Hey
@elonmusk
and
@woodhaus2
, do you guys already know how close the interior of the production version will be to the concept interior? Because I can't stop staring at those images. That's a spaceship.
Tesla secures deal to deploy 20,000 Universal Wall Connectors at 2,000 Hilton hotels in North America.
I didn't even know Hilton (through all their brands) had 2,000 locations in North America.
But it makes a ton of sense. Hilton already had a deal with Tesla to deploy level 2
Study confirms what has been believed for a while now: Supercharging Tesla vehicles frequently doesn't negatively affect battery longevity.
The study follows thousands of Tesla vehicles and compared those who DC fast-charging 90% of the time vs those who DC fast-charge about 10%
Tesla Megapack delivery timeline on new orders is now Q2 2025 at the soonest.
That's despite Tesla ramping up production at Megafactory in Lathrop, Ca.
@elonmusk
is not wrong when he says that there's basically "infinite demand" for Megapack right now.
Tesla is basically
This is a game changer. Short thesis is falling apart. Naysayers can't even say that it is because of the credits since Tesla sold only $52 million worth in Q3. They would have been profitable either way. Incredible. Viva la rEVolution! congrats to
@tesla
and
@elonmusk
Tesla $TSLA is in the middle of a major shift in strategy with its solar business. It is laying off employees and closing offices.
The company appears to be moving away from being an installers and wants to be a supplier of solar and energy products to other installers.
The
Tesla has confirmed that the new 'Standard Range' Model S and X are indeed Long Range vehicles with software-locked battery packs.
About 21% of the capacity is locked.
Tesla advisors are giving mixed answers on unlocking the capacity in the future, but I think Tesla will
Sources say Tesla's head of charging was pushing back against Musk over the percentage of her team that she needed to let go. Some believe he fired her and the entire team as a statement.
Musk wrote in an email to staff this week:
“Hopefully, these actions are making it clear
So
@Reuters
is trying to hide its mistake by sneakily editing older posts.
Making mistakes is OK. Hiding them to boost your credibility isn't.
I have to say, working in the media for almost a decade now, I've lost a lot of faith in it. The good ones are far and few in between
Texas has officially approved a new requirement that will force charging stations to have Tesla’s NACS connector if they want to get access to over $400 million in subsidies.
The Feds still only require CCS, but states can add their own requirements on top.
That’s the right
Important breaking news: An engineer involved in a Model 3 teardown shows that Tesla's onboard charger is bi-directional charging-ready. Tesla could enable vehicle-to-grid in 100,000s of vehicles whenever.
Can we take a moment to appreciate that right now there's a sex and weed joke on the front page of the world's most valuable automaker? Now
@elonmusk
please release the Model Y RWD with a $42,069 price? $TSLA
Honda announces deal with Tesla to adopt NACS connector.
It is the latest automaker to adopt the Tesla-designed connector in North America.
Honda appears to have reached the same deal as every other automaker who announced deals with Tesla – meaning that its EV owners will
If
@Tesla
manages to maintain its current Model 3 production rate, it will produce over 360,000 Model 3s in a year. It's hard to overstate how impressive this is. You wouldn't believe how many people tried to convince me that it would NEVER happen.
Exclusive new report on
@ElectrekCo
: Tesla says it will build new '1st of its kind' data centers.
Tesla has also been snapping up former data centers that used to be utilized by Twitter.
It comes as the automaker has seen its handling of data increase through its self-driving
I've watched this like 10 times. Anyone who knows anything about trucks can tell this is extremely impressive acceleration with 80,000 lbs in a 6% incline.
Tesla launches new Universal Wall Connector for $595.
It is basically the equivalent of the Magic Dock for Superchargers, but with J1772 adapter and for home charging.
This is going to put a lot of pressure on the charging industry as it is a perfect solution for buyers of
Elon Musk asked 50 Tesla engineers to "volunteer" at Twitter. Board said it was tracking the situation, but it started after the fact.
Twitter ended up paying $1 million to Tesla for the "volunteering" services.
It does sound like the CEO of a public company asked employees of
Tesla has officially asked shareholders to move incorporation state to Texas and re-pass Elon's compensation plan.
As I have previously stated, you can be for Elon getting his compensation for his work from 2018 to 2022 in the compensation plan and still agree with the judge’s
This is so cool. I just acquired this 106-year-old book about electric vehicles. Can you imagine if we had just stuck with it 100 years ago how far along we would be with electric vehicles today?
A Tesla Cybertruck was spotted on glacier in Iceland for what is most likely the filming of promo reel ahead of the launch.
That, along with the vehicles going around the country in the last few weeks, is a really good sign that Tesla is preparing to launch the Cybertruck
Tesla's announcement of the 20 millionth 4680 cell at Giga Texas enables us to have an idea of the production rate for the first time.
We now know that Tesla produced 10 million 4680 cells in the last 16 weeks.
That’s an average of 625,000 cells per week, but it is fair to
Here's why you can't trust the media.
Reuters wrote this cheeky thing here today in their report about Tesla selling China-made cars in Canada - implying that
@elonmusk
wasn't accurate when claiming their original report was false.
But they are misreporting their own article:
Tesla Electric customers came out of the Texas heatwave with an extra $100 in their pockets.
I think Tesla Electric and Tesla VPP are the company's most underappreciated products. It's not the entire solution, but I think it's going to become a big part of the grid in the
This is a wild one.
@RealDanODowd
's Tesla FSD Beta smear campaign called
@RealDawnProject
ran a FSD Beta 'test' where they failed to realize that FSD was actually never engaged during the test:
I just took delivery of a brand new Model 3 Performance. Thanks to
@Tesla
Montréal for a great delivery experience and for getting the car ready. Now let’s put this beautiful machine to the test!
Elon Musk is pushing Tesla to go all-in on Robotaxi.
From everything that happened in the last few weeks, speaking to a few new sources, if it wasn't clear before, Elon has pushed Tesla to go all-in on self-driving.
- Cheaper EV program, NV9, postponed.
- Robotaxi timeline
Honda confirms it will adopt NACS, the charge connector designed by
@tesla
, on its electric vehicles in North America.
This is no surprise since Honda is entirely dependent on GM, which has already adopted NACS, for its upcoming new EVS in North America: Prologue and ZDX.
I'm a big fan of
@joerogan
. He is a technophile and forward-thinking, which is why I always thought it was weird that he was often dismissing of EVs on his podcast. I am glad that
@elonmusk
appears to have convinced him to buy a Performance Model S
A Tesla Semi has traveled 729 miles in a single day as part of the Run for Less study. Look at that beautiful use case: it did two deliveries during that time and charged a bit while loading/unloading.
Zero-emission trucking is coming.
Elon: I am pro-legal immigration, but illegals are bad.
Elon's brother Kimbal: we were illegal immigrants when we started our first company in Silicon Valley.
Elon: well, that was a gray area.
I'm no conspiracy theory guy. I generally think the simplest explanation is most often the right one. But for some reason, I can't help but think that all that hydrogen hype is about keeping the same fossil fuel supply model just replacing gas stations with hydrogen fuel stations
I don’t have my car back yet, but I already know what it looks like with its new wheels.
@Tesla
already updated the render while still in service.
#itsthelittlethings
I felt like this whole $TSLA earnings call was
@elonmusk
playing to his superfan crowd.
"We are a hardware company with software margins."
His crowd eats that shit up, but then he spends half the call complaining about macroeconomics, which I am not disputing is having a big
Interesting new data about Tesla battery longevity shows that colder climates are better for degradation than hotter climates longterm.
Extreme cold negatively affects the range of electric vehicles as active thermal management spends a lot of the pack’s energy to regulate the
1- For $TSLA fans & investors holding on to the idea that "it's just the stock price, fundamentals haven't changed, and the company is still as strong as ever", I beg you to open your eyes to the fact that things have changed. Tesla's credibility, through Elon's, is crashing.
I have my headphones on but with transparency mode in a first-class airport lounge. This lady sitting across from me looks straight at me and turns to her friend (thinking I can't hear her) and says: "anyone can get first class nowadays, that's why everyone hates flying now." 🤣
We decided to pick
@Tesla
Model Y for
@Electrek
's Vehicle of the Year.
As the first electric vehicle to become the best-selling passenger vehicle in the world, it is undoubtedly the most impactful EV in the world, which is not surprising because it's nearly a flawless product.
I strongly believe that if you are encouraging
@elonmusk
in this nonsense, you are not a real fan of him or Tesla.
This is bullying behavior from Elon. Period. I don't think he realizes it, but he is stuck in this social media-induced distorted reality right and those
Tesla's biggest retail shareholder,
@KoguanLeo
, confirmed to Electrek that he plans to vote his 27 million $TSLA shares against the $55 comp package and the re-election of
@kimbal
and James Murdoch.
He is the first large investor to make his intention known.
As a reference,
Tesla is losing one of its most senior engineering executives, Colin Campbell, and he is going to a company founded by Tesla co-founder and board member JB Straubel.
After 17 years at Tesla, most recently as VP of powertrains, Campbell will now be CTO at Redwood Materials.
I’m reminded of what my dad told me when I was a kid in school:
“There are positive leaders and negative leaders out there. Be a positive leader and surround yourself with them.”
I used to see Elon as one. Used to.
I voted for Elon Musk to get his $55 billion CEO compensation plan at Tesla.
But there's a lot of confusion among the reactions to the judge's decision to rescind the Elon's compensation plan.
The main things I hear from $TSLA shareholders are that "I voted for the plan", "the
My 2012
@Tesla
Model S just got its new (remanufactured) battery pack after a pack failure under warranty. The range went from ~380 km to 437 km (236 miles to 271 miles).
The company
@Tesla
just acquired has been hyping a dry electrode that would increase battery energy density to 300-500 Wh/kg, increase longevity, and reduce cost. $TSLA
I got confirmation from
@Tesla
that my Obsidian black Model 3 Performance is going into production next week, which means that Tesla should soon start Performance deliveries in Canada.
I'm now blocked by the CEO of Tesla, the main company I cover, and the CEO of Twitter, the biggest social platform for media.
I'm not really liking my prospects on this platform, but hey, just gonna keep doing me...
My take so far on the Tesla Cybertruck is that it looks like a fun and solid vehicle, but the roughly 50% price increase across all versions compared to the original 2019 prices is going to be hard to swallow for most.
We knew a price increase was inevitable, but this is on the
Biggest week ever for
@ElectrekCo
by a decent margin. I'm telling you, interest in electric vehicles is starting to ramp up significantly. rEVolution is coming in a big way.
#onlyEVby2025
Here are new exclusive pictures of Tesla Cybertruck's suspension.
Tesla says that Cybertruck can 'raise and lower suspension four inches in either direction for easy access' and also 'self-leveling capabilities adapt to any occasion and assist with every job'.
Elon is asked about his threat of not building AI products at Tesla without 25% control.
He answered: Tesla can solve autonomy without me, but I don't know about Optimus.
Then added: shareholders have an opportunity to give me more shares - in reference to the vote on the 2018
Michael Lohscheller, Nikola Motor’s new CEO, said just earlier this month:
"I defy anyone to find another zero-emission vehicle truck anywhere that can run up to 900 miles in a day."
Well, I found one. The Tesla Semi.
If I were on Tesla's board, drafting Elon's next compensation, I'd include a requirement that he spends as much time on FSD as he does worrying about Disney putting more minorities in their content.
We'd get self-driving in two weeks.
Tesla sent Powerwalls turned into interesting-looking makeshift emergency power stations to help locals in Maui amid the devastating fires.
@Tesla
seems to have partnered with
@RisingSunSolar1
to deploy the rough but ingenious power stations.
Way better solution than gas
I wrote something on
@ElectrekCo
that is sure to be controversial but that's not the goal. I truly think that
@elonmusk
's feedback loop has been corrupted - resulting in some questionable actions. You can disagree but my criticism comes from place of love
I see a lot of people who take what Elon Musk says at face value - virtually believing everything he says as if he is incapable of lying.
I can admit I used to be in this camp. Elon said so much truth that talked to me that I found it hard to believe he could lie.
Now, things
Another day, another record for Tesla Semi with 806 miles traveled in a single day.
That's like going from Los Angeles to Albuquerque.
Zero-emission trucking, here we come. So excited for this. $TSLA
Tesla Semi beats its own record on Day 3 with 789 miles traveled in a single day to do 5 deliveries.
Would love to have some load data with this, but otherwise this is awesome.
Hey
@elonmusk
, I was kicked out of your official Supercharger community for not “keeping post on topic”.
The only problem is that I had yet to even post in the community.
It took less than 24 hours for your “official community” to be corrupted.
Am I sure it has nothing to do
This is a big deal. I have it on good authority that this is a game-changer for Tesla and EVs in general. When you combine that with Tesla moving to manufacture its own cells, things are getting exciting $TSLA $TSLAQ
I believe Tesla is one of the most important companies in the world. This is the leadership it lists on its website right now:
Only 4 people, including a part-time CEO, head of engineering who just left, and a new CFO who was just promoted from chief accountant after the CFO
@elonmusk
What if, when configuring and ordering my Tesla, I could interact with a digital twin of it and customize it on the fly, instead of being offered a single 2D view?
@elonmusk
And you guys have made some really weird changes in the last several months (closing stores, not closing stores, round of layoffs, dozen of prices changes, etc). We are only covering those weird moves. Hello.
We can confirm that the "Tesla Model 2" or "$25,000 Tesla" is indeed scrapped for now.
Elon denied the original report from Reuters presumably because they mentioned the words "canceled" and "scrapped" and you can argue that it is "postponed" instead, but effectively, nothing is
I have a way better picture of what is happening at Tesla right now thanks to a couple new sources.
It's a fairly complex situation with many factors at play, but there's certainly more going on than Elon's "hiring inefficiencies due to rapid growth" excuse suggests.
Working on
I find this comment highly problematic from a conflict of interest standpoint. Can
@elonmusk
still be CEO of Tesla?
He has repeatedly claimed recently that Tesla is an "AI/Robotics" company.
Yet, he started a separate AI startup and now claims that he prefers building products
Tesla has started backing out of leases for new Supercharger sites – like the ones reported in this article in New York City.
This is a bummer as NYC was having capacity issues already, but it's also a bummer globally.
I am extremely perplexed by the move.
If one thing was a
Im calling it now. Nikola is done. Trevor is exposed. If the research report wasn't true, he could have destroyed it by simply releasing unedited video of the test. He didn't. Instead, he lawyers up. Begining of the end.
- Elon Musk couldn’t get control of OpenAI
- Elon left OpenAI
- Elon pushed Tesla, deeply under his control, to advanced its AI effort - going as far as saying it would play a role in AGI
- Elon impulsively offers to buy Twitter, but he tries to back out when he realizes he is
I'm having real issues with this one. We have been hearing Elon hammering and shaming OpenAI about its move to for-profit for months when he, in fact, agreed that a for-profit move was the way to go – though only if he was in control either directly through a new entity or
Another record month for
@ElectrekCo
with over 23 million visits from over 9 million readers. People's interest in electric vehicles keeps growing. We are basically mainstream now haha. Over 400 million visits to date. When do we hit a billion?
I am not one to generally complain about mainstream media not reporting on this or that, but this is one that is going under the radar right now that shouldn't.
Decentralized energy storage is replacing peaker plants in real-time and it's incredible:
The 23rd Tesla car ever made (owned by
@chrispaine
). It was made a decade ago. 10 years later, Tesla has now put well over 500,000 all-electric cars on the road and kickstarted the rEVolution in a big way. I believe They’ll make over 500,000 EVs next year alone.
@Tesla
@elonmusk
The way mainstream media is treating
@elonmusk
following the
@joerogan
interview is ridiculous. Based on those standards, guests are having meltdowns on JRE every week.
@elonmusk
I think a lot of people talking about "refresh" refer to DESIGN refreshes, which Tesla has done in the past (Model S 2016), and not necessarily hardware improvements.
Another
@ElectrekCo
exclusive: Tesla has hired a top manufacturing executive from Bosch to help Zhu with Gigafactory operations.
The guy is a doctor in physics, right up Elon's ally, and he spent the last 25 years leading engineering and manufacturing programs at Bosch,
@elonmusk
I've always defended Tesla when it comes to fires after crashes and the investigations that followed, but I think coverage of fires starting seemingly on their own without crashes (like when parked or charging) is fair. Those fires definitely need to be investigated right?