Tesla Model 3 News
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NHTSA is looking closely at Tesla's Autopilot system following a string of accidents following Tesla vehicles with road-side emergency vehicles.
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Tesla ditches radar, moves to Tesla VisionWith its move to Tesla Vision, Tesla is dropping radar, and the company has already eschewed lidar.
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VW's Project Trinity technological flagship will be priced like a Tesla Model 3
A new electric vehicle using highly automated production methods is coming from Volkswagen around the middle of the decade.
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Tesla announces Track Pack, updated Track Mode for Model 3 Performance
Tesla's new Track Package is designed for Model 3 Performance sedans equipped with the Performance Upgrade.
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First Chinese-made Teslas are delivered
The first batch of cars were delivered to Tesla employees.
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Tesla scraps advanced air suspension planned for Model 3
Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that an air suspension won't come to the Model 3, backtracking on a promise made in 2017.
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A Telsa Model 3 owner dissolved her car's key card, embedded it in biopolymer, and had it implanted in her arm.
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Meet the woman who turned a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck
Simone Giertz has built a pickup truck based on the Tesla Model 3 electric car.
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Tesla Model 3 Standard Range dropped from ordering website, new leasing program available
In February, Tesla delivered on its long-awaited promise of offering a $35,000 Model 3. Named the Standard Range, the car finally went on sale to give fans the most-affordable option possible. On Thursday, Tesla announced it's making that car much harder to buy. The electric car maker has removed...
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Tesla cuts 7 percent of workforce
Tesla on Friday announced in a company email that it has cut 7 percent of its full-time workforce. The move is aimed at getting overheads down so the company can start churning out more affordable Model 3 sedans, namely the promised $35,000 Standard model which will have a 220-mile range. Tesla...
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2018 Tesla Model 3 first drive review: This is the future, today
It’s not a hypercar, supercar, or even a sports car, and yet it’s one of the most hyped vehicles of the last decade. The Tesla Model 3 needs no introduction. The linchpin in Tesla’s Master Plan, the Model 3 is supposed to be an affordable, high-volume electric car. It’s not...
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Tesla Model 3 Performance adds "Track mode," system detailed
Tesla has officially begun rolling out its awaited "Track mode" for the Tesla Model 3 Performance. The electric-car maker confirmed the release via Twitter on Thursday and released details on how the system works on its website. We learned initial details on the Track mode this past July, but Tesla...
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Tesla a week ago purchased a plot of land near Shanghai to build its Chinese plant. The plant, which will be 100 percent owned by Tesla and have the capacity to build 250,000 vehicles annually initially, will start off building the Model 3 and upcoming Model Y. The information was detailed in a filing by the environmental assessment firm conducting a feasibility study for the project, Reuters reported Wednesday. A timeline for the start of production of Tesla cars in China is yet to surface. Production of the Model 3 is already underway at Tesla's plant in California. The Model Y, a small...
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Tesla increases Model 3 Mid Range price, drops Full Self-Driving option
Days after announcing a new mid-range Model 3 variant, Tesla has increased the price of the electric car from $45,000 to $46,000. The price hike also follows news that Tesla has dropped the Full Self-Driving option from its online configurator. Tesla told Motor Authority the $1,000 price increase...
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Tesla now sells Model 3 with 260-mile range, $45,000 sticker
Tesla late on Thursday started accepting orders for a more affordable Model 3 Mid Range sedan in the United States and Canada. The Mid Range is priced at $45,000 and has a range of 260 miles. That compares to the Model 3 Long Range which is priced at $54,000 and has a range of 310 miles. While the...
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New Tesla Roadster acceleration makes Jay Leno scream
In November 2017, Tesla showed us "one more thing" at the company's reveal of its Semi. That "thing" turned out to be the second-generation Roadster, planned for 2020. And at the debut event, Tesla gave depositors their first rides in the future electric sports car. Now, Jay Leno has had his turn...
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Tesla Model 3 production booms, automaker reports building 5,000 electric sedans last week
Tesla took every hour—including a couple extra hours Sunday—to meet its self-imposed deadline of building 5,000 Model 3 electric cars in seven days. The automaker reported Monday that it had concluded the three-month period ending Saturday by building 53,339 vehicles, including 28,578...
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Tesla now building cars in a tent, first AWD performance Model 3 built
After announcing a 9-percent reduction in its full-time workforce last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter on Saturday to announce that the company is now producing vehicles on a new general assembly line housed in a tent. In addition, the first Model 3 all-wheel-drive performance model has...
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Tesla's rollout of the Model 3 has been anything but smooth sailing, and thousands of customers are still waiting for one very important Model 3 variant: the base model. It's the car Tesla CEO Elon Musk has consistently promised would come with a $35,000 price tag and 220 miles of range. Now, Musk has tweeted that those reserving the least expensive Model 3 could see their cars as soon as September. The CEO replied to a Twitter user asking when the base version is scheduled to arrive. Musk explained the factory has to produce 5,000 units of Model 3 per week before the base model enters...
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AWD Tesla Model 3 detailed, Performance model sprints to 60 in 3.5 seconds
Tesla is finally ready to give the Model 3 show more go. CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter early Sunday morning to announce specs for all-wheel-drive and Performance versions of the Model 3. Musk tweeted that AWD Model 3s will feature a dual-motor setup similar to the Model S. Reportedly, one motor...
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Orders start for Tesla Model 3 AWD and performance models this week
For those eagerly waiting to place their orders for the dual-motor/all-wheel-drive or performance versions of the Tesla Model 3, the time has come. Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that orders for both variants will open this week. It's unclear if the decision to open orders this week for...
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Dual-motor Tesla Model 3 "probably" coming this summer
Despite production delays since first deliveries last July, Tesla finally thinks it will have Model 3s rolling off the line at a steady pace by the start of the third quarter of 2018. Now, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, its production line should be ready to handle dual-motor (all-wheel-drive)...
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Tesla Model 3 hits 60 MPH in 4.66 seconds, passes quarter mile in 13.3
We know from the Model S that Tesla underquotes the performance of its cars. Heck, we’ve seen a Model S P100D with Ludicrous Plus mode hit 60 mph in a mindboggling 2.389 seconds. So with Tesla stating at the Model 3’s launch last summer that the small electric sedan will do 0-60 mph in...
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EPA rates 2017 Tesla Model 3 at 310 miles of range, now find one
Step aside, Chevrolet Bolt EV. There's a new king of the (sort of) affordable electric-car segment. Well, maybe the Bolt EV can stay right where it is for two main reasons. First, there are very few Model 3s on the road at this point due to Tesla's problems with "production hell." Second, no early...
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