Tesla Smart Summon Bonanza — 7 Races

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 06:13:12 +0000

Tesla Smart Summon was all the rage for a few days on Tesla Twitter and Tesla YouTube. For obvious reason, too — it’s fun! More thoughtfully (putting on my serious face), it’s an amazing step forward toward door-to-door fully self-driving Teslas. That’s at least half the excitement — what it indicates is coming, much more than what is here today. Nonetheless, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of Tesla owners were eager to see what Smart Summon could do and what its limitations were. That included me, a new Tesla buddy, and a friend of his who happened to be in town at the Supercharger where we had decided to meet

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Tesla Smart Summon Chases Kids (Video From Inside Car)

Credit to Author: Marika| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:30:24 +0000

Okay, so I’m sitting in the car waiting for my whole family (husband and two little girls) to come back from a quick stop for shopping. The car is plugged in and charging at a Tesla Supercharger (thank you to buyers who used our referral code). My husband came up with a funny phrase to describe a “park & plug” state, which is “plark.” So, you could say I’m sitting in a “plarked” car in a Tesla “plarking lot.”

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EV Summit: Electric Vehicle Experts Talk Tech, Charging, & Tesla … In 2016 (Video)

Credit to Author: Matt Pressman| Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 08:27:25 +0000

I had a chance to attend this year’s EV Transportation and Technology Summit at the Florida Solar Energy Center in Cocoa, Florida. Last week, I drove our Tesla Model X up to the event and stopped along the way at Tesla’s Port St. Lucie Supercharger

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Tesla Smart Summon Tests Show Oodles Of Laughter (10 Videos)

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 17:43:37 +0000

Friend & longtime Tesla employee* David Havasi and I play with Smart Summon in a difficult situation. More dramatically, I’ve got a collection of fun and dramatic Smart Summon videos from Twitter to show you

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The Shift To Solar, Wind, & Electric Vehicles Is Too Monumental To Overstate

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 02:35:11 +0000

Covering solar power, wind power, and electric vehicles obsessively for ~10 years, I have run across some fascinating observations regarding these technologies and the transitions we are going through — and then I’ve subsequently forgotten many of them. This article is centered around one of the coolest observations I’ve run across, which slipped my mind for a while but just came back to the forefront this week

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