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Tesla car drives owner to hospital after he suffers pulmonary embolism
A US driver made it to hospital while suffering a pulmonary embolism after putting his car into autopilot.
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Tesla Model S battery bursts into flames, car “totally destroyed” in 5 minutes
A Tesla Model S has burst into flames during a test drive in the southwest of France. Four people were in the car, including a Tesla employee; they all escaped safely before the car was "totally destroyed" within five minutes of the fire starting. Tesla confirmed the incident and said that it's working with French authorities to determine exactly what happened, "and will share [their] findings as soon as possible." A Tesla official said: "Nobody was harmed. The vehicle provided warning and passengers were able to safely exit the vehicle."
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Will a Merged Tesla-SolarCity put a Solar-Powered Battery in every Home?
Critics don't think Tesla can sell enough home batteries to justify its acquisition of SolarCity, but what they're underestimating is the potential for innovation the Gigafactory brings.
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Tesla envy grips Germany's giants
Tesla's zero-emissions sports sedan has made Europe's finest automakers look woefully behind the times in an area they typically dominate: technology. The question is whether established brands can win back the hearts and minds of car buyers seeking the next big thing.
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Tesla explains how its entire fleet is learning to be better self-driving cars together
Tesla announced yesterday (Sept. 11) that Autopilot, its self-driving feature, would soon be updated to a new version that uses a car’s radar system — in addition to its camera system — to make decisions while driving semi-autonomously. But perhaps the most interesting part of Tesla’s announcement is how the thousands of vehicles that make up its fleet are learning how to be better self-driving cars together. One of Tesla’s key advantages over incumbent carmakers is how much data it’s collecting — and that it’s actually going to use it.
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Tesla is suing an oil company executive its says impersonated Elon Musk
Tesla is suing an oil executive for allegedly impersonating Elon Musk in order to dig up confidential financial information from the company, Forbes reported. The lawsuit reportedly filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of Santa Clara County claimed Todd Katz, chief financial officer for Quest Integrity Group, emailed Tesla’s chief financial officer under a similar email as Musk’s looking to gain information that wasn’t disclosed in an earnings call with investors.
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Chinese hackers take over moving Tesla from 12 miles away
Chinese white-hat hackers (hackers that expose vulnerabilities with good rather than pernicious intentions) just proved that Tesla has a significant security risk on its hands.
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Tesla sues Snyder, Schuette to sell cars in Michigan
Electric automaker Tesla filed a lawsuit today against state officials, escalating its multi-year battle to sell vehicles directly to consumers in Michigan. The California automaker named Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette and Gov. Rick Snyder in its lawsuit filed in in federal court. A spokesman for the governor declined to comment and a spokeswoman for Schuette said his office is reviewing the lawsuit.
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Tesla Model Y and Model 3 To Significantly Change Car Market
We are on the edge of two massive automotive shifts. It's not anything like you've seen before. These changes could potentially end the reign of convention
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Another Tesla on autopilot crashes in Germany
A Tesla car whose driver said he was using the “Autopilot” driving assistance system crashed into a bus on a motorway in northern Germany on Wednesday.
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Why Tesla’s new solar roof tiles and home battery are such a big deal
On October 28, Tesla unveiled its new solar roof tiles. Few of us in attendance, if any, realized the solar roofing tiles were actual functional solar panels until Elon Musk said so. Sure, it’s a neat trick, but what’s the big deal? Why does it matter that Tesla is making a fashion statement when the point is green power and a future where we aren’t so dependent on fossil fuels? I’ve heard from some people suggesting that this is nothing new, because of other similar previous projects, including Dow Chemical’s canned solar shingle project, for example. Others are wary of Tesla’s ability to sway consumers with a solar solution that...
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Tesla Motors to start charging for charging
Tesla Motors said Monday that it would begin requiring certain Tesla owners to pay to charge their electric vehicles at the company's network of charging stations. In a reversal, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based automaker said its superchargers would no longer be completely free. The charges apply to people who buy a Tesla vehicle after Jan. 1, 2017. They will be charged a fee to use the charging stations after about 1,000 miles of free usage annually.
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Tesla received only a fraction of the subsidies the Big Three and oil industry have received
In light of the recent smear campaign launched against Tesla and Elon Musk by a conservative group backed by a Trump propagandist, it’s worth taking a look at which companies involved in the same industries as Musk and Tesla are receiving the most public subsidies. After all, it’s the main aspect on which these smear campaigns are based. The group ‘Citizens for the Republic’ targeted Musk and Tesla for taking subsidies from the government, which they referred to as “defrauding American taxpayers”.
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Tesla is updating its Autopilot to make it follow the speed limit on roads
Before a recent update that is being gradually pushed to Tesla owners, the automaker allowed its Autopilot to be set at a higher speed than the speed limit on all roads where the driver assist system could be enabled, but now Tesla is pushing a new update to make Autopilot follow the rules of the road more closely. Electrek has received reports from owners having received the new update since last week. Tesla confirmed the release.
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Tesla Autopilot’s new radar technology predicts an accident caught on dashcam a second later
Just a few weeks ago, we published a report about how Tesla’s new radar technology for the Autopilot is already proving useful in some potentially dangerous situations. We now have a new piece of evidence that is so spectacularly clear that it’s worth updating that report. The video of an accident on the highway in the Netherlands caught on the dashcam of a Tesla Model X shows the Autopilot’s forward collision warning predicting an accident before it could be detected by the driver.
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Tesla upgrades Autopilot for 1,000 'Hardware 2' cars to test
Tesla Motors is now beginning to roll out upgraded software to accompany the more complex suite of sensors known as "Hardware 2" that launched in October. All Model S and Model X electric cars built since then have this array of eight cameras, 12 ultrasonic sensors, as opposed to the less-elaborate...
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Tesla will rule the car world
Some people still doubt Tesla. Elon Musk is laughing all the way to the future.
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Tesla details how it’ll charge new owners to use Superchargers
For the past few years, anyone who owned a Tesla could charge it up at one of the company’s Supercharging stations free of charge. But as we’ve known for a few months now, this all-you-can-eat setup is being phased out. While existing owners will still get to charge up for free, anyone who orders a Tesla after January 15th would get around 1,000 miles worth of charging credit each year then pay for anything beyond that.
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NHTSA’s full final investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its full findings following the investigation into last year's fatal crash involving a..
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Tesla's Autopilot reduces crashes by 40 per cent
Tesla's driver-assistance features, known collectively as Autopilot, have been vindicated. The US Department of Transportation has closed its investigation into a May 7 collision with a tractor-trailer that killed a driver using Autopilot. The agency found no indication of a safety problem with it. In fact, the evidence provided by Tesla included crucial data that's been missing from the safety debate surrounding automated cars: crash rates.
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