Stories by Alex Diaz

Tesla released a 57-second tutorial Sunday covering the cabin climate basics every new owner figures out in the first week: checking the interior temperature, heating or cooling the cabin before driving (even while it's parked in a garage), adjusting the seat heaters, and defrosting the windshield. If you just took delivery, preconditioning is worth learning...

Writing on X, Starlink said passengers and crew on Vietjet flights will soon be able to tap into its high-speed, low-latency internet from gate to gate. The post was shared in response to Vietjet's own teaser that Starlink's internet in the sky is coming soon to the airline. Gate-to-gate connectivity matters because passengers can stay...

Tesla’s Cybertruck lead engineer Wes Morrill says the truck’s side mirror caps are getting a durability upgrade that also saves money. In a post on X on Saturday, Morrill explained the caps were initially painted, but the paint scratched too easily when driving through brush, so Tesla switched them to the same grained plastic already...

[caption id="attachment_72936" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Model Y on a road Tesla Model Y. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla is pushing software 2026.27.10 with Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3.10, keeping Automatic Collision Evasion in the notes and adding Cybertruck Vehicle-to-Home support with Powerwall. The FSD bullet list matches the v14.3.9 package we already covered, including the reinforcement-learning training bump,...

[caption id="attachment_72919" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0. Credit: SpaceXAI[/caption] SpaceXAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 on September 18, pitching roughly double the accuracy of version 1.0 at the same API price, and ranking first among 32 streaming speech-to-text models on the public Artificial Analysis leaderboard. https://twitter.com/SpaceXAI/status/2101005248311726387 The model rides on the same audio foundation...

[caption id="attachment_72932" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Model Y promotional image for India Diwali delivery offer Tesla Model Y. Credit: Tesla India[/caption] Tesla India’s official account says buyers who order a Model Y today can take delivery before Diwali, with financing pitched from ₹39,990 a month and a ₹600,000 down payment. https://twitter.com/Tesla_India/status/2101308823768322534 The Diwali delivery window is...

[caption id="attachment_72929" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Model Y. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla’s Model Y is cheaper in Tokyo than anywhere else in the world after Japan’s national EV subsidy and Tokyo’s city grant stack on top of a weak yen, according to Bloomberg. Tesla lists the Model Y at about ¥5.6 million in Japan. A Tokyo resident...

[caption id="attachment_72923" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Supercharger Site Map in the Tesla app. Credit: Tesla Charging[/caption] Tesla Charging said Supercharger Site Maps are now live in the latest Tesla app, bringing the stall-level station view that started in the car display onto phones. https://twitter.com/teslacharging/status/2101094749809885602 In a short clip posted Friday, the official Tesla Charging account shows the...

[caption id="attachment_72899" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Neuralink VOICE trial. Credit: Neuralink[/caption] Neuralink showed a new VOICE trial update on September 18 featuring participant Terry, who is using his brain implant to help train a thought-to-speech system so he and others who cannot speak can talk again in a reconstructed natural voice. https://twitter.com/neuralink/status/2100993363403063404 According to the company, Terry...

[caption id="attachment_72634" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Roadster. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla is taking new Roadster reservations again with a $50,000 refundable deposit, according to the company’s live order page, days ahead of the next-gen sports car’s October 1 reveal tease. The checkout flow on tesla.com/roadster/reserve breaks the payment into two steps: $5,000 due today by credit card...

SpaceX has locked a $946 million NASA contract modification for three more Commercial Crew flights to the International Space Station, covering Crew-15, Crew-16, and Crew-17 under the agency’s CCtCap deal. NASA said Friday the firm fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity change pays for all three missions plus related services: ground, launch, in-orbit, return and recovery, cargo, and a...

[caption id="attachment_72894" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Semi. Credit: Top Gear Tech / Jack Scarlett[/caption] Top Gear Tech host Jack Scarlett got a first look at Tesla’s production Semi and a tour of the new Nevada Gigafactory built to build it, then rode along in a finished truck on public roads in the show’s debut episode. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WP9HizHCrk...

Tesla Supercharger in Ljungby, Sweden. Credit: Tesla Charging Tesla Charging confirmed a new 20-stall Supercharger is live in Ljungby, Sweden, ending nearly 30 months as one of the country's best-known ghost sites left standing without a grid hookup. The official post points drivers to Tesla's Find Us listing for location 30100 and shows the fresh...

Starlink said on September 17 that Italy’s FASTWEB has completed its first video call over Starlink Mobile in central Italy, using satellite antennas that act like cell towers in space so customers can stay connected where terrestrial coverage drops out. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2100678883532312942 FASTWEB’s own post from September 16 framed the same trial as Italy’s first satellite...

The Federal Communications Commission on September 17 granted Space Exploration Holdings, LLC international Section 214 authority, the U.S. paper SpaceX needs to carry Starlink Mobile traffic between the United States and other countries. Public Notice DA 26-998 lists the grant under file ITC-214-20260123-00021 and authorization T260050. Matching grants also issued the same day on related […]