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Tesla finally held the long-awaited, and once rescheduled, "delivery event" for its ultra-fast Model S Plaid at its factory in Fremont, California. The electric vehicle company will begin with 25 deliveries on Friday evening, expanding to several hundred cars per week and a thousand cars per week in the next quarter, CEO Elon Musk said at the event. There were no huge surprises with the newest iteration of the Model S, which features a new battery pack design, an improved heat pump, ...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk says the Model S doesn''''t need more power. Click to know why.

These days it’s all going to be about the brand-new, much more expensive Tesla Model S Plaid. And the range-topper comes at the right moment because the traditional car-making world finally starts to catch up. Including in long-distance races that would see an Audi RS e-tron GT pitted against the Tesla Model S Long Range from the Scottish Highlands to the fashionable and traffic-riddled London, UK, it seems.

Tesla CEO Elon has made it official and publicly cancelled plans to produce the Model S Plaid+, a supercharged version of the upcoming Plaid version of the electric vehicle that will be delivered to the first customers this month. Musk's reason: Plaid is so good that another variant isn't needed. "Model S goes to Plaid speed this week," Musk tweeted on Sunday.

Tesla vehicles use a range of sensors including radar to support its advanced driver assistance systems – Autopilot and Full-Self Driving – as well as certain active safety features.

Until now, Tesla used steering wheel sensors to detect whether drivers were holding on while using Autopilot. Now, it's using cameras.

Overall, Tesla has been ordered to pay $480,000 to the 30 plaintiffs, per the report. At least some Tesla Model S vehicles manufactured between 2013 and 2015 had a 2019 software update that affected battery life and charging speeds, Nettavisen reported. This triggered 30 Norwegian Tesla owners to file a complaint to the countrys conciliation council in December 2020, according to the report. Tesla didnt respond to the lawsuit, per the report, and the customers won the case on April 29. The Norw...

Tesla has been fined for reducing battery life and charging times for one of its electric vehicles. Fines sit $16,000 each.

Stocks high on a second day of the quarter. asia closing with gains overnight. three things investors want to see as we start q2 first progress on tax reform, this is the big prize, second an economy that keeps humming, a monthly jobs report this friday, finally strong corporate profits the expectations are really high here. earnings growth forecasted to be the fastest in five years. >> tesla delivered a record number of cars, jumped 69% about 25,000 vehicles the majority were the model s, more ...

Friends first." first hoverboards, now this. a battery-powered tesla car goes up in flames. the model s was at a charging station in norway when it caught fire. norwegian investigators will analyze the wreckage and the charging station to find out what happened. tesla also launching investigations. this comes amid dozens of reports of hoverboards exploding while charging. an increasingly common feature in cars could pose a deadly risk. keyless ignitions caused at least 19 deaths since 2009. th...