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Zhang Yazhou was sitting in the passenger seat of her Tesla Model 3 when she said she heard her father’s panicked voice: The brakes don’t work! Approaching a red light, her father swerved around two cars before plowing into an SUV and a sedan and crashing into a large concrete barrier.

Stunned, Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her for defamation for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes — and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay more than $23,000 in damages and publicly apologize to the $1.1 trillion company.

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Over the last four years, Tesla has sued at least six car owners in China who had sudden vehicle malfunctions, quality complaints or accidents they claimed were caused by mechanical failures.

The company has also sued at least six bloggers and two Chinese media outlets that wrote critically about the company, according to a review of public court documents and Chinese media reports by The Associated Press. Tesla won all eleven cases for which AP could determine the verdicts. Two judgments, including Zhang’s, are on appeal. One case was settled out of court.

It is not common practice for automakers — in China or elsewhere — to sue their customers. But Tesla has pioneered an aggressive legal strategy and leveraged the patronage of powerful leaders in China’s ruling Communist Party to silence critics, reap financial rewards and limit its accountability.

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Over the past couple of years, the seemingly steady rightward drift of Elon Musk has culminated in actions and statements that have sparked broad controversy. Musk – visionary CEO of Tesla, SpaceX and founder of X Corp – is a man on a mission to get humanity to Mars. He is also the wealthiest person on the planet.

It's just the latest reason to be skeptical of the car's safety record.

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that his company will launch a paid ride-hailing robotaxi service in Austin, Texas this coming June, the latest in a long line of sky-high promises he has yet to meet about autonomy.

Tesla says more affordable models are coming.

“There is no justification for any reasonable Pole to continue purchasing Teslas,” says minister Sławomir Nitras.

Elon Musk’s company still imports large number of cars into Europe from its Shanghai factory

The new Model Y has about a $4,000 price premium.

​Security researchers hacked Tesla's Wall Connector electric vehicle charger twice on the second day of the Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 hacking contest.

A Delaware judge has approved a settlement that will see Tesla directors — including Chair Robyn Denholm, Oracle founder Larry Ellison, Kimbal Musk, and James Murdoch — return up to $919 million to the automaker, officially resolving allegations that they overpaid themselves, per Reuters.

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Tesla is releasing OTA updates to fix the rearview camera.

The truck barely moved the needle for Tesla this year.

The vehicle was parked directly outside the hotel doors.

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Tesla is recalling almost 700,000 vehicles because of an issue with the warning light on the tire pressure monitoring system.

We’ll be left in the dark about Tesla’s crashes.

the Model Q will debut with a base price under $30,000 (C$42,300) in the United States after subsidies, with a potential starting price as low as $25,000 (C$35,300). In China, local production could push prices even lower, with estimates suggesting a starting price of approximately ¥140,000 (C$27,200/US$19,200).

The vehicle will be 15% smaller and 30% lighter than the Model 3, with an overall length of approximately 3,988 mm, making it Tesla’s most compact car yet. For comparison, the Model 3 has a length of 4,694 mm.

The vehicle will utilize a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery, available in two configurations, 53 kWh and 75 kWh, supporting both single and dual-motor (RWD and AWD) variants.

This setup will deliver an estimated range of 500 kilometers (310 miles) of range

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Although it’s been only less than a week since Tesla (TSLA) released its Full Self-Driving (Supervised) version 13 to early access beta testers, we’re witnessing a ton of testing already done on it.

According to FSD v13 testers, the system has improved even beyond what Tesla mentioned in the software’s release notes. FSD v13 has made Autopilot driving smoother multi-fold even compared to v12.

The current version with early access testers is FSD v13.2 (2024.39.10) which is a limited-release update. Tesla plans to roll out FSD v13.3 as a wide release but a solid timeline of this point-release update has yet to be announced by the tech automaker.