Key Highlights of Tesla’s Optimus Robot Optimus is a human-shaped robot built by Tesla to perform lifting, carrying, and other physical work. Elon Musk says Optimus could one day help reduce poverty by taking over most manual labor. The robot stands about as tall as an adult person and walks on two legs like a … Continue reading “Elon Musk Says Tesla’s Optimus Could ‘Eliminate Poverty’ After Record $1 Trillion Pay Approval – iShook Finance”
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Petter Winberg, Tesla crash safety architect, via LinkedIn Tesla’s top crash safety architect, who helped the automaker achieve top safety scores for its entire car line-up, announced that he is leaving the automaker after 14 years. We are talking about Petter Winberg, Tesla’s Principal Engineer for CAE crashing safety for the last decade. After an … Continue reading “Tesla’s top crash safety architect quits”
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Tesla spent over a year investigating the issue at the behest of a non-U.S. regulatory agency In the U.S. Tesla’s latest recall affects the 2023 Model 3 and Model Y Tesla’s NHTSA recall filing leaves unanswered questions for global markets Tesla has acknowledged over 300,000 of its EVs could lose power steering. On Thursday, Tesla’s … Continue reading “Power steering could fail in over 370,000 Teslas, recall initiated”
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The US State Department’s procurement forecast for the 2025 budget includes an item called “Armored Teslas” worth $400 million. But worry not; it was approved under the Biden Administration, so Elon Musk’s DOGE will undoubtedly eliminate this waste. Right? Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) are currently examining a … Continue reading “US State Department has budget line for ‘Armored Teslas’ worth $400 million”
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The judge ruling over Elon Musk’s ~$55 billion CEO pay package, which some Tesla shareholders claimed was obtained without following proper governance rules, has decided to reject Tesla’s attempt to reinstate it with a shareholder vote. Delaware Supreme Court could be next. In 2018, Tesla shareholders voted for Elon Musk to get a historic new … Continue reading “Judge shuts down Tesla’s attempt to reinstate Elon Musk’s giant CEO pay package”
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Elon Musk just said some wild things about Tesla’s self-driving rollout – clarifying the path to Tesla deploying unsupervised autonomous vehicles next year. He may regret some of these comments. At the risk of repeating myself, Tesla has never released any data about its (Supervised) Full Self-Driving (FSD) program beyond the total number of miles … Continue reading “Elon Musk just said some wild things about Tesla’s self-driving rollout”
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Tesla’s pricing numbers for its future vehicles are all over the place and changing by the minute. Just today, CEO Elon Musk revealed that the promised $30k price for Robotaxi would be “post-incentive” – before saying the car would cost $25k just minutes later. During Tesla’s Robotaxi event earlier this month, the company revealed that the … Continue reading “Even Musk seems to realize that Tesla’s future pricing numbers are made up”
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We didn’t learn much new from Tesla’s Robotaxi event last night, but one piece of information we were looking forward to was a little information on Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot. And we got some, but it’s maybe a little less flattering to Tesla than some might have liked. After unveiling the Robotaxi/Cybercab and Robovan, Tesla … Continue reading “It sure seems like the Optimus robots at Tesla’s event were under human control”
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More than a year after legacy automakers announced a transition from the CCS charging port to Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS), GM EV customers are finally able to purchase an approved adapter and gain access to hundreds of thousands of Tesla chargers. Today’s news has been a long time coming for GM-branded EV drivers. … Continue reading “GM releases its approved NACS adapter, giving its drivers access to Tesla’s charging network”
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Tesla will unveil its Robotaxi product at Warner Bros. studio in Burbank, CA, on October 10th, according to a report by Bloomberg. Tesla has been using its Giga Texas facility for its unveilings in recent years, after many years of doing them in Calfornia, where the company was founded and where its design and engineering … Continue reading “Tesla’s Oct 10 Robotaxi event will be at Warner Bros studio in LA”