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Home Posts tagged "Tesla Model S"

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Fremont Police disputes hooplah over Tesla-based patrol car running out of power

October 1, 2019 September 30, 2019

A few days ago the news was full of reporting that a Tesla-based patrol car owned by the Fremont CA police ran out of power during a hot pursuit. Apparently the story allowed news editors to push the idea that obviously electric cars aren’t suitable because they run out of…

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Lucid Motors definitively smashes Laguna Seca lap speed record with production-intent car

September 6, 2018 September 6, 2018

In early August, Lucid Motors brought a Lucid Air prototype to Laguna Seca International Raceway and definitively smashed the standing lap-speed records set with the Jaguar I-Pace, Tesla Model S and Tesla Model 3.  The record was set during testing sessions at the race track, it was driven by a Lucid…

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Rich Rebuilds and Tesla’s opinion on the Right to Repair

August 2, 2018 August 2, 2018

If you “own” something but cannot “repair” it, do you really own the thing?  The legal concept is the Right to Repair, that we all should have the right to fix or even upgrade the widgets we buy.  Unfortunately many technology companies put up roadblocks in the way of the…

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Tesla layoffs seen by The Market as a big non-issue

June 19, 2018 June 19, 2018

Layoffs are hard on a company, and Tesla Motors is going through a fairly large (9%) layoff.  The “survivors” are often left with a kind of survivors guilt, and missing former colleagues, and can easily be demoralized.  Those who are laid off must look for their next step in life,…

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Tesla Motors versus the other Car Makers and the future of the Car industry

February 25, 2018 February 25, 2018

Should Tesla Motors be the leading or primary car manufacturer?  Or should other car manufacturers step up to take a significant role in electric vehicle development, as Tesla is doing?  Or should even other start-up car manufacturers participate in the undoing of the incumbent car industry?  That’s a set of…

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Tesla Motors could be profitable today, at the cost of a slower business plan

June 14, 2017 June 14, 2017

The news about Tesla Motors regularly repeats a complaint about the cash burn rate, the fact that Tesla routinely runs at a loss, is propped up by investors, and eventually the house of cards will come crashing down.  There’s some truth to this – the company showed a profit in…

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Tesla Model S wreck in Germany gives fire crew chance to practice safety procedures

April 13, 2016 April 13, 2016

A few days ago a Tesla Model S crash in Germany, on the A93 between Abensberg and Siegenburg, gave the local (volunteer) fire crew a chance to practice emergency recovery of a crashed electric car.  What’s nice for the rest of us is they posted a writeup along with detailed pictures…

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Tesla Model S/X 7.1 update adds self parking, summoning features

January 10, 2016 January 10, 2016

Tesla Motors is incrementally adding more autopilot autonomous driving features to the Model S and Model X.  With the 7.1 update just released, the car will detect the ability to autopark into a space while driving through parking lots, and can drive itself (unoccupied) in and out of a garage.…

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Tesla Motors expands production 2.5x, from 20k to 50k per year, since 2013

January 3, 2016 January 3, 2016

Tesla Motors announced today they’d (barely) hit their electric car sales target for Q4 2015 and for all of 2015.  This was another make-or-break moment for the company.  While the Model X launch is not quite as significant as the Model S launch in 2012, launching production of a second…

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Model S catches fire in Norway at Supercharger, charging system seemingly at fault

January 1, 2016 January 1, 2016

Tesla Motors has had a spot of bad news – another Model S has caught on fire, this time not from road debris but while plugged into a Supercharger station.  This happened in Norway, according to a news post on fvn.co, for a brand new car.  The owner had plugged in,…

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Stolen Tesla Model S quickly recovered using big brother version 0.1 technology

November 3, 2015 November 3, 2015
Tesla Model S

The first Tesla Model S theft in Canada results in a quick capture of the thief, thanks to technology built into the car.  The car’s owner had been at a concert with a friend, but found the car missing when they returned.  Using a smart phone app for the car…

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WARNING: Tesla Autopilot mode is not full autonomous driving, pay attention while “driving”

October 29, 2015 October 29, 2015

How good is the Tesla Autopilot feature?  This feature was rolled out to Tesla Model S owners over the last couple weeks, and marks a large advance towards fully autonomous vehicles.  Since then some Model S owners have posted videos of the autopilot system doing amazingly good things, and also…

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Lutz says Tesla Motors dying, Musk needs to cut costs adopt plug-in hybrids

October 27, 2015 October 27, 2015

Bob Lutz is prognosticating the death of Tesla Motors, saying the company is badly run, its costs are too high, it should be working through dealers, it should add a plug-in hybrid model, and oh-by-the-way he likes Elon Musk.   Coincidentally, I see from my calendar that in exactly one…

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Tesla Motors taken down a notch by Consumer Reports’ disrecommendation

October 20, 2015 October 20, 2015
Tesla Model S

My, how the mighty have fallen.  Consumer Reports today announced it cannot Recommend the Tesla Model S, despite that car being so utterly excellent that it “broke” CR’s ratings system.  That is, Consumer Reports twice did a review of the Tesla Model S which awarded the car the highest ranking of…

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Tesla motors working on snake-like auto-connecting charging station

August 6, 2015 August 6, 2015

Is it too much drudgery to manually connect the charging cord to your car?  Tesla Motors is shown here with a prototype charging cord that, snake like, automatically opens the charging flap, automatically seeks out the charging port, and starts charging once connected. It would remove one of the tasks…

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