Ferrari EVs will differ from Tesla in one big way, CEO says

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Ferrari electric vehicles have yet to hit the market, but when they do, they will differ from Tesla’s in one big way, CEO Benedetto Vigna said.

“Electric cars are not silent,” Vigna said during a CNBC interview earlier this week. “If you know the technology, you know you can do a lot of things also with electric cars.”

It appears to be a part of the Ferrari experience to have a loud and “vocal” vehicle that others can hear from Vigna’s perspective. While many EVs on the market today are so quiet that they require noisemakers as a way to alert pedestrians of their presence, Ferrari will not follow this unique feature of electric cars.

“When we talk about luxury cars like our cars, we are talking about the emotion that we are able to deliver to our client, so we are not talking about functional cars like other EVs that you see on the road,” he said.

Some car enthusiasts argue that the lack of noise from EVs also comes with a lack of soul. On the contrary, others truly enjoy the silence that comes from an EV, as loud motors are not necessarily pleasurable for everyone.

Vigna said Ferrari is working on an EV prototype that will be “far from silent,” according to BI. Whether this means the noise will come from an artificial source or it will somehow create an electric motor that can generate the noise of a combustion engine is not yet known.

Based on his quotes, including his remarks on “if you know the technology,” it sounds like Ferrari might try to make an electric motor that can generate substantial amounts of sound.

Vigna said last year that the company’s Maranello factory, which will manufacture EVs, will be complete by June.

It also plans to unveil its first EV supercar in Q4 2025.

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It needs to be said that Vigna does not mean any disrespect to Tesla. He has complemented Tesla on several occasions in the past. Last year, he said the company made drastic contributions to the industry as a whole.

“The big contribution that Tesla has made to the automotive industry? It was a wake-up call. Things used to happen too slowly. Tesla shook up the industry and accelerated processes and decisions. They were faster and more agile.”

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Young Tesla enthusiasts write 200-page kids’ book on the automaker

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Young Tesla enthusiasts have penned a 200-page kids’ book on the automaker, offering information about the science behind the company’s vehicles, as well as its foray into energy, artificial intelligence (AI), and more.

Twins Aiden and Eliana Miao launched their book “Everything Tesla” this week, featuring a comprehensive breakdown of the company’s products written “by kids for kids of all ages.” The siblings, who are now in their freshman year of high school, started working on the book after their parents bought their first Model 3 in 2018, named “Blueberry,” and it’s a pretty impressive product for parents who want to teach their kids about science, Tesla, and more.

Credit: Courtesy of Lightning Strikes Twice (written by Aiden Miao and Eliana Miao)

The siblings wrote the book to help educate other kids about Tesla’s technology, as part of a larger effort to be a part of the fight against climate change. They shared a digital copy of the book with us, and it’s honestly pretty detailed.

“The California wildfires, the Netflix show Our Planet, and my parents getting a Model 3 all brought climate change closer to home,” says Aiden on why the two started the book. “I always knew and cared about climate change, but it started to feel more like something I needed to help make a change about.”

The two began working on the book in 2019, when they were in just fifth grade. While they originally envisioned writing a 20-page book on Tesla and its vehicles, the project turned into something much bigger, as supported by designer Sadie Thomas and editor Alex Cox after others rejected the idea.

Eliana says that the two weren’t taken seriously by many adults in the writing process, due to them being such young authors. To be sure, the two met with several experts in multiple fields to fact-check details, and ultimately, the fact that it was written by children just plays to its strengths—offering such a unique, kid-friendly voice in the Tesla world.

“Many people don’t take you seriously,” Eliana said of the more challenging aspects of writing the book. “It was hard for people to understand and respect our vision of the book because we were kids, which meant that we would often be rejected.

“But there were many perks to this too—being able to be more creative and break some rules, finding awesome people who did believe in our book (shoutout to Sadie Thomas and Alex Cox!), and having motivation to prove the nay-sayers wrong.”

Credit: Courtesy of Lightning Strikes Twice (written by Aiden Miao and Eliana Miao)

The siblings say they also plan to send twin Traveling Book copies for families to pass around at Supercharger stations, adding that they hope the book makes it from their home in California, near where Tesla’s engineering headquarters is located, to the other side of the country.

The book has gone live on Amazon for $19.99 (or $6.99 on Kindle), and you can find the listing here.

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Tesla Summon to get major improvements, Autopark gets a new name

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Tesla Summon and Autopark are set to gain major improvements next month, according to company CEO Elon Musk. Autopark is also getting a new name, Musk said, as it appears to be on its way to being called “Banish.”

After Musk stated earlier this month that Tesla would have some “really cool stuff coming this month and next,” owners and fans of the company were left with their own imaginations to think of what could possibly be coming.

While many owners have wished for improvements of things like the Auto Wipers, Tesla has been working behind the scenes to improve some of its semi-autonomous driving features and certain parts of Enhanced Autopilot, including Summon and Autopark.

Tesla’s ‘really cool stuff coming’ should be these two features

It appears those changes and improvements will be unveiled sometime in April, Musk said on X:

While Summon, the feature that allows an owner of a vehicle to literally summon the vehicle to their location, has been effective, it has also had its shortcomings.

Improvements could increase the accuracy of the Summon feature and its confidence when navigating through parking lots.

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Tesla is also expected to roll out Autopark improvements in April, although the feature will have a new name: banish.

Banish will likely refer comically to making a vehicle disappear on its own and find its parking spot without the driver having to manually park the car or even be in the vehicle while it finds and pulls into a space.

This would not only further improve the ownership experience but also bolster progress toward more autonomy in Tesla vehicles.

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