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Letter to Tesla shareholders informative for those on the outside

Tesla shareholders At the finish of the 2025 shareholder meeting, Board Chair issued a letter to Tesla shareholders. Among other things, she thanked them for the “approval of Proposals One, Three and Four sends an unmistakable message: you support the vision embodied by Master Plan Part IV and want us to keep steering Tesla toward …

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Tesla CEO gets his pay package

The pay package MSNBC has reported that Tesla shareholders overwhelmingly approved a massive new pay package for CEO Elon Musk. The deal is worth up to $1 trillion over 10 years if the company meets a list of benchmarks. The deal was not without opposition, but ultimately Musk, already Tesla’s largest shareholder, could consolidate influence …

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Cybercab — who covers liability?

Liability We posted a few days ago about Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claims that the company would begin production of the self driving Cybercab in the second quarter of 2026. And we completely forgot about this — who cover’s liability? If there is no driver and the expectations are that the vehicle will go station …

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Tesla to start Cybercab production in the second quarter of 2026

Cybercab production According to Tesla CEO Elon Musk, the company will begin full scale Cybercab production in Q2 of 2026. The Cybercab is a vehicle with no driver controls — steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedals — at all… As reported by InsideEVs, Musk spoke at the most recent quarterly earnings call and claimed the …

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Well, Consumer Reports was close

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Consumer Reports We often cite Consumer Reports (CR) articles we see on automotive matters, but a recent CR article about one of our favorite topics, electronic locks and latches, sent us back to review our own Get Out page. They were close. We’re talking about getting out of a vehicle equipped with electronic locks and …

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Electric Vehicle Jump Start Videos

Electric Vehicle Jump Start What follows is the series of videos we’ve been putting together to help with electric vehicle jump start procedures if the vehicle’s 12-volt start battery dies. It is not widely known that every EV features a 12-volt battery that essentially runs everything except the electric motor(s). The high-voltage battery handles that, …

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Cybertruck fire deaths prompt a re-write of our Get Out page

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Get Out page The recent announcement of lawsuits over the deaths of two college students in a Cybertruck fire has us rethinking and re-writing out Get Out page. We believe we were first to call attention to electronic locks and latches some ten years ago with the death a man in the hot Texas sun …

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