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Tesla’s New Model Y Power Feature Comes With a Catch for Recent Owners

Tesla's $80 Outlet Adapter can turn compatible Model Y Premium vehicles into a 2.4 kW power source, but recent owners are discovering that the hardware under the car decides who gets the feature.

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SpaceX Pulls Off a Coast-to-Coast Falcon 9 Doubleheader in 39 Minutes

Falcon 9 missions lifted from Florida and California just 39 minutes apart, with both first stages recovered and USSF-366 completing the sprint from Vandenberg.

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SpaceX Launches Globalstar’s Delayed Satellite Mission—and Brings Falcon 9 Home

Falcon 9 lifted Globalstar's long-delayed replacement satellites from Cape Canaveral, then returned its first stage to Landing Zone 40 as Amazon's pending Globalstar deal moves through regulatory review.

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Tesla Wins Las Vegas Robotaxi Permit—but Nevada Starts It at Just 10 Cars

Tesla can launch driverless passenger service along the Las Vegas Strip, but Nevada's first permit keeps the fleet small, supervised and away from faster roads and airport pickups.

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Tesla May Finally Unveil a Radically Redesigned Roadster This Month

Tesla's next Roadster reveal could reportedly happen at SpaceX's McGregor test site, with a remotely operated thruster-equipped version attempting a flying stunt.

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Tesla’s $10.1 Billion “Project Crystal Sun” Filing Reveals a Massive Texas Solar Bet

Tesla's Project Crystal Sun application lays out a 3,000-acre, vertically integrated solar-cell factory near Houston with 9,712 projected permanent jobs—but Texas has not won the project yet.

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Elon Musk Says Every Car Will Eventually Have Starlink

Elon Musk says Starlink will eventually deliver super-high-bandwidth connectivity to billions of vehicles as a new Cybercab sighting hints at how Tesla may test the hardware.

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Elon Musk Says Starlink Could Grow Beyond 100,000 Satellites

Elon Musk says future Starlink satellites may deliver more than 50 times V2 throughput as the network expands into direct-to-cell service and AI-era bandwidth demand.

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SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites—and Lands the Same Booster for a 16th Time

SpaceX sent 24 Starlink satellites into orbit from California while Falcon 9 booster B1093 completed its 16th flight and 16th landing.

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SpaceX’s Starship Recovery Runs Into Trouble in Rough Seas

Rough Indian Ocean seas are threatening SpaceX's effort to tow Flight 13's intact Starship to port, though engineers already secured critical imagery.

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Europe Adds 66 Satellites to Its Growing Starlink Challenge

Europe has expanded IRIS² to 348 satellites and accelerated its path to launch, creating a more serious strategic and commercial challenge to Starlink.

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SpaceX Stock Jumps 6.1% as 912 Million Insider Shares Unlock

SpaceX's first major post-IPO lockup release made roughly 912 million employee and early-holder shares eligible to trade. The stock rose anyway, as volume quadrupled.

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SpaceX Picks a Texas Home for Its 100-Million-Square-Foot Terafab

SpaceX and Tesla say Terafab will be built in Grimes County, Texas, with an estimated $16.8 billion initial phase, at least 3,000 jobs, and chip production planned for Cybercab, Optimus, and orbital data centers.

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Tesla Hires a Semi Launch Lead for France as Its European Push Grows

Tesla has hired a dedicated Semi business-development lead for France, adding another piece to an expanding European launch effort that already includes Germany.

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A Zoox Ruling Just Opened a Door for Tesla Cybercab

NHTSA's landmark Zoox exemption does not approve Tesla's Cybercab, but its reasoning may give Tesla a clearer path for a car with no steering wheel or pedals.

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SpaceX Launches Three Giant BlueBird Satellites—and Lands Falcon 9 for the 30th Time

SpaceX sent BlueBird 11, 12, and 13 into orbit from Cape Canaveral, then recovered the Falcon 9 booster after its 30th flight.

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SpaceX Revenue Jumps 92% as Starlink Doubles—and the AI Buildout Goes Full Throttle

SpaceX nearly doubled quarterly revenue as Starlink reached 12 million subscribers, while the company's AI and Starship buildouts pushed investment into overdrive.

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Tesla Starts Showing California’s $3,500 EV Rebate on Model 3 and Model Y

California’s MyFirstEV credit is appearing on eligible Tesla inventory, but first-time buyers need to clear several important conditions.

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SpaceX Crew-13 Makes Its Final Public Stop Before a September Launch

NASA and its partners have finished Crew-13's final media appearance before the four-person international crew travels to Florida for a mid-September SpaceX launch.

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Tesla Answers France’s FSD Safety Concerns With 195,000 Kilometers of Testing

Tesla says most of its 195,000 French test kilometers were driven on urban and rural roads without a notable incident—and it is opening the passenger seat to the public.

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SpaceX Is Reportedly Closing In on a 130,000-Acre Louisiana Spaceport

Louisiana's reported Pecan Island deal would give Starship an enormous new Gulf Coast launch site, but SpaceX has not announced final terms yet.

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Tesla Pushes FSD 14.3.7 After Drivers Flag Jerky Turns and Ignored Signals

The new HW4 patch carries the same release notes as v14.3.6, but early drives disagree sharply on whether the rough behavior is gone.

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A SpaceX Rocket Stage Is About to Hit the Moon at 5,400 MPH

A discarded Falcon 9 upper stage will strike near Einstein Crater early Wednesday, and new models suggest the debris plume could be visible from Earth.

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Zelenskyy Turns to President Trump for Help With a High-Stakes Starlink Request

Ukraine's president is asking President Trump to intervene in a Starlink dispute that could reshape how Kyiv uses the network against Russia.

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