Stories by Alex Diaz

Tesla Japan opened its Cybercab Japan Tour on September 11, 2026, putting the steering-wheel-free two-seater on public display for the first time in the country at OMAKASE Aoyama Garden by GMO in Tokyo’s Minato ward, the company said in a fresh X post that also published opening hours for the full four-stop run. “Cybercab, designed...

Image: SpaceX SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told investors at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference on September 10, 2026, that the company’s upcoming Starship Flight 14 later this month is set to generate revenue by flying production Version 3 Starlink satellites into operational orbit. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2098130338413183215 Johnsen framed the mission as the shift from demonstration...

[caption id="attachment_68751" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Image: Tesla[/caption]Tesla’s official Cybertruck account said on September 10, 2026, that Powershare can now work with Powerwall 3 to keep a home powered during an outage, extending backup by more than three days — energy the company equated to about nine additional Powerwalls. https://twitter.com/cybertruck/status/2098114127160094897 “Powerwall 3 & I can now power...

[caption id="attachment_72556" align="alignnone" width="1024"][/caption] Tesla amplified a Full Self-Driving clip on September 10, 2026, and credited photon count reconstruction for how the system handled a car that was nearly invisible to a human driver in direct sunlight. The official Tesla account quoted owner Ananto Mohammad's dashcam-style video with a short line — "Photon count reconstruction...

SpaceX launched the USSF-153 mission on a Falcon 9 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday, September 10, 2026, confirming liftoff on X minutes after the three-hour window opened at 8:37 a.m. PT. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2098074872203358540 According to SpaceX’s USSF-153 mission page, the flight is the 27th for the first-stage...

The Boring Company raised a $3 billion Series D funding round led by the United Arab Emirates and affiliated investment entities, valuing the tunneling company at $23 billion, the firm said on September 9, 2026, in an announcement that also deepens a push to build more than 150 kilometers of tunnel across the UAE beyond...

[caption id="attachment_72531" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Starlink Router 4. Source: Starlink / X[/caption] Starlink said on September 9, 2026, that its next-generation Router 4 brings faster peak speeds and indoor coverage of up to 3,500 square feet (325 m²), calling it the first Starlink router built around a Wi-Fi 7 chipset for streaming, gaming, and everyday home...

[caption id="attachment_72526" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab on display at ELEMENTS in Hong Kong. Source: Tesla Hong Kong / X[/caption] Tesla Hong Kong has opened a public Cybercab display at L1 Metal Zone inside ELEMENTS in Kowloon, giving local fans their first fixed venue to see the steering-wheel-free robotaxi after Tesla Asia listed Hong Kong among...

Elon Musk said on September 9, 2026, that very few people understand how thoroughly Tesla’s Cybercab is optimized for the lowest possible fully loaded cost per mile, answering a thread that laid out the two-seater’s efficiency-focused specs as public rides continue in Austin. “The degree to which Cybercab is optimized for lowest possible cost per...

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Supervised v14.3.9 rollout includes Automatic Collision Evasion, a new safety path that can steer around an imminent frontal crash when braking alone may not be enough, or pull FSD back on if the car decides the driver is not paying attention, according to the feature’s in-car release notes that started shipping with...

[caption id="attachment_72503" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Wes Morrill / Tesla[/caption] Tesla Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill said on September 8, 2026, that the pickup’s side repeater camera has been updated with passive geometry that stirs airflow to keep water off the lens while driving, calling it a pure vision improvement with no cost penalty. https://twitter.com/wmorrill3/status/2097452420733538546 “The side...

Tesla Robotaxi said on September 8, 2026, that its Unboxed manufacturing process for the Cybercab assembles vehicle modules in parallel and frames the car in one step at the end, cutting the production line size in half and unlocking much greater factory capacity. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2097422261624193106 “Our unboxed process for Cybercab assembles vehicle modules in parallel &...

[caption id="attachment_72483" align="alignnone" width="936"] Drone view of Boring Company Prufrock machines tunneling in Nashville. Source: The Boring Company / X[/caption] The Boring Company posted drone footage on September 7, 2026, of Prufrock-MB1 and Prufrock-MB2 tunneling simultaneously in Nashville, showing both machines cutting through hard limestone while spoil rides a continuous conveyor toward a rock pit....

Creator and Elon Chronicle writer S.E. Robinson Jr. said on September 7, 2026, that he has been invited to Tesla’s Semi Rollout on September 24 at the new Semi Factory in Sparks, Nevada, a day the company is framing around factory tours and Semi ride-alongs for potential logistics and fleet customers plus employees. “Big news...

An unconfirmed tip circulating on September 7, 2026, points to Tesla FSD Supervised v14 Lite for Hardware 3 Model S and Model X owners arriving soon, after IGN senior executive editor Ryan McCaffrey said Tesla AI lead Ashok Elluswamy told him at the Cybercab launch that the build was supposed to go out last week....