Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_74797" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] Brazil's telecom regulator is weighing another Starlink spectrum request, weeks after approving Starlink Mobile's full 2 GHz access. Anatel opened a 10-day public consultation on Wednesday, November 4, through a notice in Brazil's official gazette. The request comes from Starlink Brazil Holding, the local representative of SpaceX. It asks...

[caption id="attachment_75150" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] The Cybercab display tour Down Under has reached Melbourne. Tesla Australia & New Zealand posted a 34-second video on November 3 saying the Cybercab is "officially on Melbourne ground." https://twitter.com/TeslaAUNZ/status/2117789460234748350 Footage shows the gold two-seater arriving strapped to a flatbed tow truck on a city street. It then rolls...

[caption id="attachment_74797" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Ottawa's contract with SpaceX Canada has grown to nearly 13 times its original value, even as Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada won't tie its defenses to a billionaire's satellites. A federal contract record shows Shared Services Canada's deal with SpaceX Canada Corp. now stands at C$28,941,731, up from...

[caption id="attachment_74856" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Norway's armed forces and police are set to get Starlink through a new satellite deal. Forsvarsmateriell (FMA), Norway's defense procurement agency, has reportedly awarded Marlink a framework agreement worth up to NOK 450 million. The news follows growing debate over Starlink's role in Ukraine. According to Norwegian media, the...

[caption id="attachment_74856" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Starlink is inviting some of its earliest customers to swap their first-generation round dish for a new Standard kit at no cost. The offer is outlined in a company support article reviewed by Tesla North, and follows earlier free hardware moves such as Gen 1 router replacements. Eligible customers...

[caption id="attachment_74572" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] If SpaceX bought Tesla at the companies' current sizes, Elon Musk would own about 37% of the combined firm but hold about 56% of the votes. That's according to a Barclays estimate cited by Reuters on Tuesday, as Wall Street weighs the odds of a Tesla-SpaceX merger. Barclays said...

Tesla has answered NHTSA's Cybercab special order by its October 30 deadline. There's a catch. A new agency filing shows the company asked to keep every document in its Question 8 response confidential. According to an October 30 NHTSA record, the remaining documents responsive to Question 8 carry a confidential business information request from Tesla...

[caption id="attachment_74778" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Credit: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla remains Norway's top car brand for 2026 so far, with 21,523 new passenger-car registrations through October and a 16.4% share, according to Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV), after the Model Y's September Nordic sweep. October sealed another monthly win. Tesla registered 1,548 cars, a 9.84% share and its best...

[caption id="attachment_74841" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Europe/X[/caption] The Netherlands' vehicle regulator, the RDW, has approved changes to Tesla's FSD (Supervised) in Europe, the system Tesla now calls Tesla Assisted Driving. Those changes sharply limit how far the system can drive above the speed limit. Drivers could previously set a speed margin of up to 50...

[caption id="attachment_75194" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla software update 2026.38.6 has fixed the B.C. Tesla clock that fell back one hour on November 1, according to info shared by Tesla North readers. One reader said a 2021 Model Y regained the correct local time after installing the build overnight. Another owner reported the same result....

[caption id="attachment_75188" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Matt Palmer / SpaceXSI[/caption] Grok Bot is getting a shopping-first refresh, with SpaceXSI's Matt Palmer walking through nine upgrades that stretch from product search to checkout, Team Bot sharing and Vault contacts. Palmer posted a "What's New in Grok Bot" video on Monday, and Elon Musk later quote-posted it with...

[caption id="attachment_75181" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla Energy launched Heat Pump Optimization for Powerwall 3 and Powerwall 3P in Europe last week, letting the battery tell a compatible heat pump when to boost and store surplus power as hot water. Canada and the United States are not part of the rollout, echoing the gap when...

[caption id="attachment_75171" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's online shop opened a new Cybercab collection on Monday, the official @robotaxi account announced. Leading the drop is an $85 backpack with a gold Cybercab silhouette, alongside two $40 tees and a $35 gold cup. It lands about two weeks after Tesla added a $120 Essential Backpack and...

[caption id="attachment_75162" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's FSD (Supervised) fleet has passed 17 billion cumulative miles on the company's live safety dashboard, with about 6.76 billion of those miles logged in cities, according to the FSD (Supervised) Vehicle Safety Report. As of Monday, the counter showed more than 17,003,000,000 miles driven with FSD (Supervised) engaged...

An Australian Tesla owner says a service visit left him with notes calling Full Self-Driving (Supervised) right-lane hugging a known trait of the current software, after Tesla brought FSD Supervised to Australia and New Zealand earlier this year. Nate, who posts as @4TESLANZ from Sydney, shared a Service Summary screenshot on Sunday after taking his...