Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Tesla has a new mandatory tutorial for Tesla Assisted Driving, the European name for FSD Supervised, and the city it's driving through appears to be Berlin, where owners still can't switch the system on. Every owner has to sit through it. Tesla's Dutch support page lists four steps to turn the system on: tap Controls,...

Cybercab riders who ask Grok for their own Grok Bots are getting turned away for now, but a senior Tesla AI engineer says an upcoming software update will close that gap, and that he has been testing the fix every day. The complaint came from Tesla creator Dirty Tesla, who posted Thursday afternoon that "You...

Panama’s +Móvil has switched on Starlink Mobile satellite texting for free for all of its customers after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake hit the country on Friday, letting people send SMS from places where the cell network has gone quiet. Update: Starlink has gone a step further for people hit by the quake. On Friday evening...

Tesla has opened a new 8-stall Supercharger in Iași, Romania, and says the site was chosen by its own customers through the company's Supercharger voting program. The Tesla Charging account announced the site on X on Friday afternoon: "New Tesla Supercharger: Iași, Romania (8 stalls)Voting Winner Site 🏆 If there's a place where you've always...

Brazil's telecom regulator, ANATEL, has voted to approve Starlink Mobile's full 2 GHz access in the country, Starlink said on Friday afternoon. That opens mid-band spectrum for SpaceX's satellite-to-phone service in what is already Starlink's second-largest market. Starlink announced the decision on X at 2:49 p.m. PT: ANATEL just scored a huge win for the...

A Model Y on display at Tesla’s Chennai location. Image: Tesla India/X Tesla India has announced a new Experience Centre at Skymark One in Sector 98, Noida, its third sales location in the Delhi area. The company shared the news in a statement on October 9. The Noida site joins Tesla’s Experience Centre at Aerocity...

Venezuela's national telecom regulator Conatel said Friday it has legally authorized Starlink to operate across the country, granting SpaceX's local entity a general license and seven Ku-band spectrum concessions. In a statement published on its site, Conatel said its board approved Habilitación General HGTS-00639 and seven general concessions in the Ku band for SPACEX VZ,...

Image: @omg_fsd/X Tesla's official X account is hinting that a wider Cybercab release is coming. On Friday morning it posted "Floodgates are opening" on top of an owner's photo that shows four gold Cybercabs driving through Texas traffic together. The photo comes from Zach, who posts as @omg_fsd. He shared it Thursday evening with a...

Image: SpaceXAI SpaceXAI is giving Grok Bot its own email inboxes, with the official @bot account on X saying Friday morning that the feature is rolling out to users today and that you can claim one just by asking your Bot. The post went up at 10:16 a.m. PT and kept it short: “Rolling out...

Update, October 9: Tesla has since switched on more Megacharger sites along the freight lane between Atlanta and the port city of Savannah. "New Megacharger sites between Atlanta & Savannah now online," the Tesla Semi account posted Thursday afternoon, adding that "many more Southeast sites" are coming soon. Dan Priestley, who leads Tesla's Semi program,...

SpaceX Starlink vice president of business operations Lauren Dreyer said at India Mobile Congress on October 7, 2026, that Starlink stands ready to serve India as soon as final government approvals clear, framing the network as a last-mile partner for the country’s operators, government, and industry. Update: Elon Musk escalated on October 7, quote-posting content...

Elon Musk said late Tuesday that SpaceXAI's Grok Bot will now use the best backend model for each task, naming Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney and Suno among the leading APIs it plans to use. Musk announced the change in a post on X at 11:46 p.m. on October 6, 2026, writing: "Important note regarding...

Elon Musk said early Wednesday that Tesla and his other companies will build and run their planned Terafab chip complex themselves, ruling out the idea that TSMC would own or operate the Texas facility. Musk was responding to speculation that the most likely outcome for the project was TSMC owning and running the fab. “No,...

Tesla has trimmed up to $3,100 AUD off eligible inventory vehicles in Australia, cutting the Model 3 Premium Long Range RWD to $58,800 AUD and the Model Y Premium RWD to $55,950 AUD. The savings appear under the "Save on Eligible Inventory Vehicles" banner on Tesla Australia's current benefits page, which runs until 31 December...

Tesla shared a 30-second dashcam clip on Tuesday showing FSD Supervised braking hard to avoid a T-bone collision at an intersection, the latest real-world save the company has chosen to highlight from its driver-assistance system. The footage, originally posted by the driver behind the account TheNewGrid, shows a Tesla approaching an intersection as another vehicle...