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Video: Watch a Tesla on Autopilot slam on the brakes and avoid a crash

December 24th, 2018

More often than not, stories involving Tesla’s Autopilot feature tend to make the news when something goes awry. Whether it’s a Model S on Autopilot crashing into a stationary car or a Tesla on Autopilot almost careening into a highway divider, there’s no question that activating the feature still requires drivers to pay close attention to …

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Save yourself from all sorts of aggravation with this $50 dash cam deal

December 21st, 2018

Maren Estrada

When someone cuts into your lane and smacks into the front of your car, two things can happen. Option 1 is having your anger and frustration compounded when you have to argue with the other driver over whose fault it was, and the cops will make their best guess at who is telling the truth. …

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Charge pretty much anything you want in your car with this $17 inverter

December 21st, 2018

Maren Estrada

Why on Earth don’t all cars these days come with 110V three-prong outlets. It’s not 1987 anymore. There’s absolutely no reason to keep using old car charging ports… but alas. If you want to convert the car charging port in your car into something far more usable, check out the Foval 150W Car Power Inverter. …

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Tesla’s $7,500 federal tax credit is set to expire in less than two weeks

December 20th, 2018

Yoni Heisler

Tesla earlier today published a blog post reminding prospective buyers that the generous $7,500 federal tax credit as it pertains to new Tesla purchases is set to expire in less than two weeks. In other words, if the tax credit plays a role in whether or not you’re ready to pull the trigger on a …

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What it feels like to drive a Tesla Model X inside Elon Musk’s loop tunnels

December 19th, 2018

Chris Smith

In addition to Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk founded The Boring Company, which is looking into ways to make public transportation faster than it currently is. Just recently, The Boring Company finished its 1.14-mile test tunnel in Hawthorne, so Musk invited folks from the media to test out the tunnel in a Tesla Model X.

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Video: A Tesla Model S randomly caught fire in a parking lot for no explicable reason

December 19th, 2018

Yoni Heisler

In a bizarre story that seems to fit the Tesla brand to a tee, a Model S reportedly caught fire after being towed to a parking lot of a tire repair shop. Curiously, the Tesla in question was not involved in a collision before the fact, and was simply being taken in to replace a …

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The official pronunciation of the Porsche Taycan is worse than we thought

December 18th, 2018

Yoni Heisler

With the introduction of the original Roadster, and the Model S a few years later, Tesla emphatically demonstrated that electric cars could be exceedingly sleek as opposed to clunky boxes you wouldn’t want to be caught dead in. Flash forward to 2018 and a number of luxury automakers are embracing the EV revolution. With that …

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Tesla driver who settled when his car caught fire forgot to mention someone shot the battery with a gun

December 17th, 2018

Yoni Heisler

A new lawsuit clues us in on a bizarre story involving a Tesla catching fire after a bullet was fired into the car’s battery. What’s even crazier is that Tesla claims the bullet was fired from inside the passenger cabin. Originally brought to light by Electrek, the lawsuit dates back to 2014 when a Model …

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Arizonans are slashing tires, throwing rocks, and pointing guns at Waymo cars

December 13th, 2018

Andy Meek

The presence of Waymo self-driving cars in Arizona has certainly kicked up a hornet’s nest, it seems. People are bullying, harassing and even outright attacking the cars and drivers to such a degree that police have been called almost two dozen times over everything from tires being slashed to drivers feeling threatened. The Arizona Republic …

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A used Tesla retains more value than rival luxury cars from the likes of Mercedes and Porsche

December 13th, 2018

Yoni Heisler

There’s an old but still pertinent adage which says that a car goes down in value the second you drive it off the lot. Indeed, nothing depreciates in value quite like a brand new car. Some estimates and studies have even found that the value of a car can go down by as much as …