Tesla

Photo: Bart Maat (Getty Images) One of the world’s leading luxury car brands just won regulatory approval from the German government to operate a hands-free, autonomous driving system on public roads, a feat that marks a significant stepping stone along the long, and so far winding road toward self-driving cars.…

Mercedes-Benz issued a recall for software in 227 cars after it became aware of a software error that allowed a dashboard "infotainment" screen to access the internet and allow video games to be played while the car was in motion, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). In…

Overnight a new video by YouTube user Chile AI100 has provided our best look at the updates to Cybertruck yet. The drone video starts out as a fairly mundane flyover of the Fremont car park, with dozens of new Tesla’s waiting for delivery. We see the drone pass make its…

The world’s first-to-market electric pickup truck, it turns out, isn’t from Ford or General Motors, nor is it a late-to-market Tesla Cybertruck. Instead, it’s the Rivian R1T, from the California start-up that’s already made founder R.J. Scaringe—a bespectacled mechanical engineer with a PhD from MIT—a billionaire by the age of…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) When Tesla expanded its growing list of dashboard touchscreen games last winter, the update inexplicably allowed drivers to play them while the electric car was in motion. Almost a year later, the United States government is finally asking the company why. “We are aware of…

Not long after buying a Tesla Model 3 this summer, Vince Patton saw a YouTube clip highlighting a feature that took him by surprise: three video games that can be played on the large touch screen mounted in front of the dashboard — while driving down the road. “I thought…

It may be fair to assume that the CEO of the world’s biggest electric-vehicle company would be on board with US president Joe Biden’s intense focus on EVs. But Tesla’s Elon Musk criticized proposed US federal spending on electric vehicles yesterday (Dec. 6) in an interview with the Wall Street Journal,…

Elon Musk fans must be all a quiver this week as they finally have the chance to buy a collectible to slide under the bust of their idol's head: papers signed by the man himself. We're not sure what to use as the collective noun for Musk obsessives. Maybe a…

Electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla said it would change its business model and make its charging stations open to autos from all manufacturers, not just its own cars, as Congress put the finishing touches on its infrastructure bill this fall. Platform neutrality is a key requirement of the infrastructure law, which…

Following the grand debut of the V8-swapped 'Ice T' Model S at the SEMA show, Rich Rebuilds has posted a video of the car in motion How’s this for an incongruous sight? Here we have a Tesla Model S steaming past while making some rumbly V8 noises. This is ‘Ice-T’…