Brazil Opens 10-Day Review of Starlink Bid for More Gateway Spectrum
[caption id="attachment_74797" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] Brazil's telecom regulator is weighing another Starlink spectrum request, weeks after approving Starlink Mobile's full 2 GHz access. Anatel opened a 10-day public consultation on Wednesday, November 4, through a notice in Brazil's official gazette. The request comes from Starlink Brazil Holding, the local representative of SpaceX. It asks...
Tesla Opens Berlin Engineering Center, Uniting 30 Labs on One Campus
[caption id="attachment_75243" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla has opened its Berlin Tesla Engineering Center, a new campus in the city's Köpenick district about 30 minutes from Giga Berlin. The site pulls four engineering sites and 30 labs onto one campus. Tesla Europe announced the opening on Wednesday, saying it went from permit to operational in...
Tesla Rolls Cybercab Into Melbourne on Its 8-City Down Under Tour
[caption id="attachment_75150" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] The Cybercab display tour Down Under has reached Melbourne. Tesla Australia & New Zealand posted a 34-second video on November 3 saying the Cybercab is "officially on Melbourne ground." https://twitter.com/TeslaAUNZ/status/2117789460234748350 Footage shows the gold two-seater arriving strapped to a flatbed tow truck on a city street. It then rolls...
Tesla Reportedly Faces Korea Complaint for Selling FSD 99% Can’t Use
[caption id="attachment_74985" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Korea[/caption] A South Korean consumer group plans to ask regulators on Thursday to stop Tesla from marketing Full Self-Driving (Supervised) to buyers whose cars cannot legally use it. Citizens United for Consumer Sovereignty (소비자주권시민회의) intends to file a complaint with the Korea Fair Trade Commission, according to a draft...
Grok Bot Phone Calls Go Live, Turning Down a 10% Retention Offer
[caption id="attachment_75234" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Grok Bot[/caption] Grok Bot can now place phone calls for its users. The feature Elon Musk previewed in October went live on Wednesday, according to the official Grok Bot account on X, which shared a short demo video. https://twitter.com/bot/status/2118043939592942052 In the 42-second clip, the bot notices an internet contract renews...
Ottawa’s Starlink Contract Balloons to $28.9M Despite Carney Pledge
[caption id="attachment_74797" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Ottawa's contract with SpaceX Canada has grown to nearly 13 times its original value, even as Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada won't tie its defenses to a billionaire's satellites. A federal contract record shows Shared Services Canada's deal with SpaceX Canada Corp. now stands at C$28,941,731, up from...
Tesla’s Germany Registrations Jump 290% but BYD Still Outsells It
[caption id="attachment_67329" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's comeback in Germany picked up speed in October. New registrations jumped 290.9% year over year to 2,932 vehicles, according to Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA), following a 268% surge in September. From January through October, Tesla registered 47,742 vehicles in Germany, up 206.1% from the same period...
Norway Reportedly Signs NOK 450M Starlink Deal for Military, Police
[caption id="attachment_74856" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Norway's armed forces and police are set to get Starlink through a new satellite deal. Forsvarsmateriell (FMA), Norway's defense procurement agency, has reportedly awarded Marlink a framework agreement worth up to NOK 450 million. The news follows growing debate over Starlink's role in Ukraine. According to Norwegian media, the...
SpaceX Taps Qualcomm to Build Starlink Mobile’s Nationwide 5G Network
[caption id="attachment_75225" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Qualcomm[/caption] SpaceX has picked Qualcomm to power the ground network behind Starlink Mobile. The Starlink carrier plans to start its US nationwide 5G rollout in 2027, with tens of thousands of cell sites covered over a multiyear agreement, according to a Qualcomm press release on Wednesday. Qualcomm will supply its...
Starlink Offers Free Standard 4X Kits to First-Gen Customers
[caption id="attachment_74856" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] Starlink is inviting some of its earliest customers to swap their first-generation round dish for a new Standard kit at no cost. The offer is outlined in a company support article reviewed by Tesla North, and follows earlier free hardware moves such as Gen 1 router replacements. Eligible customers...
Air Tahiti Nui to Add Free Starlink to Entire Fleet Starting in 2027
[caption id="attachment_75218" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Air Tahiti Nui[/caption] Air Tahiti Nui has signed a deal with SpaceX to equip its entire fleet with free Starlink Wi-Fi, the French Polynesian airline said Tuesday. It expects to bring the service onboard in 2027. It joins carriers such as United Airlines that are putting SpaceX's cabin internet on...
Musk Would Reportedly Hold 56% of Votes in a SpaceX-Tesla Merger
[caption id="attachment_74572" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] If SpaceX bought Tesla at the companies' current sizes, Elon Musk would own about 37% of the combined firm but hold about 56% of the votes. That's according to a Barclays estimate cited by Reuters on Tuesday, as Wall Street weighs the odds of a Tesla-SpaceX merger. Barclays said...
Tesla and SpaceX Join 56 Firms Blocking OKXICE Tokenized Stocks
[caption id="attachment_75074" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla and SpaceX have objected to third-party tokenized versions of their shares trading on OKXICE, a planned crypto stock venue backed by the owner of the New York Stock Exchange. The venue's November 2 public notice brings its list of issuer objections to 56. Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) and Space...
Tesla Answers NHTSA’s Cybercab Order but Keeps Question 8 Secret
Tesla has answered NHTSA's Cybercab special order by its October 30 deadline. There's a catch. A new agency filing shows the company asked to keep every document in its Question 8 response confidential. According to an October 30 NHTSA record, the remaining documents responsive to Question 8 carry a confidential business information request from Tesla...
Tesla Shanghai Wholesale Dips in October After Best Month of 2026
Tesla's Giga Shanghai wholesaled 67,829 vehicles in October, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA). That's down 28.9% from September's 95,366, which was the factory's best month of 2026. Compared with a year earlier, October was up about 10.3%. In October 2025, Tesla China moved 26,006 vehicles domestically and...