Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones
Tesla Offers Free Supercharging in Northwest Florida After Isaias
Image: Tesla Tesla is making Supercharging free at three Supercharger sites in northwest Florida from October 13 through October 18, giving drivers in Gulf Breeze, Destin and Pensacola a break as the region recovers from Hurricane Isaias. That’s according to Tesla’s charging account on X, which posted the news on Monday afternoon, calling it “Free […]
Germany Arrests Two Suspects in Poland’s Starlink Station Fire
Credit: Starlink German police have detained two Turkish nationals suspected of setting fire to the Starlink ground station in Poland's Masovia region last month, and Poland intends to put them on trial at home. The arrests were carried out at the request of Polish security services, nearly three weeks after the blaze at the site...
Taiwan Power Firm Orders 260 Tesla Megapacks
Image: Tesla Taiwan's Apollo Power has signed a deal with Tesla's Taiwan arm to buy 260 Megapack 2XL units, adding up to roughly 1 GWh of battery storage. That's according to a filing Apollo Power made with the Taiwan Stock Exchange on October 11, which says the contract with Tesla Motors Taiwan was signed on...
NHTSA Opens School Zone Review of Tesla Robotaxis
Image: Tesla Robotaxi/X U.S. safety regulators have opened a defect petition review into claims that Tesla's driverless robotaxis go faster than the posted limit in active school zones, according to a public NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation resume. The case is labeled DP26010 and was opened on October 9, 2026. It covers model-year 2026 Tesla...
Canadian Startup With $22.5M and No Launches Wants to Take On SpaceX
Image: Canada Rocket Company Canada Rocket Company, a nine-month-old startup based in Etobicoke, says it will put a Canadian-built rocket into orbit by 2032 and eventually win launch business away from Elon Musk's SpaceX. According to the Toronto Star, co-founder and CEO Hugh Kolias has already raised $22.5 million, moved into a 7,500-square-foot manufacturing facility...
Musk Says Some Grok Training Traces Read Like Torture
Image: SpaceXSI Elon Musk says some of Grok's internal reasoning traces from AI training read like "a person undergoing torture that is driving them mad," and that SpaceXSI will be "a lot more careful" with how it trains its models. That's according to Musk himself, who posted the reply on X on Sunday evening. The...
Tesla Brings a Cybercab to the Paris Motor Show
Image: Tesla via Mondial de l'Auto Tesla is bringing a Cybercab from its U.S. robotaxi fleet to the Paris Motor Show this week, along with an Optimus robot and free FSD (Supervised) test drives. That's according to the Mondial de l'Auto, which published Tesla's stand lineup based on an official press release from the automaker....
Tesla Superchargers Are Coming to Korea’s Highway Rest Stops
Image: Tesla Korea/X Tesla Superchargers are headed to highway rest stops across South Korea, after Tesla was picked as a charging operator for rest areas in the Korea Expressway Corporation's 2026 program. That's according to Tesla Korea, which posted the news on X on Monday. The Korea Expressway Corporation is the state-run company that operates...
Tesla Opens a Service Center in Jeonju, Korea
Image: Tesla Korea/X Tesla has opened a new service center in Jeonju, South Korea, and owners can already book appointments there through the Tesla app. That's according to Tesla Korea, which posted the news on X on Sunday evening with photos of the site. "Tesla is continuing to expand its service network," the company wrote....
Tesla Opens 4-Stall Semi Megacharger in Tulare, California
Image: Tesla Charging/X Tesla has opened a new 4-stall Semi Megacharger in Tulare, California, adding another dedicated charging stop for its electric Class 8 truck in the state's Central Valley farm and freight belt. The Tesla Charging account announced the site Friday evening with an overhead photo showing a Semi plugged into one of the...
Tesla Turns On Grok Bot for Cybercab and Model Y
Grok running on a Tesla display. Image: Dirty Tesla/X Grok Bot now works inside every Cybercab and across the rest of Tesla’s Model Y fleet, according to Yun-Ta Tsai, a senior staff engineer on Tesla’s AI team, who announced the rollout on X Saturday night just two days after promising riders a fix. “Grok @bot...
Elon Joins X Takeover Virtually at Giga Texas
Elon Musk on the main stage screen at X Takeover at Giga Texas. Image: Teslas.R.Us/X Elon Musk joined the X Takeover fan event at Giga Texas in Austin by video Saturday afternoon for a virtual interview titled “What Comes Next for Humanity,” livestreamed by Tesla Owners Silicon Valley. The independently organized gathering is the first...
Elon Says Grok Bot Can Now Shop for You
Image: Grok Elon Musk says Grok Bot can now do your online shopping. In a post on X Saturday afternoon, he said you can snap a photo of your credit card, drop it into a chat with Grok Bot, and it will hunt down the best price on whatever you want and place the order....
Tesla Engineer Says Cybercab Rider Cameras Are Coming
The Cybercab's cabin screen during a ride. Image: Dan Burkland/X Tesla is working on a way for Cybercab riders to pull up the car's rear and side repeater cameras on the cabin screen whenever they want. Tesla UI software engineer Evan (@CarCoder) confirmed it on X Friday night with two words: "In development." Right now,...
Elon Targets Starship Flight 15 Ship Catch in 4–6 Weeks
Starship in orbit during Flight 14, its first orbital flight. Credit: SpaceX/X Elon Musk said Saturday that Starship Flight 15 is hopefully four to six weeks away, with catching the upper-stage ship as the big milestone that would mark the first full recovery of an orbital-class rocket. Musk was speaking in a virtual interview titled...
