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Tesla

Tesla Fed Misleading FSD Safety Numbers to European Regulators, Reuters Finds

Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety stats that 10 of 11 researchers call misleading marketing.

Haye KestelooJun 15

Texas

Tesla Cybercab Outbound Lot Hits Its Fullest Yet at Giga Texas

The outbound lot at Gigafactory Texas held its largest visible batch of production Cybercab units yet on Sunday, June 14, 2026, with the gold-finished robotaxis staged in tight rows along the factory’s west side. A widely shared count from a Tesla observer on X put the tally at a record 102 cars, a figure that…

Haye KestelooJun 14

Tesla Robotaxi Mishaps Spark Safety Concerns in Austin Trials

Nevada

Tesla Asks Nevada for 5,000 Robotaxis While Its Real Fleet Sits at Roughly 20 Cars

Tesla has filed for a permit to run a paid robotaxi service across Clark County, Nevada, and the number it put on paper is the part worth stopping on. The application, logged as Docket 26-05015 with the Nevada Transportation Authority, asks for authorization to operate up to 5,000 autonomous vehicles in the first 12 months…

Haye KestelooJun 6

Tesla

Tesla Stretches Its Austin Robotaxi Map Across the Metro While the Driverless Fleet Shrinks to 20 Cars

Tesla widened its unsupervised robotaxi service to cover the entire Austin metropolitan area on Wednesday, more than doubling the operating zone and opening up highway driving on Interstate 35 along with suburbs like Pflugerville and Manor. The company’s official Robotaxi account announced the change on X, and Ashok Elluswamy, Tesla’s vice president of AI software,…

Haye KestelooJun 3

Texas

Tesla Robotaxi Fleet Filings Reveal Just 42 Texas Vehicles as Tracker Data Shows a Shrinking Count

Tesla’s long-promised robotaxi network is far smaller than its rhetoric suggests. State filings made public on May 28 show the company has 42 autonomous vehicles registered in Texas, while a separate third-party tracker counts as few as 20 cars actually carrying passengers without a human safety driver. Both numbers land hard against Elon Musk’s prediction…

Haye KestelooMay 31

Model S

Tesla Builds Last Model S And Model X At Fremont, Pivots Line To Optimus Robots

The last Model S and last Model X ever produced at Tesla‘s Fremont factory rolled off the line on Saturday, May 9, 2026. Tesla announced the milestone on X just after 9 PM Pacific, posting photos of the final cars surrounded by the workers who built them. The flagship sedan ran for 14 years. The…

Haye KestelooMay 10

Tesla

Tesla Sets May 12 Fremont Send-Off For 350 Signature Edition Model S And Model X Buyers

Tesla will hold the Signature Edition delivery event for the final Model S and Model X ever built on Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at its Fremont, California factory, according to the official invitation shared by Sawyer Merritt on X. The invitation has started going out to the 350 buyers who ordered one of the Plaid-only…

Haye KestelooApr 21

Florida

Tesla Settles Florida Teen Wrongful Death Case Hours Before Trial, Dodging Jury on Disabled Speed Limiter

Tesla has settled the wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Edgar Monserratt Martinez, an 18-year-old killed in a 2018 crash involving a 2014 Model S whose owner-requested 85 mph (137 kph) speed limiter had been disabled before the fatal high-speed impact, court records show. The automaker was removed as a defendant Sunday, with…

Haye KestelooApr 20

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