Tesla says it’s building a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi in Texas
Tesla says it’s building a wheelchair-accessible robotaxi in Texas

Tesla is building a purpose-built, wheelchair-accessible autonomous vehicle, a company policy advisor told lawmakers in Washington, DC, on Monday.
But Tesla gave no timeline, no vehicle, and no details, and it’s not clear the “active product” is anythi…

Tesla Semi adds another fleet as Paper Transport starts Chicago pilot
Tesla Semi adds another fleet as Paper Transport starts Chicago pilot

Paper Transport (PTI) announced today that it is evaluating the Tesla Semi Long Range in dedicated operations in the Chicago market, becoming the latest fleet to put Tesla’s electric Class 8 truck to work in daily freight.
The Wisconsin-based carrier, …

‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X
‘Scam Altman’: inside Musk and Altman’s weekend war on X

Elon Musk lost his case against Sam Altman in court. This weekend, he tried to win it back on X, one insult at a time. The two men who founded OpenAI spent the weekend calling each other frauds in public. It played out on X, in real time, in front of m…

Samsung’s Texas fab enters production for Tesla’s AI5 chip on 2nm
Samsung’s Texas fab enters production for Tesla’s AI5 chip on 2nm

Samsung has completed its own version of Tesla’s AI5 self-driving chip and is preparing to start production at its foundry in Taylor, Texas, on the company’s latest 2-nanometer process, according to industry officials.
The move confirms Samsung is buil…

Tesla claims Cybercab driving employees at Giga Texas — in a parking lot
Tesla claims Cybercab driving employees at Giga Texas — in a parking lot

Tesla says “Cybercab employee rides at Giga Texas” are “starting soon” — its first stated step toward putting people inside the wheel-less, pedal-less robotaxi.
But the announcement, spread across two Tesla accounts and roughly 2.9 million combined vie…

Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse
Musk tells Tesla staff to switch to Grok — a model he admits is worse

Elon Musk told Tesla staff to move to using Grok, the AI model from his own xAI (now folded into SpaceX), according to a memo sent to employees on Friday.
The push comes days after Tesla capped employee spending on third-party AI tools — and it lands e…

New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs let investors track the market while skipping Musk’s companies
New ‘Ex-Elon’ ETFs let investors track the market while skipping Musk’s companies

An investment firm is offering a way to invest in the broad market without owning Elon Musk’s companies. New York-based Subversive ETFs has filed with the SEC for two “Ex-Elon” funds, Bloomberg reports. One fund tracks the Nasdaq-100 and the other the …

Australia’s 7 best-selling EVs are now all Chinese — even Tesla’s
Australia’s 7 best-selling EVs are now all Chinese — even Tesla’s

Australia just posted its biggest month ever for electric car sales, and for the first time seven different EVs each cleared 1,000 units in a single month.
Every one of them is either Chinese-owned or Chinese-built — and that includes the Tesla Model Y…

The US wants to delete the steering wheel. The EU wants a camera on your face
The US wants to delete the steering wheel. The EU wants a camera on your face

This week, two of the world’s biggest car regulators looked at the same question and reached opposite answers. The question is simple. What should sit between a human and a moving vehicle? In the United States, the top auto-safety official floated pull…

New Jersey could ban Tesla’s Robotaxi with one line about sensors
New Jersey could ban Tesla’s Robotaxi with one line about sensors

For more than a decade, the biggest fight in self-driving cars has played out in boardrooms and engineering labs. New Jersey now wants to settle it in law. A bill moving through the state legislature would force any company running fully driverless car…