Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

SpaceX Starlink vice president of business operations Lauren Dreyer said at India Mobile Congress on October 7, 2026, that Starlink stands ready to serve India as soon as final government approvals clear, framing the network as a last-mile partner for the country’s operators, government, and industry. Update: Elon Musk escalated on October 7, quote-posting content...

Elon Musk said late Tuesday that SpaceXAI's Grok Bot will now use the best backend model for each task, naming Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, MidJourney and Suno among the leading APIs it plans to use. Musk announced the change in a post on X at 11:46 p.m. on October 6, 2026, writing: "Important note regarding...

Elon Musk said early Wednesday that Tesla and his other companies will build and run their planned Terafab chip complex themselves, ruling out the idea that TSMC would own or operate the Texas facility. Musk was responding to speculation that the most likely outcome for the project was TSMC owning and running the fab. “No,...

Tesla has trimmed up to $3,100 AUD off eligible inventory vehicles in Australia, cutting the Model 3 Premium Long Range RWD to $58,800 AUD and the Model Y Premium RWD to $55,950 AUD. The savings appear under the "Save on Eligible Inventory Vehicles" banner on Tesla Australia's current benefits page, which runs until 31 December...

Tesla shared a 30-second dashcam clip on Tuesday showing FSD Supervised braking hard to avoid a T-bone collision at an intersection, the latest real-world save the company has chosen to highlight from its driver-assistance system. The footage, originally posted by the driver behind the account TheNewGrid, shows a Tesla approaching an intersection as another vehicle...

A veteran truck driver who went into a Tesla Semi test looking for its weaknesses came away with a very different conclusion, saying the electric Class 8 truck could change the trucking industry. Adam Wingfield, editorial director at FreightWaves and a trucker with 30 years of industry experience, joined MotorTrend for a drive of the...

Tesla Energy has expanded Powershare Home Backup to new Model 3 and Model Y vehicles paired with Powerwall 3, allowing owners to extend their home backup by more than two days using the battery parked in their driveway. It is the first time the feature has reached Tesla's two highest-volume vehicles. Tesla Energy announced the...

Germany's federal transport minister says he'll push for Tesla's FSD Supervised to get approved across the European Union, and he's ready to look at a German national approval if Brussels doesn't act. At a Tagesspiegel Background conference in Berlin on Tuesday, transport minister Steffen Bilger said a European agreement on Tesla's driver-assistance system would make...

A Tesla Cybercab rider in Austin says his driverless robotaxi was stuck in a parking lot for about 14 minutes on Monday, October 5, after the car couldn't reroute itself and spent 7 minutes driving in loops trying to get out. David Moss shared a 14-minute video of the whole thing on X. He wrote...

A Cybertruck running Tesla's Full Self-Driving made a pretty wild move Monday morning, turning right from a full stop at a red light across three lanes of traffic to clear a path for an approaching ambulance, then rerouting itself onto a new road. Cybertruck owner CJP the Panda, who goes by Chris, posted video of...

Gasoline cars have fallen below half of all new vehicles sold worldwide for the first time, as surging fuel prices push more mainstream buyers toward electric vehicles outside China and create favourable conditions for Tesla, the world's leading EV maker. Gasoline-only vehicles, excluding hybrids, saw sales fall 10 percent from a year earlier to 20.25...

SPCX shares jumped about 5.3 percent to roughly $167.37 in early trading on Monday, October 5, after Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas reiterated his Outperform rating and a $300 price target, saying the stock looks cheap ahead of Starship Flight 15. The note, titled "SPCX $159: Cheap and Getting Cheaper," was published Sunday, October 4,...

SpaceX scrubbed the overnight launch of 21 Space Development Agency satellites aboard a Falcon 9 after the rocket's computers triggered an auto abort just before liftoff, with the company saying both the vehicle and the payload remain healthy and teams are resetting for another attempt no earlier than October 6. The update came at 2:02...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk entered a weekend debate over the Cybercab's Austin debut, saying the company is deliberately moving slowly with its robotaxi rollout after CNBC called the first month "rocky" and Sawyer Merritt argued the fleet's growth told a different story. Merritt pushed back Saturday on the CNBC article, writing that Tesla had nearly...

Tesla Model 3 was Singapore’s best-selling sedan in August 2026, giving the EV maker another sales milestone in the country as it continues expanding its vehicle lineup and customer base. On October 2, Tesla Singapore said in a post on X that the Model 3 took the top spot among sedans for the month, citing...