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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...
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FSD beta was released last month to a very small group of early access users in the US. Since then we’ve seen two updates, the most recent significantly improving the smoothness and confidence with which the car navigates city streets. Today we learn a little more about the expansion...
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Full Self Driving beta users have just received a new over the air software update, the 3rd since being given access to the early access program. In software version 2020.40.8.12, Tesla has overhauled the vehicle representation on the display. Here’s the first look at the new UI in action...
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Welcome to the $10k club United States. The price of Tesla’s Full Self Driving software upgrade has just been increased by US$2k to now be a 5 figure purchase. The price increase reflects the new functionality of the FSD beta (software version 2020.40.8.11) as shown by a rapidly increasing...
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Using large-grid scale batteries is becoming increasingly common in Australia. Famously South Australia led the way with a 100MW/129MWh battery at the Hornsdale Power Reserve. At the time it was the largest battery in the world and in its first 2 years of operation, the project saved SA consumers...
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Tesla is rolling out 2020.40.8.10 to a small group of private beta users in America. While most Tesla owners are receiving the 2020.40.8 update (myself included), the additional .10 on the end is a unique version of the software. Software version 2020.40.8.10 contains Tesla’s highly anticipated rewrite of their...
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Tesla has launched its official online store for vehicle accessories and apparel in Australia. Known as the Tesla Shop, this had previously been restricted to a small set of countries, namely America. While it was possible to order Tesla accessories from service centers, it is now possible to order...
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There’s been a lot of positive changes at Tesla this week, with a refresh to the Model 3, cheaper prices for the Model S, talks of Model Y deliveries accelerating internationally, and amazing progress on new Gigafactories. Something less positive is a change to Supercharging prices in Australia. The...
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Yesterday, Tesla updated the Model 3 and while new images of the car, along with details in the configurator revealed some changes, we now have the complete official list of changes from Tesla. The latest Model 3 now benefits from a series of ongoing quality and efficiency improvements. The...
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It might be late on a Friday afternoon, but that didn’t stop Tesla releasing a massive refresh to the Model 3. New to Model 3 is a whole new set of wheels. We had seen some leaks online of the new 19″ wheels, but changes to the Aero wheels...
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Tesla is rolling out the latest over-the-air update, version 2020.40.3 and in this release there’s a substantial change to how the car works. Before now, Tesla had used a dataset that allowed their cars to adjust its speed automatically when using Autopilot. When you enable cruise control, it would...
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Multi-factor authentication is becoming increasingly common across services online. As Tesla leverages their account portal to offer more services, like add digital keys to unlock your car, it’s important that your account is secure and Tesla follow the industry’s best practice. Today users online started reporting their Tesla account...
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On September 30th, 2019, just over one year ago, a brand new 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance was delivered to my door. After 12 months of ownership, I’ve now accumulated plenty of lived experience of using an electric car as my daily driver, so its time to break down...
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It looks like Australia is set to get a massive battery storage project, following on from the successful Hornsdale project in South Australia. Western Australia Premier Mark McGown has revealed that the state needs more storage capacity to support the dramatic growth in renewable energy production. McGowan goes on...
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Piedmont Lithium is an Australian miner that started in 1983. The company now has a large project in North Carolina, US and has just issued a press release that details a new agreement with Tesla. The agreement is for an initial 5-year term, with an option for a second...
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The construction of vehicles is a very well established and understood process. While there are definitely variances between automakers, for the most part, they all use very similar techniques. The reason for this commonality is very simple – it works and what we have today has been achieved by...
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It’s pretty well accepted that Tesla has the best built-in security system of any vehicle. That security is powered by a feature called ‘Teslacam’ where video from the car’s external cameras are recorded to a storage drive in the car. When the feature first shipped, it was undercooked and...
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This morning Elon Musk announced many battery production changes, aimed at producing more cars, but also making Tesla’s more affordable. Musk revealed that they are working towards a new, smaller vehicle that would be priced at US$25,000. That would be the cheapest Tesla by far, with the cheapest Model...
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During Tesla’s Battery Day event this morning (read our live blog here), Elon Musk revealed a new variant to the Tesla Model S. The new Plaid version features a tri-motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain. The car now takes the title of the quickest 0-100 km/h and quarter mile acceleration of any...
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...
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...
FSD beta was released last month to a very small group of early access users in the US. Since then we’ve seen two updates, the most recent significantly improving the smoothness and confidence with which the car navigates city streets. Today we learn a little more about the expansion...
Full Self Driving beta users have just received a new over the air software update, the 3rd since being given access to the early access program. In software version 2020.40.8.12, Tesla has overhauled the vehicle representation on the display. Here’s the first look at the new UI in action...
Welcome to the $10k club United States. The price of Tesla’s Full Self Driving software upgrade has just been increased by US$2k to now be a 5 figure purchase. The price increase reflects the new functionality of the FSD beta (software version 2020.40.8.11) as shown by a rapidly increasing...
Using large-grid scale batteries is becoming increasingly common in Australia. Famously South Australia led the way with a 100MW/129MWh battery at the Hornsdale Power Reserve. At the time it was the largest battery in the world and in its first 2 years of operation, the project saved SA consumers...
Tesla is rolling out 2020.40.8.10 to a small group of private beta users in America. While most Tesla owners are receiving the 2020.40.8 update (myself included), the additional .10 on the end is a unique version of the software. Software version 2020.40.8.10 contains Tesla’s highly anticipated rewrite of their...
Tesla has launched its official online store for vehicle accessories and apparel in Australia. Known as the Tesla Shop, this had previously been restricted to a small set of countries, namely America. While it was possible to order Tesla accessories from service centers, it is now possible to order...
There’s been a lot of positive changes at Tesla this week, with a refresh to the Model 3, cheaper prices for the Model S, talks of Model Y deliveries accelerating internationally, and amazing progress on new Gigafactories. Something less positive is a change to Supercharging prices in Australia. The...
Yesterday, Tesla updated the Model 3 and while new images of the car, along with details in the configurator revealed some changes, we now have the complete official list of changes from Tesla. The latest Model 3 now benefits from a series of ongoing quality and efficiency improvements. The...
It might be late on a Friday afternoon, but that didn’t stop Tesla releasing a massive refresh to the Model 3. New to Model 3 is a whole new set of wheels. We had seen some leaks online of the new 19″ wheels, but changes to the Aero wheels...
Tesla is rolling out the latest over-the-air update, version 2020.40.3 and in this release there’s a substantial change to how the car works. Before now, Tesla had used a dataset that allowed their cars to adjust its speed automatically when using Autopilot. When you enable cruise control, it would...
Multi-factor authentication is becoming increasingly common across services online. As Tesla leverages their account portal to offer more services, like add digital keys to unlock your car, it’s important that your account is secure and Tesla follow the industry’s best practice. Today users online started reporting their Tesla account...
On September 30th, 2019, just over one year ago, a brand new 2019 Tesla Model 3 Performance was delivered to my door. After 12 months of ownership, I’ve now accumulated plenty of lived experience of using an electric car as my daily driver, so its time to break down...
It looks like Australia is set to get a massive battery storage project, following on from the successful Hornsdale project in South Australia. Western Australia Premier Mark McGown has revealed that the state needs more storage capacity to support the dramatic growth in renewable energy production. McGowan goes on...
Piedmont Lithium is an Australian miner that started in 1983. The company now has a large project in North Carolina, US and has just issued a press release that details a new agreement with Tesla. The agreement is for an initial 5-year term, with an option for a second...
The construction of vehicles is a very well established and understood process. While there are definitely variances between automakers, for the most part, they all use very similar techniques. The reason for this commonality is very simple – it works and what we have today has been achieved by...
It’s pretty well accepted that Tesla has the best built-in security system of any vehicle. That security is powered by a feature called ‘Teslacam’ where video from the car’s external cameras are recorded to a storage drive in the car. When the feature first shipped, it was undercooked and...
This morning Elon Musk announced many battery production changes, aimed at producing more cars, but also making Tesla’s more affordable. Musk revealed that they are working towards a new, smaller vehicle that would be priced at US$25,000. That would be the cheapest Tesla by far, with the cheapest Model...
During Tesla’s Battery Day event this morning (read our live blog here), Elon Musk revealed a new variant to the Tesla Model S. The new Plaid version features a tri-motor, all-wheel-drive powertrain. The car now takes the title of the quickest 0-100 km/h and quarter mile acceleration of any...
