Stories by Alex Diaz

Japan’s au is now the Asia carrier named for Starlink Mobile’s next-gen V2 stack, after Starlink posted on September 17 that the upgrade will deliver 5G speeds from space with native calls, streaming, and high-speed apps. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2100589588142256208 The official post says the V2 satellite network will expand on V1 with 100x the data density, enabling...

[caption id="attachment_72827" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Lucid and Bolt partnership visual. Credit: Lucid Motors[/caption] Lucid and European shared-mobility platform Bolt quietly locked in a Europe-scale autonomy push on Thursday, September 17, 2026, with Bolt aiming to put at least 25,000 fully autonomous Lucid vehicles on roads across multiple cities and countries. https://twitter.com/LucidMotors/status/2100555669375959116 The companies said the fleet...

[caption id="attachment_72822" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] New Tesla Supercharger in Tsu, Japan. Credit: Tesla Charging / X[/caption] Tesla Charging quietly added two fresh Supercharger sites to the map on September 17, 2026, putting a four-stall station live in Tsu, Japan and an eight-stall voting-winner site online in Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Romania. https://twitter.com/TeslaCharging/status/2100518299444605005 The Tsu listing points to Tesla’s...

[caption id="attachment_72749" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starship Flight 14 mission art. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood quietly reframed SpaceX’s public-market story on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, arguing that Starship launch economics, not today’s headline valuation alone, will decide whether the company’s $1.75 trillion IPO looks cheap in hindsight. In a post on X, Wood said...

Still from SpaceX’s “The Holy Grail of Rocketry.” Credit: SpaceX SpaceX quietly posted the next chapter of its Starship documentary series on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, putting “The Holy Grail of Rocketry” on its content hub and X feed as an official look at reuse rather than a new flight. The episode continues the company’s...

[caption id="attachment_72779" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Apple Wallet Car Key brands tip graphic. Credit: MacRumors / X[/caption] Apple’s servers quietly picked up Car Key labels for three more automakers, according to a backend string dump shared by reverse engineer @aaronp613, not an Apple product announcement. https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/2099856361752268896 Apple Car Key puts a digital key in Apple Wallet so...

[caption id="attachment_67657" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Model S. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla Canada is inviting the public to Tesla Kelowna on Saturday, September 19, 2026, to watch a long-owned Model S cross one million kilometers with its original motors and suspension still in place. One million kilometers is roughly 621,000 miles, or about 25 trips around Earth...

[caption id="attachment_72315" align="aligncenter" width="768"] Tesla Cybercab. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Federal regulators just raised the stakes on Tesla’s driverless Cybercab paperwork, moving from an open audit into a formal Special Order that demands sworn answers by September 30, 2026. According to a Reuters summary circulating September 16, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told Tesla it must...

[caption id="attachment_72760" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Falcon 9 vertical at Vandenberg SLC-4E ahead of USSF-259. Credit: SpaceX / X[/caption] SpaceX stood down from Tuesday night’s Falcon 9 attempt for USSF-259 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and is now targeting Wednesday, September 16, 2026, for liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2100034012668428428 Earlier on Tuesday the...

[caption id="attachment_72745" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Pre-assembled Megacharger unit with V4 cabinet and dual posts. Credit: Tesla Charging / X[/caption] Tesla Charging said on September 15, 2026, that the first pre-assembled Megachargers are now in the field to support the Semi production ramp, with each unit pairing a V4 cabinet to two posts rated up to 1.2...

[caption id="attachment_72749" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Starship Flight 14 mission art. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX has published the official Starship Flight 14 mission page, targeting a NET Tuesday, September 22, 2026, liftoff from Starbase pending regulatory approval, with a 75-minute window that opens at 7:15 a.m. Central Time. The company frames the flight as Starship’s first planned mission...

Tesla Charging quietly introduced its first Accordion Supercharger on September 15, 2026, pitching a factory pre-assembled package built for the gap between parking spaces when a classic curb-line layout will not work. For anyone new to the name, Accordion is Tesla's label for a pre-assembled Supercharger meant to sit between stalls rather than behind a...

[caption id="attachment_72738" align="aligncenter" width="819"] 200,000 Teslas registered in Norway. Credit: Tesla Europe / X[/caption] Tesla Europe, Middle East and Africa said on September 15, 2026, that Norway now has 200,000 Teslas on the registration books, equal to about 20 percent of electric vehicles in the country. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2099911297911730375 The regional account posted a graphic celebrating the...

[caption id="attachment_37601" align="aligncenter" width="768"] SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] Elon Musk did not confirm a SpaceX-Tesla merger at the All-In Summit, but he left the door cracked when hosts pressed him on why the companies remain separate despite deep collaboration. Speaking with SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell in Los Angeles, he answered the merger question...

[caption id="attachment_69498" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] SpaceX Starship catch hardware at Starbase. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit that Starship Flight 14 will be the last mission before SpaceX tries to catch the ship, and that Flight 15 is the planned catch attempt if Flight 14 goes well. Speaking alongside SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell...