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Tesla vanity license plates - clever ideas for a custom plate

May 29, 2022

By Kieran Burgess

When we get a new car we love to add those little touches that make it our own. Tesla owners are no different, except you'll probably find a higher percentage of serious ride-pimpers amongst Tesla owners than other car brands.

And there are so many options. Want to organize the vast central console space more efficiently? Need to protect the boot carpets from your wet skis? Even upgraded hard drives for Sentry Mode and in-car refrigerators are available.

But all these perks and polishes are best appreciated by you, inside the car. What about projecting your personality to those around you? A custom wrap or a paint job is nice, but there's another way. License plates.

What better way to let your sense of humor show, give a gentle ribbing to the gas guzzlers following you, or make a serious point about why you went green. Let's take a look at some of the options you might want to consider for a custom plate.

Many countries allow you to purchase a license plate with your own choice of letters and numbers. Sure, you could go for your name or something that means something to you alone.

But why not lean into the Tesla vibe with your plate, and make a statement! Here are five genuine plates already out there.

LOL OIL

While quite a nice sentiment at the best of times, the recent skyrocketing of oil and gas prices has probably made this Tesla owner more ROFL OIL than a mere LOL.

3VOLVED

This Model 3 owner shared her new plate on Twitter, and admitted that she reserved this plate 2.5 years before getting hold of the car itself. That's dedication to the cause: in this case throwing out a cleverly ambiguous statement that could be taken as an observation on Teslas, EVs, or EV owners' level of evolution. Nice twist on replacing the E with a 3, a la Model 3.

THX 3LON

Continuing the 'Tesla E' theme of throwing in the number 3 instead, this owner knows who is responsible for this slice of happiness. I wonder if it's appreciation for the vision and achievements of Elon Musk and his team, or whether the car was a personal gift from Elon?! Probably not the latter.

BUY TSLA

You don't need to be a certified financial advisor to offer this advice. This Model X owner is clearly playing the long game, in more ways than one. Looking at the healthy level of dirt on the bodywork, this license plate is a commitment to the stock market strategy of going long on Tesla, and the owner doesn't look like they'll be changing their advice any time soon.

NOPLANETB

Straight to the point, if you'd rather not beat around the bush with the environmental message through gentle humor, lest the message be lost, you could take a leaf out of this Australian owner's book.

Unfortunately, some folk can't get a vanity plate and are forced to go with a regular random assigned plate. Where I am in Switzerland, you can choose your number from a catalog, and it looks like that's the case for @thevoltmonkey in Germany too:

Quite an inventive way of proclaiming this Tesla as not just any old Tesla, but 'Dah Tesla'.

So maybe you can see if one of these options are available in your area, or perhaps you can think along some other pun lines. Model Y owners can have some fun with Y OH Y, Y BE MAD, or YNOT. Or any Tesla owner could consider an electricity pun, for example, OHM RUN, PLUG IN or SAY WATT.

There'll be some limits, depending on where you are. There's usually a minimum and maximum number of characters allowed. Often, nothing that can appear obscene or offensive will be allowed, and there are stories of people in Canada and some US states retrospectively being ordered to give up their plates due to bad language or perceived discrimination against an ethnic minority group. In the UK, you can't have a Q at the start of your number (they are reserved for kit cars) or display a number that could appear to show the car as younger than it really is, as standard plates include the year of registration - so including '22' on a car manufactured in 2020, for example.

Of course, whether or not you've got the perfect plate, there's nothing stopping you from making a little nod to your likes and wants through the plate holder…

Now, when the full self-driving revolution is complete, will there still be a need for license plates anyway? If there are no more driving infractions, and the Robotaxi fleet means the end of parking fines, do the authorities need the plates anymore? Or will every car be identifiable through a unique identifier broadcast by the computer?

In the meantime, make the most of those customized plates.

Bloomberg forum: Elon talks about Trump, Twitter and job cuts [video]

June 23, 2022

By Gabe Rodriguez Morrison

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently attended Bloomberg's Qatar Economic Forum focused primarily on the diversification of the world economy and the development of renewable energy.

Elon Musk spoke about a variety of topics, including recession fears, Tesla Job cuts, growth and competition and the recent Twitter buyout.

Elon Musk said that a recession in the U.S. "is inevitable at some point. As to whether there is a recession in the near-term, that is more likely than not."

Musk also shared more details on the recent Tesla job cuts:

"Tesla is reducing its salaried workforce roughly 10% over the next three months or so. We expect to grow our hourly workforce. We grew very fast on the salaried side, grew a little too fast in some areas."

He added, "A year from now, I think our headcount will be higher both in salaried and hourly" workers, but for now the headcount reduction will be '3% to 3.5%.'"

When asked about Bloomberg's own forecasts of Volkswagen overtaking Tesla, Musk disagreed:

Elon On Bloomberg Intelligence Forecasting VW Taking Over Tesla. The Absolute Best From Qatar Economic Forum ???????? @elonmusk $TSLA pic.twitter.com/z4dB4h6XmT

— ???????? ???????? Umbisam Urges FSDBeta in EU ???????? ???????? (@Umbisam) June 21, 2022

Musk also spoke about Tesla's growth in relation to global supply constraints. He said that this was a bigger issue than competition from rival automakers. "Our constraints are much more in raw materials and being able to scale up production."

Later on at the same event, CEO of Qatar Investment Authority, H.E. Mansoor Bin Ebrahim Al- Mahmoud was asked about Musk's bid to take over Twitter. He replied: "We believe in Elon's leadership, and that's why we have committed on this transaction."

The vote of confidence is much appreciated

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 21, 2022

Everything we know about FSD Beta v11 and what may be included

June 22, 2022

By Gabe Rodriguez Morrison

FSD Beta 10.12 introduced many improvements, including an upgraded decision-making framework for unprotected left turns, improved creeping, and enhanced geometric accuracy.

Now, users are waiting on the next update (version 10.13) that's expected to be even more substantial with improvements to roundabouts and navigating without map data.

Tesla is simultaneously working on the next release of FSD, v11.

FSD Beta v11 will be the next major update that is expected to contain significant improvements.

Single Stack for Improved Highway Driving

FSD Beta is currently using Tesla's latest technology improvements for city driving. Highway driving still relies on the current production version of 'Navigate on Autopilot.'

Elon has previously said that Tesla will eventually merge highway and city driving into a single stack.

A technology 'stack' refers to the technologies used to build a system.

A single-stack system uses the same technologies for multiple applications, instead of having separate technology stacks for each application.

A single-stack version of FSD would allow Tesla to apply everything it has learned in city driving to its Navigate on Autopilot highway feature.

When Tesla trains and adapts its FSD Beta neural nets to highway driving, we may see drastically smoother merging and cornering on the highway. While the addition of a single stack has been talked about as far back as FSD Beta 10.1, it sounds like we may finally be able to experience it in FSD Beta v11.

Reverse Creep

An additional feature we could see in version 11 is the ability for the car to move backward. For example, if the car is stopped at an intersection and doesn't have great visibility, it'll now creep forward for a better view, just like a human driver would.

However, with v11, the car could also creep backward if it senses danger.

With 10.1, it will creep forward with more confidence & quickly reverse back a little (just as a person would) if it sees danger

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 12, 2021

Release Date

When asked about FSD Beta v11, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that he's currently driving an alpha version of FSD Beta 11 on the highway.

Musk admits that the software is not ready, estimating that Tesla FSD Beta version 11 could be released by the summer of 2022. Currently, Beta testers are waiting for the release of FSD Beta 10.13.

I'm driving an alpha version of FSD on highway and it's not quite ready. Probably ready for wide release this summer.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 15, 2022

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