16 Jan, 2025

Tesla CEO Elon Musk Temporarily Removed UAW’s Twitter Verification Following Strike

Photo: Nathan Howard / Stringer (Getty Images) If you haven’t already heard, the United Auto Workers union is officially on strike against Ford, General Motors and Stellantis. Currently, only three plants are involved — Stellantis’ Toledo Assembly Complex, Ford’s Wayne, Michigan plant and GM’s Wentzville, Missouri plant, but you can expect strikes at more plants […]

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SpaceX Starship Grounded Until It Actually Works Right

Photo: Eric Gay (AP) SpaceX’s Starship rocket may sound great in theory, especially if you believe Elon Musk is going to get humanity to Mars one day (if he’s not still too busy blaming the Jews for the drop in Twitter’s ad revenue) but the last launch didn’t exactly go well. In addition to blowing […]

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Tesla Model 3 Finally Gets Feature Other Cars Have Had For Decades

Tesla unveiled its refreshed 2024 Model 3 last week with an updated face and slightly redesigned interior, but the really big news here is that the Model 3 is finally getting something that’s been available in much cheaper cars for over a decade now. That’s right, you can now get a Model 3 with a […]

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Musk Deactivated Starlink To Scuttle Ukrainian Attack On Russia

Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson, an upcoming biography about one of the most controversial figures of our time, has taken over the headlines ahead of its official release on Tuesday, and CNN has gained access to an exclusive excerpt: Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off Starlink’s satellite communications network last year in order […]

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Keep Track Of Elon Musk’s Broken Promises And Bad Predictions With This Handy Website

PARIS, FRANCE – JUNE 16: Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of Twitter, Elon Musk gestures as he attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre on June 16, 2023 in Paris, France. Elon Musk is visiting Paris for the VivaTech show where […]

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Tesla Drops The Purchase Price Of ‘Full Self-Driving’ By $3,000

Photo: Nathan Howard (Getty Images) There’s never a dull day in Elon Musk’s world, and this Friday is no exception. Among the slew of Tesla news dropping this morning comes the fact that the company is slashing the purchase price of its ‘Full Self-Driving’ feature by $3,000 — which means that instead of dropping $15,000 […]

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Designer Says The Only Way To Fix The Cybertruck Is To Scrap It And Start Over

The road to a production Cybertruck has been bumpy. Almost as bumpy and uneven as the first Cybertrucks coming out of the Austin Gigafactory, which have reportedly been so bad that they prompted Elon Musk to send an urgent email to Tesla employees. In the message, Musk demanded greater precision in the production process of […]

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NHTSA Questions Tesla Over ‘Elon Mode’ That Stopped Autopilot Demanding Your Attention

We’re half way there now. It’s Wednesday, August 30, 2023, and this is The Morning Shift, your daily roundup of the top automotive headlines from around the world, in one place. Here are the important stories you need to know today. 1st Gear: The NHTSA Has More Questions For Tesla Tesla is under the gun […]

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