Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has sold $3.95 billion worth of his shares in the automaker, reveals filings with the SEC on Tuesday. The share sales happened after the closing of Musk’s $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Prior to the notice of his 19.5 million shares of Tesla sold, Musk held roughly 25% of Tesla stock […]

Lucid Motors announced its Q3 earnings on Tuesday, noting it saw $195.5 million in revenue but suffered a net loss of $530 million. As for quarterly production, Lucid said it made a record 2,282 cars, a number that’s three times the previous quarter. The company delivered 1,398 cars in Q3. Lucid said it’s still on […]

Zoom announced at its Zoomtopia conference in San Jose, California, today it will be launching the ability to make video calls in all Tesla vehicles. According to a promo video demonstrating Zoom calls in a Tesla, we can see the car leveraging the Cabin Camera. The Zoom app shows video on the right side of […]

Tesla’s latest 2022.36.6 software update appears to be causing bugs for some owners, resulting in features such as walk-away door lock, Autopilot and Cruise Control not working as intended for Model 3 and Model Y owners. Numerous threads on Reddit detail how Autopilot won’t activate and Cruise Control showing “unavailable”, when single-tapping and double-tapping the […]

Earlier today, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was interviewed by Baron Capital Group Chairman and CEO Ron Baron, in a featured session at the 29th Annual Baron Investment Conference in New York City on November 4, 2022. Over 4000 Baron Funds’ shareholders attended the conference. Musk discussed numerous topics with Baron, diving into the […]

SpaceX shared a new video today detailing “Life at Starbase,” showcasing what working at the site in Boca Chica, Texas, is like. We scenes of workers helping to build Starship and Super Heavy, plus ‘Mechzilla’ lifting up these huge rockets with its ‘chopsticks’. Also shown is a scene from a restaurant with the signage, “OCCUPY […]

SpaceX has expanded its Starlink service map reaching more communities in northern parts of the globe, particularly Alaska and Canada. According to Nunatsiaq News, Starlink reaches all of Nunavut in Canada (Sanikiluaq gained Starlink when the latter launched in northern Quebec in April). Starlink is also available in the Yukon and Northwest Territories. Other areas […]

SpaceX has added Swarm to its Starlink website, officially launching low cost global data for Internet of Things connectivity, for $5 per month, noted CNBC’s Michael Sheetz. Last year, SpaceX acquired satellite data start-up Swarm based in Mountain View, California, which now operates as a subsidiary of the company. As of last year, Swarm had […]

The coming changes to Elon Musk’s $44 billion takeover of Twitter are happening at a breakneck speed similar to Tesla, according to the latest reports. Twitter’s $8 verification service part of Twitter Blue is said to launch as early as next week, reports Bloomberg. Also coming is the edit button for all users, as this […]

Tesla started rolling out its 2022.40.4 software update yesterday, which brings Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta to its regular testers for the first time. Previously, we reported FSD beta was pushed out for internal employee tester vehicles, hinting at an imminent launch for the wider FSD beta pool. We’re now seeing numerous first drives with FSD […]

Images via u/CHIRP15 and u/PracticalBuilding3 SpaceX is offering some Starlink internet promos right now in select nations around the globe. In Australia, Starlink is on sale for 50% off at $450 (regular $924) for the hardware kit, until New Year’s according to SpaceX. An image was shared on Reddit of the Starlink website by u/CHIRP15. […]

Tesla has launched two new items in its online store ahead of the holidays for 2022. The new Model X-mas sweater is limited edition and already sold out as of writing, at a cost of $65 USD each. “Whether you’ve been naughty or nice this year, our limited-edition Model X-mas Sweater will keep you warm […]

Twitter’s ‘Chief Twit’ Elon Musk announced on Tuesday morning the company’s new plan to defeat bots and spam on the social network. The company will introduce Twitter Blue which will include a verification checkmark for $8 USD per month. “Twitter’s current lords & peasants system for who has or doesn’t have a blue checkmark is […]

Tesla on Monday evening released its 2022.36.15 software update, which includes the anticipated Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta version 10.69.3 for employees. According to @Teslascope, this FSD beta 10.69.3 update is being released to Tesla employees in Canada and the USA, based on vehicles in its fleet that received the update. Tesla employees can opt to […]

Tesla on Monday afternoon released a new software update, 2022.20.19, which contains Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta 10.69.2.4 for beta testers. As noted by @Teslascope, this latest software update brings FSD beta 10.69.2.4 to roughly 10-15% of the third-party companion software’s customers that are testing the beta. The latest update (v10.69.2.4) has now been pushed to […]