Tesla dumped $5B worth of its stock in just 4 days — and traders hate it Tesla stock is down 30% since its telling the SEC about its market sell-off S&P steers clear of Tesla in its flagship index… for now Some analysts connected Tesla’s September strife to its S&P snub, after Elon Musk’s wunderstock was noticeably left out of the flagship index of 500 top US companies, despite its technical eligibility....
The 2021 edition of Auto Shanghai opened yesterday, Tesla had an embarrassing moment — and it’s gone viral. Two women, both owners of Teslas, protested at the Tesla booth about the poor build quality of their cars, reportsGlobal Times. They were wearing t-shirts saying “Tesla brake failure,” with the Tesla logo printed right underneath the words. That’s not all, one of the women climbed on top of the roof of a Model 3 and kept screaming “Tesla brakes failed me,” before she was eventually removed from security guards....
A Tesla owner in China gave a public apology on social media for uploading a video on his TikTok account with a staged “brake failure” incident. The legal department of Tesla China seems to have accused the user for false defamation, which resulted in a new TikTok video where he revokes his previous “claims.” In his apology, the EV owner admits that his Model X had never had a brake issue over the three years he’s owned the vehicle....
Tesla is finally waking up to the realities of being a legitimate car maker Dear Elon Musk, Tesla’s battery day didn’t blow my mind like you promised Plaid Model S It’s been a long time coming, but Tesla’s Plaid Model S is finally here, kinda. We now have some official performance figures and in classic Tesla fashion, a pre-order option on the website,TechCrunch reports. The Plaid will reportedly have 520 miles of range, accelerate from zero to 60 in under two seconds, and cost $140,000....
Forget about radar for self-driving tech. Teslaannounced yesterdaythat it’sofficially transitioning to its camera-based autonomous driving system, known as Tesla Vision. Starting this month, Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, which will be delivered to the North American market, will be thefirst cars to ditch radar entirely, and employ camera visionand neural net processing for the performance of “Autopilot, Full-Self Driving, and certain active safety features.” Naturally, one wonders why on earth would Tesla make such a change....
