BYD’s new Qin Max is now on sale, another Tesla Model 3-sized electric sedan that’s about half the price.

Tesla has recalled 20,349 units of the Model Y and Model 3 combined because the headlights exceed the maximum allowed intensity and could be excessively bright for oncoming traffic. Bright headlights can blind oncomin...

BYD’s new sedan is about the size of a Tesla Model 3, but it’s half the cost in China. The new Seal 06 went on sale in China, starting at just 109,900 yuan, or about $16,500.

If you’ve ever been driving at night and felt like the car behind you had too-bright headlights, that car might have been a Tesla, and it might have felt that way because its lights broke the rules.

Cody WhistlinDiesel Detwiler spent close to $300,000 and the better part of two years tormenting a Tesla Cybertruck and a Ford F-150 side by side. The finale was exactly what you’d expect from someone who once describ...

Tesla has officially acknowledged that the power conversion system (PCS) in pre-2026 Cybertrucks is defective, and it’s extending the warranty on those trucks to 8 years or 150,000 miles. The reversal comes after mont...

A police department in Parker, Colorado, pulled over a Tesla going 64 mph in a 45 mph zone whose driver insisted they weren’t responsible, because the car was running “Full Self-Driving.” Of course, Tesla will never t...

Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov laid out the clearest technical case yet for why cameras alone can’t take a self-driving system to full autonomy, arguing that “weak sensing” hits a safety ceiling long before it reaches sup...

As a product, is the Cybertruck really good or very bad? Such a question is easy to answer for virtually any other vehicle, but in the case of Tesla’s pickup, it can be hard to get a thoughtful answer from a “regular”...

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss rumors of a Tesla/SpaceX merger, Rivian’s earnings, R2 progress, and effic...

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 pro...

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 pro...

Tesla has built its 10 millionth vehicle, the company announced this week. Ten million all-electric cars is a real milestone, and no other automaker has done it. But it’s arriving later than Tesla once promised, and t...

WhistlinDiesel finally kills his battered Tesla and F-150 after spending $53,000 keeping the Cybertruck alive

Tesla is asking a federal judge for emergency access to a supplier’s plant in Troy, Texas, so it can haul out the tooling it needs to keep building the Cybertruck. The supplier, Angstrom Automotive Group, is closing t...

Out of Spec Reviews put a Rivian R2 Performance and a Tesla Model Y Performance on the same roads on the same afternoon. The R2 used 18% to 26% more energy at every single speed they tested. That’s awkward, because th...

Elon Musk says Tesla expects to have self-driving working on the Tesla Semi “probably around the end of this year or early next year.” Going by Tesla’s record on self-driving deadlines, it is: their jobs are safe for ...

Yes, a toilet. It's strange, but it does show the brand's sharp focus on the EV ownership experience Tesla has a knack of staying ahead of the EV competition. Initially, simply being the first mass-market electric ca...

Can Mazda’s link-up with Changan Automobile see the brand’s new 6e challenge Tesla’s popular Model 3 EV?

Elon Musk says Tesla plans to “open source” the Model S and Model X, and he’s pointing to the original Roadster as the template. The problem is Tesla’s Roadster release amounted to eight files on GitHub plus five docu...