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Tesla has updated their key fob technology and added a pin code on the Tesla Model S to counter a new hack discovered by researchers at the KU Leuven University in Belgium, that allows a car thief to steal a Tesla in less than 30 seconds. Basically the Pektron keyless entry system on Tesla and...

In a podcast with Joe Rogan, Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks AI and smokes a little "marijuana inside tobacco." The podcast was filmed in California, meaning the joint was perfectly legal, but that apparently didn't console investors. Tesla stock is already down 6% today. Check out the video here.

Conventional car manufacturers are ready to showoff their new electric car models to meet demands in China and greenhouse standards in Europe. Mercedes Benz, Jaguar, Audi, and Porsche all have new cars ready to compete with Tesla in the SUV and luxury categories. These vehicles purportedly can...

Apple is hiring lots of Tesla engineers lately and not all of them are working on the Apple car. Many of these engineers are getting one-and-a-half times the salary they were earning at Tesla and they like the leadership better at Apple. Some of the other projects they are working on are...

Elon Musk is having a rough time of it lately and he has even admitted that his Tesla job is causing him to crack under the pressure. During his interview with the New York Times he alternated between tears and laughter and admitted he has to take Ambien to sleep sometimes. Considering some of...

Former Tesla employee, Martin Tripp, is being sued by the company for stealing company secrets and he is striking back by tweeting pictures of flawed batteries. He claims these batteries have been installed in Model 3's and provided the VIN numbers of vehicles that supposedly have these...

Elon Musk has revealed that a great deal of the funding to take Tesla private will come from the Saudi Arabia sovereign wealth fund. He backed up his August 7th claim that the funding was secured by revealing that the Managing Director of the fund had contacted him multiple times over the...

It's been all over the financial news regarding Elon Musk's recent tweet about taking Tesla private at $420 a share and now his own board may ask him to put up or shut up. This move follows reports that the SEC is looking into his tweets. Personally, I believe taking the company private might do...

The folks over at Tech Crunch believe Apple may be reviving its Titan car project. They base this speculation on the fact that Apple just hired Doug Field who used to oversee production of the Model 3 for Tesla. Additionally, he will be working with Bob Mansfield who heads the Titan car project...

In a letter to employees, Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed his desire to take Tesla private to avoid the scrutiny of short sellers. He set a target price of $420/share which is a 20% premium on the company's post second quarter earnings and values the company at $71.7 billion. All he needs is a...

Elon Musk announced that Tesla will begin building its own AI chips for self-driving cars during their earnings call yesterday. Until now they've been using Nvidia's Drive Platform, but they say their in-house chips will focus on their specific needs and will run faster than current hardware...

Elon Musk is wanting to keep Tesla in the news as much as possible and his latest stunt is a tweet telling his loyal followers that the next software update will have Easter Eggs in the way of Atari games. The games to be included haven't been identified, but they will be able to be played on...

As of today you will no longer find the $35,000 price listed for the Model 3. Ars Technica contacted Tesla about this change and all they could get out of Tesla is they plan to offer one for that price in the future. That future time frame wasn't provided. I think most of us that have followed...

Fired Tesla employee Martin Tripp has filed a whistleblower complaint with the SEC alleging Tesla misled investors and put its customers at risk. If you recall, Martin Tripp was fired from Tesla for stealing confidential and trade secret information and then sued by Tesla. Is he being vindictive...

Track modified Tesla Model S P100D cars are set to star in the Electric Production Car Series. These cars will have 780 horsepower and are virtually silent. Former Formula 1 race driver Tiff Needell was able to take one out onto the track and experience firsthand how the car handles and...

When it rains on Tesla it pours according to internal documents disclosed to Reuters. The documents and seven current and former Tesla employees claim the company is going to cutdown the size of their residential solar business that they purchased for $2.6B just two years ago. This is part of...

Things must be getting desperate at Tesla these days because they have erected giant tents as production facilities in an attempt to speed up production to meet promised production goals. It's not an ideal situation for them, but they have to do something to stop the bleeding. Considering the...

A little device that tricks Tesla's Autopilot into thinking you are actually paying attention to the car you are driving has been deemed unsafe by the Feds. The people that do this crap should be drawn and quartered. If you don't want to drive, fine. Take an Uber. Check out the video. “A...

Elon Musk allegedly sent a company wide email that detailed acts of sabotage by a Tesla employee who was angry over not receiving a promotion. The employee is accused of making direct code changes to the Tesla Manufacturing Operating System under false user names and exporting Tesla's sensitive...

It is reported that Tesla has opened it's 10,000th supercharger station, in Belleville, Ontario, Canada. The Supercharger program started in late 2012, starting with just six Superchargers in California. Very impressive, but the expansion also highlights the holes in the map even more. And don't...

The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report on the fatal March 23 crash where a Tesla Model X in Autopilot drove into a barrier, killing 38 year old Walter Huang. The data shows that the Tesla made no attempt to brake or to steer around the barrier. The SUV was...

Last week Consumer Reports withheld its recommendation on the Tesla Model 3 after braking defects were found by CR testers. This didn't sit well with Elon Musk and he quickly contacted CR to tell them Tesla found the defect in the braking system and had fixed it with an over-the-air update. This...

Tesla has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit filed by Model S and X owners who claimed the Autopilot feature they paid for is unusable and dangerous. The second generation Autopilot was sold as an upgrade between 2016 and 2017 for $5,000. Customers will receive between $20 and $280 as...

Folks in California are going all in for Tesla's Model 3 in a big way. Out west, the Model 3 is outselling the Mercedes C-class and BMW 3-series cars. I know that personally the last time I went to buy a family vehicle I did give Tesla a look, but given road trips here in Texas can cover quite...

You can point out a lot of faults or inadequacies in electric cars (and SUVs), but when it comes to having physics on your side, all those heavy batteries on the bottom of the car, sure do give it a low center of gravity. This is Tesla's internal video of the company testing rollover below...

Nissan is kicking off their push into home solar power and storage in the United Kingdom. They will put in a set of six solar panels for $5,200 or you can have them throw in the storage battery to make the total $10,300. If you elect to get a power pack with batteries retired from electric...

A bunch of Tesla fans decided to crowdfund a campaign to buy Elon Musk a new sofa after he said the one he was using wasn't very comfortable. This really started out as a joke, but it ended up raising $8K to buy the billionaire a new sofa. However, once it was all said and done the sofa was...

In the latest earning call for Tesla, Elon Musk has predicted that once his cars are upgraded for autonomous driving that the owners will be able to share them out for others as 'Robo-Uber' cars. This is an interesting idea, but I don't see someone letting their $100K car just drive off on its...

Nikola Motors is suing Tesla over 3 design features on it Tesla Semi for being too similar to it Nikola One design. It is almost if no vehicles before its One had doors, windshields, or an overall semi truck looking appearance. Thanks cageymaru. Nikola Motors, a Utah-based company working...

In a news release today, the NTSB has announced removal of Tesla as a party to the NTSB's investigation of the March 23 fatal crash of a 2017 Tesla Model X near Mountain View, California. The decision comes after the NTSB says Tesla violated the party agreement by releasing investigative...

There's hope for those of you that were holding out for a Tesla SUV according to Reuters. Two sources told them that Tesla is going to begin production of the Model Y SUV in November of next year. Of course we all know about the problems Tesla is having with production of the Model 3 and I'm...

Yesterday we told you that the US NTSB was upset about Tesla sharing too much information with the public too quickly, but we really did not get a reason why exactly. Today, Fortune is suggestion (Archive link with no auto-start video) that the US NTSB is upset with Tesla because it does not...

A Tesla owner in Indiana decided to recreate the fatal crash from last month, where the cars autopilot mode drove straight into a K-Rail according to an article from electrek. The video below shows a Model S with the latest autopilot hardware mistakenly treating a right-side land as a left-side...

The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is pissed about Tesla releasing crash information about the recent fatality in a Tesla Model X while the company was using Autopilot and adaptive cruise control. However, the US NTSB did not say why it had issue with the release of the information...

An Apple engineer was recently killed in an auto crash and his family is blaming it on the autopilot in his new Tesla Model X. The engineer was killed when his car crashed into a barrier in California and according to his family he had complained to the dealer that his car had previously veered...

According to Bernstein analysts Tesla is overusing automation in the final assembly of the Model 3. They say this is causing their scaling woes and they are spending far more than their competitors per unit on capacity. The good news for the rest of us is robots aren't the end all be all and...

Despite the fact that Jensen just spent quite a bit of time showing off their Self Driving car technology at GDC, Nvidia has announced that they are suspending self-driving car tests globally. The news comes a week after a self-driving car operated by Uber struck and killed a pedestrian in...

Time is reporting that Elon Musk has deleted the Facebook accounts for SpaceX and Tesla following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Following a call on twitter to delete facebook, Elon Musk was not even aware of the pages existance. Musk shortly after deleted both accounts. While the quote below...

According to some current and former employees of Tesla the reason Model 3 production is behind is because up to 40% of the parts received at the assembly plant are flawed (WARNING auto play video) and have to be reworked. The company doesn't agree with what the employees are saying, but there...

In a report from Electrek, the cost of using the Tesla Supercharger network has went up quite a bit. While most states are seeing increases of 20-40%, Oregon saw an increase of 100%, from $0.12 to $0.24 per kWh. The reason for the increase it to reflect current local electricity and usage...