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”
With its new electric SUV rolling out, NIO’s (NIO) sales topped the 20,000 mark again in Oct, its sixth straight month hitting the milestone. NIO sold 20,976 vehicles last month, up 30.5% from October 2023. The NIO brand sold 16,657 vehicles, while its new “family-oriented smart vehicle brand,” Onvo, contributed 4,319 in its first full … Continue reading “NIO’s EV sales top 20,000 for the sixth straight month as new low-cost SUV shows promise”
Tesla is losing one of its top vehicle program managers who has been behind vehicles like Model S and Model X, Cybertruck, and more. David Zhang is a chemical engineer with a background in business analysis who joined Tesla back in 2015 to lead “business operations and finance for the automaker’s powertrain systems.” However, he … Continue reading “Tesla loses top vehicle program manager behind Model S/X, Cybertruck, and more”
The rear-wheel drive Tesla Model 3 Long Range has returned The Model 3 Long Range costs $42,490, which is $5,000 less than the AWD model Tesla says the Long Range Model 3 goes 363 miles—2 miles more than the Hyundai Ioniq 6 SE Tesla has added a rear-wheel drive Long Range version of the updated … Continue reading “Tesla Model 3 Long Range RWD returns to top Ioniq 6 in range”
