Tesla News

Saturday, 25 April 2026

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25 April
Tesla Is Killing The Model S. But Its Legacy Is Everywhere

After 14 years, the Model S is bowing out. But the car industry it helped create will continue living in its shadow.

InsideEVs

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25 April
Tesla offers 1 year of free Supercharging, claims ~40% premium for non-Tesla EVs

Tesla is bringing back free Supercharging for new Model 3 Premium and Performance orders in North America, bundling one year of complimentary charging with new purchases. The automaker also used the announcement to take a shot at non-Tesla EV owners...

Electrek

24 April
Tesla Summon got insanely good in FSD v14.3.2 — Navigation? Not so much

Tesla Full Self-Driving v14.3.2 began rolling out to some owners earlier this week, and there are some notable improvements that came with this update. There were two new lines of improvements in the release notes: one addressing Actually Smart...

Teslarati

24 April
Tesla plans to resolve its angriest bunch of owners: here’s how

Tesla has a plan to make Hardware 3 owners whole after CEO Elon Musk admitted that those with that self-driving chip in their cars will not have access to unsupervised Full Self-Driving. The company’s strategy is so crazy that it is sort of hard to...

Teslarati

24 April
Tesla continues to promise FSD China approval, despite delays

Potentially the strongest market for Tesla’s software revenue is also the one where it cannot yet sell its flagship self-driving system. By Stewart Burnett The post Tesla continues to promise FSD China approval, despite delays appeared first on...

Automotive World

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23 April
Tesla claims boost Giga Berlin production 20%, but numbers don’t add up

Tesla lists Giga Berlin’s Model Y production capacity at more than 375,000 units per year — roughly 93,000 per quarter. The plant manager just celebrated a “record” Q1 2026 of 61,000 units and announced a 20% production increase. None of that adds...

Electrek

23 April
Tesla pulls back the curtain on Cybercab mass production

Tesla has provided a first look from inside a production Cybercab as it drove itself off the assembly line at Gigafactory Texas. The video footage, posted on X, opens on the factory floor with robotic arms and assembly equipment visible through the...

Teslarati

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23 April
Tesla Model YL prototype spotted on US roads for the first time

A Tesla Model YL test mule has been spotted driving on Interstate 280 in the San Francisco Bay Area, marking the first time the longer-wheelbase, 6-seat SUV has been photographed on American roads. The sighting comes despite CEO Elon Musk’s...

Electrek

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23 April
Tesla announces HW4 Plus with doubled memory — will HW4 follow HW3 to the grave?

During Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings call, CEO Elon Musk revealed that Tesla is planning an “AI4.1 or AI4 Plus” upgrade to its self-driving computer that doubles the RAM from 16 gigabytes to 32 gigabytes per chip — taking the total system memory to 64...

Electrek

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23 April
Tesla confirms Cybercab production has started despite delays in unsupervised driving

CEO Elon Musk confirmed during Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings call that Cybercab production has officially begun at Giga Texas. VP of Vehicle Engineering Lars Moravy confirmed that the Cybercab will not be subject to NHTSA’s 2,500-vehicle annual...

Electrek

23 April
Tesla confirmed HW3 can’t do Unsupervised FSD but there’s more to the story

Tesla has officially confirmed that early vehicles with its Autopilot Hardware 3 (HW3) will not be capable of unsupervised Full Self-Driving, while extending a path forward for legacy owners through a discounted trade-in program. The announcement...

Teslarati

23 April
Tesla pushes Optimus V3 reveal later this year – again

During Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings call today, CEO Elon Musk confirmed that Optimus robot production will begin at Fremont in late July or August — just four months after the last Model S and X roll off the line in early May. Musk warned, however, that...

Electrek

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22 April
Tesla Says It Will Need To Build Micro Factories To Retrofit Old Cars For FSD

Millions of Teslas sold between 2019 and 2023 will not be able to achieve unsupervised Full Self-Driving without the hardware upgrade.

InsideEVs

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22 April
Tesla will build factories just to retrofit millions of HW3 cars it said could do FSD

There are millions of Tesla vehicles on the road today which were sold on the promise of full autonomy, but without hardware capable of doing so. Tesla CEO Elon Musk just proposed the company could build “microfactories” in urban areas in order to...

Electrek

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22 April
Tesla isn’t joking about building Optimus at an industrial scale: Here we go

Tesla’s Q1 2026 Update Letter, released today, confirms that first generation Optimus production lines are now well underway at its Fremont, California factory, with a pilot line targeting one million robots per year to start. Of bigger note is a...

Teslarati

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22 April
Tesla seems to say Robotaxi launch will be pushed back in 5 US cities

Tesla has released quarterly earnings, and the announcement was accompanied by what seems to be a backpedaling on availability of Robotaxis in 5 of the 8 cities Tesla has announced availability in. more…

Electrek

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22 April
Tesla (TSLA) pulled questionable levers to make Q1 2026 financials look good

Tesla’s Q1 2026 earnings beat looks impressive on the surface — 21.1% gross margin, 136% operating income growth, $0.41 non-GAAP EPS. But dig into the shareholders’ letter and a pattern emerges: Tesla pulled every accounting and financial lever...

Electrek

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22 April
Tesla reports Q1 2026 earnings: Still profitable

Tesla published its quarterly financials ahead of an investor call this afternoon. The maker of electric vehicles has become an increasingly polarized brand but a valuable one: $1.21 trillion at the time of writing. And we knew from its delivery...

Ars Technica

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22 April
Ford CEO: Tesla Is No Longer The EV Benchmark

Instead, Ford says it's focused on beating Chinese automakers like BYD and Xiaomi.

Motor1

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22 April
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2026 financial results: slight beat on earnings

Tesla (TSLA) released its financial results and shareholders’ letter for the first quarter (Q1) 2026 after market close today. We are updating this post with all the details from the financial results, shareholders’ letter, and the conference call...

Electrek

22 April
Tesla (TSLA) Q1 2026 earnings results: beat on EPS and revenues

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2026 on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what the company reported compared to what Wall Street analysts expected. The earnings results come after Tesla reported a miss on vehicle...

Teslarati

22 April
SpaceX is following in Tesla’s footsteps in a way nobody expected

When Elon Musk founded Tesla in 2003, it was a plucky electric car startup betting everything on lithium-ion batteries and a niche luxury Roadster. Two decades later, Tesla is far more than a car company. Its valuation increasingly hinges on Full...

Teslarati

22 April
Tesla Earnings: financial expectations and what we should to hear about

Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) will report its earnings for the first quarter of 2026 this evening after the market closes, and analysts have already put out their expectations from a financial standpoint for the company’s first three months of the...

Teslarati

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22 April
Tesla lithium refinery discharge contains toxic metals, drainage district demands halt

Independent lab testing has found traces of hexavalent chromium — a known carcinogen — along with arsenic and elevated levels of lithium in wastewater discharged from Tesla’s nearly $1 billion lithium refinery in Robstown, Texas. The Nueces County...

Electrek

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21 April
Tesla’s California sales crash 24% as state’s EV market plunges to lowest since 2021

Tesla’s registrations in California crashed 24.3% in the first quarter of 2026, with the automaker selling over 10,000 fewer vehicles in the state compared to the same period last year. The data comes from the California New Car Dealers...

Electrek

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21 April
Tesla is supposed to imminently unveil its new Roadster after years of delays

Tesla CEO Elon Musk claims the long-awaited next-generation Roadster will finally be unveiled by the end of the month, which is days away. If it actually happens, it would come nearly nine years after the original prototype was first shown in...

Electrek

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21 April
Tesla submits plans for first Robotaxi-only Supercharger stations

Tesla has submitted permit applications for two private Supercharger stations in Arizona that would be dedicated exclusively to its Robotaxi fleet — marking the first time the automaker has planned charging infrastructure specifically for autonomous...

Electrek

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21 April
Tesla (TSLA) Q1 2026 earnings preview: the growth story is dead

Tesla (TSLA) will release its first-quarter 2026 financial results tomorrow (April 22) after the market close, with a conference call to follow. Despite leadership continuing to push the narrative that Tesla is now an “AI and robotics company,” the...

Electrek

21 April
Consumer Guide Car Stuff Podcast Episode 323: Nissan Restructures, Hyundai Santa Fe Hybrid, Canadian Tesla Adventure

Dave and Tom are joined by friend of the show Robert Colangelo. Robert shared the details--some horrifying--of his recent Model Y voyage from Northwest Indiana to Canada to catch a Guess Who concert. You don't want to miss this. The post Consumer...

The Daily Drive

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21 April
Tesla Robotaxi expansion, heavy duty EVs, and last week’s pain at the pump

On today’s pumped-up episode of Quick Charge, we notice how funny it is that Tesla makes a big Robotaxi announcement every time the TSLA earnings call looks like a disappointment. more…

Electrek

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21 April
Tesla Cybertruck becomes first AC vehicle-to-grid asset in California through PG&E

PG&E and Tesla have announced that the Cybertruck is now approved to sell power back to California’s grid through the utility’s residential Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) pilot program. The approval comes with up to $4,500 in incentives toward...

Electrek

20 April
Mercedes C-class electric revealed to face the BMW i3 and Tesla Model 3

Mercedes-Benz’s answer to the BMW i3 is here, with less range but a smaller battery

EVO

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19 April
Tesla’s ‘Robotaxi’ expansion looks like another stock pump before earnings

Tesla launched its “Robotaxi” service in Dallas and Houston yesterday — expanding to two new cities for the first time since Austin. There’s just one problem: there are virtually no cars available. Data from Robotaxi Tracker shows that Tesla’s new...

Electrek

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18 April
Tesla launches ‘Robotaxi’ in Houston and Dallas with tiny geofences

Tesla announced today that its “Robotaxi” service is now rolling out in Dallas and Houston, marking the company’s first expansion beyond Austin and San Francisco. The company shared maps of the two new service areas, which appear to cover small...

Electrek

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18 April
YouTuber buys stripped Tesla Model 3 ‘go-kart’ for $2,000 — it still has 212-mile range

A YouTuber bought a completely stripped-down Tesla Model 3 for just $2,000 — no body panels, no windshield, no seatbelts — and took it off-roading, drifting, and even jumping it. The wildest part? It still showed 212 miles of range on a full...

Electrek

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17 April
Tesla tells HW3 owner to ‘be patient’ after 7 years of waiting for FSD

The Dutch Tesla owner who launched a collective claim against Tesla over FSD on HW3 cars called Tesla to ask about the €6,400 he paid for “Full Self-Driving” in 2019. After 7 years of waiting, Tesla’s answer was to “just be patient.” It’s an almost...

Electrek

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15 April
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) edges closer to Europe as Netherlands grants first approval

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) takes a major step in Europe, with the Netherlands granting first approval. Here's what it means for safety, regulation, and UK drivers. Read moreDetails

Which EV

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09 April
First, Tesla canceled the Model 2—now it's working on a new small EV

One of life's abiding mysteries—at least to this writer—has been Tesla's enduring success over recent years despite offering so few choices for customers. With the death of the low-volume and antiquated Models S and X to free factory space for CEO...

Ars Technica

18 March
BMW's new i3 revealed - the electric 3-series to take on Tesla's Model 3

BMW’s second ‘Neue Klasse’ model is a fully electric take on the iconic 3-series, with a petrol-engined counterpart on the horizon too

EVO

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