Tesla Model 3 Tops Resale Ranking

According to a new report from Kelley Blue Book, the Tesla Model 3 will retain its value better than the competition. The California-based vehicle valuation and automotive research company released its 2019 Best Resale Value Award Winners and Model 3 topped the electric vehicle category – though it would have also taken the top positions in other categories if it would have been included….

Tesla Europe to Deliver 3000 Cars A Week

  Hard on the heels of Tesla rolling 1000 new vehicles a day from its American assembly line, comes news that it will begin shipping 3,000 Model 3 vehicles per week in Europe starting in February. Cars will arrive through the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium to fill orders for the Model 3 that were placed mere weeks ago when the…

Canadians Are Making Tesla Smarter

How many times have you left on a road trip with the nagging thought that you’ve forgotten to turn off the lights or a burner on the stove? How often have you rolled home from a winter vacation wondering if the house will be warm enough when you get there? If you’re driving a Tesla, you can now turn those…

Tesla About To Become Your Dog’s Best Friend

There’s little that’s more fun for your dog than hitting the road with you and Tesla is about to address one of the biggest worries for dog owners when their pooch is along for the ride. Although Tesla introduced “Cabin Overheat Protection” in 2016 specifically to protect children and pets, it did not include an extension designed to alert passers-by…

Tesla Remote Control In Time For Christmas

Last night, while the kids were out Trick & Treating, Elon Musk announced that Tesla’s long awaited Smart Summon, now called ‘Advanced Summon’, will be ready in the next 6 weeks. With Smart Summon, a Tesla vehicle will navigate complex environments and parking spaces, maneuvering around all objects as necessary to come and find you. Via his Twitter feed, Musk…

VEVC Members Attend Tesla Leadership Summit

Four VEVC members (James Locke, David Grove, Jeremey Jensen and Arno Keinonen) were among 90 representatives of EV clubs around the world attending this month’s 2018 Tesla Leadership Summit in Milpitas and Fremont, California. In addition to meeting and sharing ideas with Tesla owners from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway, Finland and the UK, Summit attendees were…

Tesla Delivers 900 Model 3s to Vancouver This Week

You could say that all three of this week’s featured posts are great news for supporters of electric vehicles and very bad news for car dealerships hoping to sustain interest in the internal combustion engine. This week Tesla began delivering 900 recently purchased Model 3s to Vancouver, once again taking over parking at the PNE grounds where eager buyers are…

Welcome To The Machine

At every VEVC event or coffee chat, little circles of Leaf, Tesla or owners of other brands inevitably develop to giddily share newly discovered details of their cars. It might be a charging work around, an aspect of the latest software update, or some arcane fact they’ve learned about extending range. We’re evolving an entirely new class of gear-heads. Zero-Emission…

Tesla is expanding its insurance program to the US and Canada

Fred Lambert, Electrek.co October 13, 2017   Last year, we published an exclusive report revealing that Tesla was working on a new car insurance program, which it started offering to its customers in Australia and Hong Kong. Tesla executives have since been talking about working more closely with insurance companies as self-driving technology improves. Now we learn that Tesla is preparing to launch the…