Author: Richard

Tesla planned to restart production at its Giga Shanghai EV factory in China after the new year break. YouTube influencer and drone photographer Wu Wa shared that there were some concerns Tesla may not reopen the factory as planned, so he headed to the site to see what was up. The factory was back up […]

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has published a list of electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles that are eligible for federal tax credits under the new Inflation Reduction Act. Valid for purchases made on or after January 1, 2023, the list includes several Tesla models, as the new law has eliminated the tax credit cap for […]

This year Tesla announced its plan to exceed 1-million vehicle sold globally in 2022 and one way it’s making sure to achieve that goal is to push for more production towards the end of the year. Interestingly, even though it will easily achieve that goal, given that it had already gone beyond 900,000 vehicles delivered […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has noted a few times in the past that the automaker aims to get away from the huge end-of-quarter and end-of-year delivery waves. It really shouldn’t matter if a car is delivered on December 31, 2022, or in transit to be delivered on January 2, 2023. However, the media and Wall […]

The Tesla Model Y has just smashed a huge sales record in Norway, reaching a volume unheard of since 1969. According to the official data, so far this year, nearly 17,000 new Tesla Model Y were registered in the country (16,921 as of December 23). That’s the highest number of new registrations during a single […]

The recently launched Tesla Semi is considered one of the most interesting new electric vehicles on the market and Munro & Associates would like to conduct a full teardown of the truck. Munro Live, the YouTube arm of the company, just announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign “Uncle Sandy Sticker (Tesla Semi Fundraiser)” to […]

The Tik Tok video you are about to watch really speaks for itself. That said, when we learned that a dog used a Tesla Model 3 as a chew toy, we thought it was a joke. However, as you’ll clearly see, it really happened. Perhaps you could argue that it could have been staged, but […]

When a photo of a bare Tesla Cybertruck body popped up online a few days ago many said that its rear was the result of a single-piece casting possibly created in the new 9,000-ton Giga press. However, now that Sandy Munro of Munro Live has had a look at the photo, he says that it’s […]

The compressor is designed to pump refrigerant through the A/C system and to convert low pressure vapor refrigerant into high pressure vapor refrigerant. All modern compressors utilize a clutch and drive pulley. The pulley is driven off a drive belt whenever the engine is running. When the A/C button is pushed the clutch is engaged, locking […]

There are several signs that a fuel pump is on the way out. The most obvious is that the car won’t start, because the pump is unable to get the fuel to the engine. It’s likely that other symptoms will have shown themselves first, though. These include a loss of power when accelerating, an intermittent […]