Stories by Alex Diaz

[caption id="attachment_75035" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: WattsApp[/caption] WattsApp is putting a brand-new Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive on the line for Canadian EV owners, alongside winter Supercharging rebates of up to C$25 a month, as the Toronto-based rewards platform refreshes its dashboard and tees up 2027 payouts. In an October 22 update, WattsApp Inc said its...

[caption id="attachment_75028" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Viasat/Equatys[/caption] Terrestar Solutions signed a non-binding deal in Ottawa on October 28 that would tie Canada's planned CaStar satellite network to Equatys, a global direct-to-phone system co-founded by UAE SpaceTech firm Space42 and US satellite operator Viasat, adding another Canadian player to the race against Starlink's direct-to-cell service. The Montreal-based...

[caption id="attachment_75020" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla's Robotaxi service now runs from 6 AM to 2 AM, stretching the day by three hours past the 11 PM cutoff the company posted earlier this month. The official @robotaxi account laid out the change late Thursday, October 29, in a service update that also shipped a batch...

[caption id="attachment_75014" align="aligncenter" width="970"] City of Starbase/X[/caption] The City of Starbase has put black-and-white police Cybertrucks on display as it builds its first municipal police department, following other Texas agencies that have weighed Cybertruck patrol fleets of their own. In an October 29 post on X, the city account introduced the Starbase Police Department's Cybertrucks...

[caption id="attachment_74879" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Elon Musk/X[/caption] SpaceX's third-quarter filing shows that one unnamed client, labeled only as Customer B, accounted for 34.5% of the company's revenue in the three months ended September 30, more than any other single buyer and more than Customer A at 16.6%. That concentration figure comes from SpaceX's Form 10-Q....

[caption id="attachment_74714" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX told the Federal Communications Commission on October 28 that T-Mobile is pushing outdated satellite-to-phone rules that would create buffer zones of more than 400 kilometers around cell sites and cut millions of people off from Starlink Mobile. In reply comments filed for the U.S. run-up to the 2027...

[caption id="attachment_75002" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: NASA[/caption] Canadian Space Agency astronaut Joshua Kutryk began his first spacewalk at 7:57 a.m. ET on Thursday, October 29, outside the International Space Station, weeks after riding a SpaceX Crew-13 Dragon to orbit. https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/2115776389047779622 NASA astronaut Anil Menon joined him for U.S. spacewalk 100, a planned six-and-a-half-hour job to install...

[caption id="attachment_74990" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Green NCAP[/caption] Green NCAP's life-cycle assessment of the Tesla Model Y Rear-Wheel Drive puts total greenhouse gas emissions at 95 g CO2-eq/km, the lowest life-cycle emissions figure the program has published so far and a new mark after Tesla's Model 3 topped its 2022 assessment index. Tesla Europe highlighted the...

[caption id="attachment_74985" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Korea[/caption] The Seoul Central District Court on Thursday, October 29, threw out a refund suit from 89 Tesla owners who bought the Full Self-Driving option between 2019 and 2022, ruling that Tesla Korea had not breached its contracts in a market still arguing over who actually gets FSD. According...

[caption id="attachment_74782" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's Robotaxi app is offering new riders a free first trip in Dallas and Houston, with the fare line reading "First ride on us" and a $0.00 total on a Houston booking inside the company's expanded Houston service map. Tracker Ethan McKanna, who runs the @rtaxitracker account, shared the...

[caption id="attachment_74849" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] The Houston Police Officers' Union is pointing people toward Tesla's expanded Houston Robotaxi map as a way to get home safely after a night out. In an X post at 4:52 PM PT on Tuesday, October 27, the union said there has never been an excuse to drink and...

[caption id="attachment_63812" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Image: Ford[/caption] Ford's electric-vehicle unit, Model e, posted a $1.1 billion EBIT loss in the third quarter of 2026 on $1.2 billion of revenue, according to the company's October 28 earnings release, a sharp contrast with Tesla's US$28.05 billion quarter a week earlier. Model e revenue fell 31% from $1.8 billion...

[caption id="attachment_74910" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceXSI / Matt Palmer[/caption] Grok Bot has opened a referral program that hands invited friends a 2-week free Premium trial, then rewards the person who shared the link with a free usage reset once that friend becomes a paid subscriber on The X Subscription. Official docs on docs.x.ai spell out...

[caption id="attachment_74892" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] General Motors chief product officer Sterling Anderson, who once ran Tesla's Autopilot program, says a camera-only self-driving stack will hit hard physical limits, even as Tesla's own FSD (Supervised) safety report puts the vision system at more than 6 million miles per major collision in North America. Anderson made...

[caption id="attachment_74797" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Turkish police detained 85 people on Tuesday, October 27, in raids across 30 provinces targeting the Daltonlar crime network, a group linked to the suspects held in Germany over Poland's Starlink ground station fire. Istanbul's Chief Prosecutor's office coordinated the operation, according to its statement published by Cumhuriyet. Prosecutors...