[caption id="attachment_72076" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Starlink[/caption] Starlink said on August 27 it is cutting Residential service plans 50% for new and existing customers in the Vermilion Parish area of Louisiana, as SpaceX invests in a new Gulf Coast spaceport. https://twitter.com/Starlink/status/2093035331633435007 The official account wrote that SpaceX is building a new spaceport on Louisiana's Gulf Coast and...

[caption id="attachment_72071" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Tesla Japan / JATO Dynamics[/caption] Tesla Japan said the Model Y led first-half 2026 new-car registrations in Japan among every foreign brand by model, citing JATO Dynamics data covering January through June. https://twitter.com/teslajapan/status/2092766984991846540 The official account posted the ranking on August 27 and thanked Tesla owners and partner companies. The graphic...

[caption id="attachment_72064" align="alignnone" width="1024"] SpaceX[/caption] SpaceX said Ship 40 is loaded onto a semi-submersible for a several-month trip back to Starbase, after engineers spent several days inspecting the Flight 13 ship in the waters off Christmas Island. https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/2092988521376059899 [caption id="attachment_72065" align="alignnone" width="1024"] SpaceX[/caption] The company posted that the team collected heatshield samples and gained vital...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky awarded Elon Musk Ukraine's Order of Freedom on August 26, citing outstanding personal contributions to protecting human life and freedom and to relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States. Presidential decree No. 835/2026, published that day and reported by Ukrainska Pravda and Kyiv Post, names Musk as an...

The Tesla Model Y is the world’s best-selling car through the first seven months of 2026, according to Focus2Move figures covering 162 countries, after sales rose 19.6 percent and pushed the Toyota Corolla into second place. Ukravtoprom circulated the ranking on August 25. The Corolla is down 6.0 percent over the same stretch. Behind them...

Tesla Optimus will be the greatest product humanity has made and will deliver more value than the iPhone, investor Jason Calacanis said on This Week in Startups on August 25 after a private Tesla demo, predicting 1 billion robots in the world by 2036. “Optimus is going to be the greatest product ever made by...

The Tesla Model Y is Europe’s best-selling electric vehicle through the first seven months of 2026, with 115,957 registrations, Tesla Senior Sales Advisor Philip Powers said on August 26, citing Dataforce. https://twitter.com/PhilipPowerss/status/2092584265821094218 That volume is up 55 percent from the same stretch of 2025 and puts the Model Y fifth among all cars in Europe,...

Tesla Robotaxi now runs from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, the official account said on August 26, adding that the unsupervised fleet is a lot bigger and that smarter vehicle distribution and routing should cut wait times. https://twitter.com/robotaxi/status/2092655287501308296 Those six cities were on...

Tesla said its 2026 Summer Release is using Grok Think Fast 2.0, putting the new voice model in the car instead of waiting on a later Grok Voice drop. https://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2092460375132586350 The company posted that line on August 26, quoting a SpaceXAI note from August 24 that Grok Voice Think Fast 2.0 is now number one...

Tesla is adding passkey support to owner accounts, after a new auth.tesla.com/user/passkey/ route showed up next to the existing password-reset and phone-change paths on Tesla’s login service. https://twitter.com/aaronp613/status/2092398013016608885 Aaron Perris posted the new path on August 25. Tesla has not published a support note, so this is the company wiring the feature in, not a...

JPMorgan kept an Overweight rating and a $240 price target on SpaceX on August 25, pointing to the closed Cursor acquisition and early Grok gains after Cursor data went into training. Analyst Doug Anmuth wrote that SpaceX’s AI ambitions are coming into sharper focus, and that the bank is increasingly positive on Grok. The $240...

SpaceX is building a giant new home for its Starship rocket, and it is going up in the Louisiana marsh. The company laid out plans for Starbase Louisiana, a roughly $100 billion launch site on Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, on its official project page. The scale is the headline, with CEO Elon Musk saying […]

Tesla Charging posted 36 Supercharger voting winners on August 25 and opened a new round so Tesla account holders can pick the next sites. https://twitter.com/TeslaCharging/status/2092113706352255413 The names sat in a follow-up post, the same way Tesla Charging usually publishes the slate. The official Find Us map is also updated. https://twitter.com/TeslaCharging/status/2092113837772415456 The winners: Jurien Bay, Australia...

SpaceXAI said Starlink is using Grok Voice to handle more than 15,000 inbound customer support and sales calls a day, with the same system diagnosing hardware issues, shipping replacements, and filling more than 3,000 orders a week across voice and chat. The company posted the Starlink numbers as a follow-up to a claim that Grok...

Tesla raised U.S. Cybertruck prices by $5,000 on two trims, lifting the Dual-Motor AWD to $74,990 and the Premium AWD to $84,990, according to the company’s website. The Cyberbeast stays at $99,990. The Dual-Motor jump is about 7.1 percent from $69,990. Premium is up 6.2 percent from $79,990. Tesla has not posted an explanation with...