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For the sixth year running, a Tesla sits at the top of the Cars.com American-Made Index, with the Model 3 and Model Y claiming first and second across every EV and gas car analyzed.
Read moreOne year after the first Austin rides, Tesla's autonomous ride-hailing service has expanded across Texas, matured its app, and set its sights on Cybercab scale.
Read moreReflection just agreed to pay SpaceXAI $150 million a month for Nvidia GB300 access, and the rocket company is quietly becoming an AI infrastructure player.
Read moreA flat, disc-shaped capsule called Starfall is set to fly from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday, and it could rewrite how cargo comes home from orbit.
Read moreA refreshed Tesla Semi was spotted carrying the kind of validation hardware Tesla uses to train and check its camera systems. It is the clearest hint yet that autonomy is coming to the big truck.
Read morePresident Trump unveiled the Qatar-gifted Boeing 747-8 at Joint Base Andrews and made a point of naming SpaceX Starlink as part of the aircraft's communications upgrade. The interim Air Force One is valued near $400 million and meant to bridge the gap while the delayed VC-25B replacements remain pending. Trump said the jet carries communications gear at the highest level and predicted Elon Musk would be very happy about it. For Starlink, putting hardware on the most photographed plane in the world is a high-profile vote of confidence.
Read moreA Service Mode trick lets the full multi-camera grid stay live at road speed. Here is how it works and why it stays locked behind Park.
Read moreSpaceX just earned a first-time Baa1 issuer rating from Moody's while Tesla stayed at Baa3, and Elon Musk pushed back fast, pointing to Tesla's $40 billion-plus in cash, no debt, and steady profits.
Read moreTesla just put Cybercab decals on the cars staged in the outbound lot at Giga Texas, the same move it made with the Robotaxi Model Ys before launch.
Read moreThe Texas Comptroller just recommended approving every Terafab AI tax incentive application tied to a massive Grimes County semiconductor plant. The deals still need school-board and Governor sign-off, but for Tesla watchers focused on chip independence, this is a real step.
Read moreElon Musk says language-prompt control for FSD is about three months out, and upcoming releases will remember your parking preferences for home, work, and school drop-off.
Read moreTesla now shows up as an active authorized transportation provider at San Francisco International Airport, holding a limousine permit that opens the door to one of the most valuable trip segments in the business.
Read moreThe Tesla Model Y outsold every gas and diesel vehicle in Australia in May, including the long-dominant Ford Ranger and Toyota HiLux.
Read moreTesla's May registrations in Japan nearly tripled year over year, and the year-to-date total now ranks Tesla fourth among imported brands.
Read moreTesla's 2026.14.6.7 release notes now spotlight smarter driver monitoring with improved eye-gaze tracking, better eyewear handling, and stronger accuracy in changing light.
Read moreTesla just turned a small geofenced test zone into a full Austin Metro footprint for unsupervised Robotaxi, with highways, the airport, and Giga Texas now inside the map.
Read moreA Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg with 24 more Starlink satellites, marking the year's 50th Starlink mission with summer still days away.
Read moreElon Musk says SpaceX has nearly finished version 1.0 of a ground-up AI training stack written mostly in C, built to map directly onto 220,000 Nvidia chips.
Read moreTesla rolled out a location-specific Quiet Charging Zone prompt at a San Francisco Supercharger, and it shows exactly why owning the car, the charger, and the data matters.
Read moreThe Roadster is still delayed, but Lars Moravy and Franz von Holzhausen just gave fans a concrete new marker. Both said on Ride the Lightning that the next-generation Tesla Roadster will be built at Gigafactory Texas, with Moravy hinting more details should unfold in the coming months. The car was first unveiled in 2017 and has been repeatedly pushed, so this is not a launch date. But it is the kind of specific, real-world detail that turns a long-running dream into an actual product with a planned build location.
Read moreA new Tesla patent describes a lens cleaning system that dispenses fluid and wipes debris off camera lenses, and it lands right as the company pushes deeper into driverless robotaxi service and Optimus.
Read moreDrone footage from Giga Texas shows the first steel structure erected at Tesla's dedicated Optimus factory site, turning the robot roadmap into real industrial capacity.
Read moreA Vancouver-to-Halifax run on FSD v14.3.3 finished without a single disengagement, across mountains, weather, construction, and city streets.
Read moreEstonia becomes the third European country to clear FSD Supervised, and the way it got there says more than the map dot itself.
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