Electric vehicles, or EVs, are no longer a thing of the future. If you’re thinking of ditching your petrol or diesel car and replacing it with a clean-energy, quiet and economical one, there has never been a better time to do that. Not only are they ecological and more cost-efficient but also fun todrive! Many […]
Tesla Model S Sedan Recall
Tesla has issued a voluntary recall covering all 90,000 Model S Sedans sold over the past three years. The reason is that a European buyer discovered that the front seat belt wasn’t correctly attached to the outboard lap pretensioner, which means that you wouldn’t get full protection in a crash. The good news is that […]
Tesla website and social media hacked
The Twitter accounts of Tesla, Tesla Europe and Elon Musk were compromised for a brief period on Saturday, April 25th, 2015 as both began posting tweets offering a free Tesla car to anyone calling a specific phone number. Meanwhile the Tesla website was also hijacked and defaced, leading to various outages over the weekend. The […]
Tesla breaks sales record in 2015
You might not see one on every street corner quite yet, but Tesla Motors has achieved record quarterly sales for the first part of 2015. A total of 10,030 cars were sold in the first quarter of 2015, which is a 55% increase on the same period in 2014, and a record since the company […]
Could human-driven cars become illegal?
There are a number of questions still remaining about self-driving cars. Are we generally willing to relinquish control in the same way pilots have become accustomed to relying on autopilot? And how do we account for moral judgements, such as what action to take in a potential crash? That’s not going to be an issue […]