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Tesla to Build New Shanghai Factory for Megapack Battery

10Apr

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Tesla to Build New Shanghai Factory for Megapack Battery

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. will build a new battery factory in Shanghai, increasing investment in China at a time of brewing tensions between Beijing and Washington.Tesla will manufacture its Megapack large-scale energy-storage unit in the new facility, which adds to its factory for electric vehicles in Shanghai. The company led by Elon Musk, who is said to be visiting China this weekend, made the announcement at a signing ceremony for the project in Shanghai. Tom Zhu, Tesla's senior vice president of automotive, and Shanghai government officials including vice mayor Wu Qing attended, with Tesla Vice President Tao Lin signing the contract. Construction is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of this year and the plant will commence production in the second quarter of 2024, the company said in...

Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

7Apr

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Tesla workers shared sensitive images recorded by customer cars

[ad_1] Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees. Some of the recordings caught Tesla customers in embarrassing situations. One ex-employee described a video of a man approaching a vehicle completely naked. Also shared: crashes and road-rage incidents. One crash video in 2021 showed a Tesla driving at high speed in a residential ...

Tesla Teasing a Robotaxi Must Leave Customers Scratching Their Heads

7Dec

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Tesla Teasing a Robotaxi Must Leave Customers Scratching Their Heads

[ad_1] What ever happened to turning cars purchased years ago into autonomous vehicles that would earn owners $30,000 a year? A Tesla event touting one product wouldn't be complete without Elon Musk teasing a next one. While marking the initial delivery of Tesla Semi trucks last week, Musk offered a first, vague glimpse of a product he divulged was in the pipeline back in April: a dedicated robotaxi. There wasn't much to glean from a computer-generated white sheet over a rendering of a vehicle. But looks are the least of what's mysterious about this product for Tesla owners. What ever happened to the cars customers bought years ago being an eventual software update away from becoming robotaxis that would earn them $30,000 in gross profits a year? That was among the claims Musk ...

Record! Tesla China Shipments Top 100,000 in November

5Dec

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Record! Tesla China Shipments Top 100,000 in November

[ad_1] Electric car deliveries from Tesla Inc.’s factory in Shanghai rose to a record in November. Electric car deliveries from Tesla Inc.'s factory in Shanghai rose to a record in November after the US automaker deployed aggressive marketing tactics and promotions in China's increasingly competitive market. Tesla shipped 100,291 cars in Asia's biggest economy last month, versus 71,704 in October and almost double the 52,859 vehicles the EV pioneer delivered in the same month of 2021, Cui Dongshu, secretary general of China's Passenger Car Association, said on Monday. Exact figures for domestic shipments and cars for export weren't specified. Annual deliveries from Tesla's Shanghai plant could possibly hit 750,000 units in 2022, Cui said. Tesla is facing intensifying competitio...

Tesla Recalls Thousands of Cars in China on Software, Seat Belt Problems

25Nov

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Tesla Recalls Thousands of Cars in China on Software, Seat Belt Problems

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. is recalling almost 81,000 electric cars in China due to a software issue and seat belt problems. Tesla Inc. is recalling almost 81,000 electric cars in China -- more than it typically ships from its Shanghai factory in any given month -- due to a software issue and seat belt problems.The US EV maker will call back 70,434 imported Model S, Model X and Model 3 vehicles, and 10,127 China-made Model 3 cars, the nation's State Administration for Market Regulation said in a statement Friday. The Model S and Model X recalls require an over-the-air software fix to address a defect in the cars' battery management system, which may lead to a loss of power, while the Model 3s in question have a faulty seat belt fixture. Tesla called for any impacted Model 3 owners to return t...

Elon Musk Blinks; Tesla China Strategy Revamped Over Fierce Rivalry

22Nov

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Elon Musk Blinks; Tesla China Strategy Revamped Over Fierce Rivalry

[ad_1] Tesla is changing its marketing approach in China as fierce competition from domestic rivals and uneven demand puts its growth plans at risk. Tesla Inc. is changing its marketing approach in China as fierce competition from domestic rivals and uneven demand puts its growth plans in the world's biggest electric-car market at risk. The EV pioneer has extended insurance subsidies of as much as 8,000 yuan ($1,100) for new buyers, according to a post on its Weibo account, reinstated a user referral program and even advertised on a local TV shopping channel -- a rare move for a company that's proudly eschewed traditional advertising avenues. The moves come after Tesla cut prices across its Chinese lineup for the first time in 15 months in October, as it faces a slew of headwinds the...

Tesla Gives Demo to Agency Probing Self-Driving Claims

2Nov

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Tesla Gives Demo to Agency Probing Self-Driving Claims

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. demonstrated a beta version of its driver-assistance system for California transportation officials. Tesla Inc. demonstrated a beta version of its driver-assistance system for California transportation officials, including outside consultants the automaker previously sought to bar from the event. The demo of the system Tesla markets as Full Self-Driving was held last week at the Sacramento headquarters of the Department of Motor Vehicles, according to emails Bloomberg viewed via a public records request. Also at the Oct. 26 event were a representative of the Highway Patrol, a deputy secretary with the state transportation agency and three outside advisers for the DMV. At least two of the consultants have made statements critical of Full Self-Driving, or FSD. In ...

Tesla Model Y Passes Perennial Top-Sellers in Global Rankings

20Oct

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Tesla Model Y Passes Perennial Top-Sellers in Global Rankings

[ad_1] BloombergNEF’s prediction that the SUV will crack the top five this year looks spot-on. Tesla just followed up a vehicle deliveries report that fell short of expectations with quarterly revenue that also was a bit lower than hoped, disappointing investors looking for a more clear-cut kibosh on debate over whether it's starting to have demand issues.Elon Musk has a broad target to grow sales around 50% annually. While the company now expects to fall just short of that mark this year, one of its models is climbing toward the top of global sales rankings. Tesla doesn't disclose the split in sales between its Model 3 sedan and Model Y sport utility vehicle, but given the latter's performance, maybe it should. BloombergNEF estimates that the company sold around 200,000 Model Ys in t...

Tesla Deliveries Miss Estimates, Slowed by Logistic Snarls

3Oct

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Tesla Deliveries Miss Estimates, Slowed by Logistic Snarls

[ad_1] Tesla Inc. worldwide deliveries missed forecasts in the third quarter and the company warned of challenges. Tesla Inc. worldwide deliveries missed forecasts in the third quarter and the company warned of challenges in getting its cars to customers, suggesting that supply-chain snarls remain a blight. It delivered a record 343,830 cars worldwide in the third quarter. Analysts had expected that nearly 358,000 vehicles would be shipped, based on the average of estimates compiled by Bloomberg. “Historically, our delivery volumes have skewed towards the end of each quarter due to regional batch building of cars,” Austin, Texas-based Tesla said in a statement. “As our production volumes continue to grow, it is becoming ...

Hertz Electric Vehicles Could Be the Auto Industry’s Safety Net

1Oct

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Hertz Electric Vehicles Could Be the Auto Industry’s Safety Net

[ad_1] Big fleet sales to rental car giants could soak up EVs if mid-market buyers don’t come to the party. It wasn't that long ago that sales to rental fleets were seen as a sign of failure. With the dawn of the electric-vehicle age, that's changing. In the past, automakers typically took aging or unpopular models, stripped them of many creature comforts and sold them to the likes of Hertz and Avis at discounted prices. It was a way to keep production lines moving until a freshened version of the car got to market. Electric vehicles are hot sellers right now, so cutting big deals with Hertz and other fleet buyers isn't the desperate move that it once was, but it sure is an insurance policy. Both Tesla and General Motors...