Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

[caption id="attachment_72064" align="alignnone" width="1024"] SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX said Ship 40 is loaded onto a semi-submersible for a several-month trip back to Starbase, after engineers spent several days inspecting the Flight 13 ship in the waters off Christmas Island. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2092988521376059899 [caption id="attachment_72065" align="alignnone" width="1024"] SpaceX[/caption] The company posted that the team collected heatshield samples and gained vital...

The Tesla Model Y is the world’s best-selling car through the first seven months of 2026, according to Focus2Move figures covering 162 countries, after sales rose 19.6 percent and pushed the Toyota Corolla into second place. Ukravtoprom circulated the ranking on August 25. The Corolla is down 6.0 percent over the same stretch. Behind them...

The Tesla Model Y is Europe’s best-selling electric vehicle through the first seven months of 2026, with 115,957 registrations, Tesla Senior Sales Advisor Philip Powers said on August 26, citing Dataforce. https://twitter.com/PhilipPowerss/status/2092584265821094218 That volume is up 55 percent from the same stretch of 2025 and puts the Model Y fifth among all cars in Europe,...

Tesla said its 2026 Summer Release is using Grok Think Fast 2.0, putting the new voice model in the car instead of waiting on a later Grok Voice drop. https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2092460375132586350 The company posted that line on August 26, quoting a SpaceXAI note from August 24 that Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 is now number one...

JPMorgan kept an Overweight rating and a $240 price target on SpaceX on August 25, pointing to the closed Cursor acquisition and early Grok gains after Cursor data went into training. Analyst Doug Anmuth wrote that SpaceX’s AI ambitions are coming into sharper focus, and that the bank is increasingly positive on Grok. The $240...

SpaceXAI said Starlink is using Grok Voice to handle more than 15,000 inbound customer support and sales calls a day, with the same system diagnosing hardware issues, shipping replacements, and filling more than 3,000 orders a week across voice and chat. The company posted the Starlink numbers as a follow-up to a claim that Grok...

The German state of Brandenburg is in talks with Tesla about deploying Robotaxis in remote regions, transport minister Robert Crumbach said, a plan that would use the vehicles as rural transit rather than city ride-hailing. Crumbach confirmed the discussions in an interview with Märkische Allgemeine. “Where a regular bus does not run at all, or...

SpaceXAI will deploy NVIDIA Vera CPUs to run the tool-use, code, and data work behind its next agentic AI apps, and Elon Musk said the companies have designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in the fourth quarter of 2027, with significant scale in 2028. “SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has...

Tesla Europe is amplifying Swiss Full Self-Driving (Supervised) passenger ride-alongs after Swiss media road-tested the system from a Zurich store, even though consumer FSD is not yet approved in Switzerland. On August 23, @teslaeurope posted “FSD Supervised in Switzerland,” quoting a rider who said a first supervised demo handled complex situations with no critical intervention...

Golden Tesla Cybercabs are stacking up in a Dallas robotaxi lot and rolling wheel-free on Austin streets days before the company’s September 3 Exclusive Access launch event in the Texas capital. On the evening of August 23, a Dallas visitor posted photos and video of the gold fleet parked for Robotaxi staging. “Got a chance...

Starlink said on August 24 that its network enables real-time seismic data transfer for TGS even 138 miles above the Arctic Circle, so vessels can collaborate in some of the most remote waters on Earth. “Starlink enables real-time seismic data transfer for @TGScompany even 138 miles above the Arctic Circle, so vessels can seamlessly collaborate...

[caption id="attachment_67076" align="alignnone" width="1920"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX said a Falcon 9 launch from California that delivered 27 Starlink satellites also completed the company’s 100th Falcon launch of 2026. “Falcon 9 lifts off from California and delivers 27 Starlink satellites to orbit, completing our 100th Falcon launch of the year,” SpaceX posted on X after the...

Tesla has opened a new public Megacharger site in Vernon, California, according to the official Tesla Charging account on X. The location has six Megacharger stalls. Those pads are built for Tesla’s heavy commercial vehicles, especially the Semi, rather than the Supercharger network passenger cars use day to day, and Megacharger hardware is rated for...

Wall Street Journal automotive critic Dan Neil says Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) left him “bewitched” after about two hours in a Model Y, describing the software as “amazing” even while admitting he is still a sample of one with limited evidence. “Still, I know good driving when I see it,” Neil wrote in the WSJ...

SpaceX flew another Falcon 9 Starlink mission from Florida on Friday, and it walked the flight in public the way it usually does. The company posted a live look first (“Watch Falcon 9 launch 29 @Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida”), then confirmed “Deployment of 29 @Starlink satellites confirmed,” and followed that with a photo...