Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Tesla's investor relations page posted its company-compiled consensus for the third quarter on Tuesday, September 29, with 24 sell-side analysts expecting 461,974 vehicle deliveries, a number that would be down 7.1% from a year ago and sets the bar Tesla needs to clear when it reports on Friday. This is the fourth consensus release since...

The European Transport Safety Council urged EU member states on Tuesday to reject Tesla's Full Self-Driving system over a speed offset feature that can let the car travel above the detected speed limit, but the ETSC is an advocacy group, not a regulator, and its non-binding recommendation runs against what the actual regulators keep deciding....

Elon Musk says Delta Air Lines “will lose a lot of customers” in a reply to a post noting the airline has no Starlink-equipped planes or plans for them, as United Airlines passed 600 aircraft with Starlink. Delta has separately committed to Amazon's Leo satellite service for in-flight WiFi, with rollout not starting until 2028....

Tesla opened its 3,000th Supercharger in Canada on Monday, a 24-stall station on Montée Ryan in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec, just in time for the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend on October 12. Tesla Charging announced the milestone Monday and shared photos of the new site, which features red pylons with maple-leaf branding. Mont-Tremblant is a popular resort...

SpaceXAI has launched Team Bots, a new Grok feature that gives companies shared AI teammates able to work from common files, apps and instructions while building useful knowledge over time. Announced Monday, Team Bots are designed around specific roles or workflows rather than individual conversations. Companies can give a bot access to internal documents, instructions,...

Tesla has pushed its upcoming Roadster event from October 1 to October 15, saying Monday that severe weather in the forecast forced the delay because the event can only be held outdoors. The company explained the change in a short update titled "Roadster event update." "We've been tracking the weather closely with local meteorologists, but...

SpaceX completed Starship’s first orbital mission on Flight 14, reaching Earth orbit for the first time while deploying 26 Starlink V3 satellites that could expand the spacecraft’s role in future high-capacity missions. Starship lifted off from Starbase, Texas on September 28 at 7:48 a.m. CT for its 14th flight and first attempt to reach orbit. […]

Starlink beamed live video from SpaceX's Starship back to Earth on Monday as the ship orbited the planet for the first time in program history during Flight 14, which lifted off from Starbase, Texas carrying 26 Starlink V3 satellites. Flight 14 marked the first Starship mission planned to reach orbit, and SpaceX said Monday the...

Tesla's Robotaxi will now make sure you don't leave your bags behind. A new feature spotted Sunday automatically reopens the trunk at the end of a ride if the rider opened it before the trip began. X user Aryan Butala shared the find September 27 with a 23-second demo video. The car pops the trunk...

A 50-foot bronze statue of Prometheus is going up just outside Starbase. The statue is being assembled on private land near the entrance to the SpaceX launch site, according to drone operator Joe Tegtmeyer, who documented the work on Sunday. Tegtmeyer said it is not a SpaceX commission, and Elon Musk is not paying for...

SpaceXAI is giving creators a new way to earn rewards from custom Grok Bots, with a limited pilot program now tying payments to Bot usage. X Corp's Grok Bot Template Rewards Pilot Program Terms, effective September 25, 2026, outline a system that provides discretionary payments to creators whose public Bot templates drive user activity. The...

Grok Bots are moving from separate services toward a shared XChat experience as SpaceXAI and X continue testing a connection between Grok products. X's Chris Park confirmed the news by quote-posting the report from @blankspeaker, whose profile bio identifies them as SpaceXAI's Grok Community Mod. Park replied "True," adding "Grok Bot to XChat coming soon."...

A future Super Heavy booster could fly with fewer grid fins as SpaceX continues refining its Starship hardware. Elon Musk said on September 25, 2026 that the company "might be able to reduce to 2 grid fins and use S-turns for the third axis of control." The comment came in a reply to SpaceX commentator...

Elon Musk has revealed the scale of SpaceXAI's computing ambitions, outlining a Colossus expansion that could reach 1.44 million GPUs by the end of December. Musk said Thursday that Colossus 1 operates with 150,000 H100, 50,000 H200 and 30,000 GB200 chips, while Colossus 2 contains 110,000 GB200 and 440,000 GB300 chips. He added that another...

China's electric vehicle price war is cooling into autumn, with Tesla adjusting its incentives. The discounts will continue into October, but the Model Y reduction is becoming smaller. Tesla China has extended its limited-time tail-payment discount on the Model 3 and Model Y through October 31, 2026, according to the company's official promotions page. The...