Tesla has begun offering its longer-range Model 3 variant to Chinese customers as it fights to regain market share from local rivals amid intense competition in the country’s premium electric vehicle (EV) segment. The US company announced on Tuesday that the new car, which has a range of 830km, would be priced at 269,500 yuan…
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Tesla has officially started deploying its first software update for the recently refreshed Model Y, and it appears to add additional parts of a beta version of the Auto Shift feature, as highlighted by one owner this week. After Tesla began deploying its software update 2025.8.6 over the past few days, photos from a couple…
The new Model Y variant will be 20 per cent cheaper than the existing editions, which are priced from 263,500 yuan (US$36,406) to 303,500 yuan, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. The US carmaker plans to start producing the car next year at its Shanghai factory. The company has also sent engineers…