Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Image: Avda / Wikimedia Commons Elon Musk is calling it a "major threshold" after a post saying gasoline-only cars have fallen below 50% of global new-vehicle sales for the first time went viral on X on Wednesday. In a quote post, he wrote, "Major threshold passed. Almost all cars will be electric in the future."...

Image: Starlink Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed in parliament on Wednesday that Starlink antennas near Sofia were set on fire, according to The Sofia Globe. He gave almost no details, saying the investigation is being worked on with partner services, is "extremely intensive" and should produce a result soon. He also asked the head...

Image: Michael Wolf / Wikimedia Commons Tesla is planning a second production hall at Giga Berlin that would be more than twice the size of the one it already runs, according to a Tesla statement and details first reported by German public broadcaster rbb. The new building would sit north of the current plant in...

Image: Starlink SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service is now available in Curaçao, the Dutch Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela. The company shared the news on X on Wednesday morning. Starlink announced the launch with a short post promising its "high-speed, low-latency internet" and pointing to a new Curaçao page on its website. The...

Image: Tesla Tesla is officially expanding into Oman in 2027, with the company already hiring employees for its first store in Muscat. Pawel Trzpis, Tesla's Market Lead for the Middle East, confirmed the plans in an October 13 LinkedIn post, marking the automaker's latest expansion into the Gulf region. "I am thrilled to share some...

Image: Tesla Tesla has opened its shareholder question box for the third-quarter 2026 earnings call, giving investors about a week to submit and upvote the questions they most want management to answer when the company reports results on October 21. Questions are being collected on Say, where Tesla says it "invites shareholders to ask and...

Image: Starlink SpaceX has introduced a speed limit on military Starshield terminals used by Ukraine's forces, according to Serhii "Flash" Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, who says the cap took effect overnight without warning and disrupted several missions. Beskrestnov made the claim on Telegram, and Interfax-Ukraine reported his full statement. "I confirm...

Image: Tesla Tesla's Roadster event will stream live this Thursday, October 15, at 7:55 p.m. Central, which works out to 5:55 p.m. Pacific and 8:55 p.m. Eastern for anyone planning to watch from home. The company posted the schedule on X with a short line and a matching graphic: "Roadster event streaming live this Thursday...

Image: Cat Hai Special Zone People's Committee Vietnam's Cat Hai special zone, the island district off Hai Phong that takes in Cat Ba, has put Starlink satellite internet into official use at its government headquarters, ferry piers and remote stations. The service is meant to keep local officials connected for day-to-day administration and for disaster...

Image: Starlink/X Swadeshi Jagran Manch, an economic-nationalist group affiliated with the RSS, urged India's central government on Tuesday to deny Starlink permission to launch commercial satellite broadband, citing national-security concerns and condemning Elon Musk's recent attacks on Mukesh Ambani. The call came in a statement from SJM national co-convenor Ashwani Mahajan, carried by the PTI...

Image: SpaceX The Federal Aviation Administration intends to prepare a programmatic environmental impact statement for SpaceX's plan to run as many as 456 Starship launches and 912 landings a year from Starbase, Texas. That is according to a notice filed for publication in the Federal Register on Tuesday (document 2026-20963, docket FAA-2026-12808). The agency is...

Image: Starlink Starlink is now the fastest and most consistent home internet option in rural parts of the UK, beating the 5G and 4G home broadband services from EE, Three and Vodafone. That's according to a new Opensignal study comparing fixed wireless access and Starlink across 14 European markets, using data collected between April and...

Image: Starlink South Korea's Korea Forest Service is buying 74 Starlink kits so forest workers can call for rescue in the large stretches of mountain forest where mobile networks don't reach. That's according to a report from Edaily, which says the roughly 1.8 billion won project will put the kits in national forest offices across...

Image: Starlink South Korea’s Gyeongbuk Fire Headquarters has started a pilot that puts Starlink on a fire-command vehicle, so crews can keep video and command links running in remote mountain areas when cell towers go down during wildfires, heavy rain or typhoons. The headquarters announced the trial on Sunday, according to a report in the […]

Image: Tesla Tesla has stopped taking new orders for the Model 3 Premium in Canada, with both the rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive versions now grayed out in its online configurator. That’s according to a banner on Tesla’s Canadian design page, which points to the company’s import quota as the reason. The banner reads: “Model […]