In covering car news, I will sometimes look at a new piece of technology and do a double take. “That can’t be real, it is simply too stupid for a room of automotive engineers to have signed off on it.” Often times, those pieces of tech are on Stellantis vehicles. Here’s a winner that I […]| FuelArc News
Well folks, it finally happened. The screen in your pickup truck… your last bastion of peace from the chaos of unskippable advertisements… now plays popup ads. Not even subtle ones. We’re talking full-dash, head-unit-commandeering infomercial panels in your RAM 1500, like you’re driving a Times Square billboard on wheels. It all kicked off with a […]| FuelArc News
This Tesla Robotaxi demo video is a mess. Watch as the car makes a left turn from the wrong lane. The safety operator steps in, and the car comes to a stop… right in the middle of the intersection. Eventually, it completes the illegal left turn on red, which raises the question, what exactly is […] The post Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection & Runs a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive” appeared first on FuelArc News.| FuelArc News
TL;DR: Tesla self-driving tech is becoming less safe per mile, according to Tesla’s own data. Q1 2025 was 2.5% worse than Q1 2024. Q2 2025 was 2.8% worse than Q2 2024. There’s some rough news released alongside Tesla’s Q2 2025 financial results, maybe even worse than the plummeting profitability and the total lack of guidance […] The post Tesla Reports Drop in Self-Driving Safety After Introducing “End-to-End Neural Networks” appeared first on FuelArc News.| FuelArc News
Watch this video as a Tesla Robotaxi goes to drop off a passenger in Austin, and instead just hangs out in the middle of a busy street for 4 minutes, waiting for the passenger to get out onto the bustling 4-lane thoroughfare. Not a great look: Breaking Down the Breakdown So what’s going on here… […]| FuelArc News
Let’s start with the news: Grok 4 is out today. That’s the most recent iteration of xAI’s conversational AI. Tucked into the Tweet-storm around the release, Elon Musk promised that Grok would be added to Tesla vehicles by “next week at the latest.” The Grok 4 rollout is not going too smoothly, and it isn’t […] The post Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews” appeared first on FuelArc News.| FuelArc News
Grok, Elon Musk’s homegrown AI assistant on X, has spent the last 48 hours praising Adolf Hitler, parroting racial science, and declaring that Ashkenazi Jews push “anti-white hate.” Like, honestly. What happened behind the scenes to cause this AI output? We’ll dig into the likely cause. For Instance, Grok Now Cites Ugly Antisemitic Tropes Jeez! […] The post The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) app...| FuelArc News
With all of the talk about unsupervised Robotaxis, you might reasonably wonder when Tesla’s self-driving tech will be ready to roam American roads without a human ready to step in. Not too soon, based on recent videos of self-driving Teslas trying to drive into oncoming traffic. We found 3 examples, give them a watch to […] The post Self-Driving Tesla Tries to Crash into Oncoming Traffic On The Highway… Again appeared first on FuelArc News.| FuelArc News
There was a time when the Nissan Sentra was ubiquitous. I drove a ‘94 for years… manual windows, cloth seats, bulletproof engine. Nothing fancy. Just a humble little box that got you to work, the store, and back again without asking for much. The kind of car you miss only when it’s gone. That kind […] The post Nissan: “Urgent Support Needed,” According to Insider Emails appeared first on FuelArc News.| FuelArc News
Let’s say your Cybertruck pops a tire, or needs a new windshield, or you just looked at it funny and the glued-on stainless steel panels fell off. No worries! Tesla’s got you covered. You can now finance your repairs through Affirm or Klarna, because if there’s one thing America needs, it’s more high-interest debt attached […]| FuelArc News
Tesla’s Cybertruck just made its grand debut at Mardi Gras 2025, and, well… it didn’t go great. Watch the Video: The Crowd Was Not Having It A group of Cybertrucks rolled through the Orpheus Parade, a generally tame, family-friendly event known for marching bands, fabulous floats, and an all-around good time. But when the small […]| FuelArc News
Firefighters Love Fighting Fires… Except EV Fires For a profession filled with individuals who enjoy running toward the plumes of smoke everyone else is running away from, you’d assume firefighters would love EV fires. Nope. Can’t stand EV fires. Here’s a funny conversation where someone asks a group of firefighters: “Would you rather fight 11 […]| FuelArc News
Look at this Cybertruck, stuck in a literal parking space. That MIGHT be 3 inches of snow? Probably less… it just has a 3-inch berm. I could escape that spot on rollerskates. Cyberstuck Again, As Traffic Passes Without a Second Thought Here’s another Cybertruck stuck in the snow, also in Montreal, getting passed on the […]| FuelArc News
TL;DR: Government-issue Cybertrucks appeared on the streets of Qatar within 32 days of Elon Musk joining the Trump administration. In case you didn’t see it, the US President and a gaggle of CEOs visited the Gulf state of Qatar on the President’s first foreign trip of his second administration. Of course, Elon Musk was there… […]| FuelArc News
The Tesla Robotaxi isn’t able to drive during rain, so our intrepid editors had wondered what happens if a rainstorm strikes while you’re riding in Tesla’s fair-weather autonomous taxi. Well, the Tesla Robotaxi cancels your fare and drops you off in the rain, that’s what happens. Seriously! Can’t make this stuff up. Watch a Tesla […]| FuelArc News
Watch this video of Tesla’s Robotaxi, and let me know what you think: In a 22 minute drive, I saw: All told, these early rider videos are a mess. This isn’t beta testing. It’s stress testing… and the autonomous tech is failing the test. Broad Daylight, Clear Skies: It’ll Never Be Easier to Not Mess […]| FuelArc News
That’s it, y’all. The article title is the whole article. Tesla celebrated their first autonomous vehicle delivery after a new Model Y drove itself about 30 minutes from the Gigafactory in Austin TX to the customer’s home. It didn’t exactly stick the landing, as it parked directly in a clearly marked fire lane. Please Don’t […]| FuelArc News
Between January 10 and January 12, after being warned that an EV rebate program was running out of funds, Tesla dealerships in Canada managed to claim 8,669 individual iZEV EV rebates, or about $43 million CAD in incentives. That’s a staggering number of sales to log in a single weekend. Meanwhile, 200 other auto dealerships […]| FuelArc News
Looks like Tesla’s reliance on government subsidies has finally hit a wall in Canada. After Tesla requested reimbursement for an unprecedented 8,669 Canadian EV rebates in just three days, the Canadian government froze Tesla’s rebate payments and paused all future eligibility for federal rebates. For those keeping score, Tesla claimed to sell 1.5 vehicles per […]| FuelArc News
Tesla owners have started doing something wild… installing DIY emergency escape rip cords inside their vehicles so their passengers don’t get trapped if the car catches fire. That’s not a joke. That’s just how badly the doors are designed. Here’s why: Tesla doors are entirely electronic. When you want to get out, you hit a […]| FuelArc News
Update: We broke this news over the weekend from a lucky catch on Reddit, but the Washington Post and TechCrunch are expanding on it, citing anonymous sources. They report that 10% of the NHTSA employees have been cut, which would be about 80 staffers, with especially heavy cuts for the employees in the new office […]| FuelArc News
The NHTSA’s Standing General Order: Tracking Self-Driving Crashes Since 2021, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has required the manufacturers of self-driving systems to report crashes involving their technologies. This policy is part of the Standing General Order on Crash Reporting, designed to track real-world safety data and hold companies accountable for their self-driving […]| FuelArc News
We’re seeing another sticky situation develop, the same day Tesla recalled 46,096 Cybertrucks to stop them from falling apart because the stainless steel panels are held on with the wrong glue. This time, it’s the Cybertruck’s off-road light bar that’s flinging itself off at highway speeds. Incredibly, the light bar is also glued in place, […]| FuelArc News
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities. That’s more than enough data to compare to the Ford Pinto, a car so notoriously combustible that it has become a watchword for corporate greed. Let’s start with the data […]| FuelArc News
We have new information about that March 9th 2025 fire that burned four Cybertrucks in Seattle. The fire started during a wave of arsons that seemed to strike worldwide in early March, so speculation was already running hot about the cause of the blaze. Well, turns out, the Fire Investigators almost instantaneously discovered strong evidence […]| FuelArc News
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We went digging to see if that widely shared class-action lawsuit accusing Tesla of odometer fraud had any real-world backing. Honestly, we expected it to be overblown. Odometer lawsuits aren’t exactly everyday news, the last one I can remember was a branding disaster for Ferrari. To our surprise, Tesla drivers have been publicly posting about […]| FuelArc News
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Update: Looks like those Cybertruck fires in Seattle were “most likely” arson, according to investigators. We counted 9 initially, but it’s actually 10, based on recently emerging evidence. We’re only 18 days into March 2025, and already we’ve seen 9 instances of Tesla dealerships, Supercharger stations, or parked vehicles torched or shot in a wave […]| FuelArc News
Third update: Ope, “most likely” arson, according to official documents! Updated with video from reporters on-site at the bottom of the post! Late Sunday night, four Tesla Cybertrucks caught fire in a Seattle holding lot near 2nd Ave S & S Spokane St, just five minutes from the local Tesla dealership. Initially, reports indicated two […]| FuelArc News
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Nothing quite says “high-performance muscle car” like a popup ad for a Mopar Extended Warranty covering your whole center console. That’s right, Dodge Charger owners are now experiencing an exciting new feature: pop-up ads that appear every time the vehicle stops at a light. This garbage feature was spotted in the wild, where a Charger […]| FuelArc News
