Struggling artist offloading two Teslas with electronic hoist (5)
I believe the answer is:
raise
'electronic hoist' is the definition.
'raise' can be an answer for 'hoist' (I've seen this before). I'm not sure about the 'electronic' bit.
'struggling artist offloading two teslas' is the wordplay.
'two teslas' means two substitutions for 'teslas'.
'struggling' indicates anagramming the letters (the letters struggle or wriggle into a new form).
'offloading' is a deletion indicator.
'teslas' becomes 'TT' (scientific symbol for tesla written twice).
'teslas' becomes 'e' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'artist' with 'tt' removed is 'aris'.
'aris' with letters rearranged gives 'rais'.
'rais'+'e'='RAISE'
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for raise that I've seen before include "Make greater" , "Collect - increase in pay" , "Increase; elevate" , "Exalt" , "Amplify" .)