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In the past few weeks, two new electric cars have claimed to achieve the quickest accelerations and the fastest quarter-miles of any production vehicle on the planet, but how do they compare head-to-head? Now we have the answer. The Tesla Model S Plaid sedan is the pride of Elon Musk …

The Tesla Model 3 is an electric compact sedan with a clean, simple design that has nothing in common with the big, post-apocalyptic rigs seen in Mad Max movies, but why not do a conversion? That was the wild idea of a former Tesla engineer who teamed up with Rich …

A few weeks after hinting that even more powerful and faster-charging Superchargers are coming (with up to 350 kilowatts), Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter that all electric vehicles will have access to the company’s network starting later this year. The California-based automaker has deployed over 25,000 Superchargers around …

One of the most talked-about new features of the freshly updated Tesla Model S and Model X is definitely the available yoke-style steering wheel. While U.S. regulators are still trying to determine whether it’s street-legal or not, the early reviews from customers are a mixed bag. Will it eventually land …

Last night was the special delivery event for the new 1,020-horsepower Model S Plaid , and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hinted that even more powerful and faster-charging Superchargers are coming. The current Supercharger network consists of more than 25,000 stalls globally, with a mix of older V2 units (up to …

Earlier this year, Tesla announced a major update to the Model S sedan and Model X crossover including the addition of two high-performance variants called Plaid and Plaid+. In the company’s latest twist, the Plaid+ has been nixed already. Tesla CEO Elon Musk confirmed the news via Twitter on Sunday.

Three years ago, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he wanted to “put an old school drive-in, roller skates & rock restaurant at one of the new Tesla Supercharger locations in Los Angeles.” Pretty much everyone thought it was a joke, but it could become a reality soon enough. Musk …

UPDATE (06/29/2021):The Tesla Model 3 has regained its status as a Consumer Reports Top Pick and IIHS Top Safety Pick+ after independent tests proved the effectiveness of its new camera-based automatic emergency braking and forward collision warning systems. Below is the original story. Tesla ’s latest technological “advancement” is not …

Unveiled in November 2019, the Tesla Cybertruck has now generated more than one million reservations based on a crowdsourced tracker posted online. At about the same time last year, the number of reservations stood at a little over 600,000. Most of them are for dual- or triple-motor variants, which are …