Tesla and EV news, with our take
Tesla and EV news, with our take. Sourced from real reporting, dated, and updated.
Franz says the Roadster is coming "very soon," and the reveal may include a hover
Tesla's design chief broke his silence on Jay Leno's Garage, The Information reports the unveil is set for late August with a flight demo, and Elon Musk says flying cars are coming. Roadster month is getting loud.
Tesla's $80 adapter turns the Model Y into a rolling power outlet
Vehicle-to-Load just arrived for every Model Y Premium trim in the US. An $80 Outlet Adapter plugs into the Mobile Connector and serves up 2.4 kW of household power for camping, tools, or a blackout.
Giga Shanghai just had the biggest export month in Tesla history
Tesla's Shanghai factory shipped 66,330 cars overseas in July, an all-time monthly export record and a 143 percent jump over last year. Seven months into 2026, the plant has already exported more cars than it did in all of 2025.
The Cybercab's public debut is weeks away, and Austin goes first
Tesla told employees the Cybercab's public rollout starts in Austin as soon as this month, with staff riding first and the robotaxi fleet folding the pedal-less two-seater in days later. A launch event is coming, and production units are stacking up at Giga Texas.
FSD 14.3.7 rolls out with a smarter brain, and HW3 cars get their next Lite upgrade
Tesla's August software wave ships FSD 14.3.7 with upgraded training and a sharper vision encoder, hands the Speed Profile to the scroll wheel, and pushes FSD 14.1 Lite to Hardware 3 cars. One early reviewer says it dodged an accident for him.
Tesla just built its 10 millionth car, and it's a Model Y in Diamond Black
A Diamond Black Model Y rolled off the Fremont line in late July as Tesla's 10 millionth vehicle, making Tesla the first dedicated EV maker in history to reach the milestone. The first 1 million took 17 years. The last 9 million took about 6.
Robotaxi adds Orlando and Tampa, and Florida becomes a three-city state
Weeks after Miami, Tesla switched on unsupervised Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa. No safety driver, no safety monitor, just a Model Y that shows up when the app says it will.
Megapack 3 is in production, 16 months after the factory was a field
Tesla's third Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas built its first Megapack 3 on August 6, on a site that broke ground in April 2025. The same week, a 500 MWh Megapack project went live on the Texas grid.
Summer Update 2026.26 is hitting cars now, and it makes every Tesla more yours
Tesla's 2026.26 Summer Update is reaching the fleet with a redesigned Caraoke that keeps score, video calls from the driver's seat, Grok vehicle commands, warp-effect entry animations, and new traction modes.
Roadster month is here, and Tesla is bringing the thrusters
The next-generation Roadster is set to break cover this month in Texas with a live demo of the SpaceX cold-gas thruster system. Nine years of waiting comes down to August.
50 countries just set EV sales records in the market Tesla built
IEA data shows 50 countries posting record quarterly EV sales in Q2 2026, global sales up 35% over Q1, 2 million EVs sold in June alone, and more than 90 countries growing. The transition isn't coming. It's here.
6.7 million public chargers later, range anxiety is running out of road
Global public charging grew 28% in 2025 to 6.7 million connectors, ultra-fast plugs grew almost 50% in both Europe and the US, and 1 in 4 cars sold worldwide is now an EV. The road trip argument is over.
Tesla's Summer Update kills the USB drive: custom wraps now upload from the app
The 2026 Summer Update lets you send a custom wrap to your Tesla straight from the mobile app. No USB stick, no file wrangling. Design it, upload it, drive it. Plus Grok phone calls, Caraoke scoring, and smarter navigation.
The six-seat Model Y L is here, and it starts at $61,990
Tesla launched the stretched, three-row Model Y L in the US on July 2 with a fully loaded Launch Series, 325 miles of range, captain's chairs, and a year of free FSD and Supercharging.
Megapack 3 and Megablock: Tesla's energy business is quietly becoming the main event
With $9 billion in Megapack orders booked in six weeks, a 50 GWh Houston factory spinning up, and a record 13.5 GWh deployed last quarter, Tesla Energy is scaling faster than the car business ever did.
FSD v14 Lite goes wide, and 4 million older Teslas just got new brains
Tesla confirmed build 2026.20.6.10 is the FSD v14 Lite version headed to wide release, bringing V14 smarts to roughly 4 million Hardware 3 cars that were told for years to wait.
US fast charging hits 75,000 plugs, and the reliability era begins
America crossed 74,000 DC fast-charging ports this summer, up 27% in a year, with total public charge points above a quarter million. The industry is calling it Charging 2.0, and road trips are the winners.
Tesla wrapped a Cybercab for America's 250th, and it rules
Tesla unveiled custom-wrapped vehicles at Giga Texas for the USA's 250th anniversary. A parchment-textured Cybercab with fighter-plane nose art and a star-spangled Cybertruck. The company that hates paint options loves wraps.
Tesla's best Q2 ever, 480,126 deliveries and a 25% jump
Tesla delivered 480,126 vehicles in Q2 2026, up 25% year over year and roughly 79,000 ahead of analyst estimates, while energy storage deployments hit 13.5 GWh. The demand question just got answered.
FSD 14.3.5 lands with always-on camera view and a 20% faster brain
Update 2026.20.6.6 ships FSD 14.3.5 with a rebuilt AI runtime that reacts 20% faster, an always-available camera preview (cabin cam included), smarter parking, and encrypted dashcam clips.
Robotaxi goes bicoastal-ish, unsupervised rides launch in Miami
Tesla's Robotaxi network added its second city. Unsupervised rides are live in Miami, the fleet is targeting 1,500 vehicles by year-end, and Phoenix, Orlando, Tampa, and Las Vegas are on deck.
Cybercab production ramps at Giga Texas, employee rides begin
The purpose-built robotaxi entered mass production at Giga Texas this spring, and Tesla just announced employees will start riding Cybercabs at the factory. The two-seater with no steering wheel is becoming real.
Tesla Semi enters mass production with a 50,000-truck factory
The first production Semi rolled off the line in late April at a dedicated 1.7-million-square-foot Nevada factory. Tesla's industrial side is having a year.
Robotaxi turns one and now covers the entire Austin metro, unsupervised
On June 3, Tesla switched on unsupervised Robotaxi rides across all 245 square miles of the Austin metro, the program's fifth and largest expansion in its first year.
Model Y just became the first car ever to hit 100,000 registrations in Norway
One in every 29 cars on Norwegian roads is now a Tesla Model Y, a record no other model in the country's history has touched. It took less than 5 years.
FSD 14.3.4 starts rolling out, and Cybertruck finally gets Smart Summon
Update 2026.14.6.10 ships FSD 14.3.4 with smarter parking, better handling of weird intersections, and fewer forced disengagements. Cybertruck gets Actually Smart Summon for the first time.
SpaceX went public at $1.75 trillion, the largest IPO ever
SpaceX started trading on the Nasdaq as SPCX on June 12, raising about $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation. The biggest IPO in history, and thousands of Tesla fans now own a piece of it.
FSD crossed Canada with zero interventions (so we made it a wrap)
David Moss, Devin Olsen, and Spencer rode a Model 3 from Vancouver to Halifax on FSD 14.3.3, 3,760 miles with zero disengagements on a public tracker. We designed a custom wrap to mark the run.
Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. Here's the math
The SpaceX IPO pushed Musk's net worth past $1 trillion on June 12, with an intraday peak near $1.18 trillion. How the number breaks down, and why the story starts with Tesla.
Stellantis joins the Supercharger network. NACS is now the de facto standard.
Jeep, Dodge, and Chrysler EVs gain access to 28,000+ Tesla Superchargers in early 2026, joining Ford, GM, Rivian, and most other major brands.
Robotaxi is live in four metros and covers 1,190 square miles
Tesla's unsupervised Robotaxi runs in Austin, the Bay Area, Dallas, and Houston. The city-by-city ramp is deliberate, and it's working.
Optimus V3 arrives this summer, and Fremont production starts within weeks
Tesla's Optimus 3 reveal is set for mid-2026, with production starting at Fremont in late July or August and the Cortex 2.0 supercomputer coming online to power it.
FSD v14.3 shipped wide, and Europe finally said yes
Tesla rolled out FSD v14.3 in April 2026 with a 20% reaction-time gain, and the Netherlands became the first EU country to type-approve FSD Supervised.
Model Y Juniper at six months: the range claims hold up
Six months of owner data is in. The 2026 Model Y matches its EPA range in the real world, rides dramatically quieter, and fixes most of the old car's flaws.
EV incentives in 2026: the deductions and credits still on the table
The federal Clean Vehicle Credit ended September 30, 2025. What's live now: a loan interest deduction up to $10,000 a year, a charger credit through June, and state programs up to $6,000.
Cybertruck deliveries more than doubled in Q1 2026
Cybertruck deliveries jumped 111% year over year in Q1 2026 to 38,500 units, Giga Texas is running steady, and a $69K AWD trim lands in June.
Personalization is the new EV battleground, and Tesla owners are already ahead
BYD, Xiaomi, and Zeekr are pouring money into factory customization. The race validates what the Tesla community figured out first, that drivers want a car that looks like theirs.