Should you join the Tesla club? Nine things to know before you buy
Tesla bucks the car-buying trend by doing away with traditional dealerships. Instead, Tesla has 27 “Stores” in the UK. Rather than glass-and-metal palaces crammed with cars, Tesla…
Elon Musk opens Tesla’s first European factory in Berlin
Setting up in Germany puts Tesla in direct competition with Volkswagen, which sold the most electric vehicles in Europe last year. Tesla’s Model 3 was the most…
Elon Musk blames soaring costs for Tesla price rises
The world’s most valuable carmaker has navigated a punishing shortage of microchips better than many of its rivals in the last year, rewriting software to deal with…
Tesla recalls 580,000 electric cars over ‘boombox’ safety issue
Tesla has been told to fix more than half a million cars in the US over concerns that a safety feature designed to alert pedestrians to the…
Elon Musk’s infamous Tesla tweet reignites battle with regulator
Both Mr Musk, the world’s richest person, and Tesla paid a $20m (£14.8m) fine as part of the settlement and the company was told to appoint two…
Tesla forced to fix 50,000 self-driving cars
Tesla is being forced to fix more than 50,000 cars in the US after its self-driving software made some drive past stop signs. The National Highway Traffic…
Tesla posts record profits as Musk hails ‘breakthrough year’
Tesla has announced a record annual profit following a surge in demand for electric cars that has made its chief executive Elon Musk the world’s richest man….
Elon Musk faces losses on Bitcoin investments
Tesla is facing a loss on its Bitcoin investments after a slump in the cryptocurrency’s price. Bitcoin fell to a low of $33,046 on Monday and has…
Teenage hacker claims Tesla security flaw let him take control of 25 cars
Tesla allows third-party apps to access data about their cars, which experts suggested may be the source of the vulnerability. Tesla reset several thousand “tokens”, which match…
Elon Musk accused of dancing to Beijing’s tune to build Tesla
But Tesla may struggle to keep up momentum. While many Western technology companies are already frozen out of China, those left are finding life increasingly difficult. Yahoo,…
Ford falls out of favour as drivers plug in to Tesla
In Germany, Tesla’s December sales reached 6,662, or 2.9pc of cars sold in the country, lagging homegrown brands such as Volkswagen, Audi, BMW and Mercedes, which between…
Tesla posts record sales as electric cars take off
Tesla has smashed its previous record for vehicle sales by delivering 308,600 cars in the fourth quarter. The stronger-than-expected results brought total sales in 2021 to 936,000, around…
Tesla rival races to introduce driverless cars by 2024
Making predictions about technology is a notoriously dangerous sport, and the onset of driverless cars is a particularly perilous thing to forecast. Google once pledged that the…
Tesla faces new safety probe into dashboard video games
Telsa is being investigated by US authorities for allowing video games to be played on the dashboard while vehicles are moving. The “Passenger Play” feature is used…
Tesla Model 3 cars suspended by leading Paris taxi firm after fatal crash
One of Paris’ biggest taxi companies has suspended the use of Tesla Model 3 cars in its fleet after a fatal accident involving one of the vehicles…
Investors ignore omicron and pile into electric car companies
Rather than retreating to safe stocks as inflation hit its highest level in a decade and the omicron variant appeared in South Africa, investors piled into racy…
Five of the best used electric family cars for sale in the UK in 2021
It’s with a caveat that we recommend the early Tesla Model S as a family chariot, because its reliability and quality record is far from exemplary –…