The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an investigation into roughly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving 156 complaints of a front suspension component detaching while driving.
The probe covers 2018-2020 Model 3 and 202…
NHTSA is pursuing new federal safety standards that would require all automakers to make emergency door releases more obvious.
NHTSA has denied a petition asking it to open a defect investigation into the hidden manual door releases on the Tesla Model 3. But in the same decision, the agency agreed to start writing new door-safety rules for the entire auto industry.
The denial,…
Tesla opened two new markets in less than 24 hours, launching in Latvia and Uruguay in back-to-back announcements this week.
The dual entry completes Tesla’s expansion across all three Baltic states and gives the automaker its third market in South Ame…
A new analysis of nearly 10,000 real-world EV battery tests found that the same Tesla Model 3 holds up very differently depending on which battery it was built with — and the cheaper LFP version comes out on top.
The Model 3 with CATL’s lithium iron ph…
Tesla is launching a new “guaranteed future value” (GFV) program that locks in a pre-set resale price for buyers financing a new Model Y or Model 3.
The move directly targets the depreciation fears that have followed Tesla’s own aggressive price cuts o…
From zero-gravity seats to a 26-inch AR display and 1,660 km of PHEV range, BYD launched all of it for under $30,000 in China.
Harris County prosecutors have charged the Tesla driver who crashed into a Katy, Texas, home and killed a 76-year-old woman with manslaughter, alleging he overrode Full Self-Driving to floor the car to 73 mph in a residential cul-de-sac.
The charging d…
The family of a 76-year-old woman killed when a Tesla Model 3 crashed into her Katy, Texas, home has sued Tesla and the driver, alleging the company’s “Autopilot” and “Full Self-Driving” systems are defectively designed.
The wrongful death suit lands j…
Tesla now confirms that its self-driving system was engaged when a Model 3 left a residential road in Katy, Texas, and killed a 76-year-old woman inside her home — but the company says the driver overrode it by pressing the accelerator to 100%.
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