Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones
Tesla App Finally Goes Big Screen With iPad and iPhone Duo Support
Tesla's mobile app is rolling out with its first layout designed for bigger screens, covering the iPad, Apple's new iPhone Duo foldable, and Android tablets and foldables. That's according to Tesla designer Alex Guichet, who works on the human interface for Tesla Energy and Tesla Charging. He posted on X on October 21 at 8:46...
Starlink Mini Price Drops to $149 in the US Ahead of the Holidays
The first-generation Starlink Mini is now selling for US$149 on Starlink's US website, a discount from its typical US$249 price, as SpaceX gets ready for a holiday sales push that could also put its newer dish models in front of more shoppers. During SpaceX's third-quarter earnings call on October 21, CFO Bret Johnsen said the...
SpaceX Will Become the First $10 Trillion Company, Says Peter Diamandis
Peter Diamandis, one of SpaceX’s early investors, says SpaceX will become the first company in the world worth $10 trillion, and later the first worth $100 trillion. That’s according to CNBC, where the XPRIZE Foundation founder joined “Squawk on the Street” on Wednesday morning, a day after SpaceX reported its third quarter results. “I posted […]
Tesla Wants to Build a Supercharger Above the Arctic Circle in Inuvik
Tesla has approached the Town of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories about building a Supercharger on town-owned land, about 200 km north of the Arctic Circle, and town council has voted to keep the talks going. The details are in a request for council decision, RFCD 2026-061 in the town's August 10 and 12 council...
Texas City Weighs Three Cybertrucks for Its Police Department
Hutto City Council wants to know what it would cost to put three Tesla Cybertrucks to work for the Hutto Police Department and other city departments, and it has directed city staff to run a cost comparison for a three-vehicle test. That's according to Community Impact, which reported on October 19 that the comparison will...
Starlink Mobile Could Bring In Hundreds of Billions a Year, Says Elon
SpaceX sees a path to several hundred billion dollars a year in connectivity revenue, Elon Musk said on Tuesday, and he wants to lay out the full Starlink Mobile game plan in a longer presentation of its own. That's according to SpaceX's Q3 earnings call on October 20, where an analyst asked how Starlink Mobile's...
SpaceX Will Try to Catch Both Starship Stages on Flight 15 Next Month
Image: SpaceX SpaceX will try to catch both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage on Flight 15 next month, and it showed a new simulation of what that would look like if it works. That's according to SpaceX's Q3 earnings call on Tuesday, where Elon Musk opened the official webcast with a...
SpaceX Eyes Up to $1 Trillion Run Rate by 2027, Guides $33B to $37B in Q1
Image: SpaceX Elon Musk says SpaceX could finish 2027 with annual recurring revenue somewhere between $500 billion and $1 trillion, and the company's CFO followed with guidance of $33 billion to $37 billion in revenue for the first quarter of 2027 alone. That's according to SpaceX's Q3 earnings call on Tuesday, streamed as an official...
Tesla and SpaceX Form Merger Committees, but Elon Says It’s Not Certain
Image: SpaceX Elon Musk says both Tesla and SpaceX have formed special committees of independent directors to look at combining the two companies, but he warned against treating a merger as a done deal. That's according to SpaceX's Q3 earnings call on Tuesday, where Musk answered an analyst question about a possible combination during the...
SpaceX Posts $4.4 Billion Profit as Q3 Revenue Jumps 161% to $14.6 Billion
Image: SpaceX SpaceX made $4.4 billion in net income in the third quarter of 2026 on revenue of $14.6 billion, up 161% from $5.6 billion a year ago. It's the company's first profitable quarter since going public in June. That's according to SpaceX's third quarter 2026 results, posted after the market close on Tuesday, October...
Tesla Owners in China Will Soon Pay for Parking Right From the Car Screen, Thanks to Alipay
Image: Tesla Tesla owners in China will soon be able to pay for parking straight from their car's touchscreen, after Tesla and Alipay signed an agreement to bring Alipay's in-car assistant to Tesla vehicles in the country. According to Yicai, the two companies formally signed an in-car assistant cooperation agreement on October 20. Tesla's China...
Elon Says One Terafab Building Will Out-Produce Most Countries as Korean Suppliers Sign On
Image: SpaceX Elon Musk says a single Terafab building will produce enough to rank among the world's 20 largest economies, and a new report out of Korea shows Tesla and SpaceX are already lining up suppliers for it. Musk made the claim on X at 10:02 AM PT on Tuesday, writing that "the value of...
Ferrari’s CEO Thanks Tesla for the New Roadster: “You Can Still Innovate and Dare”
Image: Tesla Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna has praised Tesla's new Roadster, giving last week's unveil a 10 out of 10 for technology and a 10 out of 10 for presentation, and thanking the company for showing that an old industry still has room to take risks. That's according to Reuters, which interviewed Vigna on Tuesday...
Grok Bot Can Now Handle Your X DMs and Become Your Android Assistant
Image: Matt Palmer/X Grok Bot can now read and reply to your X Chat DMs, take on requests when you tag @bot in an X thread and stand in as the default assistant on Android phones, along with a long list of smaller upgrades that rolled out over the past week. That's according to Matt...
Elon Musk Tells Walter Isaacson People Confuse His Wealth With Spending Money
Image: Tesla Elon Musk says people misread what his fortune actually is, arguing that most of it is simply his stake in SpaceX and Tesla and that people often confuse controlling capital with spending it. Musk made the comments to Walter Isaacson, who wrote his 2023 biography Elon Musk, in the season debut of Isaacson's...
