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Chinese Hackers Successfully Take Control of Tesla Model S From 12 Miles Away
Chinese hackers recently proved that no Tesla car is safe from hacking after they successfully took control of one Model S from 12 miles away. The Chinese hacking research group, Keen Security Lab, posted a video to their YouTube channel demonstrating their progress in car…
· Ryan General
Chinese Tesla Owner Crashes Car While On Autopilot, Files Complaint
A displeased Chinese Tesla owner recently filed a complaint against Tesla Motors after his car crashed while on autopilot on a highway in Beijing. The 33-year-old driver, Luo Zhen, reportedly had the autopilot of his Tesla Model S car activated when it accidentally collided with…
· Ryan General
NextEV: This Chinese Electric Car Startup Claims They Have Something Way More Advanced Than Tesla
Chinese electric car startup NextEV gives due credit to Tesla for innovative contributions to electric supercar technology. However the company’s co-president Martin Leach is claiming they are ready to set the bar even higher than what Tesla has done with their future products.…
· Ryan General
Here’s How an Upset Elon Musk Responded to Fortune’s Scathing Tesla Article
When a Tesla Autopilot test drive ended up in a fatal crash that killed 40-year-old driver Josh Brown in May, Tesla didn’t immediately disclose the news and waited almost two months before letting the public know of the tragedy. This questionable delay of the news’ disclosure…
· Ryan General
Regen Villages: California Company to Build What Will Be the ‘Tesla of Eco-Villages’
California-based developer ReGen Villages, in partnership with Danish architectural firm EFFEKT, will build utopian off the grid societies that can produce their own food and energy this year. The concept, ReGen Village, is a revolutionary self-sustaining neighborhood concept…
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Tesla’s Autopilot Feature Lowers The Likelihood of Accidents By 50 Percent, Says Elon Musk
During a talk in Norway last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said something that caught the attention of the whole room. Based on early data from the Autopilot program, Tesla’s semi-autonomous functions lowers the probability by 50%, based on early data, according to Musk. Elon Musk…
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Watch a Boeing 737 Race Against a Tesla in One Epic Showdown
In a new commercial for Qantas, an airline based in Australia, a boeing 737-800 aircraft and a Tesla Model S P90D electric car go head-to-head in an epic race. The company wrote in a blog post:
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors Just Made $7.5 Billion in One Day
Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk unveiled the much-anticipated Model 3 Thursday night in Los Angeles. With an expected base price of $35,00, people have been lining up outside of Tesla offices the last couple days to reserve their very own Model 3 for $1,000.
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People Have Been Lining Up For More Than a Day to Reserve the New Tesla for $1,000
Over 130 people have lined up since Wednesday morning outside the Tesla showroom Dublin, California to drop $1,000 and reserve the new Tesla Model 3, a car that no one has seen yet but will be announced later today. Tech blogger Robert Scoble recorded the scene as he walked down…
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Rich Kids Can Now Demand Their Parents Buy Them This $500 Mini Tesla
Rich kids can now cruise around in their own sweet rides thanks to Tesla’s newest car model. The Tesla Model S for Kids, with working headlights, reaches a whopping six miles per hour. The project was a joint collaboration between Tesla and Radio Flyer, the American toy company…
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The World’s Most Expensive Valentine’s Day Bouquet Includes an iPad and a New Tesla
Roses are red, violets are blue, but what about an iPad, Cristal and a Tesla too? Online UK florists Arena Flowers are offering extravagant and expensive Valentine’s Day bouquet packages for your loved (very, very loved) one.
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Man Becomes the First Ever to Summon His Tesla with His Apple Watch
Tesla owner Mark Schey has become the first man ever to summon his car with his Apple Watch and uploaded the event on YouTube.
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Elon Musk Personally Cancelled This VC’s Tesla Order After He Complained
Venture capitalist Stewart Alsop learned this week that Elon Musk is not the type of CEO to forgive and forget after Musk called to tell him that his Tesla order had been cancelled as a result of a published complaint about a Tesla event last year. In a Medium post titled, “Dear…
· Laura Dang
How a 24-Year-Old Tesla Engineer Paid Off $14,000 in Student Loans By Living in a Van
For young millennials hoping to pay off burdensome student loans, living in a car seems to be the tried-and-true solution. In yet another instance of a young professional living in a vehicle to save money comes the story of a 24-year-old Tesla engineer. The Tesla employee, Jason…
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Tesla’s Autopilot Feature Just Saved Someone From a Head-On Collision
Tesla’s Autopilot feature, which was released to Tesla owners earlier this month, truly is an amazing piece of technology. It relieves drivers of the need to constantly have their hands on the wheel and, as the video above shows, can possibly prevent terrible accidents and save…
· Riley Schatzle
Porsche Unveils Their Incredible Electric Car Set to Take On Tesla
Porsche plans on challenging Tesla with their new all-electric concept car called the Mission E unveiled today at the Frankfurt auto show. Although several years away from production, the four-door sports car has caught the attention of many because it seems that Porsche has…
· Riley Schatzle
Here’s the $60 Tesla Watch Every Steampunk Fan is Going Crazy For
If you have a thing for steampunk aesthetics then ThinkGeek’s new Tesla Watch is the perfect timepiece for your wrist.
· Riley Schatzle
Chinese Company Unveils $48,000 ‘Tesla Model S’ Knockoff
A new Chinese electric car company called Youxia Motors unveiled their first vehicle on Sunday evening and it looks like KITT from “Knight Rider” collided with a Model S Tesla. According to Car News China, Youxia Motors will begin production on the Youxia X late next year. The…
· Jacob Wagner
Uber CEO Promises to Buy 500,000 Self-Driving Teslas If They Can Finish Them By 2020
Tesla has big incentive to fulfill its quest to put self-driving cars on the road within the next few years. During a recent Top 10 Tech Trends dinner hosted by the Churchill Club, Tesla board member Steve Jurvetson revealed that if Tesla is able to produce 500,000 fully…
· Max Chang
How Elon Musk Almost Sold Tesla to Google’s Larry Page for $11 Billion
In 2013, billionaire Elon Musk’s electric-car company, Tesla Motors, was only weeks away from becoming Google Motors, or whatever other name Google co-founder Larry Page would have dreamt up.