Stories by Sarah Lee-Jones

Image: Tesla The Tesla Model X has won the BEV SUV: Premium category in this year's Best Retained Value Awards in Canada, finishing ahead of the BMW iX and the Audi Q4 e-tron, and it's the first time a Tesla has taken a category win in the awards. That's according to Canadian Black Book, which...

Image: Tesla Robotaxi/X ARK Invest has updated its open-source Tesla valuation model, and it now puts the stock at an expected value of about $4,400 a share in 2031, with robotaxis making up roughly 80% of what ARK thinks the company will be worth. That's according to ARK's new research article, which the firm shared...

Image: Tesla Update, October 20, 2026: One of the first hands-on takes on v14.3.13 comes from Whole Mars, who shared his first impressions on X early Tuesday after three short trips with the new build. He said it "reversed out of my driveway much more quickly than previous versions," parked "perfectly 3/3 times for each...

Image: Elon Musk/X X has changed how it picks posts for your timeline, rolling out a new ranking model that's better at predicting how long you'll spend on a post and a new retrieval model built to find posts people actually read to the end. That's according to a post from Elon Musk on X...

Image: Starlink Starlink says its phone service, Starlink Mobile, has connected more than 11 million people over the past year across VEON's three launch markets in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Bangladesh. That's according to a post from Starlink on X on Monday evening, which quoted a VEON post from earlier the same day. Starlink wrote: "In...

Image: The Boring Company/X The Boring Company wants to use its tunnels to move freight, and it has modified its latest Prufrock Liner Truck, which runs on Tesla Model 3 batteries and drive units, to carry a standard 20-foot shipping container. That's according to a post from The Boring Company on X on October 19,...

Image: SpaceXSI Grok Bot can now sit on the iPhone's Action Button, giving SpaceXSI's AI agent a physical button that starts a voice conversation with one press. The official @bot account announced it on Monday at 11:40 AM PT, writing that "Grok Bot is now one step closer" and that you can "set it as...

Image: Tesla Robotaxi/X Tesla's retail shareholders want to hear about Cybercab, unsupervised FSD, Optimus and Hardware 3 upgrades on the company's third-quarter 2026 earnings call, which starts Wednesday, October 21 at 4:30 PM Central Time (5:30 PM Eastern, 2:30 PM Pacific). That's according to Tesla's shareholder Q&A page on Say, where investors submit and upvote...

Image: Tesla Charging/X Tesla has a new 8-stall Supercharger in Cherokee, North Carolina, and it's one of the sites drivers voted for. The Tesla Charging account on X posted "New Tesla Supercharger: Cherokee, NC (8 stalls)" on Monday afternoon, labeled it a "Voting Winner Site" and shared a photo of the new stalls with a...

Image: Starlink Alberta is offering rural and remote households a one-time rebate of up to $1,000 toward a low Earth orbit satellite internet kit, and right now Starlink is the only service that qualifies. The province's Alberta Satellite Rebate Program covers satellite hardware, installation and applicable taxes, and the program page says "Starlink kits currently...

Image: Starlink Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the speed cap on his military's Starshield terminals, the government version of Starlink, came from the US government and is still in place. Trump administration officials, including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and President Donald Trump, have denied that anyone in the administration ordered...

Image: SpaceX RBC Capital Markets is modeling a hypothetical SpaceX purchase of Tesla at $480 a share, which would create a combined company worth about $3.74 trillion. That’s according to a Monday research note from RBC analyst Tom Narayan. The $480 figure is the same offer price RBC used in July, but SpaceX’s higher valuation...

Image: Tesla Tesla Japan is still aiming to launch FSD Supervised in Japan before 2026 is over, and its president says the company is pushing for that target at “100%.” That’s according to an interview with Tesla Japan president Riichi Hashimoto published by Nikkei on October 19. Asked about skepticism that a year-end green light...

Image: Starlink Bulgaria’s Sofia City Court has authorized European Arrest Warrants for two German nationals charged over the October 9 fire that hit Starlink antennas near Sofia. That’s according to BTA, Bulgaria’s state news agency, which covered Monday’s hearing. The Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office asked the court to authorize the warrants and is seeking remand...

Image: Starlink Europe's four biggest mobile carriers just lined up a joint bid for the satellite spectrum that lets phones talk to space, the same band Starlink needs for Starlink Mobile in Europe. That's according to a Telefónica press release dated October 19, matched by Deutsche Telekom, Orange and Vodafone. The four signed a letter...