[caption id="attachment_74778" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Credit: Tesla/X[/caption] Tesla remains Norway's top car brand for 2026 so far, with 21,523 new passenger-car registrations through October and a 16.4% share, according to Opplysningsrådet for veitrafikken (OFV), after the Model Y's September Nordic sweep. October sealed another monthly win. Tesla registered 1,548 cars, a 9.84% share and its best...

[caption id="attachment_74856" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Starlink[/caption] The Starlink mobile app's monthly active users rose 332% between September 2023 and September 2026, according to app data posted by Similarweb. Monthly downloads climbed 316% over the same span, the firm said in a post on X. Similarweb did not publish absolute download or user totals in that...

[caption id="attachment_74841" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla Europe/X[/caption] The Netherlands' vehicle regulator, the RDW, has approved changes to Tesla's FSD (Supervised) in Europe, the system Tesla now calls Tesla Assisted Driving. Those changes sharply limit how far the system can drive above the speed limit. Drivers could previously set a speed margin of up to 50...

[caption id="attachment_75191" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] The U.S. Foreign-Trade Zones Board has authorized battery storage production at Tesla's Brookshire, Texas Megapack factory inside Foreign-Trade Zone 84 on a limited basis for 14 months. A Federal Register notice published Monday confirms the October 28 decision. Tesla filed the production request on May 20. Foreign-trade zones let...

[caption id="attachment_75194" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla software update 2026.38.6 has fixed the B.C. Tesla clock that fell back one hour on November 1, according to info shared by Tesla North readers. One reader said a 2021 Model Y regained the correct local time after installing the build overnight. Another owner reported the same result....

[caption id="attachment_75188" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Matt Palmer / SpaceXSI[/caption] Grok Bot is getting a shopping-first refresh, with SpaceXSI's Matt Palmer walking through nine upgrades that stretch from product search to checkout, Team Bot sharing and Vault contacts. Palmer posted a "What's New in Grok Bot" video on Monday, and Elon Musk later quote-posted it with...

[caption id="attachment_75184" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX opened a commercial page for Starfall, pitching routine microgravity access on Starship with up to 1,000 kg of payload mass, 1 kW of payload power and continuous Starlink connectivity for missions lasting weeks. The company first posted the Starfall pitch on October 20, the same day its third...

[caption id="attachment_75181" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla Energy launched Heat Pump Optimization for Powerwall 3 and Powerwall 3P in Europe last week, letting the battery tell a compatible heat pump when to boost and store surplus power as hot water. Canada and the United States are not part of the rollout, echoing the gap when...

[caption id="attachment_75176" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceXSI[/caption] Grok Bot now has an internal Team Bot that acts like an on-demand data scientist. SpaceXSI said the bot handled about 70 hours of work last week that would otherwise have landed on its data science team. Details came Monday in a post on x.ai by Sally Xu, and...

[caption id="attachment_75171" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's online shop opened a new Cybercab collection on Monday, the official @robotaxi account announced. Leading the drop is an $85 backpack with a gold Cybercab silhouette, alongside two $40 tees and a $35 gold cup. It lands about two weeks after Tesla added a $120 Essential Backpack and...

[caption id="attachment_75168" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Matic Robots[/caption] Neuralink patient #22 Zach McManus, who lives with ALS, is steering a Matic home robot vacuum around his house with his thoughts, according to a verified Monday post from Matic Robots. It comes a day after another ALS patient steered his wheelchair outdoors with the same kind of...

[caption id="attachment_75165" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: SpaceX[/caption] Piper Sandler analyst Alexander Potter now says a Tesla-SpaceX merger proposal is "likelier than not," in a client note summarized by Investing.com, arguing that in most scenarios Elon Musk would keep more than 70% voting control of any combined company. Client interest deepened after Musk confirmed on October 20...

[caption id="attachment_75162" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Image: Tesla[/caption] Tesla's FSD (Supervised) fleet has passed 17 billion cumulative miles on the company's live safety dashboard, with about 6.76 billion of those miles logged in cities, according to the FSD (Supervised) Vehicle Safety Report. As of Monday, the counter showed more than 17,003,000,000 miles driven with FSD (Supervised) engaged...

An Australian Tesla owner says a service visit left him with notes calling Full Self-Driving (Supervised) right-lane hugging a known trait of the current software, after Tesla brought FSD Supervised to Australia and New Zealand earlier this year. Nate, who posts as @4TESLANZ from Sydney, shared a Service Summary screenshot on Sunday after taking his...

[caption id="attachment_75159" align="aligncenter" width="970"] Credit: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX is reportedly in talks to buy EchoStar's Boost Mobile or use its network, a path that could speed its push to turn Starlink Mobile into a full U.S. wireless player after its $17 billion EchoStar spectrum deal. According to The Washington Post, the rocket company has held talks...