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Tesla’s European dominance under threat
- 17/04/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Tesla’s dominance in the European electric vehicle market could be coming to an end. New figures have revealed that its market share fell from 29% to 18.7% last month amidst growing threats from other manufacturers in both Europe and China. The news comes at a trying time for the brand after it announced [...] -
ALLDATA adds three VMs to list
- 05/03/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
ALLDATA Repair has added OEM repair information from Abarth, Chrysler and Tesla to its platform. With these agreements, the number of vehicle manufacturers available from ALLDATA Repair has reached 36, representing 96% of vehicles on the road today. Information includes technical service bulletins, diagnostic [...] -
Tesla Model 3 tops EV charts
- 04/01/2024
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
New research has revealed that the Tesla Model 3 was the most popular electric vehicle in the UK last year. According to millions of searches on the cinch website, it topped a poll of EVs and hybrid models, ahead of the Toyota C-HR, Nissan Leaf, VW Golf and Mitsubishi Outlander. Also in the top 10 were the Hyundai [...] -
Tesla sets pace in charging infrastructure
- 14/09/2022
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
Tesla has recorded a 34% increase in the number of supercharger stations around the world in the last year. According to data compiled by Finbold, Tesla had 3,971 supercharger stations globally in the second quarter of the year, recording a year-over-year (YoY) growth of 33.88% from the 2,966 recorded during a [...] -
European market drops by a quarter
- 26/10/2021
- Posted by: Alan Feldberg
- Category: News
New car registrations across 26 countries in Europe fell by 25% to 964,800 units in September, although it was a good month for electric vehicles as the Tesla Model 3 became the first EV to top the sales charts. Felipe Munoz, global analyst at JATO Dynamics, said: “Dealers continue to face issues with the [...] -
US opens Tesla investigation
- 01/07/2016
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
BBC reports that US authorities are investigating the first death potentially caused by self-driving technology. The driver of a Tesla car died in Florida in May after colliding with a lorry. Under scrutiny is Tesla's Autopilot feature, which automatically changes lanes and reacts to traffic. In a statement, [...] -
Autonomous Tesla has arrived
- 15/10/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Tesla has launched a new software update for its vehicles, enabling the cars to have an ‘autopilot’ mode. While not fully autonomous, the new software update allows the Model S and new Model X to ‘automatically steer down the highway, change lanes, and adjust speed in response to traffic’. Other major [...] -
Tesla opens European factory
- 29/09/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has opened the doors to the company’s first European factory in Tilburg in the Netherlands. The new 77,648sqm facility that sits near the Belgian border, will be assembling Tesla Model S cars destined for the UK and the rest of Europe, with the aim of improving waiting times for new [...] -
Security experts hack Tesla car
- 07/08/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Tesla has issued a software update for its model S car after two researchers found a way to take control of the vehicle via its onboard systems. This follows on from the news last week, when Fiat Chrysler issued a recall for more than 1.4 million vehicles after hackers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek showed how [...] -
TESLA MODEL S SURPASS ONE BILLION ELECTRIC MILES
- 23/06/2015
- Posted by: Simon Wait
- Category: News
Electric car company Tesla, has announced today that its total worldwide vehicle fleet have driven over a billion miles collectively. In just the three years since Model S hit the road, owners across the world have travelled the equivalent of over 4,000 trips to the moon, or almost 40,000 times around the Earth. By [...]