Fred Lambert

Tesla has updated the design of its upcoming electric semi truck, Tesla Semi, with a redesigned chassis, new headlights, and more.

Elon Musk announced today that Tesla will enable its electric vehicle owners with (Supervised) Full Self-Driving (FSD) to “text and drive” in “a month or two,” without explaining how they will get around the clear laws that prohibit that.

Tesla has quietly expanded its new MultiPass feature to more regions across Europe, allowing owners to charge at third-party stations directly through their Tesla account — no separate app, card, or registration required.

Tesla’s EV registrations in the UK, its biggest market in Europe, took a dramatic hit in October 2025 — just 511 units — marking one of the brand’s weakest showings in recent memory. That’s a steep drop from 971 in October 2024 and 2,677 in October 2023. The tone of the market is shifting.

Maybe Tesla’s CEO stoking a civil war in England isn’t helping the automaker’s demand in the important market.

Today, Xpeng held its AI Day 2025 at its new headquarters in Guangzhou. The automaker is positioning itself as an AI company with what it calls new “AI-defined applications” powered by the new Xpeng VLA 2.0 vision-centered model.

This model is going to power the autonomous features in Xpeng’s current EV lineup, the self-driving system in its newly announced robotaxis, humanoid robots, and “flying cars.”

Today, in the margins of Xpeng’s AI Day in Guangzhou, I rode in Xpeng’s latest advanced driver assistance system, its Tesla ‘Full Self-Driving’ (FSD) competitor.

It has the same capabilities as Tesla’s new v14 update, but it is available in a ~$20,000 USD car.

A major Tesla shareholder announced that they are voting against Elon Musk’s CEO compensation package, but the odds are still in his favor.

We’re getting the first batch of Tesla registration data out of Europe for October 2025, and it confirms the worrying trend we’ve been tracking: Tesla’s demand is in a steep decline.

Elon Musk is now hyping Tesla’s 8th-gen AI chip, but he still hasn’t delivered the promised self-driving for millions of Tesla owners with the 3rd-gen chip, nor with the current 4th-gen chip in production.

Tesla has reportedly secured another major battery supply partner, but it’s not for the product you might think.

In the Electrek Podcast, we discuss the most popular news in the world of sustainable transport and energy. In this week’s episode, we discuss Tesla’s ‘flying’ Roadster, Elon’s pay package, new EVs unveiled at Japan’s mobility show, and more.

Elon Musk is back on his rambling about the Tesla Roadster being able to “fly” and claims a demo is coming by the end of the year.

But we’ve heard it before…

Tesla is acting dumb in a court case related to a fatal crash, and a judge is having none of it. The automaker is being sanctioned for ‘willful’ and ‘deliberate’ discovery violations.

Sam Altman, OpenAI CEO and Elon Musk’s rival in AI, has tried to cancel his Tesla Roadster reservation and get his $50,000 deposit refunded.

But it’s not as easy as it looks.

Elon Musk recently walked back his impossible extremely ambitious robotaxi goals, shifting from a target of reaching “half the U.S. population by the end of 2025” to a more “modest” goal of launching in “eight to 10 U.S. metro areas” within the next two months.

Now, in a development that should surprise no one, a new report suggests that even this heavily scaled-back timeline is facing significant obstacles.

Based on the latest NHTSA report, Tesla’s ‘Robotaxis’ keep crashing in Austin, Texas, despite ‘safety monitors’ preventing an unknown number of crashes.

Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) v14, its first major update in a year, disappoints as data points to a lower increase in miles between disengagements than expected.

The system also features new hallucinations, brake stabbing, and excessive speeding.

Tesla is talking about finally bringing the next-generation Roadster to production in new job listing.

However, you shouldn’t hold your breath.

Tesla’s chairwoman said that the automaker might redesign the Cybercab, specifically add a steering wheel and pedals.

Elon Musk and Tesla’s board keep repeating the threat that the CEO will leave if shareholders don’t approve his ridiculous new compensation package.

This is not happening and amounts to nothing more than blackmail.

We’ve been talking about the impact of Elon Musk’s venture into politics on the Tesla brand for years, but now a new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is putting some staggering numbers to it.

According to a new working paper, Musk’s “polarizing and partisan actions” have directly cost Tesla over a million vehicle sales in the US alone.

Canada is rumored to remove tariffs on Chinese electric cars soon, as Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping later this week.

This would likely lead to the biggest shake-up in the EV space in North America after the US killing its EV incentives.

We are getting some critical new data on battery health from a large-scale study in Sweden, and it’s a massive blow to EV naysayers.

The Swedish used-car marketplace Kvdbil conducted a large-scale test analyzing the “State of Health” (SoH) of over 1,300 used electric cars and plug-in hybrids (723 of which were all-electric).

A Tesla driver in Barrington Hills, Illinois, was arrested and charged after crashing their vehicle into a South Barrington police squad car last week.