A self-driving Tesla was put to the test by KTVU Friday to try to determine how a Model S caused a Thanksgiving Day eight-car pileup on the Bay Bridge.
I am so excited to watch this. I m just ready to geek out and nerd out and have fun with Tesla and Elon Musk,” said Chad Mortensen of The Tesla Owners East Bay Club. Well, we all kind of know Elon, he can have his own jokes of himself, of his own. We ll see how it goes tonight, yeah,” said Wilmer Awayan, another member of the Tesla Owners Easy Bay Club. Musk s opening monologue was self-deprecating and somewhat revealing. I m actually making history tonight as the first person with Asperger’s to host SNL. Or at least the first to admit it,” Musk said during his SNL appearance.
Public EV charging is a problem. Bidenâs presidency could change that.
More chargers please!
2021-01-23 16:00:00 UTC
California is the most electrified state when it comes to cars: It accounts for up to half of all U.S. electric vehicles sales. But even with Teslas, Nissan Leafs, and Chevy Bolts all over the place, it s not always easy to find a public charging station without a line, especially when driving long distances throughout California. That doesn t bode well for other states like Maryland, Colorado, and Oklahoma, which are all trying to encourage more EV sales.
Now that President Biden is in office, we ll see if his plans to accelerate EV adoption mean the supporting infrastructure (like public charging stations and more fast-charging connections for 30-minute fill-ups ) will actually come to fruition. The plan outlines 500,000 new EV plugs across the U.S by the end of this decade. But even in an EV-friendly state like California, with nearly 800,000 plug-in EVs a