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Tesla (TSLA) leads 95% increase in electric car sales in the US

By Veronica Tan 2 weeks ago

According to new registration data, Tesla (TSLA) is leading a 95% increase in electric car sales in the US.

However, the automaker’s market shares are sliding, but that’s something that was expected.

As we previously reported, Tesla’s market share of the electric vehicle market in the US is quite ridiculous.

For the entire year of 2020, Tesla vehicles accounted for 79% of new electric vehicles registered in the US.

During that period, the automaker was leading an 11% increase in electric vehicle sales in the market.

It didn’t sound like much, but the results were impressive considering that broader car

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Tesla Model 3 first electric car to top Cars.com American-Made Index

By Veronica Tan 1 month ago

The Tesla Model 3 reached the number one spot in Cars.com’s 2021 American-Made Index (AMI), making it the first all-electric vehicle to top the list in its 16-year history.

The annual survey results, released Wednesday, “ranks new vehicles that contribute most to the U.S. economy” based on U.S. factory jobs, manufacturing plants and sourcing of parts, according to the Cars.com. 

Tesla’s all-electric vehicles hadn’t made their way onto the list until 2020 when the Model 3 took the No. 4 spot and the Model S placed at No. 3. Tesla Model X was also No. 9 last year. 

In 2021,

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Flying Car Makers Want to Build ‘Uber Meets Tesla in the Air’

By Veronica Tan 1 month ago

It was sleek, cone-shaped, a little confusing — like something Hollywood would give a sci-fi villain for a quick getaway.

It wasn’t a helicopter. And it wasn’t an airplane. It was a cross between the two, with a curved hull, two small wings, and eight spinning rotors lined up across its nose and tail.

At the touch of a button on a computer screen under a nearby tent, it stirred to life, rising up from a grassy slope on a ranch in central California and speeding toward some cattle grazing under a tree — who did not react in the

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Tesla owner in fiery Texas crash was initially driving car

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago

The owner of a Tesla Inc. Model S that slammed into a tree last month, who died along with a passenger, was behind the wheel when the car left his house shortly before the crash.

A surveillance camera at the driver’s home in a Houston suburb captured the owner entering the driver’s seat before the car slowly drove away and accelerated, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board said in a preliminary report Monday.

Police had initially said it appeared that nobody was behind the wheel. The driver’s body was found in the back seat and another person was in the

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Tesla Model S in Crash Couldn’t Have Been Using Autopilot

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago
  • The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has released a preliminary report in its investigation into the fatal crash of a Tesla Model S in April near Houston.
  • The report states that when the car started, security video shows the owner in the driver’s seat. Reports at the time of the April 17 accident were that the seat was empty after the car crashed.
  • The NTSB also tested a similar Model S on the same road and found Autopilot could not have been in effect at that place. The government group said that the Autopilot technology onboard needed both Traffic Aware
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2022 Mercedes-Benz EQS vs. Tesla Model S: EV Spec Check

By Veronica Tan 3 months ago

The Tesla Model S has yet to face a real challenge from another automaker … until now. Contenders such as the Lucid Air, and Mercedes EQS are due to hit customers’ driveways in the coming months, and both of these EVs are looking to steal a piece from the flagship electric sedan pie the Tesla Model S has practically had all to itself. And how could we not mention the Porsche Taycan 4S in the EV showdown? Arguably, it’s the Mercedes that interests us just a wee bit more. That’s no knock on the Lucid sedan, which looks great and

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