Stories by Alex Diaz
Tesla Adds New Superchargers in Terrace and Vanderhoof, BC
Tesla has flipped the switch on two new Supercharger stations in northern British Columbia, Canada, bringing 8 stalls to Terrace and 4 more to Vanderhoof. Tesla Charging announced the new sites Tuesday, sharing a photo of a Model 3 charging at the Terrace station. The two openings add 12 stalls to the network in northern...
Tesla Tops 100,000 Vehicles in Denmark as Fleet Doubles in Three Years
Tesla Europe said Wednesday that 100,000 of its vehicles are now on the road in Denmark, doubling the country's Tesla fleet in just three years. The company marked the moment with a graphic showing a Model Y under a glowing 100K. Much of that growth came from the electric SUV, which broke Denmark's single-year sales...
Tesla Cybercab Drive Units Now Roll Off Factory Line Every 10 Seconds
Tesla said Tuesday the Cybercab is the most efficient EV ever certified and built, and that the robotaxi's drive units are rolling off the production line every 10 seconds. The two-seat robotaxi, built at Giga Texas without a steering wheel or pedals, started carrying passengers in Austin in June 2026 as part of Tesla's Robotaxi...
SpaceX Targets October 1 for NASA Crew-13 Falcon 9 Launch
SpaceX is targeting no earlier than Thursday, October 1 for the Falcon 9 launch of NASA’s Crew-13 mission to the International Space Station, the company said Tuesday. NASA said Tuesday it is targeting 11:10 a.m. EDT on October 1 as the earliest launch opportunity, with liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space...
Tesla Brings FSD v14.2 Lite to Hardware 3 Model S and X
Tesla has started pushing FSD (Supervised) v14.2 Lite to Hardware 3 Model S and Model X vehicles, marking the first time the flagship sedan and SUV have received any v14 software. Zack shared the news Tuesday, posting a photo from an owner in China showing the update installed on a Model S. The center...
Starlink Dishes Spotted on BC Ferries as Crew Wi-Fi Testing Begins [Update]
A photo posted on Reddit shows Starlink high-performance dishes installed on a BC Ferries vessel, the first visible sign the British Columbia, Canada ferry operator's satellite internet rollout for crews is underway. Reddit user panuvic shared the image in r/bcferries on September 18, showing the vessel's mast with its large traditional satcom dome and flat...
Tesla Engineers Are Using Grok 4.7 to Ship FSD and Cybercab Features Overnight
Elon Musk said Tuesday that Grok 4.7 is already doing real engineering work inside Tesla, highlighting a post from a senior staff engineer on the company's AI team describing how the model's new Build harness helped ship features overnight. Yun-Ta Tsai, a senior staff engineer on Tesla's AI team, said Grok Build teams spent the...
Starlink Expands Free Mini Rentals to More Residential Customers
SpaceX has expanded its free Starlink Mini hardware rental to customers on every Residential plan in select countries, opening a perk that was previously reserved for top-tier Residential Max subscribers. Invited customers receive an email with a "Claim Mini" button and a short survey, and the offer is limited to one kit per customer. According...
Boring Company Invites Engineers on All Expenses Paid Vegas Loop Tour Oct 18
The Boring Company is inviting exceptional engineers on an all expenses paid, behind the scenes tour of the Vegas Loop in Las Vegas on Sunday, October 18, with applications due by October 1. Monday brought the announcement of the behind the scenes tour. The Boring Company said Monday the tour will go behind the scenes...
NVIDIA Names Tesla Megapack Among First DSX Ready Picks for AI Factory Power
NVIDIA launched DSX Ready on September 21 to qualify power and cooling products for AI factories, and Tesla Megapack is among the first qualified battery energy storage solutions. Megapack is Tesla's utility-scale battery system designed for grid-scale energy storage projects. DSX Ready is NVIDIA's new qualification program that vets power and cooling products for use...
SpaceXAI Drops Grok 4.7, Its Smartest AI Yet for Writing Code
SpaceXAI launched Grok 4.7 on Monday, September 21, calling it the company's most powerful model yet for coding and knowledge work, available now in Cursor, Grok Build, and the Grok API. The new model uses a larger base model than Grok 4.6 and was trained with a longer reinforcement learning run on a harder mix...
Tesla and Sunrun Batteries Set US Record Sending 580 MW to California Grid
Sunrun and Tesla announced Monday, September 21, that their fleets of home batteries dispatched more than 580 megawatts of peak power to California's grid on the evening of September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant dispatch on record. The companies coordinated 580 megawatts of residential battery capacity, combining 517 megawatts from 110,000 Tesla Powerwalls...
New Tesla Owner? How to Precondition Your Cabin Before Driving
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...
Starlink Is Bringing Its Wi-Fi to Vietjet Passengers From Gate to Gate
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 Swaps Cybertruck’s Painted Mirror Caps for Tougher Textured Plastic
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...
