Tesla loses its head of quality to Stellantis
Tesla loses its head of quality to Stellantis

Tesla’s head of quality, Kahiree Gans, is leaving the automaker to return to Stellantis — the same company Tesla poached him from less than three years ago.
Gans has updated his LinkedIn profile to list his new role as “Vice President, Global SQD” at S…

Elon Musk gets a $116 billion Tesla payday
Elon Musk gets a $116 billion Tesla payday

Elon Musk has exercised the entirety of his 2018 Tesla (TSLA) CEO pay package, acquiring 303,960,630 shares for a paper gain of about $116 billion, according to a new SEC filing.
But he didn’t sell a single share to do it — and the stock he received is…

Rivian CEO signals self-driving prices, like Tesla’s, will fall
Rivian CEO signals self-driving prices, like Tesla’s, will fall

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe says the money automakers charge for self-driving software won’t last, comparing autonomy to airbags: a paid option today, baked into the price of every car tomorrow.
The comments, made in a new interview with WIRED, amount to a …

Tesla adds a car vacuum to a Supercharger for the first time
Tesla adds a car vacuum to a Supercharger for the first time

Tesla has installed a free car vacuum right next to the charging stalls at a Supercharger station in Germany — believed to be a first for the network.
The setup lets owners clean out their cars while they charge, turning otherwise idle minutes into som…

The Cybercab is the lightest, most efficient Tesla ever made
The Cybercab is the lightest, most efficient Tesla ever made

Against all odds, the Tesla Cybercab is in production. And while Elon Musk’s company may not have a very coherent plan for the tiny, autonomous two-seater, it’s still taking the necessary steps to certify the EV’s legitimacy. As such, Tesla recently filed paperwork with the Environmental Protection Agency that reveal many of the Cybercab’s specs, […]

Tesla ‘Robotaxis’ are not crashing because they are not running
Tesla ‘Robotaxis’ are not crashing because they are not running

Tesla didn’t report a single at-fault “Robotaxi” crash in the latest NHTSA autonomous-vehicle data — its only fresh incident was a Model Y getting rear-ended while stopped, clearly the other driver’s fault.
That sounds like good news for Tesla’s safety…

Ex-Tesla exec builds the home heat pump Tesla gave up for robots
Ex-Tesla exec builds the home heat pump Tesla gave up for robots

Drew Baglino spent nearly two decades building Tesla’s batteries, motors, and power electronics. Now the former Tesla SVP is quietly building the one home energy product Tesla talked up for years and never shipped: a residential heat pump.
His startup,…

Xiaomi built a robotic arm that plugs in your EV at home, delivering on a promise Tesla made in 2014 and never kept
Xiaomi built a robotic arm that plugs in your EV at home, delivering on a promise Tesla made in 2014 and never kept

Xiaomi has unveiled a robotic charging arm designed for residential garages that automatically plugs and unplugs an electric vehicle without any owner intervention. The system detects the vehicle’s position after parking, extends to the charging port, …

Rivian CEO says supervised point-to-point self-driving will arrive this year, and he’s comparing it directly to Tesla’s FSD
Rivian CEO says supervised point-to-point self-driving will arrive this year, and he’s comparing it directly to Tesla’s FSD

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe said the company will ship supervised point-to-point self-driving on all of its second-generation vehicles and the R2 later this year, describing the capability as “very similar to Tesla’s FSD.” Speaking at the Masters of Scale e…

Tesla’s self-driving safeguards fooled by $30 doll heads
Tesla’s self-driving safeguards fooled by $30 doll heads

A cottage industry has emerged on Chinese e-commerce platforms selling tiny plastic doll heads designed to trick Tesla’s cabin camera into thinking a driver is paying attention. The devices cost as little as $20 to $50.
The products — marketed as “trav…