Tesla buys 90% of a 509 MW Arizona solar and storage project
Tesla buys 90% of a 509 MW Arizona solar and storage project

Tesla has signed a long-term deal to buy 90% of the output of Project Sterling, a big solar and battery plant going up in Arizona.
The project pairs 509 MW of solar with a 360 MW battery, and it’s being built by ContourGlobal, the power producer owned …

Tesla buys the entire output of a new 140 MW Texas solar farm
Tesla buys the entire output of a new 140 MW Texas solar farm

Tesla has signed a long-term power purchase agreement to buy the entire output of a 140-MWac solar farm being built in northeast Texas.
The plant, called Lumen Farm, is being developed by Zelestra, an EQT-backed renewable developer. Construction is exp…

Tesla sues Cybertruck supplier amid standoff keeping production hostage
Tesla sues Cybertruck supplier amid standoff keeping production hostage

Tesla is asking a federal judge for emergency access to a supplier’s plant in Troy, Texas, so it can haul out the tooling it needs to keep building the Cybertruck.
The supplier, Angstrom Automotive Group, is closing the plant and won’t let Tesla in. Te…

Rivian R2 uses up to 26% more energy than Model Y in real-world test
Rivian R2 uses up to 26% more energy than Model Y in real-world test

Out of Spec Reviews put a Rivian R2 Performance and a Tesla Model Y Performance on the same roads on the same afternoon. The R2 used 18% to 26% more energy at every single speed they tested.
That’s awkward, because the two SUVs carry identical EPA effi…

Tesla partly settles racism lawsuit as hundreds of workers press on
Tesla partly settles racism lawsuit as hundreds of workers press on

Tesla has confidentially settled with three of the five named plaintiffs in the racism lawsuit that has been hanging over its Fremont factory since 2017.
That doesn’t end much. Up to 580 Black workers are still suing over conditions at the same plant, …

Musk says Tesla Semi self-driving is a year away, so truckers are safe
Musk says Tesla Semi self-driving is a year away, so truckers are safe

Elon Musk says Tesla expects to have self-driving working on the Tesla Semi “probably around the end of this year or early next year.”
Going by Tesla’s record on self-driving deadlines, it is: their jobs are safe for a long time.

Tesla’s hidden door problem might end up fixing every car in America

NHTSA is pursuing new federal safety standards that would require all automakers to make emergency door releases more obvious.

Musk says Tesla to ‘open source’ Model S and X, but prior release makes us skeptical
Musk says Tesla to ‘open source’ Model S and X, but prior release makes us skeptical

Elon Musk says Tesla plans to “open source” the Model S and Model X, and he’s pointing to the original Roadster as the template.
The problem is Tesla’s Roadster release amounted to eight files on GitHub plus five document packages behind a login, with …

Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver
Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver

Tesla now has nearly one and a half million active Full Self-Driving subscribers after adding 200,000 users in the second quarter, the largest single-quarter gain on record. CFO Vaibhav Taneja told analysts that 55 percent of North American deliveries …

Tesla quietly closes its secret ~$2 billion AI hardware deal
Tesla quietly closes its secret ~$2 billion AI hardware deal

Tesla has closed the mysterious ~$2 billion acquisition of an AI hardware company that it first hinted at in April — and it did so, again, without naming the target or issuing a press release.
The deal was confirmed in a single passage buried in Tesla’…