Credit: Tesla Tesla Japan says its Model 3 and Model Y now support vehicle-to-load (V2L) power output, with the sedan also picking up a 16-inch center touchscreen and a few cabin changes. The company shared the updates on X on Thursday, alongside a new charging support program for the first 5,000 buyers of either model. […]

Credit: Tesla Tesla has told Cybertruck reservation holders in Australia and New Zealand that the electric pickup won't be coming to either country after all. The news arrived Thursday in an email titled "Important Update to Your Cybertruck Reservation," according to emails shared on X by EVStraya and Sawyer Merritt. Noooooooooooo! No @cybertruck for Australia...

Credit: SpaceXSI Grok Bot can now work with the Calendar, Reminders, Contacts and other built-in apps on your phone, according to the official @bot account. SpaceXSI announced the update on Thursday at 3:14 PM PT and said it is rolling out now on both iOS and Android. Grok Bot can now use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts,...

Credit: SpaceX SpaceX wants access to at least 80,000 cell sites across the US, and it's in talks with at least one major tower company to get there, including Crown Castle, according to a report (via Bloomberg). Citing people familiar with the matter, the outlet said the deals would firm up SpaceX's path toward becoming...

Credit: Tesla Tesla has added three new lifestyle items to its online shop: the Tesla Essential Backpack for US$120, a smaller Tesla Mini Essential Backpack for US$80 and the Tesla Performance Umbrella for US$95. In Canada, the Tesla Shop lists them at CA$165, CA$110 and CA$130. The full-size Essential Backpack holds 12 liters and has...

Credit: The Boring Company Part of SpaceX's US$4.4 billion third quarter profit came from a paper gain on The Boring Company. In its Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on Thursday, SpaceX says it recorded a US$561 million unrealized gain on its Boring stake in the quarter after the tunneling company "completed a new round...

Credit: Tesla SpaceX bought US$151 million worth of Tesla Megapacks in the third quarter of 2026, bringing its purchases of the battery systems to US$480 million for the first nine months of the year. The figures come from SpaceX's Form 10-Q, filed with the SEC on Thursday. The disclosure sits in Note 17, which covers...

Credit: SpaceX A member of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel said on Thursday that landing Starship on the Moon could take "around 22" refueling launches, and Elon Musk quickly disagreed. Charlie Precourt made the comment during the panel's public meeting on October 22, describing it as the latest estimate for the number of refuelings needed...

Credit: SpaceXSI SpaceXSI launched the SpaceX Super Intelligence Partner Network on Thursday, an official program for companies that build products, services and integrations around Grok for business customers. The company, which Elon Musk said would drop the SpaceXAI name earlier this month, says more than 130 companies took part in the program's early-access phase, according...

Credit: Tesla Fort Bend County, Texas, has approved a package of tax breaks and economic development agreements for Tesla's proposed US$10.1 billion solar factory near Needville. County commissioners passed all four Tesla agreements on Thursday afternoon, each by a 4-0 vote with one abstention, according to video of the Commissioners Court meeting. The project, known...

Credit: American Airlines/X American Airlines CEO Robert Isom says the airline is staying with Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi, telling Squawk Box on Thursday that customers demand connectivity and that SpaceX's service is the best product available (via CNBC). Isom was asked whether American is comfortable doing business with Starlink after The Wall Street Journal reported...

Credit: Tesla Elon Musk predicted on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21 that Tesla will eventually handle most of the world's passenger miles, but he added a caveat about governments that may want to protect their own car industries. The comment came after an analyst said Tesla appears to be pricing its Robotaxi...

Credit: Tesla Tesla's chief financial officer agreed with an estimate from New Street Research analyst Pierre Ferragu that Full Self-Driving now brings in close to US$1 billion a year in recurring revenue. Vaibhav Taneja made the comment on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21, the same afternoon Tesla reported that FSD was included...

Credit: Tesla Tesla has started building a second Optimus factory in Austin, and it will be able to make far more humanoid robots than the company's line in Fremont, chief financial officer Vaibhav Taneja said on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21. Fremont only just began what Tesla calls production-quality builds, as we...

Credit: Tesla Elon Musk says Terafab will need "tens of billions" of dollars in capital equipment through early 2028 and will "probably be north of" US$100 billion over the long term. He gave the estimate on Tesla's Q3 2026 earnings call on October 21, a day after he said Terafab's output would rank among the...