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If you seen Tesla’s Battery Day presentation last year, you’ll know the company was working on producing a new, larger, more efficient battery cell known as the ‘4680’. Today the company has released a video of the production line running at full speed and showing tens of thousands of...
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Yesterday I posted about new photos from the Shanghai Gigafactory, showing RHD Model 3s waiting for delivery. At the time I suggested some of these could be headed to Australia. Today Tesla has updated the Australian website to reflect the China-specific interior door trims, which appears to confirm that...
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Are Australian Model3s about to come from China? ...
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Musk is different and that's paid off big time, becoming the richest person on the planet. ...
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When will we have self-driving cars? That’s difficult to say for sure, but Elon Musk’s latest tweet, gives us a timeline to base our expectations upon. Responding to a post from George Hotz who runs Comma, also in the autonomous vehicle game, Musk confirmed that he is confident that...
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In the second episode of the techAU.Tesla podcast, we take a look at Tesla’s latest 2020.48.26 software update. In the 2020 Holiday update, there are some controversial new features like Boombox, along with a major UI overhaul. The new 60/40 split between driving visualisations and maps/camera etc, is clearly...
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Tesla is pulling a new demand lever for the end of the quarter and end of the year. Targeting a major milestone of 500,000 deliveries for the year, Elon Musk has announced on Twitter that those who buy a car in the last 3 days of this year, will...
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Tesla’s autonomy program, known as Full Self Driving, is about to miss another deadline. Expectations of FSD delivery are high, in large part thanks to Elon Musk’s self-imposed timelines. The conversation right now is all about the latest software update (020.48.26) that delivers some nice UI changes, but mostly...
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If you own a Tesla and follow Elon Musk on Twitter, chances are, you’ve been eagerly awaiting the latest software release from Tesla. As I wrote yesterday, this holiday update is not V11, instead, the build number is 2020.48.26 and V11 will arrive sometime in 2021. This morning users...
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While Tesla’s over the air updates roll out regularly to fix bugs and provide additional value to existing owners, there is typically one massive annual release, that includes a full step in the version number. As I sit Supercharging my Model 3, my car’s software is v10.2 (2020.48.12.1). This...
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When will Tesla ship their Full Self-Driving package? That’s a really difficult question to answer, but a tweet today suggests that there’ll at least be a new way to pay for it in early 2021. Twitter user PadgeUK asked Elon about the ability to pay for the FSD package...
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Sean Mitchell is a familiar face in the Tesla community, running a successful YouTube channel, often releasing videos on Tesla and the EV industry in general. In the latest video from Mitchell, he interviews Sandy Munro of Munro and Associates, who famously tore down the Tesla Model 3, then...
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Back on October 16th, we learned of a refresh to the Tesla Model 3 and now it seems the first vehicles are making their way on to Australian streets. The 2021 Model 3 features many changes from the original version that started shipping in Australian in September of 2019....
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Track Mode V2 was released on Tesla Model 3 Performance models in March 2020, right as the world was shutting down due to coronavirus. Now in late November, as Australia is coming out of lockdowns, motorsport venues are starting to re-open and racing events are starting to recommence. One...
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Tesla’s Full Self Driving package is currently in beta and to date, has only been available as part of a very limited rollout. We now have promising news that this is set to get a wider rollout in the next 2 weeks. Musk previously indicated that if they were...
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Stake is a trading platform that allows Australians to easily trade US stocks. This year alone, the service has seen more than 17,000 Australians trade Tesla shares. Despite the impacts of Covid, Tesla’s share price continues to grow on the back of record deliveries, 5 consecutive quarters of profit...
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Tesla Model 3 owner Glenn Fischbach also owns a 2017 Ford Focus Electric and today shared a very stark contrast in how updates are delivered between the two automakers. Fischbach received a letter from Ford alerting him to the fact that his 3 year old vehicle was ‘Due for...
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If you’re into Tesla or just autonomous vehicles in general, then chances are you’re watching the content coming out of the FSD beta group, pretty closely. These videos shared online provide a great insight into the current abilities and limitations of Tesla’s Full Self Driving, computer-vision-based solution. Since the...
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During the past week, an article from WhichCar has been doing the rounds online, essentially claiming that refuelling petrol cars is cheaper than recharging Electric Vehicles. I’ve been sent a link to this article many times now and twice in the past 24hrs, so clearly people are believing it...
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If you thought South Australia’s big battery was impressive, Victoria just said – hold my beer and is building one twice the size. Victoria is getting a massive 300MW battery, making it one of the world’s largest batteries in the world. The battery has a 250 MW grid service...