Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Tesla Cybercab The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration opened an investigation Friday into whether about 1,000 Tesla Cybercabs were properly certified under federal motor vehicle safety standards, Reuters reported, a day after Tesla began commercial Cybercab rides in Austin. According to Reuters, NHTSA is examining the process and technical data Tesla used to claim...

[caption id="attachment_72315" align="alignnone" width="958"] Tesla Cybercab[/caption] Tesla is treating charging as a cost center for Robotaxi scale, with Supercharging lead Max de Zegher saying the fleet already uses public Superchargers when it can and is building dedicated Robotaxi Superchargers for denser, cheaper sessions. https://twitter.com/MdeZegher/status/2095662928724897996 De Zegher wrote that every penny matters for Robotaxi scale, including...

Elon Musk says Cybercab's electric brakes avoid the complexity of a hydraulic system: "no need to rout plumbing all around the car." The claim points to a full brake-by-wire approach that replaces a conventional pedal-and-fluid setup with electronically commanded stopping. That matters especially for a vehicle designed to operate without a driver. A no-pedal vehicle...

[caption id="attachment_72280" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab[/caption] Tesla Robotaxi said Cybercab rides open to the public Friday at 5:00 p.m. Central Time, moving the two-seat, steering-wheel-free vehicle beyond Thursday's invite-only Austin launch. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2095707198873571734 The official account posted the one-line update after Tesla's September 3 Cybercab event in Austin, where selected guests and Robotaxi riders already took...

[caption id="attachment_72259" align="alignnone" width="955"] Starlink[/caption] Starlink said on September 3 that its high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in the United Arab Emirates, pointing customers to starlink.com/unitedarabemirates six days after Abu Dhabi issued a 10-year public-network licence. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2095379512959860943 The official account posted a night shot of a Standard dish on a rooftop with a UAE...

Tesla Korea said on September 3 that the Model Y was the best-selling vehicle in South Korea's entire car market in August, repeating July's first-place finish, while Tesla itself stayed the country's top import brand for a seventh straight month. https://twitter.com/tesla_korea/status/2095393491316801999 The official account credited the Korea Automobile Importers and Distributors Association (KAIDA) and the...

SpaceX lifted 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California early on September 2, 2026, sending Falcon 9 booster B1063 on its 35th flight — just two shy of the company's reuse record. According to Space.com, the rocket lifted off at 1:42 a.m. Pacific Time, and the first stage landed about 8.5 minutes...

Tesla Robotaxi, LLC now lists 420 vehicles on Texas's official automated-vehicle registry, including 375 Model Y robotaxis and 45 purpose-built Cybercabs, according to a September 3 pull of the Texas Motor Carrier Credentialing System public lookup as the company hosts its Austin Cybercab launch event. When Tesla North last checked the same TxMCCS file on...

[caption id="attachment_72221" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Starlink Mobile[/caption] Starlink said on September 2 it is expanding Starlink Mobile in Europe with Hungary's 4iG Group, starting in Hungary and Albania with apps and messaging for people in remote areas, then bringing next-gen V2 high-speed broadband directly to phones in Montenegro and North Macedonia on the same 2 GHz...

[caption id="attachment_72200" align="alignnone" width="896"] Swedish parliament written answer[/caption] Tesla Full Self-Driving Supervised is still the Swedish government's preferred outcome for a Union-wide approval, Infrastructure and Housing Minister Andreas Carlson told parliament in a written answer dated August 31, 2026, even after Trafikverket told EU officials to vote no unless Tesla strips out the ability to...

[caption id="attachment_72079" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Europe[/caption] Tesla Europe posted its FSD Supervised evidence dashboard on September 1, opening a key piece of the Netherlands approval file just over a month before a possible EU-wide vote on October 6, 2026. https://twitter.com/teslaeurope/status/2094661569582096779 The software is already approved in the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Estonia, and Lithuania, where more...

[caption id="attachment_67856" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla[/caption] Elon Musk said Tesla Full Self-Driving will soon be able to avoid potholes, answering a Tesla owner on August 31 who wrote that they just wanted their car to steer around holes in the road. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2094254726183280714 Musk answered with two words on August 31: "Coming soon." He did not name...

[caption id="attachment_69738" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla[/caption] xAI's Louise Giam told a Tesla owner to stay tuned after she asked whether Grok Bot can connect to a Tesla so she can talk to Grok and assign tasks to her agents while she drives. https://twitter.com/buildwithmaya/status/2093367120524402911 Maya, posting as buildwithmaya on August 28, called it a long shot and...

Tesla Elon Musk said SpaceX can accelerate natural-gas turbines coming online by up to 18 months by casting the blades and vanes in-house, a step he called a profound game-changer while Tesla and SpaceX each race 100 gigawatts a year of solar production. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2093794565274669068 Musk wrote on August 29 that both companies are building that...

Starlink has started emailing small-boat owners a new Personal Maritime plan that costs $185 a month and keeps unlimited data in territorial waters worldwide without the 30-day Roam travel limit. https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2093345601672929523 The email says the plan is for people who use Starlink on a vessel and stay on the water for extended periods before returning...