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057 Technology Fights Tesla Battery Pack Failing Danger With 2-Year Service Plan
057 Technology Fights Tesla Battery Pack Failing Danger With 2-Year Service Plan

1 Feb 2022, 10:58 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The service plan depends on how healthy the battery pack is, which is evaluated thanks to a monitoring device plugged into the EV’s diagnostic port.

 
Sandy Munro Shows Us What Makes the Tesla Model S Plaid Tick, What Makes It Tok
Sandy Munro Shows Us What Makes the Tesla Model S Plaid Tick, What Makes It Tok

28 Jan 2022, 16:57 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Sandy Munro and his team are in the process of making a full teardown of the Model S Plaid. The team has made two new videos that reveal interesting details

 
Tesla Model S Presents Most Defects Among EVs In TUV Inspection After 3 Years
Tesla Model S Presents Most Defects Among EVs In TUV Inspection After 3 Years

28 Jan 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / While the industry defect rate is 4.7%, the Model S achieved 10.7%. Fog light, low beam, and wishbones are the cause of most issues.

 
Tesla Caught Testing a Yoke Steering Wheel With a Regular Airbag Horn
Tesla Caught Testing a Yoke Steering Wheel With a Regular Airbag Horn

26 Jan 2022, 13:35 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla surprised everybody with the strange steering wheel in the Model S and Model X. Now they may reconsider at least one of its aspects: the horn button

 
Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance Drag Races (and Loses to the) Tesla Model S Plaid
Lucid Air Dream Edition Performance Drag Races (and Loses to the) Tesla Model S Plaid

25 Jan 2022, 18:57 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Given that Lucid's first-ever vehicle is so close to Tesla's most performance-oriented vehicle yet, the newer company holds great promise

 
Sandy Munro Starts Teardown of Model S Plaid, Tesla Engineers Should Take Notes
Sandy Munro Starts Teardown of Model S Plaid, Tesla Engineers Should Take Notes

24 Jan 2022, 16:46 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Sandy Munro and his team have begun their teardown of the Model S Plaid. As usual, Sandy Munro shares his thoughts on what can be improved

 
Tesla Service Is Broken, and These Examples Demonstrate It Quite Well
Tesla Service Is Broken, and These Examples Demonstrate It Quite Well

23 Jan 2022, 23:31 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Rich Rebuilds talked to people that are fed up with the way Tesla is treating them and shared a recorded call about an FSD subscription that is disappointing.

 
Tesla Model 3 and Model S Recalls Get Updated Numbers Thanks to Australia
Tesla Model 3 and Model S Recalls Get Updated Numbers Thanks to Australia

21 Jan 2022, 09:49 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / The country has increased the recall numbers by 7,055 units: 5,143 examples of the Model 3 and 1,912 units of the Model S

 
Tesla Tackled Mass Production for Cars as if They Were Software and That’s Biting It Back
Tesla Tackled Mass Production for Cars as if They Were Software and That’s Biting It Back

19 Jan 2022, 21:06 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Elon Musk telling Philippe Chain to deliver the Model S before all testing was properly made reveals a mindset that may hurt Tesla in the long run.

 
Next-Gen Tesla Model S Goes All-In on Performance in Optimistic Rendering
Next-Gen Tesla Model S Goes All-In on Performance in Optimistic Rendering

19 Jan 2022, 12:12 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The next Model S could set its sights on the Lucid Air and aim to become more refined, or it could stick to the Plaid recipe and stamp on the throttle pedal

 
Driver on Tesla Autopilot's Fatal Crash Faces Vehicular Manslaughter Counts
Driver on Tesla Autopilot's Fatal Crash Faces Vehicular Manslaughter Counts

19 Jan 2022, 07:56 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / This is a good demonstration of what Madeleine Clare Elish wanted to warn about when she came up with the moral crumple zones concept

 
Porsche Taycan Turbo S vs Tesla Model S Drag Race Feels Like a Last Decade Rivalry
Porsche Taycan Turbo S vs Tesla Model S Drag Race Feels Like a Last Decade Rivalry

16 Jan 2022, 09:50 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / The arrival of the Plaid immediately threw the Taycan Turbo S in a cone of shade because the Porsche lost the competitiveness it had against the regular Model S

 
KBA, Germany's Recall Authority, Asks Tesla When It Plans to Perform Recalls There
KBA, Germany's Recall Authority, Asks Tesla When It Plans to Perform Recalls There

14 Jan 2022, 14:27 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / autoevolution contacted Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority on January 3 to learn how it was dealing with the recalls but heard nothing back

 
Tesla Model S Has a Crazy Resale Value Even After 10 Years
Tesla Model S Has a Crazy Resale Value Even After 10 Years

13 Jan 2022, 17:22 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / A ten-year-old Tesla Model S is worth more than $20,000, showing impressive value retention. This is almost three times the value of a 2012 BMW 7 Series

 
Tesla Model S Got New Goodies in Taiwan, Will Soon Come to the U.S. in a Refreshed Form
Tesla Model S Got New Goodies in Taiwan, Will Soon Come to the U.S. in a Refreshed Form

12 Jan 2022, 15:14 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla unveiled an updated version of its Model S and Model X top models, with new features and a CCS charge port that will soon be available in the U.S.

 
Tesla Model S Plaid Starts Race in Reverse Against Chevy Silverado 2500 HD, Guess Who Won
Tesla Model S Plaid Starts Race in Reverse Against Chevy Silverado 2500 HD, Guess Who Won

11 Jan 2022, 14:06 UTC · By: Sergiu Tudose / The Tesla Model S Plaid is so fast, somebody thought it could start a drag race by going in reverse and still defeat a diesel-powered Silverado 2500 HD

 
1972 Plymouth "Electrollite"  Mixes the Best of Two Worlds for the Perfect Daily
1972 Plymouth "Electrollite" Mixes the Best of Two Worlds for the Perfect Daily

10 Jan 2022, 12:10 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / EVs are at their best when they serve as the daily driver. Put a classic Mopar body on that and you might just have the perfect car ever built

 
Tesla Model S Plaid Gets a Track Mode, It Can Do Many Things
Tesla Model S Plaid Gets a Track Mode, It Can Do Many Things

7 Jan 2022, 18:07 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / Tesla has announced a new drive mode for the Model S Plaid. The latter is meant for the race track, and it works at drag strips just as well

 
Tesla With the Most Mileage Reaches a New Milestone: 1.5 Million Kilometers
Tesla With the Most Mileage Reaches a New Milestone: 1.5 Million Kilometers

6 Jan 2022, 18:18 UTC · By: Gustavo Henrique Ruffo / Hansjörg Eberhard von Gemmingen announced the new landmark on Twitter. Unfortunately, it does not mean it all went without trouble.

 
Tesla Model S Plaid Takes on Harley-Davidson LiveWire in Six-Wheel All-EV Drag Race
Tesla Model S Plaid Takes on Harley-Davidson LiveWire in Six-Wheel All-EV Drag Race

6 Jan 2022, 17:19 UTC · By: Vlad Mitrache / As far as we know, this is the first race between these two battery-powered vehicles and even though the winner is pretty obvious, it's still kind of exciting