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3 minClark County approves 19 more Vegas Loop stations, taking the Tesla tunnel network to 123
The Boring Company now has county approval for 123 Vegas Loop stations, including new stops at F1's Grand Prix Plaza, on Tropicana Avenue and in Chinatown. About 11 are open today.
2 minTesla's Austin charging hub plans 80 wireless chargers, likely for the Cybercab
A permit for a large Tesla charging lot in south Austin includes 48 V4 Superchargers and, in a second phase, 80 wireless chargers. Here is why that points to the Cybercab.
3 minGiga Shanghai builds its 6 millionth battery pack, just 279 days after the 5 millionth
Tesla's Shanghai factory has assembled six million battery packs. The last million took about nine months, as exports from the plant hit records while sales inside China fall. Here is what the milestone shows about Tesla's biggest factory.
3 minSpaceX closes $60 billion Cursor deal: what the AI coding tool means for Grok, and for Tesla
SpaceX has completed its all-stock takeover of Cursor, the maker of a popular AI coding assistant. The team will now work on Grok, the assistant in Tesla's cars.
3 minTesla launches a Certified Pre-Owned program in the US: 115-point inspection and a one-year warranty
Used Teslas sold through the new program get a check of more than 115 points, a one-year or 10,000-mile warranty and a history report. It is available in the US and Puerto Rico, not yet in Canada or Europe.
2 min'All cars will have Starlink': Musk's prediction, and the Cybercab with a built-in dish
Elon Musk says every car will eventually connect via Starlink, and photos show a Cybercab with an antenna built into the rear. Here is what is known about satellite internet in Teslas.
2 minFirst Megapack 3 rolls off the line at Tesla's new Texas Megafactory
Tesla has started production of the Megapack 3 in Brookshire, near Houston, in a factory designed for 50 GWh a year. Here is what is new about the battery and why it matters.
3 minTesla wins court order to recover Cybertruck tooling from supplier Angstrom, and Giga Texas output picks up
A federal judge has given Tesla the right to enter supplier Angstrom Automotive's closing plant in Troy, Texas, and take back the dies and casting tools it needs to build the Cybertruck. A flyover the next day suggested production is recovering.
3 minNo Grok in China: Tesla rolls out ByteDance's Doubao and DeepSeek to the Model 3, Model Y, Model S and Model X
A new software update brings a Chinese-built AI assistant to Tesla's main models in China. In the rest of the world, the same job is done by Grok from Musk's own AI company.
3 minTesla builds its 10 millionth car, a Model Y from Fremont, six years after its first million
A Diamond Black Model Y from the Fremont Factory in California is Tesla's 10 millionth vehicle. The first million took 12 years; the next nine million took just over six.
3 minTesla's first big European FSD safety report: 65 million km and six collisions
Tesla says FSD (Supervised) was 5.2 times safer than manual driving across five EU countries. Here are the numbers behind the claim, how they compare, and what they cannot tell us yet.
3 minThe Vegas Loop in numbers: $5-10 million a mile, 40,000 riders on peak days, and machines at a quarter of their target speed
A Boring Company executive has shared rare figures on cost, ridership and digging speed. What they show about the Tesla-powered tunnel network, and what they leave out.
2 minFSD v14 Lite for Hardware 3: what older Teslas get, and what they never will
Tesla has started a wide rollout of FSD v14 Lite to cars with Hardware 3. It brings much of v14's smoother driving to older Model 3 and Model Y, but HW3 has reached its ceiling.
2 minTesla Q2 2026 results: revenue holds, but profit shrinks as spending soars
Tesla's second quarter showed $28.2 billion in revenue, earnings well below expectations, a 1.4% operating margin and negative free cash flow. Here are the key numbers and what drove them.
3 minFrontier's owner picks Starlink for more than 1,000 planes: what the airline deal says about Starlink's next market
Indigo Partners, which owns Frontier, Wizz Air, Volaris, JetSMART and Cebu Pacific, will fit Starlink to more than 1,000 aircraft. The first Frontier planes are due in early 2027.
3 minTesla delivers 480,126 cars in Q2 2026, up 25% and far above Wall Street's estimate
Tesla's second-quarter deliveries jumped 25% from a year earlier to 480,126, ending a two-year run of falling sales and beating analyst expectations by about 74,000 cars. Energy storage reached 13.5 GWh.
3 minTesla settles Optimus trade secret lawsuit with robot hand startup Proception
Tesla has dropped its case against former Optimus engineer Jay Li and his startup Proception after a confidential settlement. The same day, Proception announced an $11 million seed round for its robot hands.
3 minTesla settles lawsuit over first known pedestrian death linked to FSD
Tesla has quietly settled the lawsuit over a 2023 Arizona crash in which a Model Y using Full Self-Driving killed a 71-year-old woman. The terms are secret, but the federal safety probe it started continues.
3 minTesla signs 25 GWh Megapack deal with NatPower for battery parks in the UK and Italy
Developer NatPower has agreed a multi-year deal with Tesla for more than 25 GWh of battery storage across five sites in Britain and Italy, worth an estimated $4-5 billion to build. It is one of the largest storage orders ever announced in Europe.
4 minStarship V3 flies for the first time: the ship hits its target, the booster crashes into the Gulf
SpaceX's first third-generation Starship launched from a new pad in Texas, deployed 22 dummy satellites and splashed down in the Indian Ocean. The Super Heavy booster failed to relight its engines.
2 minEnd of an era: the last Tesla Model S and Model X roll off the line in Fremont
After 14 years of the Model S and 11 of the Model X, production has ended. The final car was a black Model S signed by the workers, and a 350-car Signature Edition says goodbye.
2 minCybertruck recalls: a new wheel recall, and what the 2025 recall wave means for owners
Tesla is recalling 173 Cybertrucks with 18-inch steel wheels over cracking stud holes. It follows three recalls covering nearly 116,000 trucks in 2025. Here is what owners should check.
3 minAnthropic rents all of Colossus 1: why Grok's maker is leasing its first supercomputer to a rival
SpaceX's AI unit will hand the full capacity of its first Memphis data center, more than 300 MW and 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, to Claude developer Anthropic. Here is what the deal involves and how it connects to Tesla.
3 minTesla reports Musk's 2025 pay at $158 billion, yet he received nothing: the filing explained
Tesla's new filing values Elon Musk's 2025 pay at a record $158 billion, almost all of it accounting value for awards he has not earned. Here is what the number means, and what else the filing showed.
3 minTesla Robotaxi expands to Dallas and Houston, its first new cities after Austin, without a safety monitor
Tesla has started its Robotaxi service in Dallas and Houston, the first expansion beyond Austin and the Bay Area. The service areas are small and Tesla shared few details, but the cars run with nobody in the driver's seat.
3 minDelaware court throws out three shareholder suits against Musk and Tesla's board: they belong in Texas
A Delaware judge has dismissed three derivative lawsuits over insider trading, AI and Twitter claims, enforcing the Texas forum rule Tesla adopted when it left Delaware.
3 minNetherlands becomes the first European country to approve Tesla FSD Supervised
Dutch regulator RDW has approved Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) after more than 18 months of testing. It is valid in the Netherlands only for now, and the driver stays fully responsible.
2 minLast call for the Model S and Model X: custom orders closed, inventory nearly gone
Tesla has stopped taking custom orders for its two flagship cars. The Model X appears sold out in the US and the Model S Plaid is hard to find. Here is what is still possible.
3 minUK car tax from April 2026: the £50,000 'luxury car' limit for EVs, and which Teslas now escape it
From April 1, 2026, electric cars only pay the UK's expensive car supplement above a £50,000 list price. Here are the new rates, which Model 3 and Model Y versions benefit, and what to check on your own car.
3 minAll 11 xAI co-founders have now left: what Musk's 'rebuild' of Grok's maker means for Tesla
With Ross Nordeen and Manuel Kroiss gone, none of the researchers who founded xAI with Elon Musk in 2023 remain. Tesla has $2 billion and its in-car assistant riding on the outcome.
3 minNHTSA escalates Tesla FSD sun glare and fog probe to 3.2 million vehicles
US safety regulator NHTSA has upgraded its investigation into how Full Self-Driving handles poor visibility to an engineering analysis, the last step before a possible recall. Here is what it found so far.
3 minStarlink passes 10,000 satellites in orbit at the same time: what the milestone means, and the Tesla link
A Falcon 9 launch from California on March 16 pushed SpaceX's Starlink constellation past 10,000 working satellites in orbit at once, less than seven years after the first batch.
3 minTesla can now sell electricity to British homes: Ofgem grants a supply licence
Ofgem has given Tesla a licence to supply electricity to households and businesses in England, Scotland and Wales. There is no launch date or tariff yet, but the model is likely to follow Tesla Electric in Texas.
3 minVegas Loop carries 82,000 riders in Teslas during CONEXPO, as Prufrock-2 finishes a record 2.28-mile tunnel
The Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels moved about 82,000 passengers during the five-day CONEXPO-CON/AGG trade show, and its Prufrock-2 machine completed the longest single Vegas Loop tunnel so far.
3 minTesla's VP of Finance Sendil Palani leaves after 17 years, the latest in a long line of senior exits
Sendil Palani, who joined Tesla when the company was close to collapse in 2008, has announced he is leaving. His exit follows a string of departures of long-serving executives over the past year.
2 minTesla cuts Cybertruck prices: new AWD base model from $59,990, Cyberbeast under $100,000
Tesla's updated 2026 Cybertruck lineup brings a cheaper dual-motor version and cuts about $15,000 from the top trims. Here is what you get, and what was removed.