Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_72071" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Japan / JATO Dynamics[/caption] Tesla Japan said the Model Y led first-half 2026 new-car registrations in Japan among every foreign brand by model, citing JATO Dynamics data covering January through June. https://twitter.com/teslajapan/status/2092766984991846540 The official account posted the ranking on August 27 and thanked Tesla owners and partner companies. The graphic...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded Elon Musk Ukraine's Order of Freedom on August 26, citing outstanding personal contributions to protecting human life and freedom and to relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States. Presidential decree No. 835/2026, published that day and reported by Ukrainska Pravda and Kyiv Post, names Musk as an...

Tesla Optimus will be the greatest product humanity has made and will deliver more value than the iPhone, investor Jason Calacanis said on This Week in Startups on August 25 after a private Tesla demo, predicting 1 billion robots in the world by 2036. “Optimus is going to be the greatest product ever made by...

Tesla Robotaxi now runs from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, the official account said on August 26, adding that the unsupervised fleet is a lot bigger and that smarter vehicle distribution and routing should cut wait times. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2092655287501308296 Those six cities were on...

Tesla is adding passkey support to owner accounts, after a new auth.tesla.com/user/passkey/ route showed up next to the existing password-reset and phone-change paths on Tesla’s login service. https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/2092398013016608885 Aaron Perris posted the new path on August 25. Tesla has not published a support note, so this is the company wiring the feature in, not a...

SpaceX is building a giant new home for its Starship rocket, and it is going up in the Louisiana marsh. The company laid out plans for Starbase Louisiana, a roughly $100 billion launch site on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, on its official project page. The scale is the headline, with CEO Elon Musk saying […]

Tesla Charging posted 36 Supercharger voting winners on August 25 and opened a new round so Tesla account holders can pick the next sites. https://twitter.com/TeslaCharging/status/2092113706352255413 The names sat in a follow-up post, the same way Tesla Charging usually publishes the slate. The official Find Us map is also updated. https://twitter.com/TeslaCharging/status/2092113837772415456 The winners: Jurien Bay, Australia...

Tesla raised U.S. Cybertruck prices by $5,000 on two trims, lifting the Dual-Motor AWD to $74,990 and the Premium AWD to $84,990, according to the company’s website. The Cyberbeast stays at $99,990. The Dual-Motor jump is about 7.1 percent from $69,990. Premium is up 6.2 percent from $79,990. Tesla has not posted an explanation with...

SpaceX is targeting Sunday, August 30 at 7:26 a.m. ET for a Falcon Heavy launch of NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a backup window Monday, August 31 at 7:22 a.m. ET. The company posted the mission page and countdown timeline on spacex.com/launches/roman. A...

Tesla is hosting an invite-only Semi Rollout on September 24, 2026 at its new Semi Factory in Sparks, Nevada, to mark the plant’s opening. Sawyer Merritt posted an official Tesla invite he received by email. The company describes the day as a celebration of the factory opening, with guided tours and a chance to experience...

SpaceX is hiring a Bengaluru supply-chain team for Starlink user-terminal manufacturing while India’s commercial Starlink launch stays frozen on pending security clearances. As of August 23, SpaceX’s careers board listed four Bengaluru openings: senior supplier development engineers for injection molding and RF integration, another supplier development engineer role, and a global supply manager. At least...

SpaceX has created its own Starship alloys and no longer uses 301 stainless, Elon Musk said on August 23, adding detail to a materials path that already left carbon fiber for stainless steel years ago. “This is why I switched Starship to stainless steel. We have since created our own new alloys and no longer...

Starlink said on August 23 that its network is enabling reliable connectivity at IndyCar races across the country, as the satellite service made its first-time IndyCar sponsorship turn at the Freedom 250 on Washington, D.C. streets around the National Mall. “High-speed internet for high-speed racing. Starlink enables reliable connectivity at IndyCar races across the country,”...

Qatar Airways said it now operates 150 Starlink-equipped widebody aircraft, including the world’s first Boeing 787-9 with Starlink installed, as the airline pushes free high-speed cabin Wi-Fi deeper into its long-haul fleet. In an August 20 update, the Doha-based carrier said it has completed Starlink rollout across its Boeing 787-8 sub-fleet in seven months and...

Elon Musk said SpaceX should wind down Falcon once Starship is flying reliably several times per week, so the company’s scarcest engineering and production talent can push Starship toward several flights per day. “Once Starship is flying reliably several times per week, it makes sense to shift super scarce SpaceX engineering and production resources to...