Archive: Tesla News

By Simon Alvarez Posted on December 24, 2019 During Tesla’s Autonomy Day last April, Director of AI Andrej Karpathy joked that the attendees of the event only used a pair of cameras to navigate themselves to the venue. Emphasizing this point and Tesla’s aversion to LiDAR, the AI Director even joked that the attendees must […]

By Randell Suba Posted on December 24, 2019 Tesla owners in Australia have banded together to help victims of the country’s raging bushfires, and to support the firefighter volunteers on the frontlines who are trying to keep the blazes under control. Toby Patton, who manages the Twitter account Australian Tesla Owners started a fundraiser that […]

By Gene Posted on December 24, 2019 Tesla has begun the soft rollout of its “Holiday Software Update” following CEO Elon Musk’s announcement that owners would be receiving a sneak preview of Full-Self Driving, among “other things.” Model 3 owner and YouTuber Tesla Raj gives us our very first look at software version 2019.40.50 in […]

By Randell Suba Posted on December 23, 2019 Tesla is getting closer and closer to laying the first brick of its Gigafactory 4 in Brandenburg, with the town’s Minister of Economics Jorg Steinbach expressing that he is certain the deal between the electric car manufacturer and German authorities is 95% secure. With a contract on […]

By Eric Ralph Posted on December 24, 2019 After appearing unexpectedly at SpaceX’s Port Canaveral docks last month, several large pieces of Starship flight and manufacturing hardware were successfully shipped from Florida to Texas, arriving at the company’s Boca Chica build and launch site two weeks ago. Previously discussed on Teslarati, the hardware transfer signals […]

By Joey Klender Posted on December 23, 2019 Electric car maker Rivian announced on Monday that it has officially completed a $1.3 billion investment round led by fund manager T. Rowe Price, a financial firm that also holds a stake in Tesla. This comes on top of generous investments from legacy automaker Ford Motor Company […]

By Eric Ralph Posted on December 23, 2019 SpaceX says it has completed a test campaign of Crew Dragon’s upgrade parachutes, reaching a milestone that CEO Elon Musk recently described as a necessity before the spacecraft can be certified to launch NASA astronauts. Beginning in late-October 2019, SpaceX kicked off an extensive test campaign of […]

By Joey Klender Posted on December 23, 2019 Tesla and a group of Chinese banks have agreed to a five-year loan worth 10 billion yuan, or around $1.4 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter. The loan will be used to assist Tesla in building the next phases of Gigafactory 3 in Shanghai and […]

By Eric Ralph Posted on December 23, 2019 SpaceX has completed its 13th and final launch and landing of the year and decade, marked by a Falcon 9 booster’s successful return to Port Canaveral and subsequent processing to prepare it for another orbital-class mission. Over the course of that recovery, SpaceX broke the record for […]

By Randell Suba Posted on December 23, 2019 Tesla recently released Smart Summon in China on Monday. With the feature, users can now have their vehicles pick them up at designated locations in parking lots. Tesla enthusiast @Tesla_Mania shared the news about the Smart Summon China release in a post about the company’s 2019.40.50 update. […]