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Tesla Cybercab is set to launch in Austin, Texas, on September 3, as the company has officially started sending out invitations to a dedicated event it will hold in the city where its headquarters is located. The Cybercab is Tesla’s dedicated ride-sharing vehicle: it features just two seats and has no steering wheel or pedals. […] The post Tesla Cybercab launch gets official date in Austin with dedicated event appeared first on TESLARATI.

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla killing the Solar Roof, Cybercab launch, Genesis GV90, and more. Today’s episode is sponsored by GM. GM EV charging made easy, with Energy Pass and Plug and Charge. Learn more at https://gmenergy.gm.com/energypass

Tesla will voluntarily recall about 3 million of its vehicles in China to address doorhandle safety concerns and deficient driver monitoring systems.

Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash.

Tesla's solar roof was an experiment that never really caught on for the company. But does that mean the concept of roof-integrated solar is dead?

Tesla will resolve its massive recall of nearly three million vehicles in China with stickers and a software update. On Friday, Chinese regulators filed recall plans against Tesla, Xiaomi, Leapmotor, Xpeng, Chery, Geely, Dongfeng, Arcfox, and FAW to resolve what is essentially a carbon-copy issue throughout each of the companies’ vehicle models: emergency door release […] The post Tesla will resolve massive China recall with stickers and a software update appeared first on TESLARATI.

I toured a battery gigafactory where executives discussed solid-state batteries, sodium-ion technology, and more.

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It has more than enough power to break the back tires loose, yet is calm and collected when he eases off the throttle.

China’s regulator ordered changes after vehicle occupants sometimes had difficulty exiting electric cars with retractable door handles after crashes.

Tesla has issued the largest-ever product recall in mainland China’s electric vehicle (EV) market, as Elon Musk’s firm pledges to fix a door-handle issue affecting nearly 3 million cars. The massive recall comes as Chinese regulators move to ban retractable car door handles over safety fears, after a fatal incident last year in which a driver was left trapped inside a burning vehicle as passers-by were unable to open the car doors. While Tesla is not the only company affected by the move, the US...

Tesla is recalling 2,740,642 vehicles in China to strengthen driver monitoring on its assisted-driving system, after regulators found that checking for a hand on the wheel isn’t enough to keep drivers watching the road. The fix forces Tesla to use the car’s cabin camera to track the driver’s eyes — the same kind of monitoring Chinese drivers were recently caught defeating with $20 plastic doll heads.

Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels that help occupants identify the often hard-to-find manual door releases.

Tesla has officially confirmed plans to bring its all-electric Semi truck to Europe, with full specifications and market-launch details set for unveiling at the IAA Transportation trade fair in Hannover, Germany. The event runs September 15–20, with a possible press preview on September 14. The announcement, shared via Tesla’s Semi account, marks a significant expansion […] The post Tesla Semi is officially headed to Europe appeared first on TESLARATI.

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 design faces mounting legal and regulatory pressure on two continents. Several other automakers who followed Tesla into similarly designed door releases have also issued similar recalls.

Tesla, Waymo, and Uber got the green light to start charging for robotaxi rides in the county that’s home to Las Vegas.

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Nevada regulators just approved a massive expansion of Tesla's robotaxi fleet across the entire county. The post Tesla Robotaxi gets a massive upgrade in Nevada appeared first on TESLARATI.

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 the program.

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

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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 & launch details for Semi in Europe” will be “unveiled at IAA Transportation in Hannover, Germany,” which runs September 15-20. A Semi will be on display at the show.

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 handle unsupervised driving, and that Optimus could go on sale to outside buyers as soon as the second half of 2027. Most of it repeats promises Tesla has made, and missed, before.

It took almost a decade but Tesla's all-electric big rig is finally headed to Europe and is being presented in Germany in September.

Tesla welcomed JPMorgan analysts to one of its factories earlier this month, with the Wall Street firm highlighting its findings in a new note to investors. One of the more pertinent pieces of information is that Tesla admitted to slowly integrating Model Y vehicles into its Robotaxi fleet, but it has a good reason. JPMorgan […] The post Tesla admits to slow Model Y Robotaxi integration, but for a good reason appeared first on TESLARATI.

Octopus Energy has launched Octopus Charge in the US, Canada and Mexico, aggregating more than 210,000 chargers from over 20 networks with no markup on energy prices. Its European equivalent covers 1.5 million chargers across more than 40 countries. A British energy company has put more than 210,000 North American chargers behind a single login. […] This story continues at The Next Web

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 earlier, a passenger filmed one of those cars driving straight through a line of […] This story continues at The Next Web

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 Verge. Those rides involved 54 different cars. McKanna has also seen a sharp increase in unsupervised Robotaxis elsewhere, particularly Dallas and Houston, where roughly 30 driverless Teslas have been operating over the past week. That's a substantial change from earlier this summe … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Wawa launched self-branded Tesla Superchargers earlier this year, and now it’s doing the same with Electrify America EV fast chargers.

Charging a Tesla with its biggest competitors might seem like blasphemy but it actually works pretty damn well.

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. The gap is stark in the paperwork. Tesla Robotaxi filed its application […] This story continues at The Next Web

Tesla has opened a new sweepstakes to allow the public to be one of the first to take one of the initial rides in a Cybercab, the all-electric, steering wheel-less and pedal-less vehicle that is the company’s centerpiece of its autonomous ride-hailing platform called Robotaxi. There are two ways Tesla fans can get to Austin […] The post Tesla opens Cybercab first public ride sweepstakes: how to enter appeared first on TESLARATI.

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 largest Tesla Semi deployment in the world to date. Einride announced […] This story continues at The Next Web

A former Tesla president says the endlessly delayed next-generation Roadster is being held up by SpaceX “hovering” technology — and that the project is really about pulling Tesla and SpaceX closer together. Jon McNeill, Tesla’s president from 2015 to 2018 and now co-founder of VistaShares and CEO of DVx Ventures, made the comments as Tesla preps a long-promised Roadster demo nearly nine years after the car was first unveiled.

Divided across two countries and four campuses, Samsung's fab roadmap runs from the Korean bases at Pyeongtaek, Hwaseong, and Giheung to the new U.S. site at Taylor.

Tesla has revealed plans through permit submissions for a massive Robotaxi charging hub in Austin, Texas. Tesla plans to build the Supercharger hub in multiple phases, with the second phase potentially introducing wireless induction charging, something the company has been developing for the Robotaxi fleet. Initially, 48 Tesla Robotaxi-geared Superchargers will be built on a […] The post Tesla reveals plans for Robotaxi charging hub in Austin appeared first on TESLARATI.

There are millions of Tesla vehicles on the road today which were sold on the promise of full autonomy, but without hardware capable of doing so. Tesla has hemmed and hawed about solutions to this problem – so one owner took it into his own hands.

A Tesla “Robotaxi” running with no safety monitor onboard drove straight through a row of bollards protecting a closed-off lane in Austin, then kept driving. The video surfaced Monday, less than a month after Tesla’s head of AI told investors the Robotaxi program has an “impeccable safety record” with “zero notable incidents.” While no one was hurt or in danger in this incident, it is worrying to see an unsupervised Tesla vehicle ram through clearly visible bollards with plenty of time to see them and think about going around them.

Tesla has been kicking the HW3 can down the road for nearly two years. One owner got tired of waiting around.

Tesla Cybercabs are lined up on a lot at Tesla Giga Texas in Austin, Wednesday, April 8, 2026. | Image: Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images The Tesla Cybercab, that golden two-seater central to Elon Musk's robo-supremacist ambitions, is finally nearing it's public launch. Whether or not the no-steering wheel and no-pedal vehicle is actually ready for public roads, let alone customers, remains very much in doubt. According to The Information, Tesla is planning a public launch of the Cybercab in Austin, Texas, as soon as this month. The driverless vehicle has been popping up around the country, although often with a steering wheel and pedals, as employees are continuing to gather data. Tesla employees have been testing the fully driverless version on private roads around the com … Read the full story at The Verge.

The newly introduced electric crossover beat its range estimate by more than 30 miles.

Tesla got its largest order for the all-electric Class 8 Semi yet, a 500-unit order from Einride AB, a Swedish trucking company. Einride made the announcement this morning following its second-quarter earnings call. The company said it plans to use 500 Tesla Semi units on its fleet intelligence platform, called Saga AI. The deployments will […] The post Tesla Semi gets its largest order yet appeared first on TESLARATI.

Cybercab heads for Austin roads Tesla has told employees it is preparing a public launch of the Cybercab,

Einride is putting 500 Tesla Semis on US roads, the largest commitment to Tesla’s electric truck that anyone has made public. That will takes the Swedish freight company from roughly 250 deployed electric trucks to about 750. First deliveries start next month, with the rest arriving in phases over 24 months.

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Einride will buy the Tesla Semis, which will be made to Amazon and other customers.

Tesla is preparing to put its Cybercab, the purpose-built two-seat robotaxi with no steering wheel and no pedals, onto public roads in Austin as soon as this month, according to The Information. There is, as ever with a Tesla launch date, a catch attached to the milestone: the first people to ride in it will […] This story continues at The Next Web

Kia's EV5 has bested Tesla's Model Y in a German comparison test, taking the top spot after outperforming its American rival in four of seven categories. The EV5 ranked first overall in a recent electric SUV comparison by German automotive magazine Auto Motor und Sport, ahead of the Model Y, XPeng G6 and MG S6 EV, Kia said Tuesday. The four vehicles were evaluated in body, safety, convenience, powertrain, driving performance, environmental performance and economy. The EV5 scored 588 points out of 1,000, compared with 557 for the Model Y, 541 for the XPeng G6 and 528 for the MG S6 EV. The EV5's 404 points in the first five categories also put it 67 points ahead of the Model Y, according to Kia. The Korean SUV recorded its largest advantages in body, safety, convenience and driving performance, with the scores reflecting differences in areas ranging from interior space to braking and road handling. In the body category, the EV5 scored 100 points, compared with 76 for the Model Y, with

On this second consecutive self-steering episode of Quick Charge, we take a look at how Tesla increased its national self-driving Robotaxi fleet by half with the stroke of a pen, and see how the company’s autonomous deployments compare to the rest of the world’s.

Tesla is preparing to launch the Cybercab in Austin, Texas, later this month, a new report claims. Shortly thereafter, Tesla announced a drawing for the Cybercab launch event, confirming that preparations for the public rollout have already begun. A new report from The Information claims that Tesla has already started telling employees to prepare for a […] The post Tesla Cybercab launch preparations have begun appeared first on TESLARATI.

Tesla has told employees it is preparing a public launch of the Cybercab in Austin as soon as this month, according to a report from The Information. It would be the first Tesla vehicle ever built without a steering wheel or pedals — and the least exciting vehicle the company has ever made, because it is virtually worthless without an autonomous driving system Tesla still hasn’t delivered at scale.

Tesla plans to launch its autonomous Cybercab in Austin, Texas, starting with employee trials. The initiative aims to integrate driverless vehicles into public roads, enhancing future revenue and profitability.

Tesla has quietly enabled vehicle-to-load on the Model Y Premium in the US and Puerto Rico through an $80 adapter offering two 120-volt outlets and up to 2.4kW. The feature is still unavailable on Model Ys sold in Europe and Canada, and on every Model 3. Tesla has started letting Model Y Premium owners take […] This story continues at The Next Web

Nevada’s Transportation Authority granted Tesla a permit to run driverless vehicles in Las Vegas last month and capped the fleet at 10 cars. Tesla’s application had asked for 5,000. The permit also confines Tesla to an approved stretch of the Strip, bans pickups at Harry Reid International Airport, and limits the vehicles to 45 mph.

Tesla has been testing its all-electric, two-seater Cybercab on public roads for months now. Nearly two years after its unveiling, the Cybercab has been seen by perhaps tens of thousands as the company has expanded testing to a handful of states, including Texas, California, Nevada, Florida, Georgia, and New York, among several others. However, nobody […] The post Tesla starts testing its Starlink-integrated Cybercab on public roads appeared first on TESLARATI.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving v14.3.6 tried to take a highway exit that my car had already passed, at 110 km/h (68 mph), and it would have taken us straight into the ditch. I was ready to take control, and I did, but it was scary. My girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat, screamed in fear.