September 2022

Tesla Model S Plaid totaled by Service Center employee, leaving owner without answers

A $155,000 Tesla Model S Plaid was totaled several days after the owner dropped the vehicle off for a Service appointment. Now, the owner is attempting to find answers. After dropping his Model S Plaid with only a few thousand miles off at the Plano, Texas Tesla Service Center on Wednesday, August 24, owner Jeff […]

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Bargersville Police Dept shares photo of Tesla police vehicle charging

The Bargersville Police Department shared a photo of one of its Tesla police vehicles charging with The Tesla Life on Twitter. In 2019, The Bargersville Police Department in Indiana became one of the first police departments in the U.S. to add a Tesla Model 3 to its fleet as an official patrol vehicle. The decision

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Shanghai predicts autonomous cars will be a $72B industry by 2025

Shanghai predicts that autonomous vehicles will be a $72 billion industry by 2025 and has a plan to make that prediction come true, the South China Morning Post reported.  The new plan was released by the General Office of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government and calls for setting up a “domestically leading innovation and development system”

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Starlink Maritime deployed on the most Instagrammed superyacht

Starlink Maritime has been deployed on the world’s most Instagrammed superyacht,  Motor Yacht Loon. Loon has an Instagram following of almost 62,000 followers at the time of this article. I spoke with Loon’s captain, Paul Clarke and he shared his experience with Starlink Maritime with Teslarati. In March, Loon started accepting charter fees in bitcoin which

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Family survives after crashing Tesla on Bonneville Salt Flats at over 100mph

A family of five survived crashing their Tesla on the Bonneville Salt Flats while going at speeds over 100 miles per hour, Fox 13 reported. According to the Wendover Police Department’s Facebook page, a 2022 Tesla occupied by a family of five from Utah County was traveling over 100 miles per hour on the salt

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Tesla FSD Beta 10.69.2 release slated for the end of the week

Tesla plans to release FSD Beta 10.69.2 at the end of the week. Elon Musk explained that the next and potentially final v10.69 version still needs to be polished. He also noted that while v10.69.2 will feature a relatively small number of code changes, their effect to the driving experience will likely be significant. Tesla will

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Tesla Powerwall customers continue to help California’s grid

Tesla Powerwall customers continue to help California as the grid struggles in the face of an extreme heatwave and the looming possibility of rolling blackouts. Today Bloomberg reported that the state declared another power grid emergency and noted that backouts could happen. Elliot Mainzer, CEO of the California Independent System Operator (Caiso) said that rotating

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