Tesla Says Busier Superchargers Can Cut Energy Costs for Hosts in Half

Tesla wants commercial property owners to understand the math behind hosting a Supercharger. The company just published a new guide that breaks down a business utility bill and explains why busier charging sites end up costing less per kilowatt-hour to run. The guide, titled "How Higher Supercharger Site Utilization Increases Your Profits," is dated October...
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Starlink Cuts Residential Prices 50% for Texas Neighbors Near Starbase

Starlink is slashing Residential plan prices in half for people living in Texas's Cameron County area near SpaceX's Starbase headquarters, and the discount kicks in automatically for eligible addresses with no upfront hardware cost for new customers. Starlink announced the offer on October 5. It covers standard Residential service plans, and eligibility comes down to...

Gas Cars Fall Below 50% of Global Sales as Fuel Prices Drive EV Shift

Gasoline cars have fallen below half of all new vehicles sold worldwide for the first time, as surging fuel prices push more mainstream buyers toward electric vehicles outside China and create favourable conditions for Tesla, the world's leading EV maker. Gasoline-only vehicles, excluding hybrids, saw sales fall 10 percent from a year earlier to 20.25...
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Tesla’s German Sales Jump 268% as Model Y Tops France

Tesla registrations in Germany shot up 268.7 percent in September to 12,552 vehicles, and over in France the Model Y finished the month as the best-selling car of any kind with 8,183 registrations, according to official data released Monday. The September press release from Germany's Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) shows Tesla at 12,552 new...
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SpaceX Stock Jumps 5% as Morgan Stanley Calls $300 Target ‘Cheap’

SPCX shares jumped about 5.3 percent to roughly $167.37 in early trading on Monday, October 5, after Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas reiterated his Outperform rating and a $300 price target, saying the stock looks cheap ahead of Starship Flight 15. The note, titled "SPCX $159: Cheap and Getting Cheaper," was published Sunday, October 4,...
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Elon Musk Shares California City’s Switch to Grok for Meeting Minutes

Elon Musk amplified the news that the Farmersville, California city council voted 4-1 to have Grok, the AI assistant from SpaceXAI, produce verbatim meeting minutes at a cost of $30 per month. The council voted on September 29 to use Grok to draft minutes from meeting recordings, with city clerk Rochelle Giovanni reviewing each draft...
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SpaceX Scrubs SDA Tranche 1 Falcon 9 Launch Moments Before Liftoff

SpaceX scrubbed the overnight launch of 21 Space Development Agency satellites aboard a Falcon 9 after the rocket's computers triggered an auto abort just before liftoff, with the company saying both the vehicle and the payload remain healthy and teams are resetting for another attempt no earlier than October 6. The update came at 2:02...
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Starlink Turns an Empty Exit Row Into a Five-Game Football Lounge

Elon Musk is putting Starlink’s in-flight Wi-Fi on display after a passenger turned an empty exit row into a personal sports bar, streaming five live football games at once on a commercial flight. The moment started with sports announcer Chase Snyder, who posted the photo on Saturday, October 3, writing: “I’m very excited to announce […]
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Elon Musk Defends Careful Cybercab Rollout as Austin Fleet Grows to 169

Tesla CEO Elon Musk entered a weekend debate over the Cybercab's Austin debut, saying the company is deliberately moving slowly with its robotaxi rollout after CNBC called the first month "rocky" and Sawyer Merritt argued the fleet's growth told a different story. Merritt pushed back Saturday on the CNBC article, writing that Tesla had nearly...
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Elon Musk to Rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI

Elon Musk said overnight that his artificial intelligence company SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, extending his push to replace the term “AI” with “SI,” short for superintelligence. In a series of posts on X in the early hours of Sunday morning, Musk wrote “No more AI,” followed by “SI” and the line “It's better.” He...
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Tesla Teases Personalized FSD Choices as Fans Pitch New Vehicle Shapes

Elon Musk asked Tesla followers on Saturday, “How would you like your FSD?”, adding fuel to a viral discussion about whether buyers could eventually choose among more vehicle shapes while keeping Tesla’s Full Self-Driving technology at the centre of the experience. The post had reached about 4.8 million views, 13,000 likes, 3,700 replies and 1,200...
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Elon Musk Confirms TSMC Talks for $16.8 Billion Texas Terafab Project

Update: Saturday, October 3 - Elon Musk has confirmed talks are underway with TSMC about a role in his $16.8 billion Terafab chip project in Texas. Responding to a post from Whole Mars Catalog about the reported discussions, Musk wrote: "Just discussions, but something may come of it." He stopped short of announcing a deal,...