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Every Tesla on the road today has two batteries. The big one moves the car. The small one opens the doors. When that small battery dies in a crash, you’re locked inside. Samuel Tremblett found that out at 1:04 a.m. on October 29, on a dark stretch of Route 138 in Easton, Massachusetts. The 20-year-old’s…
Six days after announcing the death of the Model S and Model X, Tesla quietly dropped a new Model Y variant into its U.S. configurator that tells you everything about where the company is headed. The Model Y All-Wheel Drive, priced at $41,990, fills a $7,000 hole that existed in Tesla’s lineup since the stripped-down…
Ford CEO Jim Farley has been driving a Xiaomi SU7 for over a year and openly admits he doesn’t want to give it up. Now the Financial Times reports Ford and Xiaomi held actual talks about building EVs together on American soil. Ford says the report is “completely false.” Ford’s denial came directly from the…
Tesla will stop building the Model S and Model X after Q2 2026. The Fremont, California production lines that built the two vehicles for over a decade will be retooled to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots instead. The Model S Helped Make Electric Cars Mainstream The Model S launched in 2012 as a luxury sedan that…
A $25,000 Toyota Corolla now offers lane-centering as standard equipment. A $35,000 Tesla Model 3 does not. That sentence captures the absurdity of Tesla’s latest move better than any analysis could. Tesla quietly removed its Basic Autopilot package as a standard feature from new Model 3 and Model Y vehicles in North America this week,…
Full-year 2025 registration data from the California New Car Dealers Association confirms what quarterly reports suggested all year: Tesla suffered the steepest market share decline of any automaker in America’s largest EV market. The company’s share of all vehicles registered in California fell from 11.6% in 2024 to 9.9% in 2025, a 1.7-percentage-point drop that…
When a logistics company that’s been hauling materials for Tesla since 2012 decides to buy Tesla’s own electric truck, that’s not a press release. That’s a verdict. RoadOne IntermodaLogistics just announced it’s expanding from one Tesla Semi to potentially ten units serving its Oakland, California operations, and the real-world performance numbers explain exactly why. The…
Five years ago, Elon Musk told Tesla owners their Full Self-Driving software would be worth “somewhere in excess of $100,000” once regulatory approval arrived. Yesterday, he announced Tesla will stop selling FSD entirely after February 14, forcing everyone onto a $99 monthly subscription. The appreciating asset just became a perpetual rental fee. For the thousands…
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