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Tesla's latest software update, version 2024.26, introduces several new features, most notably enhanced parental controls. The update includes a "Night Curfew" feature, which allows parents to set a curfew time for the vehicle and receive notifications through the Tesla app if the car is driven past this time. Additionally, parents can set a maximum speed limit, limit acceleration, and activate various safety features such as Speed Limit Warning, Automatic Emergency Braking, and Forward Collision Warning. These settings are protected by a PIN to prevent unauthorized changes. The update also adds support for YouTube Music and Amazon Music, expanding Tesla's existing music streaming options, which already include Spotify, Apple Music, TuneIn, and Tidal. Other new features include navigation to sub-destinations, local weather and air quality information, and improved scheduling for charging and preconditioning. . . . . . #Initiatemagazine #initiate #initiator #softwareupdates #software #teslamodels #teslamotors #elonmusk #elonmuskcars #parentalguidance

Sure, you don’t have attendants at Tesla Superchargers, but the charging process is as simple as charging an iPhone. Charging at a Supercharger is as simple: You pop into a space, open the little door revealing the little plug hole, and plug in. Once you’re done, the car tells you it’s done. You lift your head from your phone, put it in your pocket, get out of the car, unplug the car, and put the cord back in its place. How do you pay? There’s no screen like there is on a gas pump. Whatever electricity you used to charge will be charged to the card on file. It's like buying a bottle of water at the gym or running an expensive tab at the bar.

🚗 Tesla Holiday Update 2024 🎄 😊 Great news for Tesla owners, but ⚠️ unfortunate for app developers who invested time and money in creating apps for Tesla vehicles. The 2024 update is shaking things up! 🔧 Tech industry dynamics are real— businesses must quickly adapt when new features or updates like these emerge. 🌐💡 🔄 Adaptability is key to thriving in such a fast-paced industry. 📈 #Tesla #ElectricVehicle #EV #TeslaModelY #TeslaModel3 #Cybertruck #TeslaModelX #TeslaModelS #TeslaUpdate #TechIndustry #Innovation #AppDevelopment #BusinessAdaptation #TeslaOwners #HolidayUpdate #TechTrends Full article: https://lnkd.in/gjYgR6dx

10 out of 30 #Tesla #Supercharger plugs are down at Atlantic Station. Not sure when they went down but let’s see how long it takes to get them back online and how the rest of the sites hold up over time. Fortunately, the supercharger team overbuilt and so Tesla has “reliability in numbers”. Even this site, with 10 plugs down has 18 more available, on a weekend. Note the availability of nearby supercharger sites too. For those interested, you can download the Tesla app, even if you don’t have a Tesla, and track the status of chargers in your area, and around the world,(minus China). How long do you think it will take to get this site fixed? What do you think the nature of the problem is? It says reduced service, which could just mean there’s a power supply issue? Are there any free tools that track site reliability over time? Its freely available on the app, so I wonder if it could easily be compiled.

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What killed the Apple car? After a decade of secretive work and billions of dollars invested, the company canceled its electric car project. Here’s the inside story of the car Apple envisioned and why "Project Titan" ultimately fell apart... Project Titan, Apple’s secretive car program, has been canceled. Apple invested billions of dollars over the past decade as part of a grandiose plan to upturn the car industry in the same way the iPhone revolutionized mobile phones. There was an abortive effort to buy Tesla, a design inspired by the old Volkswagen bus and plans to team up with Mercedes-Benz, BMW and others. The idea evolved over 10 years but basically was to disrupt the industry with a combo of battery electric vehicle + self-driving + car sharing (transportation as a service). Last month Cook correctly decided that, - Apple had zero edge in battery/car manufacturing -> low margins; - Self-driving (autonomous Level 5) was not achievable anytime soon (Tesla just killed its rules-based approach with a new AI approach); - Car-sharing wouldn’t meet shareholders’ return expectations (Uber is bad business). For Apple to return to growth, it needs a new, big (!!!) revenue category that doesn’t eat the lunch of other categories. Where should it come from? One thing is for sure in the current automotive world - nothing is real until it ships! #Apple #ElectricVehicle #EV #Tesla #ProjectTitan

Interview with Mercedes-Benz AG CEO Ola Kaellenius: “Would you ever let [Apple] take over all of the infotainment of the car in that way?” “So the short answer is no. But you need to look at it from a bigger perspective. Everything that's going on in this digital window into your car and to the world is not just infotainment.” … “But we're not fundamentalists to say for some reason, we're not gonna allow a customer to use Apple CarPlay if that's what they choose to do. So we have Apple CarPlay, we have Android Auto.” … “Yes, we're integrating Google Maps. In fact, we are developing with Google the next generation of what a map in a car married to the driving assistance system should look like. Fascinating product where the best of the Google engineers, where the best of the Mercedes engineers can throw their expertise together and take that to the next level.”

I share your EV growth optimism here, Jon. What also is being solved, albeit slowly, is the charging infrastructure build out. Addressing "range anxiety" is key, but there are a variety of nuanced charging use cases that will need solutions at scale, including multi-unit buildings (aging, w/ current charging capacity constraints), public curbside charging, workplace, etc. Fortunately many incumbent and emerging charging solution companies are innovating and making new operating model and solution investments. #electricvehicles #marketgrowth #customersegments

Back from holiday, and how times have changed—for the better! In the "old days" with a 300-kilometer range car, I'd start scheduling my trip two weeks in advance using at least three different apps. During the journey, I'd experience real range anxiety at least once or twice. I often had to rely on slow "granny" chargers. Today, with a 400+ kilometer range Tesla, I start planning my trip just two minutes before leaving. Unwrapped my granny charger after six months, using it once merely to test it. https://lnkd.in/ePVdySpD

“There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” That’s a quote from the CEO of Microsoft in 2007. Every technological revolution has its doubters. People doubted the personal computer, the iPhone, Facebook, Uber/Lyft...the list goes on. EVs are no different. Skeptics have gone on and on about “softening” demand. Critics have overemphasized range anxiety. People have criticized automakers for betting “too big” on EVs. Yet people keep buying EVs. Goldman recently predicted that EVs will make up 50% of car sales in the US by 2030. That’s a mind-blowing stat – in just 6 years, EVs will make up half of car sales. That’s because a lot of the problems that people associate with EVs are being solved. A huge historic barrier has been price, and the cost of batteries has been a big factor in the overall cost of the vehicle. But now, battery prices are falling because battery manufacturing is improving and we’re in a bear market for metals. And manufacturers are working aggressively to pass those savings onto buyers. In fact, many EVs are now reaching price parity with gas cars. Automakers have had faith that these headwinds would turn into tailwinds. And they stayed the course despite skeptics. But it’s truly special to see it actually happening. Are you planning on getting an EV in the next 6 years?  Look to your right and look to your left.  Odds are one of those people will be driving one.