TESLA’S Mannequin Y is the first electric car to become the world’s best-selling automobile, beating the Toyota Corolla within the first quarter of this year despite being nearly twice the price.

In additional constructive Tesla news, Ford has also introduced that it might undertake the electric car specialist’s proprietary charging port, which may grant Ford prospects entry to the “superior” Supercharger DC fast charging community.

However, in a twist to the continuing saga ofTesla’ss so-called Full Self Driving know-how, a whistleblower has leaked a tranche of damning information about security incidents, relationship again to 2015, plus proof of inside insurance policies designed to maintain such experiences from the general public eye.

First, the excellent news. In response to information sourced from Jato Dynamics, the Mannequin Y has surpassed the Toyota Corolla and RAV4 to take the highest spot, promoting 267,200 items globally in Q1 2024 in opposition to 256,400 Corollas and 214,700 RAV4s. The numbers symbolize a 69 percent year-on-year enhancement for the Mannequin Y.

Regionally, FCAI gross sales figures present Tesla as Australia’s seventh hottest car model, with YTD gross sales of 14,083 (or a 4.0 percent market share). The Mannequin 3 is Tesla’s best-selling car right here, and it dominates the over-$60K medium passenger automobile section with 8819 deliveries to the top of April, whereas the Mannequin Y has accrued 5264 unit gross sales throughout the above-$60K medium SUV sector.

Now for some dangerous information. In addition to the battery fires and autonomous driving glitches that have beset Tesla nearly since day one, a whistleblower on the firm leaked 100GB of information to German enterprise journal Handelsblatt, exhibiting over 2400 instances of self-acceleration and greater than 1500 braking issues referring to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) applied sciences relationship back to 2015.

Additionally, among the many information sources are accounts of unintentional emergency braking and so-called phantom stops as the result of false collision warnings.

Thus far, Tesla has recalled some 362,758 automobiles outfitted with FSD for points described by the US Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Authority (NHTSA) as a “crash danger.”

Additionally, the leaked paperwork states that it’s Tesla’s firm coverage to maintain experiences of such points “below wraps,” with any correspondence referring to the problems to be solely made to the client on a verbal foundation.

“There are bullet factors for every incident for the ‘ technical overview.’ The workers who enter this overview into the system recurrently clarify that the report is ‘for inside use solely.’ Every entry additionally incorporates the word in daring print that data, if in any respect, might solely be handed on ‘verbally to the client,” reported Handelsblatt.

“Don’t copy and paste the report beneath into an e-mail, textual content message, or leave it in a voicemail to the client. Car information also needs to not be launched without permission. If, regardless of the recommendation, ‘a’ involvement of a lawyer can’t be prevented,’ this has to be recorded.”

In response to Handelsblatt’s queries about the information, Tesla responded by “demanding that the information be deleted.”

To finish on an extra constructive word, removed from being the sizeable dangerous wolf, it appears Tesla is getting ready to negotiate a deal with Ford to share its Supercharger community with homeowners of the BlueOval’ss electrical automobiles.

As part of a current meeting between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Ford CEO Jim Farley—who has publicly praised Tesla on several occasions—Ford introduced that it might undertake Tesla’s North American Charging Normal (NCAS) proprietary charging port, which may permit Ford prospects entry to Tesla’s “superior EV charging community.”

In return, and in response to the US publication The Verge, Tesla will get “essential buy-in for its charging know-how from one of many high automakers on the earth.”

“Farley stated all of Ford’s present and future prospects would get entry to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers throughout the US. And for present Ford EV homeowners, Musk says an adapter is anticipated to be in manufacturing early subsequent yr,” reported The Verge.

In a Twitter submission, Mr. Farley stated that the flexibility for Ford EV prospects to cost their automobiles by utilizing Tesla’s Supercharger community would significantly speed up the transition towards electrical automobiles.

“We should enhance the charging infrastructure to speed up EV adoption and make the transition profitable for our prospects. (We’re) excited to work with Elon Musk and Tesla to offer Ford EV homeowners entry to the Tesla charging community,” he tweeted.