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High gasoline prices from the war in Iran have not brought American car buyers back to new electric vehicles. In Europe, the same fuel shock has helped push EV sales to record levels.

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Reuters: Tesla pushed regulator to ease self-driving review

A Reuters investigation published Wednesday found that Tesla has run a pressure campaign aimed at getting its "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)" system approved across the European Union, and that the campaign is working. The report says Tesla pushed regulators to make…

Musk becomes trillionaire again as SpaceX shares surge

Elon Musk is a trillionaire again. SpaceX shares had their highest close since June on Monday after Morgan Stanley called the stock cheap. Bloomberg reported that the rally lifted Musk's fortune by $65 billion in one day, to $1.04 trillion.…

Tesla’s third-quarter deliveries top Wall Street estimates

Tesla said Friday, Oct. 2, that it delivered 486,532 vehicles and built 464,391 in the third quarter. That beat Wall Street's forecast of about 461,100 deliveries, according to a StreetAccount consensus cited by CNBC. Deliveries fell about 2% from 497,099…

Tesla update lets drivers flee while still plugged in

Tesla on Thursday, Oct. 1, began rolling out an over-the-air software update called "Emergency Drive Away." It lets a car shift into drive while it is still plugged into a Supercharger, so a driver in danger can leave without getting…

Tesla launches Grok Bot for hands-free errands

Tesla on Tuesday launched Grok Bot capability inside its vehicles, expanding the in-car Grok assistant from a conversational chatbot into an agent that can manage email, calendars, online purchases, and errands entirely by voice while the driver's hands stay on…

Fitch gives Tesla its first investment-grade rating

Fitch Ratings on Sunday assigned Tesla a first-time 'BBB' Long-Term Issuer Default Rating with a Stable Outlook, marking the electric vehicle maker's entry into investment-grade credit territory. Tesla shares rose on the news in Monday trading.

Tesla audits Chinese suppliers ahead of Optimus robot mass production

Tesla's robotics team has been conducting a new round of supply chain audits across China's Yangtze River Delta region, inspecting suppliers of core components for its Optimus humanoid robot as the company prepares to begin production at its converted Fremont…

Tesla AI chief says Optimus robot moves are remote-controlled

Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla's Vice President of AI Software and head of the Optimus humanoid robot program, posted a candid assessment on X on Sunday acknowledging that the movements seen in Optimus demo videos are "essentially remote controlled."

Tesla begins Optimus robot production audit in China

Tesla dispatched its robotics team to Ningbo, China, on September 16, kicking off a new round of production audits for the Optimus humanoid robot on September 17. The audit is focused on verifying exclusivity and consistency standards for mass production,…

BYD says it will need four factories in Europe

BYD, the world's largest electric vehicle maker, will need three vehicle assembly plants and one battery factory in Europe over the longer term, the company's special adviser for Europe said on Wednesday in Turin.

Samsung begins trial production of Tesla AI chips at Texas foundry

Samsung Electronics has started trial production of 2-nanometer chips for Tesla at its foundry in Taylor, Texas, moving ahead of its planned November timeline as surging AI chip demand reshapes the company's production strategy.

Tesla sets Oct. 1 unveil for long-delayed Roadster

Tesla announced Saturday that it will unveil the long-delayed second-generation Roadster on October 1, posting a teaser image to X with the caption "Go for launch" and the date "10.01" displayed across the bottom. A countdown clock now appears on…

Tesla pulls FSD update minutes after rollout began

Tesla began pushing Full Self-Driving (Supervised) v14.3.9 to customer vehicles on Tuesday afternoon and withdrew the pending update from owners' cars within roughly 20 minutes, according to multiple owners who had been downloading it. The company has offered no explanation…

XPeng’s humanoid robot walks off production line, beating Tesla to manufacturing milestone

At a factory in Guangzhou, China, a humanoid robot assembled by machines walked off a production line on its own — a first for the emerging industry. XPeng announced on Monday that it had completed production-line manufacturing of its IRON…

Tesla’s rare-earth-free Cybercab motor sparks China trade debate

Elon Musk's claim that Tesla's new Cybercab robotaxi runs on a motor containing no rare earth metals has reignited debate over whether the technology could weaken one of China's most potent leverage points in its trade conflict with the United…

Tesla’s China retail sales fall for third straight month

Tesla sold 50,047 vehicles at retail in China in August, down 12.4% from a year earlier and marking a third consecutive month of year-on-year decline in the world's largest electric vehicle market, according to data released Tuesday by the China…

Tesla cuts China prices as Cybercab tour nears

Tesla is taking its steering-wheel-free Cybercab robotaxi on a tour of major Asian cities this month, days after launching the vehicle's first commercial rides in Austin, Texas — a dual push that pairs the company's autonomous ambitions with efforts to…

France begins testing Tesla’s self-driving tech ahead of EU vote

France has started testing Tesla's Full Self-Driving system on two vehicles, marking a reversal from the country's opposition to the technology just weeks ago and setting the stage for a potential EU-wide approval vote as early as October.

Musk predicts 1 billion humanoid robots in a decade

Elon Musk told a gathering of global technology leaders on Tuesday that the world will have at least one billion humanoid robots within a decade, each producing five times the output of a human worker, in remarks that underscored his…

Tesla publishes FSD safety data ahead of Oct. 6 EU vote

Tesla published what it called its most detailed public safety dataset for Full Self-Driving (Supervised) in Europe late on Monday, five weeks before a regulatory committee vote that could extend the system's approval across all 27 EU member states. The…

BYD posts first profit gain in five quarters as exports surge

BYD reported its first quarterly profit increase in five quarters on Friday, with second-quarter net income climbing 30% year-over-year to 8.2 billion yuan ($1.2 billion) as surging overseas sales helped the world's largest electric-vehicle maker weather a prolonged domestic downturn.

BYD reclaims global BEV sales lead from Tesla in Q2

BYD reclaimed the top position in global battery electric vehicle sales during the second quarter of 2026, overtaking Tesla despite recording lower BEV deliveries than the same period a year earlier, according to research firm TrendForce.

Chinese brands hit record 11.2% share of European car market

Fully electric vehicle sales across Europe jumped 51% year-over-year in July, pushing EVs to a 25% share of the new-car market, according to preliminary data from market analyst Dataforce. The figures mark a sharp acceleration from an already strong first…

Tesla recalls 3 million cars in China over door safety

Tesla on Friday launched two separate recalls covering millions of vehicles in China, as Beijing intensifies its safety oversight of the electric vehicle industry amid a cutthroat price war.

China orders Tesla’s largest-ever recall over driver monitoring

China's State Administration for Market Regulation on Friday ordered Tesla to recall 2,740,642 domestically built Model 3 and Model Y vehicles after regulators determined the automaker's driver attention monitoring was inadequate during assisted-driving operation.

Tesla discontinues Solar Roof after a decade of broken promises

Tesla has officially ended its Solar Roof tile program, informing third-party installers that it will no longer supply the product and shifting its residential solar strategy entirely to conventional panels. The company's dedicated Solar Roof webpage now redirects to its…

Sweden’s longest strike ends after Tesla buys out all union members

Sweden's largest industrial union, IF Metall, announced on Thursday that it is ending all industrial action against Tesla effective August 19, after the electric carmaker bought out every one of its striking members. The nearly three-year dispute, which began on…

AI firms recruit thousands of gig workers to train robots with wearable cameras

A new class of gig work is emerging across more than 50 countries, where thousands of contract workers strap cameras to their foreheads and don motion-tracking gloves to record the most ordinary of human tasks — folding laundry, washing dishes,…

Geely’s budget EV dethrones Tesla Model Y in China sales

Geely's Xingyuan electric hatchback has overtaken Tesla's Model Y as the best-selling car model in China, underscoring how budget-friendly domestic EVs are reshaping the world's largest auto market.