Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_71553" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Model Y[/caption] Tesla Australia and New Zealand said August was the first month electric vehicles outsold ICE cars in Australia, with the Model Y the country's No. 1 vehicle and Tesla the No. 3 brand overall. https://twitter.com/TeslaAUNZ/status/2095364947845013941 The official account pointed to Drive's write-up of Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries...

[caption id="attachment_72254" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Model Y[/caption] Tesla North America said the 2026 Model Y has earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety's Top Safety Pick+ award, the highest IIHS trophy, and followed up by pointing to the Institute's fresh ratings page for the redesigned four-door SUV. https://twitter.com/tesla_na/status/2095361643118989594 https://twitter.com/tesla_na/status/2095382010772484346 The IIHS scorecard for the 2026...

Tesla's Robotaxi app has updated its Terms of Service so a Robotaxi now means both Model Y Robotaxis and Cybercabs, a wording change that landed in the rider agreement the same week Tesla listed 420 vehicles on Texas's automated-vehicle registry, including 45 Cybercabs. https://twitter.com/XanderSky/status/2095385388705608082 Robotaxi Terms of Service Robotaxi Terms of Service Screenshots of the...

Tesla is cutting the monthly price of its Cybertruck Windshield Protection Plan from $35 to $25, with the lower rate applying to the first payment on or after October 1, 2026, according to notices the company has begun sending U.S. subscribers. Coverage itself is unchanged. The plan still covers unlimited chip and minor crack repairs...

Tesla battery cells. Tesla published a new Learn page on engineering vehicle batteries for safety, durability, and longevity, and the line that will travel is this: from more than 265 billion miles of operation through the end of 2025, the company says it has no evidence of even a single spontaneous battery failure leading to...

SpaceX Super Heavy booster preparing for Flight 14. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX has asked the U.S. Federal Communications Commission for backup ship radios on Starship Flight 14 that explicitly cover an orbital second stage from Starbase, Texas, with a requested operating window starting September 15, 2026. The experimental STA, signed August 21, 2026 by Launch Regulatory […]

[caption id="attachment_72126" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla[/caption] Tesla's August registrations painted a split Europe on September 1, with the Model Y taking France's overall best-selling car crown on 4,622 units while Norway and Spain each plunged 79 percent from a year earlier, according to Reuters and national industry tallies. French car industry body PFA put Tesla at...

[caption id="attachment_71674" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab[/caption] Tesla Robotaxi, LLC added its first purpose-built Cybercabs to Texas's official automated-vehicle registry on August 31, listing the two-seat, steering-wheel-free cars in the Texas Motor Carrier Credentialing System three days before the company's September 3 launch event in Austin. The public TxMCCS lookup first showed seven 2026 Cybercabs under...

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifted NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope off Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:26 a.m. ET on August 30, sending the flagship observatory on a three-month trip toward the Sun-Earth Lagrange point L2. NASA said ground controllers at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland,...

[caption id="attachment_72163" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Robotaxi[/caption] Tesla Robotaxi said it is now serving more of Dallas, posting a bigger service-area map on August 29 and a follow-up comparison that shows the new geofence stretching well beyond the old central zone. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2093733900459950249 [caption id="attachment_72164" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Robotaxi[/caption] The first post is a dark in-app map...

[caption id="attachment_72145" align="alignnone" width="1024"] OpenAI[/caption] OpenAI said on August 28 that it has notified SpaceX it will wind down the contract supplying OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026, after SpaceX acquired the coding tool. https://twitter.com/OpenAI/status/2093515564786540695 The company wrote that it is giving the maximum notice in the contract...

[caption id="attachment_72136" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla[/caption]Tesla Europe said the Model 3 now comes with 572 kilometres of range in European left-hand-drive markets, up from 534 kilometres, after a tire change posted on August 28. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2093400397591568436 The official account wrote that the gain is thanks to new tires and attached a photo of a Model 3 on...

[caption id="attachment_72100" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Liberty Costa Rica[/caption] Starlink said Starlink Mobile is now available in Costa Rica with Liberty, posting the official launch on August 27 and telling customers they can send voice notes, share locations, and use maps in remote areas. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2093069805129744537 [caption id="attachment_72099" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Liberty Costa Rica[/caption] The official account quoted Liberty...

[caption id="attachment_72089" align="alignnone" width="1024"] U.S. Air Force[/caption] The U.S. Space Force posted a public award notice on August 25 for Starshield Custom Fleet Aviation Services, a firm-fixed-price task order to SpaceX that keeps military aircraft on the Starshield network through July 2028. Space Systems Command's Commercial Services Office in El Segundo published the justification on...

[caption id="attachment_72079" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Europe[/caption] Tesla Europe said its Full Self-Driving Supervised fleet has now driven 100 million kilometres in Europe, posting the official milestone on August 26 with a video of the software working through European streets. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2092406487465505037 The official account wrote only that one line: 100 million kilometers driven on FSD Supervised...