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The Tesla Model Y Owners Manual has always contained the answer to one of the most common questions new EV owners ask: how do I make my battery last? Most owners never read it. Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) pulled the key battery guidance and shared it on X this week. The tips are worth knowing…
The 69 Eastex Freeway overpass in Houston has a Y-shaped split. One path curves right. The other ends at a concrete barrier above a freeway drop. According to a new lawsuit filed in Harris County district court, a Tesla Cybertruck running on autopilot chose the barrier. On the 69 Eastex Freeway, the Cybertruck Went Straight…
A door that won’t open in a crash isn’t a design quirk. It’s a death trap. China’s government just codified that reality into law, and the ripple effects will hit EV design studios from Munich to Fremont. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published rules banning concealed, electrically operated door handles on vehicles sold…
The documents don’t lie. When the Justice Department released what it described as millions of pages from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation on January 30, 2026, Elon Musk was not a peripheral name. He was a frequent correspondent. So was his brother Kimbal Musk, who sits on Tesla’s board. What those emails show directly contradicts the…
There is a specific kind of pressure that only works if the audience believes the threat is real. Elon Musk applied it this week at Giga Berlin, where workers vote March 2–4 on whether IG Metall takes control of the factory’s works council. The message, screened for employees on Wednesday, February 25, and published as…
The updated Denza Z9GT will offer two battery pack options -- 102.326 kWh and 122.496 kWh -- delivering CLTC ranges of 820 km and 1,036 km respectively
A lithium-ion battery fire doesn’t wait for management to approve additional headcount. That’s the core of a lawsuit now sitting in San Francisco federal court — after Tesla moved it there from California state court — filed by Nina Mirani, a former regional manager at Tesla Energy‘s Hayward, California distribution hub. According to court filings…
Options granted back in 2019 at $14.99 per share don’t stay dormant forever. On February 25, 2026, Tesla (TSLA) board director Kathleen Wilson-Thompson — former EVP of Global Human Resources at Walgreens Boots Alliance — exercised a non-qualified stock option for 40,000 shares and sold 25,731 of them the same day, pulling in roughly $10.7…
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