The wait is finally over. Tesla Model 3 has been unveiled. Here's price, features, release date and more info on it that you may want to know about.
You may remember that towards the back-end of last year we brought you the rather obscure news that famed iPhone hacker George Hotz (also known as Geohot) was getting involved in the autonomous vehicle space. After stepping away from jailbreaking iPhones and finding exploitable vulnerabilities in Sony's PlayStation 3, and taking numerous other jobs and internships at big companies, Hotz has set up a company called Comma, with the intention of attempting to pioneer artificially intelligent self-driving vehicles. It was generally classed as a laughable notion that Geohot would go up against the likes of Google and Tesla Motors in attempting to build an intelligent autonomous car, but new reports are suggesting that Hotz has secured investor funding for his new passion.
As interest grows in Tesla's first "affordable" electric car, it was confirmed during the company's earnings call today that the Model 3 car is all set to be officially unveiled at an event on March 31st, which works well with our earlier posts informing you that March should be a big month for Tesla. That's now guaranteed.
Tesla's upcoming Model 3 electric car may not be as swanky as some of its more powerful family members, but it does have one very important thing going for it - it's going to be cheap.
2016 looks set to be a big year for Tesla, not just with its own business pushing forward but more and more of the traditional auto makers jumping onto the electric bandwagon. Not many will be competing with Tesla's high-end cars, but then again, it's the mid-range car like the upcoming Tesla Model 3 that the company is itself starting to focus on. When that mid-range Model 3 car do arrive later this year, it might be the first to take advantage of Tesla's new thinking as far as apps are concerned.
One of the most immediately recognizable automotive manufacturers of the modern era has released a new promotional video that shows off the positives and benefits of its fantastic Autopilot technology. Elon Musk's Tesla Motors has never shied away from the fact that it's on a mission to champion the future of the electric autonomous vehicle. This new promotional video shows the recently advertised Summon feature paired alongside the strengths of the Autopilot mode of the Tesla Model S to highlight exactly how it would work in a real-world driving situation.
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Tesla is offering its new Model X with synthetic leather seats and accents in a new shade called "Ultra White" to cater for the vegan market.
It may sound like something that has been pulled right from an episode of Hasselhoff's Knight Rider, but the Tesla Model S can now drive itself in and out of parking after receiving a very simple command from the owner. The new Summon feature - which is now live in a beta state thanks to version 7.1 of the Tesla software - allows compatible Tesla models running the latest software to essentially enter into an autopilot mode that could be extremely useful for those drivers who struggle to park their car in tight spaces.
In a blog post that was circulated by Tesla's CEO Elon Musk, the company has set about suggesting that George Hotz's self-driving car tech isn't all that impressive, suggesting that if anyone was capable of producing something better than Tesla's software, then they would do just that.
