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Soon tots will be able to throw their toy cars at the 4K TV and claim it was Autopilot what did it, Daddy. Tiny automobile purveyor Matchbox is changing tack from the petrol-guzzling steeds of yore to introduce a line based on real electric vehicles like the Tesla Roadster. As…

Global sales of EVs in 2020 increased by 39 percent year on year to 3.1 million units. The final 2020 plugin share was 4% of total car sales and battery electric vehicles were 2.8% of total car sales (2.2 million BEV). Plug-in hybrid sales in 2020 were about 900k. EV…

Crypto exchange Binance has announced the launch of a new product, tokenized shares of publicly traded companies. The first to be listed is Elon Musk-led carmaker Tesla. Trading with these tokens will be available with zero commission and accessible to all users of the exchange via their account. According to…

A speeding Tesla ripped through a South Florida neighborhood early Saturday morning. The aftermath: a damaged house and several parked cars and some trees in the 6500 block of Miramar Parkway, near Southwest 65th Avenue. According to Sgt. Oscar Mendoza of the Miramar Police Department, the crash happened around 4:20…

The Boring Company Las Vegas Loop System was built in two years for $50 million. The plan is to extend the current three station convention center system down the vegas strip and to the airport and to downtown vegas. There are discussions for Boring tunnel transportation systems in Miami and…

Tesla produced 35,478 cars in March and this is an annualized rate of 425,736 cars. They produced over 10,000 Model Y cars and Tesla should ramp to over 25,000 Model Y’s per month from China. Tesla should be able to reach 500,000 to 600,000 cars in 2021. If Fremont produces…

(Source: Shutterstock) Tesla told Chinese consumers that cameras installed in its cars aren’t activated outside of North America, in response to privacy concerns about sensitive data being collected by in-cabin cameras and shared with the US automaker. On Wednesday, Tesla’s Beijing unit released a statement on its Chinese social media…

China has penalties for companies that do not sell at least 12% EVs in China. Tesla sold 140K cars in China last year and those are worth 700K in credits and each credit in china is worth about $450. A pure EV car in China is worth 5 credits. Tesla…

Tesla just reported first-quarter vehicle production and delivery numbers for 2021. In total, it delivered 184,800 vehicles and produced 180,338 cars. Analysts were expecting Tesla to deliver around 168,000 vehicles during this period, according to estimates compiled by FactSet as of April 1. Estimates ranged from 145,000 to 188,000 deliveries.…

Before Tesla came along and introduced the Model S, no one really believed that an electric car for the masses could look stylish and sleek. And with good reason, every EV that preceded it — with the exception of Tesla’s own Roadster — was something of an eyesore that was…