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Image: Tesla Tesla is using Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s Flex Connect program in California to open new Superchargers on spare grid capacity before multi-year utility upgrades are finished, letting sites run at full power when there’s room and throttle down when the local grid is tight. That’s according to Tesla’s charging account on X, […]

Image: Tesla Tesla has stopped taking new orders for the Model 3 Premium in Canada, with both the rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive versions now grayed out in its online configurator. That’s according to a banner on Tesla’s Canadian design page, which points to the company’s import quota as the reason. The banner reads: “Model […]

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 […]

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...

A Model Y on display at Tesla’s Chennai location. Image: Tesla India/X Tesla India has announced a new Experience Centre at Skymark One in Sector 98, Noida, its third sales location in the Delhi area. The company shared the news in a statement on October 9. The Noida site joins Tesla’s Experience Centre at Aerocity...

Update, October 9: Tesla has since switched on more Megacharger sites along the freight lane between Atlanta and the port city of Savannah. "New Megacharger sites between Atlanta & Savannah now online," the Tesla Semi account posted Thursday afternoon, adding that "many more Southeast sites" are coming soon. Dan Priestley, who leads Tesla's Semi program,...

Tesla Europe on Wednesday said "FSD Supervised is ready" for winter, sharing a 4-minute video of the driver-assistance system navigating snow-covered curves in Europe, followed by footage of testing in Switzerland. The first post, published just after 4 am Wednesday, shows a Tesla driving through heavy snow with the in-car visualization reading "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)...

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...

Tesla is rolling out software update 2026.38.3 with two major additions, including Emergency Drive Away, which lets drivers shift into Drive while still plugged into a Supercharger, and Powershare Home Backup, which can add up to two days of home backup with a Model 3 or Model Y, or three days with a Cybertruck, when...

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...

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...

Tesla Korea says the Model Y closed out September as the best-selling vehicle of any kind in South Korea, its third straight month atop the country's overall sales chart, while Tesla stretched its lead as the top-selling imported brand to eight consecutive months. Tesla Korea shared the milestone in a post on Monday night, thanking...

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...