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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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Samsung Electronics will hold an equipment installation ceremony at its Taylor, Texas foundry on April 24, 2026, kicking off the final run-up to mass production of Tesla’s AI5 and AI6 autonomous-driving chips on a 2-nanometer process. Han Jin-man, president of Samsung’s Foundry Business Division, will lead the ceremony alongside executives and representatives from materials, component,…
The RDW (Rijksdienst voor het Wegverkeer, the Dutch vehicle authority) issued a formal type approval for Tesla‘s driver assistance system, FSD Supervised (Full Self-Driving Supervised), on April 10, 2026, making the Netherlands the first European market to authorize the software on public roads. The RDW published its official explanation directly on rdw.nl, confirming that FSD…
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