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Tesla’s Q2 Consensus Puts Revenue at $27.6 Billion and Capex at $6.7 Billion

Tesla's company-compiled analyst estimates point to stronger Q2 revenue, operating income and earnings, alongside $6.7 billion in capital spending and negative free cash flow.

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SpaceX Is Reportedly in Talks to Supply Pentagon AI Compute Worth Billions

SpaceX is discussing a potential multibillion-dollar arrangement to supply AI computing capacity to the Pentagon.

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Tesla Opens Six-Stall Semi Megacharger With Up to 1.2 MW Per Stall

Tesla's new Bloomington, California, hub gives Semi drivers six public Megacharger stalls, each capable of up to 1.2 MW.

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Tesla Opens Uruguay Sales, Arrives in Latvia Nine Hours Later

Tesla opened official vehicle sales in Uruguay, then announced a five-week Model 3 and Model Y arrival program in Latvia just over nine hours later.

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SpaceX Pulls Two Raptors After Starship’s Last-Second Launch Abort

SpaceX is replacing two Super Heavy Raptor engines and targeting Monday for another Starship Flight 13 launch attempt.

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NHTSA Rejects Tesla’s Headlight Petition for Nearly 20,000 Cars

NHTSA rejected Tesla's bid to avoid a remedy for bright headlamps in roughly 19,900 older Model 3 and Model Y vehicles.

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Tesla FSD v14.3.5 Is Here, and Early Drives Show Its Best and Worst

Tesla FSD v14.3.5 is reaching owners with smoother early drives, sharper awareness, useful new tools, and a few parking rough edges still showing.

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Starlink V5 Cuts the Dish Down to Size While Keeping 375+ Mbps on Tap

Starlink's new V5 terminal is smaller, lighter and more power-efficient than V4, with advertised speeds above 375 Mbps and a U.S.-made design.

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Tesla Semi Enters Chicago Freight Evaluation With Paper Transport

Paper Transport will evaluate Tesla's Semi Long Range in dedicated Chicago operations, testing performance, reliability and economics on predictable freight lanes.

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Tesla FSD Had Barely a Second and No Good Option on This Kentucky Road

A dog darted into the lane as another vehicle closed from the opposite direction. The Model 3's response is difficult to watch, but the full outcome matters.

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SpaceX Lines Up Two Falcon 9 Launches From Opposite Coasts Tonight

SpaceX is targeting Falcon 9 liftoffs from California and Florida less than six hours apart, with 53 Starlink satellites and two veteran boosters in the plan.

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Tesla’s Austin Robotaxi Hub Now Has Its Own Cleaning Robot

A closed $500,000 Austin project lists Tesla Superchargers, an inspection system and a cleaning robot, while a Miami hub is filling with Cybercabs.

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Tesla’s FSD Insurance Benefit Reaches Florida and Maryland Renewals Today

Tesla Insurance renewals in Florida and Maryland now move to Safety Score 3.0, which gives every mile driven with FSD (Supervised) a score of 100.

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Tesla Still Holds More Than Half of America’s EV Market Through June

Tesla held 52.3% of U.S. EV sales through June, while Model Y and Model 3 remained America's two best-selling electric vehicles.

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Tesla’s Cybercab Moves Into Employee Ride Testing

Tesla says Cybercab employee rides at Giga Texas are starting soon, while an engineer working on the vehicle says he logged 50 rides in recent days.

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NASA’s Roman Telescope Moves Onto the Pantheon Ahead of SpaceX Falcon Heavy Launch

NASA's next great observatory is now on its specialized Pantheon work platform at Kennedy, targeting an August 30 Falcon Heavy launch.

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SpaceX Rolls Super Heavy to Pad 2 Ahead of Starship Flight 13

Booster 20 has reached Pad 2 at Starbase for its next round of testing, while an FAA operations plan lists potential mid-July airspace windows for Starship Flight 13.

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SpaceX Just Flew The Same Falcon 9 Booster For The 36th Time

SpaceX turned a routine Starlink batch into another reuse record Thursday morning, flying its most-traveled Falcon 9 booster, B1067, for the 36th time on the Starlink 10-42 mission from Cape Canaveral.

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SpaceX Sends 81 Payloads to Orbit on a Single Midnight Falcon 9

The 17th Transporter rideshare mission lifted off from Vandenberg and packed everything from fire-detection satellites to 3D printers and military tech demos into one launch.

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Tesla Opens Giga Berlin to Startups With a Cell Challenge Ahead of 18 GWh Production

Tesla is inviting battery startups to prove themselves inside Giga Berlin as the plant readies for 18 GWh of cell production. Here is what the Cell Giga Challenge actually offers, and what it is not.

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Tesla Robotaxi Model Ys Spotted Testing in New Orleans

A fleet of camera-washer Model Ys with Texas manufacturer plates has turned up in New Orleans, the latest sign Tesla's Robotaxi footprint keeps growing city by city.

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Tesla’s Optimus Factory Is Rising Fast at Giga Texas

New flyover images show steel climbing four floors, floor decking going in, and a wave of footings poured that should let the Optimus robot factory frame up quickly.

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Tesla Brings Cybercab to the Blind Community in Austin

Tesla took the Cybercab to the National Federation of the Blind's annual convention, showing off accessibility features built for riders who cannot drive a car at all.

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A Phone Rode a Model Y Tailgate for 4.3 Miles, Highway and All

Tesla says a phone accidentally left on a Model Y tailgate stayed put for 4.3 miles under FSD Supervised, including at highway speeds. It is a fun snapshot of how smooth the software has gotten.

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