Tesla Semi launch sneak peek: several customers are being announced
Tesla Semi launch sneak peek: several customers are being announced

Tesla has lined up at least 11 Semi electric trucks wearing customer logos outside its new Nevada factory, a clear sign that the automaker plans to parade its fleet customers at tonight’s Semi launch event.

A drone flyover of the plant shows trucks …

Tesla’s ‘hardcore lawyers’ went a little too hardcore
Tesla’s ‘hardcore lawyers’ went a little too hardcore

Tesla’s racism trial in California opened Monday with a bad day for the company’s lawyers. The first witness testified that a senior Tesla in-house attorney had called him last week and let him believe he was working for the state, according to Law360 …

Tesla Semi wins 2,500-truck order, doubling US electric Class 8 fleet
Tesla Semi wins 2,500-truck order, doubling US electric Class 8 fleet

Tesla has been named the primary truck supplier for the largest electric Class 8 order in US history: 2,500 battery-electric trucks bought through a new shipper alliance called ZET SCALE.

The order on its own would nearly double the number of electr…

Tesla Full Self-Driving bug falsely flags dirty cameras, demands service
Tesla Full Self-Driving bug falsely flags dirty cameras, demands service

Tesla’s newest Full Self-Driving update, v14.3.9, is telling owners their cameras are dirty when they aren’t — and sending them to service to fix a problem that doesn’t exist.

Tesla has confirmed the bug and is canceling the service appointments it …

Tesla’s active robotaxi fleet in Austin crashes back to 8 vehicles after Cybercab pump
Tesla’s active robotaxi fleet in Austin crashes back to 8 vehicles after Cybercab pump

Tesla’s active robotaxi fleet in Austin has fallen back to just 8 vehicles over the past seven days, according to data from community tracker Robotaxi Tracker.

That’s about the same number Tesla had on the road when it launched the service in June 2…

Tesla goes to trial over racism claims against Black workers at ‘plantation’
Tesla goes to trial over racism claims against Black workers at ‘plantation’

Tesla goes on trial today over allegations that its flagship Fremont factory subjected thousands of Black workers to racial slurs, segregation, and lower pay. The case is brought by the state of California, covers more than 6,000 workers, and carries n…

Tesla and Sunrun’s virtual power plant dispatch record 580 MW to California grid
Tesla and Sunrun’s virtual power plant dispatch record 580 MW to California grid

Sunrun and Tesla pulled a record 580 megawatts of power from home batteries onto California’s grid during a heat wave on September 9, the largest residential distributed power plant event ever recorded.

The dispatch pooled more than 140,000 home bat…

Tesla reopens $50,000 Roadster reservations ahead of October 1 unveil
Tesla reopens $50,000 Roadster reservations ahead of October 1 unveil

Tesla has reopened reservations for its next-generation Roadster, asking buyers for a $50,000 deposit about two weeks before the car is even unveiled.

The reserve page went live this week ahead of an October 1 reveal near Waco, Texas. It’s the secon…

XPeng shops its self-driving tech to automakers — Tesla found no takers
XPeng shops its self-driving tech to automakers — Tesla found no takers

XPeng is trying to turn its self-driving and smart-cockpit systems into a licensing business, courting automakers, suppliers, and software firms well beyond its existing Volkswagen deal, according to a Reuters report.

It’s the exact playbook Tesla h…

144 Tesla Megapacks power Australia’s first 8-hour grid battery
144 Tesla Megapacks power Australia’s first 8-hour grid battery

Australia just switched on its longest-duration grid battery, and it runs on 144 Tesla Megapacks.

RWE’s Limondale battery in New South Wales can discharge for a full eight hours — four times longer than the two-hour batteries that dominate the Austr…