Tesla reveals SpaceX-powered Roadster that flies and falls with style

The new car used thrusters to leap over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 at a demo in Texas.

Company that put gas engines in Teslas goes bankrupt owing $37 million
Company that put gas engines in Teslas goes bankrupt owing $37 million

Obrist, the Austrian engineering firm famous for ripping battery cells out of a Tesla Model 3 and bolting a gas engine into the frunk, is bankrupt. Three companies in the Obrist Group are insolvent with combined debts of about €31.8 million, or roughly…

Tesla remote operators keep crashing its ‘Robotaxis,’ data shows
Tesla remote operators keep crashing its ‘Robotaxis,’ data shows

Tesla’s latest crash reports to federal regulators add two more “Robotaxi” crashes where a remote operator, not the car’s autonomous system, was driving when it hit something.

That brings it to five in the data now. And every remote takeover that ha…

Tesla confirms Autopilot/FSD was ‘engaged’ when car crossed a median and killed a man
Tesla confirms Autopilot/FSD was ‘engaged’ when car crossed a median and killed a man

A Tesla crossed the grass median of Route 55 in New Jersey, hit a tree, slid into oncoming traffic, and struck an SUV head-on. The SUV’s driver, 68-year-old Phillip Eastman, was killed.

Police reported it as a driver who lost control. What they didn…

Tesla loses Cybercab assembly lead to Rivian R2 weeks after launch
Tesla loses Cybercab assembly lead to Rivian R2 weeks after launch

Tesla’s Senior Manager of Cybercab General Assembly at Gigafactory Texas, Jody Kerns, is leaving the company to become Rivian’s Director of General Assembly for the R2 in Normal, Illinois.

He’s the second Cybercab launch leader to leave Tesla this y…

Tesla Powerwalls supply most of record 745 MW California grid dispatch
Tesla Powerwalls supply most of record 745 MW California grid dispatch

Tesla Powerwalls did most of the heavy lifting as California’s home batteries set a new grid record last week. On October 6, more than 85,000 Powerwall owners sent over 600 MW to the grid, the bulk of a combined 745 MW dispatch that Sunrun announced to…

The Tesla Roadster could have stayed vaporware
The Tesla Roadster could have stayed vaporware

For a car that’s supposed to be one of the fastest ever made, the new Tesla Roadster certainly took its sweet-ass time getting here. It’s been nearly a decade since Elon Musk made the surprise announcement about plans to build a next-gen Roadster. Now, the Tesla Roadster is finally making its production-ready debut at an […]

Tesla is unveiling the new Roadster for real this time, promise
Tesla is unveiling the new Roadster for real this time, promise

Tesla says it will finally stream its next-generation Roadster event this Thursday, October 15, at 7:55 pm Central, two weeks after it was supposed to happen.

It’s the latest date in a long list of them. Tesla first showed the Roadster in November 2…

Rivian’s Mind Robotics snags Doug Field, ex-Tesla and Ford EV chief
Rivian’s Mind Robotics snags Doug Field, ex-Tesla and Ford EV chief

Doug Field, the engineer who ran Tesla’s Model 3 program and later Ford’s entire EV operation, is now president of Mind Robotics, the industrial robotics startup Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe spun out of Rivian last year.

He lands at a company that has now…

Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president
Rivian partner Mind Robotics hires Doug Field as president

Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe’s startup Mind Robotics announced the appointment of Doug Field as president in a major coup for the CEO’s secretive robotics project. Field was a VP of special projects at Apple, where he was the de facto head of the company’s ultimately unsuccessful Project Titan effort to make an autonomous electric car. […]