Tesla Model Y Production To Begin In 2020 But Elon Musk Doesn't Know Where It'll Be Built

On a call with financial analysts Wednesday, CEO Elon Musk said the automaker will launch production of the crossover in 24 months, but the company hasn’t confirmed a location where it’ll be built. Musk disputed an earlier report from , which said that Tesla aimed to launch production in November...

Sep 12, 2025

After Fatal Uber Crash, Toyota To Build A New Private Autonomous Car Testing Facility

The auto industry has treaded lightly after a self-driving Uber . Toyota, for its part, hasn’t conducted autonomous driving tests since, and now the automaker’s looking to work out more complicated autonomous driving scenarios away from the public in a new private facility set to be constructed in Michigan. The...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla's Elon Musk Rejected Questions From Wall Street Analysts To Shoot The Shit With A YouTuber

In his quarterly conference call with financial analysts on Wednesday, the last thing Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk wanted to answer were Wall Street analysts’ questions about how much money the automaker needs to keep the lights on this year. So he cut them off, declared their queries “boring, bonehead questions”...

Sep 12, 2025

Somebody Actually Put In An Order For 'Up To 800' Hydrogen-Powered Semis From Tesla Rival

Just days after for allegedly lifting the design of its own semi, startup announced with beer maker Anheuser Busch that it’ll purchase “up to” 800 hydrogen-electric powered semi-trucks from Nikola. The deal is, perhaps unsurprisingly, light on specifics. Anheuser-Busch also has 40 Tesla semis reserved. So, now both Nikola and...

Sep 12, 2025

Here's Where VW Plans To Install Electric Vehicle Fast Chargers By The End Of 2019

Volkswagen’s Dieselgate scandal led to the indictment of nine employees, including its former CEO, but a court-ordered settlement required the German automaker to dump gobs of cash into electric vehicles. When it comes to fast charging infrastructure, we’re now seeing what the investment might look like. , the electric vehicle...

Sep 12, 2025

Conan O'Brien Reveals Tesla's Newest Product To Save Itself—The Tesla 'TBD'

Tesla’s , as it struggles to ramp up production of the sedan. But it has a pipeline full of innovative products in the works, including one that TV guy got the latest scoop on this week. What is it? TBD. Tesla Model 3 reservation holders plopped down $1,000 for a...

Sep 12, 2025

Elon Musk's Timeline For Launching Tesla's Model Y Is Insane

Tesla CEO Elon Musk admitted in an unusually tense conference call last week that he doesn’t have a site confirmed to launch production of the Model Y crossover, but he’s confident (as always) it’ll start making the car in 24 months. By all accounts, it’s an aggressive, if not insane,...

Sep 12, 2025

How This 'Driverless' Car Startup Can Test In California Without A Permit

Earlier this year, California’s department of motor vehicles rolled out a new set of regulations for companies that want to . But despite the painstaking effort that went into crafting the regulations, the DMV says there is one company in the state that’s allowed to test cars without a driver...

Sep 12, 2025

Uber Self-Driving Car 'Detected' Pedestrian Killed In Crash, But Decided It Didn't Need To Stop: Report

Uber has concluded the likely reason why one of its self-driving cars fatally struck a pedestrian earlier this year, . The car’s software recognized the victim, Elaine Herzberg, standing in the middle of the road, but decided it didn’t need to react right away, the outlet reported, citing two unnamed...

Sep 12, 2025

UPS Is Trying Out These Awesome-Looking Boxy Electric Trucks In London And Paris

UPS is planning to deploy a fleet of 35 modular, all-electric delivery vehicles for a trial program in London and Paris, the company said Wednesday, and being as boxy as they are, I love them. UPS said it’s teaming up with a United Kingdom-based tech firm called Arrival to develop...

Sep 12, 2025

NTSB Investigating Fatal Tesla Crash in Florida That Left Two Dead

The National Transportation Safety Board is dispatching a team to Florida to investigate a fatal crash Tuesday involving a Tesla Model S that left two high school seniors dead. The agency said it doesn’t expect, at this time, that Tesla’s semi-autonomous Autopilot system will be a part of the investigation....

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Teases A Mystery Car In New Video

Twitter-maniac Elon Musk posted what he called on Wednesday, and it includes a quick glimpse of a covered vehicle, which immediately sent fanatics of the automaker into a frenzy. What is this? A Model Y prototype? The Model Y guess makes sense, since Musk has opened up more about it...

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla Battery Reignited Days After Fatal Model X Crash: Report

Firefighters in California had to put out the smoldering flames coming from a Tesla Model X battery involved in a March fatal crash, even days after the crash, . KTVU said Thursday that it had obtained a 13-page safety alert penned by the fire chief of Mountain View, California, where...

Sep 12, 2025

Six Months Later, GM Still Hasn't Received A Permit To Test Self-Driving Cars In New York

In October, General Motors made a big splash by announcing it was , with plans to deploy vehicles on the busy streets of Manhattan in But more than six months later, the automaker has yet to receive final approval for the necessary permit to begin testing, a spokesperson confirmed Thursday....

Sep 12, 2025

Tesla's New Roadster Is Apparently Going To Have An Absolutely Spartan Interior

One of the hypothetical projects in Tesla’s pipeline is a new Roadster, a sports car with and a 0-60 time of 1.9 seconds. When CEO Elon Musk debuted it in November, the accompanying pictures of the car suggested the interior would be minimal, akin to the uber-minimalist Model 3. But...

Sep 12, 2025