[caption id="attachment_72658" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] 2026 Tesla Model 3. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla North America said on September 13, 2026, that the 2026 Model 3 earned a 5-star overall rating from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), plus 5 stars in every individual category the agency scores. https://twitter.com/tesla_na/status/2099256341370187969 In a post on X, @tesla_na wrote that...

[caption id="attachment_72654" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Cybercab. Credit: Tesla[/caption] Tesla confirmed Monday, September 14, 2026, that its Cybercab will go on static public display in Beijing and Shanghai later this month, adding venue names and date windows to the Asia tour Tesla North first flagged when Tesla Asia listed Hong Kong, Tokyo, Beijing, and Shanghai together....

SpaceX completed Falcon's 700th overall mission on Sunday, September 13, 2026, when a Falcon 9 lifted the final three SES O3b mPOWER satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 2:49 p.m. ET. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2099208971022152061 The company confirmed deployment of all three Boeing-built O3b mPOWER satellites into medium Earth...

Hyundai Motor Group believes it can catch and eventually overtake Tesla in autonomous driving within five years, but the company claims it is deliberately taking a slower path to get there. According to the Korea JoongAng Daily, Hyundai is building its strategy around a self-driving system called Atria AI, which the company plans to bring […]

[caption id="attachment_72237" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Falcon 9 lifts off from California with 27 Starlink satellites. Credit: SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX is targeting Sunday, September 13 for a Falcon 9 launch of the SES O3b mPOWER mission to medium Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, with an 87-minute window opening...

Tesla has officially set October 1 for what is heavily implied to be the reveal of its next-generation Roadster. On Saturday, the automaker shared a cryptic teaser on X featuring the caption “Go for launch”. The image displays the sleek rear profile of a dark sports car under intense vertical light beams, paired a glowing […]

SpaceX is getting closer to attempting something it has never done before with Starship: catching the upper-stage spacecraft with the launch tower. At Starbase in Texas, SpaceX has been testing its second orbital launch tower this week, using the Mechazilla chopstick arms to lift Flight 15’s Ship 42 into a full catch-style position. The rehearsal […]

[caption id="attachment_72625" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] Tesla Electric Powerwall backup lease offer. Source: Tesla Energy / X[/caption] Tesla Energy said on September 11, 2026, that eligible customers in Texas can lease two Powerwall home batteries with Tesla Electric for about $35 a month after credits, pitching whole-home backup without a traditional generator. https://twitter.com/teslaenergy/status/2098516043711086641 “Stay powered during outages....

Tesla Charging said on September 11, 2026, that 33 Wall Connector for Business sites opened in the last two weeks with 310 total Wall Connectors across public and private properties, in a fresh site-by-site drop that puts large SpaceX campuses in Redmond, Washington, at the top of the list. The biggest single install is Beekman...

Korean Air said on September 11, 2026, that free high-speed in-flight Wi-Fi powered by Starlink will begin on September 15, making the carrier the first full-service airline in East Asia to put SpaceX’s low-Earth-orbit network in the cabin for passengers. The service opens on four retrofitted jets — three Airbus A350-900s and one Boeing 777-300ER...

Microsoft Teams connector for Grok Bot. Source: Grok Bot / X xAI’s official Grok Bot account said on September 11, 2026, that Grok Bot can now search and act across Microsoft Teams, adding a connector that searches, reads, and sends chats and channel messages from inside the agent workflow. https://twitter.com/bot/status/2098481256417866145 “Grok Bot can now search...

Elon Musk said on September 11, 2026, that Grok 4.7 needs a few more days to cook, arguing that reinforcement-learning choices may have over-penalized response length so the model still gives up too early on hard tasks it can actually solve and is not yet rigorous enough about checking its own work. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2098462085973741960 “Grok 4.7...

[caption id="attachment_72607" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Oasis Supercharger Labor Day stats. Source: Tesla Charging / X[/caption] Tesla Charging said on September 11, 2026, that the company’s Oasis Supercharger in Lost Hills, California, cleared the Labor Day travel window with 6,038 charging sessions over four days across 164 stalls, while generating 7 megawatts of solar power on site...

Tesla Semi. Source: Tesla Europe / X Tesla Europe said on September 11, 2026, that the company’s electric Semi is coming to Europe, publishing regional specs that put up to 550 kilometres of range on a fully loaded 40-tonne truck and pointing fleets to a fresh German Semi page on tesla.com. “Semi is coming to...

[caption id="attachment_72550" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Grok Bot quality-of-life improvements. Source: Grok Bot / X[/caption] xAI’s official Grok Bot account said on September 10, 2026, that Grok Bot is now more powerful for sales teams, with connectors for Salesforce, HubSpot, Gong, Clay, Granola, and other GTM tools so agents can stay on top of accounts, finish follow-ups,...