Tesla

Slate Truck is an outrageously sensible pickup

Slate promises to revolutionize the pickup truck market with its new single cab BEV. With backing from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, the Michigan company has…

Red Bull wings for Lucid – not Tesla

Red Bull is the standard for performance marketing. The Austro-Thai energy drinks company is a dominant presence in power sports, including its winning F1…

Lucid CEO becomes strategic advisor

Lucid is the EV enthusiast’s car company. The California luxury EV brand has been particularly bold in its execution, creating dramatic tri-motor powered EVs…

Trump wins – Tesla goes beyond $1 Trillion

Donald Trump has had a resurgent year. Tesla? Not so much. The Cybertruck sales aren’t tracking initial reservation demand and full autonomous self-driving functionality…

Nvidia isn’t hype for automotive engineers

Nvidia earnings were the most anticipated financial services event of the year. As the world’s most valuable publicly traded company by market capitalization, you…

Pick-up trucks and Tesla-Trump politics

EVs have never been a core issue in American elections. The American auto industry’s Big Three make profits from large pick-up trucks and ladder-frame…

Supercharger network loses its leadership

Tesla and its Supercharger network is adored and revered by technologists and disrupters, with good reason. Legacy American and German car companies, the traditional…

R3 is the rightsizing of EV design

R3 and R3x are the design disruption EV product planners need to understand. The two most compelling EV car companies are a curious antithesis…

Zimbabwe, Mozambique and South Africa’s EV battery future

Zimbabwe and Mozambique have an abundance of materials required for building automotive grade EV batteries. But where are they going to be made? The…

Shenxing battery is CATL’s latest EV breakthrough

CATL has revealed a new advanced EV battery, capable of remarkable recharging speeds. The Chinese company commands unprecedented scale and technology leverage in the…

BYD Atto 3 EV lands in SA with VTOL

BYD is the most important car brand you’ve never heard of. Unless you are a dedicated follower of all things EV. The Chinese brand…

Production idled as VW suffers softening EV demand

Regarding EV strategy, VW has been the most progressive of Germany’s legacy car companies. Across the VW Group, enormous investments are being made to…

Nio is the brand Tesla should worry about

All electric vehicles are compared in the context of Tesla. That happens when you are the technology leader, disruptor and apex brand. All-in-one. A…

Why Tesla is offering huge discounts on its cars

Tesla is offering up to R120 000 off its electric cars, but why? Car prices don’t come down. Especially in the luxury market. Amid the…

Model Y integral to Tesla’s surging success

Model Y has been an enormous success for the world’s most valuable car company. As Tesla continues to grow apace and scale its global…

Has Tesla discovered the limits of AI? [Opinion]

What Elon Musk has achieved with Tesla is extraordinary. He can claim to have forced all legacy car companies, with huge R&D budgets and…

Tesla is now the world’s second most valuable car company

With record deliveries in 2019, confidence in Tesla is surging. Those who doubted that Elon Musk could steer the ambitiously disruptive car brand beyond…

Tesla’s Cybertruck could change the bakkie business forever

Tesla has finally revealed the worst nightmare for legacy vehicle brands, a battery-powered bakkie. The Californian company has been disrupting the traditional automotive business…

Tesla breaks 0-100kph record in new test

Tesla’s electric cars are known for extremely nippy acceleration — hell, most electric cars are a kick in the pants. But a test found that…

Tesla ends free charging for life (for new buyers)

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla has announced that it will be drastically changing its Supercharging initiative for free public charging. The company’s Supercharger network of…

Tesla warned against Autopilot marketing in Germany

Germany’s transport ministry has called on Tesla to stop using the term “Autopilot” in marketing for their electric vehicles. “It can be confirmed that a…

What’s Tesla going to announce on 17 October?

US automaker Tesla has been on a roll over the past few years, and everyone is eagerly anticipating the “affordable” Model 3 car, set…

This team managed to hack a moving Tesla from 19km away

The idea of a connected car sounds like a great idea, but like all newly connected things, they’re vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Now, Chinese security…

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The most recognisable tactical pickup truck evolves