Musk says he has never spoken to Tim Cook We kick off your Saturday morning with a cartoon—or at least a story that feels like one. Elon Musk, Apple, and a Wall Street Journal reporter found themselves at the center of a social media beef that goes back to Apple’s potential acquisition of Tesla in […]
Despite facing supply chain challenges “like the toilet paper shortage, but at epic scale”—in Elon Musk’s words—Tesla scored record profit, revenue, and deliveries last quarter. Key takeaways: Tesla earned $12 billion in revenue, nearly double last year, and profits topped $1 billion for the first time. How’s the $1.5 billion investment in bitcoin going? The company […]
by JOSH HENDRICKSON By some stroke of bad luck, both of my cars died simultaneously. One will never run again. The other needed thousands of dollars in repairs. Carvana sounded like the perfect answer to buy a new vehicle while I didn’t have a car. But what started as a good experience turned into a […]
by CORY GUNTHER | Review Geek Audi just launched its first fully electric sedan in the United States. The Audi e-Tron GT is now officially available for $99k, before incentives. Thanks to sharing its electric platform with the Porsche Taycan, Audi’s all-wheel-drive four-seater sedan can go from 0-60 in 3.1 seconds. Not to be confused with […]
by ANDREW HEINZMA | review geek Most drivers need to pull into a gas station every other week, but electric vehicle owners simply need to plug in their car when they get home—a task that takes all but two seconds. Still, that’s a bit too tedious for Pat Larson, who built an automatic Tesla charger using a […]
If all goes according to plan tomorrow morning, Richard Branson will win the first leg of the billionaire space race in time for brunch by MATTY MERRITT | Morning Brew If all goes according to plan tomorrow, Richard Branson will win the first leg of the billionaire space race in time for brunch. Branson will […]
by ALBERT DU TOIT | TopCar The two leading electric vehicle technologies today are hydrogen fuel cells and lithium-ion batteries. Although they are trying to achieve the same goal, they are approaching it in quite different manners. Auto manufacturers are on the fence about which one to pursue, and brands including Toyota, BMW, Land Rover, and […]
Was developed to tame the dunes by Ronan Glon Had it been built, Volkswagen’s experimental four-wheel-drive Transporter would be celebrated by enthusiasts and adventurers as the holy grail of bay-window Buses. It remained a prototype, one executives initially wanted nothing to do with, but the miles it logged dune-hopping in the Sahara had a lasting […]
by CORY GUNTHER Telsa’s first Model S Plaid officially rolled off the production line on Thursday, with CEO Elon Musk confirming all sorts of exciting information up on stage. From the nearly 200 MPH top speed, over 1,000 horsepower, PS5-level gaming and infotainment, and an estimated 390-mile range on a single charge. The “Plaid” version is the […]
