Tesla plans to open-source its vehicle security software for free

With the upcoming rise of self-driving and more connected vehicles come an increased risk of hacking those vehicles with ill-intent. Elon Musk thinks that Tesla’s vehicle security software is… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla plans to open-source its vehicle security software

With the upcoming rise of self-driving and more connected vehicles come an increased risk of hacking those vehicles with ill-intent. Elon Musk thinks that Tesla’s vehicle security software is… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla says 99% of the US population is now within 150 miles of a Supercharger

The electric vehicle charging problem is becoming less and less of an issue every day and Tesla is arguably leading the way with the Supercharger network. The automaker now says that “99% of … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla starts free over-the-air Autopilot trials to boost usage and sales

Tesla started an email campaign to inform owners of Autopilot 2.0 cars who didn’t buy any Autopilot package that they will have access to a free over-the-air Autopilot trial. The move to boos… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla Possibly Going Private

After announcing plans for Tesla to potentially go private on Twitter earlier today, Elon Musk sent the market on a frenzy that led to trading on the company’s stock to be halted. Now the CEO… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla Powered Audi S5 Conversion

Audi has yet to launch its first all-electric vehicle built to be electric from the ground up, but it has conversion compliance cars around. But now an Audi S5 owner decided to make his own convers… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Take a first look under the Tesla Model 3 Performance – Electrek

After a few deliveries of Tesla ‘s new Model 3 Performance, we are starting to get interesting reports from owners about the performance of the car. Now we even get to take a look under the v… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Nissan finally sells its battery cell manufacturing division – Electrek

Nissan wants to ramp up its electrification effort, but it doesn’t want to make its own batteries anymore. It had a lot of difficulties getting rid of its battery manufacturing subsidiary, bu… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla warns of theft through relay attacks

Tesla’s vehicles get rarely stolen thanks to its always-on advanced GPS tracking feature, but some more sophisticated thieves are still able to get away with it. Recently, there have been strings o… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla Model 3 teardown gives incredible look at the electric powertrain

On the surface, Tesla’s Model 3 is already highly successful and well-received among those who have driven it. But the vehicle’s architecture and technology are also believed to represe… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla troll/short doxxed and revealed to be heavily invested in oil industry

One of Tesla’s biggest anonymous trolls/shorts has been doxxed as an investment manager heavily invested in the oil industry. He has now deleted his Twitter account, which he used to promote … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla asks suppliers for cashbacks

Tesla has been making a lot of moves lately to try to achieve profitability during the second half of the year as targeted by CEO Elon Musk. Now the automaker reportedly turns to suppliers to reduc… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Darpa unveils ‘extreme’ in-hub electric motors for military vehicles

The military has often led the development of technologies for defense and warfare, but it hasn’t so much been the case for electric vehicles. Lately, the US military has made some significan… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Nissan Leaf becomes best-selling EV in Europe as new gen gets 37,000 orders

Nissan is finding a market for the next-gen Leaf in Europe where it has become the best-selling all-electric vehicle with now 18,000 deliveries and 37,0000 orders, according to the automaker. It ma… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Watch impressive new all-electric personal VTOL aircraft working prototype

The growing space of VTOL personal electric aircraft has got yet another entry from a new startup. This latest working prototype of a new ultralight all-electric personal VTOL aircraft has about 25… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

The Tesla Solar Roof and Powerwall in One Chart

Tesla’s rollout of the solar roof tiles is much slower than anticipated, but the few customers who have Tesla solar roof installations seem pretty happy about it. One of the very first homeow… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Boring Company unveils bricks being produced from dirt dug in its tunnels

Elon Musk’s Boring Company has been releasing side products mostly unrelated to the company’s main purpose, like hats and flamethrowers. The latest product has more to do with boring tu… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

All-electric and autonomous logging truck unveiled

Every segment of ground transportation is gradually being converted to electric propulsion and now a startup is going after logging trucks. Today, Swedish tech start-up Einride unveiled The T-log, … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

‘We’re going after Tesla’, says Fiat-Chrysler with their new EV plan – Electrek

To this date, Fiat-Chrysler (FCA) hasn’t been a leader in the current electrification of the auto industry, but the company has now announced a significant acceleration of its electric vehicl… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

UK unveils extensive new plan to go all-electric by 2040

Last year, the United Kingdom announced its intention for its transportation market to be all-electric by 2040. Today, the government unveiled an extensive 46-point plan to help the transition. | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla has now deployed over 10,000 Superchargers

Tesla has now officially deployed over 10,000 Superchargers around the world. The automaker is about 5 months late with the milestone, but it is now adding stations at a high pace and it plans to e… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla could revisit ‘Vehicle-to-Grid’ technology

Tesla’s first generation Roadster had the capacity to output power from the battery pack to something other than its electric motor. The technology is often called vehicle-to-grid or vehicle-… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Audi unveils e-tron quattro electric SUV’s interior – Electrek

After delaying the launch of its e-tron quattro electric SUV amidst the arrest of its CEO over the Dieselgate scandal, Audi is now still partially unveiling the new electric vehicle by releasing im… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

The king of high performance e-bikes: Optibike R15C: 3.35 hp and 100-mile range

It seems like every week there’s a new electric bicycle company or model being announced. With so many different options available for consumers, it can be hard to keep track of which compani… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Volkswagen is considering bringing back the Beetle as an all-electric car

Volkswagen is reportedly considering bringing back the iconic Beetle as an all-electric car on the upcoming new MEB platform, which is supporting the series of new VW electric cars planned for laun… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla stock tumbles as Wall Street throws cold water on Model 3 production ramp

Tesla’s stock surged in pre-market trading following the news that it achieved its production target of 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week. Now the stock is taking a tumble as Wall Street throws… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla reaches Model 3 production milestone and record 7,000-car week, says Musk

As we suspected after Tesla employees were spotted celebrating earlier today, Tesla has achieved its Model 3 production milestone of 5,000 units in a week, according to CEO Elon Musk. The company a… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla and PG&E are working on a 1.1 GWh Powerpack battery system

For the past few months, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk have been teasing a giant battery project that would dwarf even the company’s 129 MWh Powerpack project in Australia. Today, we learn that Tes… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Elon Musk: Tesla Model 3 assembly line inside a tent is way better and cheaper

Tesla’s new Model 3 general assembly line at the Fremont factory is creating a small controversy in the Tesla community because it is being built inside a building that appears to be a tent, … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Italian Volt’s new customizable luxury electric motorcycle for only $38,000

Electric vehicles aren’t cheap, I think we can all agree on that. This is even more true for electric motorcycles, which have additional size and weight restrictions that make it even harder … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla Autopilot has an actual ‘Mad Max’ mode

If you think some people drive like they are crazy in traffic today, it’s nothing like they do in the not-too-distant dystopian future of Mad Max. Autonomous driving system might have an even… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

First Tesla Model S P100D stripped-down and race-ready is delivered to GT team

After a few delays and setback over the last year, Electric GT, the Tesla racing championship, is now pushing ahead for the first season to start at the end of the year. Now they have delivered the… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Mercedes turns coal power plant into energy storage system with car batteries

Daimler, through its subsidiary Mercedes-Benz Energy and with partners, is turning a coal power plant into a large energy storage facility using over a thousand modules from its electric car batter… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla is looking at Germany for a new Gigafactory – Electrek

There has been a lot of talk about Tesla soon announcing a new Gigafactory in China as the company confirmed discussions with the Shanghai government to build a plant in their Free-Trade Zone. But … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Sabotage at Tesla

As we reported last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears more confident than ever about meeting the automaker’s goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 vehicles per week by the end of the quarter. But t… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

A rare look at what Tesla Autopilot can see and interpret – Electrek

We previously reported about what Tesla’s Autopilot can see with its suite of 8 cameras around the car, but we rarely got into how the Autopilot understands and interprets what it is looking … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla Will Build the ‘pods’ for the Boring Company’s Loop, Says Elon Musk

Elon Musk has revealed more details about The Boring Company’s Loop after winning the bid to build the system in Chicago. We now learn that Tesla might not only supply its electric powertrain… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla shorts take an estimated $2 bil of losses in Elon Musk’s ‘next level burn’

Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk bought $10 million worth of Tesla stock (TSLA) just as he predicted a short squeeze that would be a ‘next level short burn of the century’. A month later, it looks l… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company

Last month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a vague plan to “restructure” the company in order to achieve profitability during the second half of the year. Following the announcement, Ele… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla buyers could lose access to California’s EV incentives

Tesla is currently fighting a new regulation in California that could deny Tesla buyers access to the state’s Clean Vehicle Rebate, which offers $2,500 rebates at the purchase of electric veh… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

First look at Tesla Model S using George Hotz’s semi-autonomous driving tech

About 50,000 Tesla owners, including myself, have a Model S without Tesla’s Autopilot technology since it was only introduced in 2014. Two of those Tesla owners decided that they wanted the f… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla’s v 9 software update is coming with first ‘full self-driving features’

Tesla’s next major software update ‘version 9.0’ is now set for a release in August and it will include the first ‘full self-driving features’ for Autopilot 2.0 vehicl… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla’s ver. 9 software update is coming in August ‘full self-driving features'

Tesla’s next major software update ‘version 9.0’ is now set for a release in August and it will include the first ‘full self-driving features’ for Autopilot 2.0 vehicl… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla might have achieved battery energy density and cost breakthroughs

There was a lot of news that came out of Tesla shareholder meeting this week, but there was one important statement that sort of went under the radar. Elon Musk is generally careful not to use the … | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

NTSB releases preliminary report on fatal Tesla crash on Autopilot

A fatal accident involving a Tesla Model X on Autopilot came under investigation by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in March. The NTSB has now released its preliminary report o… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla unveils new white next-gen Roadster prototype at shareholder meeting

At the Tesla Semi unveiling last year, Tesla unveiled two next-generation Roadster prototypes: one red working prototype and another grey design model. The automaker is now showing a new white Road… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Tesla has now installed over 1 GWh of energy storage

We have been reporting on a ton of new Tesla Energy projects being deployed lately and they have been adding up to quite an important energy capacity. Tesla CTO JB Straubel now confirms that the co… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago

Solar powered electric bike-cars ELF and PEBL might just be weird enough to work

Part bicycle and part car, these solar powered velomobiles are designed to fill an interesting niche in the personal mobility industry. With all electric-drive capabilities, working pedals, and a s… | Continue reading


@electrek.co | 5 years ago