According to Number of Tesla vehicles delivered worldwide from 3rd quarter 2015 to 1st quarter 2019 (in units) from Statistica, Tesla has had the following deliveries in the last 3 quarters: 63,000 Q1 19| 90,700 Q4 18 | 83,500 Q3 18 = 237,200 Tesla will begin charging ~$100/year for Premium Internet as of June 2018 […]
Electric Vehicles Blog Posts
Maxwell Technologies Acquisition
This is a great video to watch: Maxwell Could Be Worth BILLIONS To Tesla The other companies do not have value for Maxwell. Tesla acquiring it without competition means that for other companies, this acquisition would have been a liability for the near-term or even long-term. It sets a precedence. Tesla might be too far […]
May 17th, 2019
Tesla Robo-Taxi Audit
2 days ago, Inside EV’s released the article Is Leasing A Tesla Model 3 A $200,000 Mistake? This article comments on a video from the owner of Tesloop – Haydn Sonnad. Very few authorities hold a candle to Tesloop in this regard because Tesloop is a Tesla-centric taxi service having already operated many years and […]
TSLA Premium Internet
Right now Tesla is contracting LTE from Telecom providers. But SpaceX is launching satellites for Internet. Most likely Tesla will switch contracts to SpaceX instead of Telecom providers. If SpaceX gives Tesla a break on the fees they would otherwise pay, it would be win-win for Tesla and SpaceX. Tesla gets a better deal and […]
The Tesla Battle Ground
In this corner, you have Elon Musk on Twitter, Tesla Stores, Massive Battery Installations, 42,000+ Employees, the Freemont Factory (tent and all), Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, Gigafactory 2 in Buffalo, Tesla’s Seat Factory, Model X & Owners, Model S & Owners, Model 3 & Owners, Additional Fan-base, some Billionaire Analysts, Self Driving Capabilities already deployed, […]
A Message to Tesla
Thank you. Really. Thank you all so much. I get that it can be annoying when the work you do is credited to somebody else. But understand that as consumers, we are so happy with our products that we want to thank you and shake your hand, but we don’t know you exist. To the […]
But how can we drive a Tesla with no steering wheel or pedals?
Brain dump. Tesla would likely provide in house developed control pad. Or you could use the Tesla app.
Tesla could save $200M from one car part.
Last week Tesla revealed their Full Self Driving computer to shareholders. In that speech, they talked about the cost savings vs. their old computer. They stated that the cost of the new unit would be 80% of the cost of their old unit from NVIDIA. According to NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit the cost […]