pandemic intensifies in Taiwan, Tesla’s Taiwan branch also released its official online store on June 2 in response, so that customers can make purchases from the safety of their homes. ...  more

Tesla installed the exclusive Megacharger for its first long range Semi Truck recently, and teased the possible delivery of this bad boy at the end of this year.  ...  more

Tesla is in the process of hiring 10,000 employees at its Texas-based Gigafactory to strengthen manufacturing efforts for such models as Model 3, Model Y, Cybertruck, and Semi. ...  more

Tesla on April 3rd announced its delivery and production figures, which not only exceeded the forecast of the analysts, but also broke a new record as the best delivery result in the first quarter. ...  more

Tesla sits firmly as the leader of sales in electric vehicles after the surge in production capacity during 2020, though the overall market shares have slightly declined for the company, and various automotive manufacturers have been catching up at the same time. Let us take a look at the top 5 sales leaders for 2020. ...  more

After Tesla released its 4Q20 financial results, Musk said that Tesla is having internal discussions about the viability of licensing out Tesla’s self-driving technologies to other automakers. ...  more