Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

[caption id="attachment_72595" align="alignnone" width="1024"] #image_title[/caption]Tesla Europe said on September 11, 2026, that the company has logged nearly a year of Full Self-Driving Supervised testing in Sweden, covering complex city streets and rural roads at the appropriate speed across the full range of Nordic weather, in a fresh official clip posted to X. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2098366703285506550 “Nearly a...

Tesla opened Model Y Performance ordering in China on September 11, 2026, listing the high-performance all-wheel-drive Juniper at 369,000 yuan (about USD $54,450) on its Chinese Model Y site with an estimated delivery window of two to six weeks. Official specs on Tesla China’s Model Y page put the Performance at 3.5 seconds for 0–100...

SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told investors at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia and Technology Conference on September 10, 2026, that the company closed another terrestrial AI compute hosting deal earlier this month worth about $1.11 billion a month starting December 1 — roughly $13 billion in annualized recurring revenue that sharpens conviction in a $100 billion...

xAI is staging Grok Bot Galaxy across three days from September 15 to September 17, 2026, with in-person sessions at The Howard, 661 Howard Street in San Francisco, and a parallel livestream anyone can follow from elsewhere, the company said on its Galaxy event page. The pitch is practical: put Grok Bot on real work,...

[caption id="attachment_72280" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab[/caption] Tesla’s Robotaxi account said on September 10, 2026, that anyone can try Cybercab in Austin by downloading the Robotaxi app and hailing a ride, quoting a Cybercab experience clip from journalist Dave Lee as the public invitation goes wider. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2098099999888593064 The short post — “Anyone can try Cybercab in...

Grok Bot quality-of-life improvements. Source: Grok Bot / X Grok Bot outlined a fresh quality-of-life package on September 9, 2026, highlighting inline message drafting that lets users ask their Bot to compose outbound messages for approval before anything is sent, and Elon Musk amplified the thread the next morning. https://twitter.com/bot/status/2097759948189106686 Alongside the draft-before-send flow, the...

Update (September 10, 2026): We got this wrong in the original headline and framing. SpaceX is not suing Texas to hide that Terafab received a tax deal. That Grimes County abatement is already public. What is in court is the supporting application and negotiation file after Attorney General Ken Paxton ordered most of those records...

Tesla amplified a video of 98-year-old Larry driving his new Model Y on FSD Supervised for everyday trips, sharing the clip on September 9, 2026, after the interview showed how far supervised autonomy has come for an owner whose first car was a 1931 Ford Model A. In the clip Tesla pushed out, Larry says...

[caption id="attachment_72534" align="alignnone" width="1024"]Tesla California Virtual Power Plant dashboard. Source: Tesla Energy / X[/caption] Tesla Energy said on September 9, 2026, that about 69,000 Powerwall owners across California are currently dispatching more than 500 megawatts to the grid, helping meet peak demand during today’s heatwave. “Equivalent to the output of a power plant, but from...

Tesla’s purpose-built Cybercab count in Texas automated-vehicle records has moved up by four, according to Texas Department of Motor Vehicles listings shared on September 8, 2026, bringing the registered Robotaxi Cybercab fleet to 49 after earlier public tallies had sat near 45 ahead of Austin’s public-ride launch. Screenshots of the state automated motor vehicle roster...

Tesla Energy said on September 9, 2026, that a super El Niño is coming and reminded Powerwall owners that Storm Watch mode tracks severe weather forecasts and automatically charges a Powerwall to maximum capacity ahead of outages. https://twitter.com/teslaenergy/status/2097729141378556401 The post quotes Tesla’s older “How Storm Watch works” explainer and lands as climate agencies warn the...

Tesla’s Cybercab engineering lead Eric said on September 8, 2026, that the company has already taken in tens of thousands of submissions through its partnership webform and that the team is actively working through that backlog, after a South Carolina and Georgia fleet prospect asked who to talk to about infrastructure and large-scale mobility deals....

[caption id="attachment_72506" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Argentine Human Capital Ministry signing photo for the Starlink rural schools deal. Source: Ministerio de Capital Humano / X[/caption] Starlink said on September 8, 2026, that it will provide 6,000 kits to rural schools in Argentina under an agreement with the country’s Ministerio de Capital Humano and regulator ENACOM, aiming to...

[caption id="attachment_72499" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Powerwall 3. Source: Tesla[/caption] Tesla Energy said on September 8, 2026, that Powerwall 3 is now available in Japan, posting a “Built for Japan” video and opening installation consultations for homeowners who want the latest residential battery. https://twitter.com/teslaenergy/status/2097441533712801806 The company followed with a link to its Japanese Powerwall support pages,...

[caption id="attachment_72476" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla FSD visualizes extra roadside space for safety.[/caption] Tesla said on September 8, 2026, that Full Self-Driving Supervised is built to leave extra space for pedestrians, cyclists, roadside workers, and cars parked along the curb, calling the lateral offset a safety margin most human drivers rarely hold as consistently. https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2097382902602609141 “A...