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[caption id="attachment_74138" align="aligncenter" width="970"] A Model Y on display at Tesla's Chennai location. Image: Tesla India/X[/caption] Tesla's APAC recruiting manager says the company is "officially coming to Vietnam" and has posted its first five local jobs, a hiring push that follows the September registration of Tesla Motors Vietnam in Ho Chi Minh City. Ricky Ip,...

[caption id="attachment_74314" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Starship and Super Heavy on the orbital pad at Starbase. Image: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX told federal aviation regulators that airspace rules, not rockets, are what would hold the company short of 10,000 launches a year. Elon Musk weighed in late Tuesday, writing that "10k Starship launches/year is just from Starbase Louisiana." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2115324467295756543...

[caption id="attachment_74922" align="aligncenter" width="970"]Image: Munro Live/YouTube[/caption] Tesla's Cybercab can drive itself to a charger, but plugging in still needs hands, and Lars Moravy says Optimus is meant to take that job until a more automated setup is ready. The Tesla vice president of vehicle engineering made the point in a Cybercab engineering deep dive from...

[caption id="attachment_67550" align="aligncenter" width="970"]Image: United Airlines[/caption] United Airlines is adding Starlink to about three aircraft a day and already has the service on 661 jets, CEO Scott Kirby said Tuesday, as the carrier races toward full-fleet coverage by the end of 2027. Kirby spelled out the faster pace on the Cheeky Pint podcast with John...

[caption id="attachment_74910" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceXSI / Matt Palmer[/caption] Elon Musk is spotlighting a fresh wave of Grok Bot tools, quote-posting a SpaceXSI feature roundup that puts Pages, a secure Vault, and built-in video creation at the front of the pack after a week of phone-app access and other agent upgrades. On Tuesday, October 27,...

[caption id="attachment_74680" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Credit: Tesla Robotaxi/X[/caption] Elon Musk says beach access is coming for Tesla's Miami and Tampa Robotaxi zones, answering Florida Governor Ron DeSantis with a short "Coming soon" reply on X at 7:35 AM PT on Tuesday, October 27. The exchange lands a day after Tesla switched on a much bigger Houston...

[caption id="attachment_69735" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] Ottawa has spent months talking about ditching Starlink, but the country's own satellite makers still can't get to orbit without SpaceX. That dependence is about to get tighter. SpaceX has stopped taking new Falcon 9 bookings beyond 2028 as it shifts customers to Starship, and Canada has no medium-lift...

[caption id="attachment_69585" align="aligncenter" width="970"]Image: Tesla[/caption] Madison Energy Infrastructure is putting Tesla Megapacks on the grid for a Colorado electric cooperative, in a 50 MW battery storage portfolio that is among the first projects backed by Madison's $50 million agreement with Tesla. The company said Monday it will deploy 50 MW / 200 MWh of energy...

[caption id="attachment_74864" align="aligncenter" width="970"]Image: Munro Live/YouTube[/caption] Tesla's Cybercab factory line can now build the two-seater faster than the company can put it on the road, according to Lars Moravy, Tesla's vice president of vehicle engineering. Speaking in a new Cybercab engineering deep dive from Munro Live filmed on the line in Texas, Moravy said, "We...

Turo will let US travelers book Teslas with FSD (Supervised) turned on starting October 28, verified through a direct connection to Tesla’s API, the car rental marketplace said in a press release on Monday. It’s billed as the first verified FSD (Supervised) rental experience in the country, and it lands days after Tesla said more […]

Tesla Europe says FSD (Supervised) is now approved in Latvia, extending a run of approvals that reached nine countries when Slovakia cleared the system on October 16. Now approved in Latvia 🇱🇻 Rollout begins soon — Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa (@teslaeurope) October 26, 2026 Posting on X at 3:36 AM PT on Monday, […]

[caption id="attachment_74856" align="aligncenter" width="1920"]Image: Starlink[/caption] Starlink Mobile is now live in Brazil through Brazilian carrier Vivo, Starlink said on Monday morning, opening satellite messaging and apps in cellular dead zones to 50 million Vivo customers. According to the company, 7 million phones are already connected, and it is calling this the first nationwide Starlink Mobile...

Canaccord Genuity analyst George Gianarikas reiterated his US$442 price target on Tesla stock and pushed back hard on investors who came away from the company’s third quarter earnings call feeling let down. In a note to clients, he wrote that “tea-leaf readers” describing a “subdued” tone on the call “are flatly wrong.” Gianarikas went the […]

Elon Musk has floated letting Tesla owners sign in to their cars with their own Grok Bot, days after Grok Bot started making phone calls for users. The idea came up on X on Sunday, October 25, when a Cybertruck owner asked for one Grok that follows him from his phone to his truck. Cybertruck […]

Update, October 28: SpaceX says Ship 42’s static fires are done. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 ran a full-duration six-engine static fire, then fired a single Raptor to simulate a deorbit burn. Ship 42 static fires complete. The Starship preparing for Flight 15 performed a full duration, six-engine static fire, and fired a single […]