Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

[caption id="attachment_75157" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's European-spec Semi is headed for its first public showing in France, with organizers confirming the electric tractor will appear at Connect Trucks 2026 in Deauville on November 3 and 4. Jean-William Dubal, Tesla's Semi business development manager for France, said on LinkedIn that Tesla will be "presenting the...

[caption id="attachment_75134" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Map: Daren Yoong/X[/caption] Drivers can now take a Tesla from Singapore to Bangkok on Tesla Superchargers alone, a route of about 1,800 kilometers that Singapore-based EV reviewer Daren Yoong said he verified in the Tesla app. Yoong posted the corridor map on Sunday and said the longest remaining gap is 222...

Some Grok Bot users say their weekly usage meters jumped mid-week, not at the normal reset, and pushed them straight to 100%. Replies under a Sunday cancel post from Greg, who posts as @GregGaskell, keep coming back to that timing. @Lcooleya wrote that the cut "should have reduced usage at the reset not mid usage,"...

[caption id="attachment_75150" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla is taking its Cybercab on a 12-stop public display tour across Europe, weeks after its Paris Motor Show debut. The tour starts November 5 at Autoshow Zürich and runs through Germany, Central Europe and Brussels into January. Announcing the tour on Monday, Tesla Europe said "Cybercab is back"...

Tesla has opened a new service center in Anyang, South Korea, weeks after its Jeonju site came online, and owners can book appointments there through the Tesla app. On Sunday, Tesla Korea posted the news on X with a photo of the facade and a link to its service locator. "Tesla Anyang Service Center is...

Elon Musk says running Grok Bot had become too expensive, offering an explanation for why many users burned through their weekly limits so fast. On Sunday, an X user asked Musk whether Grok Bot usage could be reset, saying lots of people had run out unusually quickly this week. Musk replied that "the cost of...

[caption id="attachment_75112" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Jake Schneider/X[/caption] A Neuralink patient living with ALS is now driving his powered wheelchair with his thoughts alone. Jake Schneider, who goes by P7 on X as one of Neuralink's trial participants, shared a short video on Sunday morning of himself steering the chair outdoors using his N1 implant. It's...

[caption id="attachment_75020" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla's Texas Robotaxi fleet now stands at 1,204 registered vehicles after a fresh batch of Model Y additions, according to the Texas AV tracker, which counts vehicles registered with the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles. The tracker reported late this week that Tesla Robotaxi added 124 Model Ys and...

[caption id="attachment_67659" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla Charging announced nine fresh Supercharger openings across North America, Europe, and Asia over the past few days, adding 76 stalls in all. Canada got its own write-up for the Keremeos, B.C., and Norwood, Ontario, 8-stall sites. The rest of the batch breaks down by region as follows. United...

[caption id="attachment_74841" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Europe/X[/caption] Tesla's supervised FSD is now giving rides on Latvian roads, less than a week after the country approved the system on October 26. Ben Geskin said on Saturday that Tesla invited him to be one of the first people in Latvia to try Tesla Assisted Driving, the European...

[caption id="attachment_75092" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX has now flown its Falcon 9 rocket 700 times, after a Friday night launch of 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, according to a count from Spaceflight Now. According to SpaceX's mission page, Falcon 9 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at...

[caption id="attachment_75085" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla owners who tap Activate on the new Emergency Drive Away feature can land a charge-port service bill even if the car never leaves the stall, according to one owner on X. Yaro, a Tesla owner posting as @Tutrifour, wrote on Friday that service charged $539 to inspect the...

[caption id="attachment_74879" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Elon Musk/X[/caption] SpaceX is adding two more AI supercomputer clusters at its Colossus 2 site, including one named Spam that will hold about 200,000 Nvidia GB300 chips for inference. Elon Musk laid out the timelines on Saturday morning in a reply to a walkthrough video posted on X. Macroharder and...

[caption id="attachment_75020" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's official Robotaxi account marked Halloween weekend with a nighttime clip of a driverless Cybercab cruising with two skeletons riding inside. The caption was simply "Bone voyage." https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2116398208725483797 Posted Friday night, the roughly 19-second video was filmed from a vehicle running alongside a yellow Cybercab. A green glow fills...

[caption id="attachment_75068" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla has put the Model 3 Premium Rear-Wheel Drive back on its Canadian design page, weeks after the trim was pulled when Premium orders were paused. Buyers can configure the car again, but there's still no way to order it. Instead of an order button, Premium builds now lead...