Tesla is launching an effort to ‘revolutionize’ service and aiming to be 10 times better than the competition. CEO Elon Musk elaborates on the effort during a company-wide meeting.
Earlier this week, we reported on Musk’s announcement that Tesla is working on service in North America and how Telsa is aiming to make the majority of appointments same-day repairs. As we noted, it is much…
NHTSA announced today that its investigation into Tesla Autopilot has been upgraded to a step closer to a possible recall.
Last year, the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced that it is launching an investigation into Tesla Autopilot after…
Elon Musk has revealed more details about what his Tesla Master Plan Part 3 will be about during a new companywide meeting with employees held last night.
Tesla Master Plan Part 3
Part One and Two of Musk’s “master plan” for Tesla have been important pieces of…
Porsche accelerates its electric bike expansion, buys up German e-bike motor manufacturer
June 9, 2022
German automotive manufacturer Porsche isn’t sitting in the slow lane when it comes to expanding the company’s reach in the electric bike market. Porsche’s latest power move in the two-wheeled EV industry just saw it buy up Fazua, an innovative electric bicycle drive manufacturer.
Fazua makes a number of interesting electric bicycle drives and components, but the company’s flagship product…
Microlino opens configurator for its adorable electric microcar to 30,000 reservation holders
June 9, 2022
One little Swiss microcar (technically a quadricycle) has made a disproportionately sized splash. The pint-sized four-wheeled electric vehicle known as the Microlino may be petite, but it’s got a long line forming out the door counting over 30,000 reservation holders. And…
Quick Charge Podcast: June 8, 2022
June 9, 2022
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
New episodes of Quick Charge are recorded Monday through Thursday and again on…
Elon Musk told Tesla employees to expect a “nutty” end-of-quarter delivery wave this quarter at a new company-wide meeting.
The automaker has been trying to move away from quarterly delivery waves, but special circumstances made one inevitable at the end of this quarter.
Tesla has been known to have intense end-of-quarter delivery pushes due to its distribution system, which is very…
Tesla has filed to use a new radar in its electric vehicles, and everyone is confused since Elon Musk has made it clear that Tesla plans to achieve self-driving with camera-based vision only.
After years of using a suite of sensors that included both cameras and a radar…
Fresh off a promising annual call with shareholders yesterday, Fisker Inc. is back with additional news pertaining to its first two EV models. In addition to confirming 50,000 reservations for its flagship Ocean SUV, Fisker has shared a second image of the upcoming PEAR…
Following months of teasing the public, Baidu’s intelligent EV startup JIDU has officially unveiled its AI powered, robotic EV, called the ROBO-01. The ROBODAY presentation took place today on Baidu’s metaverse platform and included a slew of images, video, and details of the upcoming JIDU smart EV.
Mere weeks after teasing the production prep of JIDU’s first “Robocar,” the infantile…