Tag: Tesla

Tesla supplier slowing down electric car battery production

Japanese technology giant and long-standing Tesla battery supplier Panasonic has announced it’s cutting domestic electric vehicle (EV) battery production amid weaker demand for high-end EVs. The company announced during its recent earnings call

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Upstart rental company wants Uber drivers in electric cars

Rental car company Sixt is helping Uber drivers get behind the wheel of an electric vehicle (EV), including models from Tesla and BYD. The company is offering Uber and rideshare drivers access to

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Tesla offers battery upgrades to Model S and Model X owners

Back in May this year, Tesla broke the news to hundreds of Model S and Model X owners in Australia that their orders had been cancelled because of a decision not to produce

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Tesla Model S Plaid hits 300km/h on the Nurburgring

A Tesla Model S Plaid – which had some of its interior removed to trim weight – has hit an astronomical speed on one of the world’s most famous race tracks. View 6 images A

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US carmakers slow EV growth plans

Softer demand means Ford needs “less capacity in certain areas in the near term, and so we’ll push out that investment until the time we need to put that capacity in place”, Mr

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insurers balk at battery fires and write-offs

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tesla owners must be choking on their kale smoothies. Auto insurers have rapidly

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Chinese firm unveils six-wheel Tesla Cybertruck clone

Chinese electric-car start-up Xpeng is prepared to out-weird Tesla, revealing a wild six-wheel concept vehicle – with styling similar to the Cybertruck – which can carry and launch a ‘flying car’ from its

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Hertz is scaling back its EV ambitions because its Teslas keep getting damaged

Rental car company Hertz once envisioned itself as the ultimate EV broker, doling out battery-powered vehicles to business travelers, ridehail drivers, and tech newbies in an ambitious plan to grease the wheels for

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Teslas aren’t supposed to have buttons? Tell this owner

Tesla has long pursued a minimalist approach to its interiors, with the latest Model 3 lacking everything from conventional indicator stalks to an instrument cluster. One Tesla owner in China has had enough

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bp boosts EV charging network with $100 million order of Tesla ultra-fast chargers | News and insights

Today bp (NYSE: bp) announced a deal in which bp pulse, bp’s EV charging business, will acquire ultra-fast charging hardware units from Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) for $100 million. The investment will facilitate the

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