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‘Spain Loves Tesla’ campaign aims to lure Tesla Factory
Paterna, Spain, is near the port of Valancia. It has created a YouTube video design to lure Tesla to build its European factory there, citing access to transportation and skilled labor.

Elon Musk says Tesla will be selling a half million cars a year by 2018 and a million or more by 2020. As modern and efficient as the factory in Fremont, California is, there can be little doubt that Tesla is going to need more factories to produce that many cars. But where will they be located?
Last summer Elon Musk paid a visit to the Tesla assembly plant in the Netherlands. While he was there, he took the time to visit several European countries. He hinted that he was scouting for possible factory locations on the continent.
That inspired a group from the Alsace region of France to mount a campaign touting the desirability of their region as a manufacturing hub. Now another group from Paterna, Spain has combined their talents to create a Spain Loves Tesla campaign aimed at luring the company to build a European factory there. The group points out that they are just a few miles from Valencia, where Ford built a factory 40 years ago.
In an open letter to Elon Musk, the group notes that Ford’s “Almussafes factory is one of its flagship manufacturing plants” and is “one of the largest, most profitable, and flexible worldwide.” Valencia has one of the largest commercial seaports on the Mediterranean and is served by railway lines connecting it to all of Europe.
The group boasts that the region is a leader in renewable energy and has a large pool of skilled workers available. It even says that its climate is similar to that of Silicon Valley, so Tesla and its employees would feel right at home there.
Local governments often solicit investment from business, but only Tesla inspires people to woo their targets with YouTube videos. Will Elon be convinced by this brash self promotion? We don’t know, but the attributes claimed for the area would seem to be a natural fit for any company looking to establish a new manufacturing base in Europe.
Source: Inside EVs
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Kia gains Tesla Supercharger access and issues a big apology
Kia gained Tesla Supercharger access and respect from Tesla fans in the same day.

Kia has announced that owners of the EV6, EV9, and Niro EVs have officially gained access to over 21,500 Tesla Supercharger locations in North America.
However, its announcement also contained an apology to Tesla.
First, Kia said that its three EV offerings will have access to Tesla’s expansive Supercharger Network. More than 40,000 DC fast chargers are available to Kia EV drivers, a major uptick as Tesla Supercharger access nearly doubles the number of accessible piles.
Sean Yoon, President of Kia North America and Kia America, said:
“Kia is committed to an exceptional ownership experience, and expanding the network of available DC fast chargers to our EV customers is an important component to maintaining the brand’s leadership in electrified mobility. Now, with access to the Tesla Supercharger network of DC fast chargers, our EV owners can feel even more confident in their decision to purchase or lease a fully electric Kia vehicle.”
Kia owners who have a CCS1 Charging Port will have access to an NACS adapter through dealerships. This will enable compatibility, as current inlets are not NACS, the port that Tesla utilizes.
However, Kia will eliminate the need for this adapter starting with the 2025 EV6 and 2026 EV9. These will come standard with NACS inlets.
We mentioned Kia included somewhat of an apology to Tesla, which is related to social media posts from “certain Nordic distributors,” as the company puts it:
Kia paid for a front page ad on Finland’s largest newspaper to mock Elon Musk and Tesla.
Translation: “Oh, These Days of Life. If you’re unsure about driving an american electric car, welcome to the Helsinki Exhibition Centre to admire the cars of the new age.”
It’s a play on… pic.twitter.com/XfwOJVIGll
— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) April 5, 2025
Kia said in its announcement:
“Kia America is aware of marketing posts by certain Nordic distributors. These initiatives were developed entirely independently by those distributors, without direction from Kia America, Kia Europe or Kia Global. We want it to be clear that these posts do not reflect the position of Kia America, and we remain committed to clear and professional communication that reflects our values.”
The company also said that it “condemns the recent attacks that disrupt the availability of convenient and affordable charging for our customers.”
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Tesla adds new child protection feature to mobile app
Tesla is rolling out within its mobile app a new feature that aims to save the lives of those forgotten in the car.

Tesla is bolstering its in-car safety system with the addition of a new feature that aims to protect children left in the vehicle, an extension of a feature it introduced with the addition of 4D radar systems.
Children are, unfortunately, victims of accidents even when a vehicle is not in motion. A report from 2024 noted that 37 children under the age of 15 die each year because they are left in cars, usually dying from heatstroke.
Tesla has made a few attempts to eliminate the possibility of this happening. Back in September, coding from Software Update 2024.32 noted that the company would be using an alert system to warn people of children left behind:
Tesla set to roll out new child safety and navigation features, coding shows
This was enabled by the use of a wave sensor within the cabin, a piece of tech Teslarati found in a filing back in 2021 with the FCC.
The entire idea behind this addition to the vehicles was to alert owners if there were passengers left in the car.
Now, Tesla is adding another level of this to its mobile app, according to a decompile of the Version 4.44.0 update, which is rolling out to customers now.
Tesla App Updates on X revealed a “Child Left Alone Detection” feature in the new app version, which has a few strings from a software perspective:
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Cannot turn off climate when Child Left Alone Detection is active
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Climate failed to start. Climate is unavailable when Child Left Alone Detection is active.
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Climate controls are disabled when Child Left Alone Detection is active
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Unable to start software update while a child is detected in your vehicle
It appears that, if the vehicle detects a child or another occupant in the car, climate controls will be disabled through the app in an attempt to maintain a proper cabin temperature. Turning the temperature up or even turning climate control off from the app will not be possible.
This is a major update to this feature as it only bolsters the safety of the occupants in the event that they are left behind. Of course, many of us might ask, “How do you leave a child in the car?”
However, it happens, as past events have shown, and this is a great way to eliminate it from happening in Tesla vehicles.
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Tesla FSD ruins other intelligent driving systems for NIO Superfan influencer
“Since I drove FSD, I have been disenchanted with all the ‘driving assistance’ of domestic brands,” Lee wrote.

Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD) has been making waves in China, with owners pushing the system to its limits on what appears to be a regular basis. Videos of Tesla drivers in China show FSD navigating the trickiest of roads, from busy city streets to narrow, unpaved paths in rural areas.
And as per an influencer and NIO superfan, FSD is ruining other driver-assist systems from other automakers in China.
FSD Ruins It For Influencer
China-based influencer and NIO superfan Andy Lee recently shared his thoughts about FSD on social media. As per Lee, Chinese intelligent driving systems are overhyped by marketing. But once he personally experienced FSD’s capabilities, he became disillusioned with the offerings of domestic carmakers.
“Since I drove FSD, I have been disenchanted with all the ‘driving assistance’ of domestic brands. I once thought that the ‘driving assistance’ of domestic brands could beat FSD in seconds, but it seems that I was wrong. Not only did they fail to outperform FSD, they were actually crushed in reverse,” Lee wrote in his post.
FSD could very well become Tesla’s moat since even cars that are equipped with the same hardware would not be able to perform similarly unless they have access to the company’s training data and software. Tesla’s fleet is ever-growing as well, which means that FSD will only get better over the years.
Unsupervised on the Horizon
Tesla is already using FSD Unsupervised for its vehicles that are produced in the Fremont Factory and Gigafactory Texas. As per Elon Musk during the Q1 2025 earnings call, he expects Tesla to be able to roll out FSD Unsupervised to consumers before the end of this year. He also highlighted that Tesla is being extremely careful with FSD Unsupervised’s rollout.
“Before the end of this year. Not necessarily — I say within the U.S., like we do want to test — at Tesla, we’re absolutely hardcore about safety. We go to great lengths to make the safest car in the world and have the lowest accidents per mile in.
“So we want to be very careful. We want autonomy to be definitively safer than manual driving. So it’s not enough that it just be as safe. It needs to be meaningfully safer than if the car’s manually driven,” Musk stated.
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