Tesla recalls nearly 3 million cars in China over door escape risk
Tesla recalls nearly 3 million cars in China over door escape risk

Tesla is recalling 2,975,910 vehicles in China after the country’s market regulator determined that its emergency door release is too hard to find and operate in a crash.
It’s Tesla’s largest-ever recall in China, and it lands as the automaker’s door d…

Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles
Tesla sunsets its Solar Roof tiles

Tesla has discontinued Solar Roof, its solar panels designed to look like regular roofing tiles, Electrek reports. Sources “close to the program” told the publication that Tesla has informed its third-party installer network that Solar Roof is no longer available to order, and that only conventional solar panels will be supplied going forward. While Tesla […]

Tesla discontinues its Solar Roof tiles, not economically viable
Tesla discontinues its Solar Roof tiles, not economically viable

Tesla has discontinued the Solar Roof, its solar-tile roofing product, Electrek has learned.
The company has told third-party installers that it will no longer supply solar roof tiles going forward, only solar panels, according to two sources close to …

Tesla, Uber, and Waymo all get the OK to operate thousands of robotaxis in Nevada

Together, these permits would allow up to 8,000 robotaxis to be deployed over the next 12 months.

Tesla confirms Semi electric truck is coming to Europe, reveal at IAA
Tesla confirms Semi electric truck is coming to Europe, reveal at IAA

Tesla confirmed that its Semi electric truck is coming to Europe, and that it will reveal the specs and launch details next month at IAA Transportation, the continent’s largest commercial vehicle show.
The Tesla Semi account posted that “specs & la…

Tesla says FSD v15 is a ‘step-change,’ Optimus sells in 2027
Tesla says FSD v15 is a ‘step-change,’ Optimus sells in 2027

Tesla laid out an updated timeline for Full Self-Driving, its Cybercab, and the Optimus robot in a recent meeting with JPMorgan at its Fremont factory. The bank walked away with claims that FSD v15 is a “step-change,” that today’s HW4 computer can hand…

Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows
Tesla’s Austin robotaxis are now fully driverless, tracking shows

Tesla’s robotaxi service in Austin appears to have gone fully driverless. Over the past fortnight, every one of the 170 rides logged by an independent monitoring project ran with no human safety monitor on board, across 54 different cars. Two days earl…

Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch
Tesla Robotaxis appear to go fully unsupervised in Austin ahead of Cybercab launch

Seven months after Elon Musk announced that Tesla Robotaxis in Austin were operating without human safety monitors onboard, the city’s service appears to have finally gone fully driverless. Over the past two weeks, all 170 Tesla Robotaxi rides in Austin monitored by the crowdsourced Robotaxi Tracker were unsupervised, the site’s creator, Ethan McKanna, told The […]

Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxis and Nevada granted 10
Tesla asked Las Vegas for 5,000 robotaxis and Nevada granted 10

Tesla asked Nevada regulators for permission to run up to 5,000 robotaxis across Las Vegas. It was granted 10. The Nevada Transportation Authority set out the limit in an interim order dated 27 July. The cap sits far below what the company requested. T…

Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer
Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon owns a piece of the buyer

Einride is buying 500 Tesla Semis, and Amazon quietly owns a slice of the company that will run them. The Swedish electric-trucking firm said on Tuesday it will deploy the 500 electric big rigs for Amazon and other customers. It called the order the la…