Tesla News
Latest Tesla news and analysis — 18 articles tagged Tesla on The Robotics Media.
- Tesla Ramps Optimus To Hundreds Per Week As Hands And Generalization Still Bottleneck — — Tesla has scaled Optimus output from a few dozen units per week in Q2 to several hundred per week in August 2026, but hand assembly, sensor reliabilit...
- Tesla Reopens Roadster Reservations At $50,000 Ahead Of October 1 Reveal — — Tesla is once again taking $50,000 deposits — $5,000 upfront plus a $45,000 wire within 10 days — on a car with no delivery date, promising a 620-mile...
- Tesla's Austin Robotaxi Fleet Crashes Back To 8 Vehicles After Cybercab Pump — — Tesla's active Austin robotaxi fleet fell to just 8 vehicles in the past week, after briefly spiking above 100 for the September 3 Cybercab launch eve...
- Tesla's Optimus Mass-Production Audit Lands In Ningbo, Chinese Supplier Stocks Jump — — A Tesla team arrived in Ningbo on September 16 to audit the mass-production readiness of Optimus, sending shares of Chinese suppliers Joyson Electroni...
- Tesla AI Chief Says Robotaxi Will Go 24/7 In About A Month On Full Self-Driving v15 — — Tesla AI head Ashok Elluswamy told an X user that 24-hour Robotaxi rides will arrive "next month or so" once the next Full Self-Driving v15 module mer...
- Nevada Regulators Clear Path For 8,000 Tesla, Uber And Waymo Robotaxis In Clark County — — The Nevada Transportation Authority approved three commercial permits covering Clark County, opening the door to as many as 8,000 driverless vehicles...
- Waymo Challenges Tesla's Camera-Only Autonomy Ahead Of Cybercab Rollout — — Waymo is publicly pushing back on Tesla's camera-only autonomy playbook, arguing that reliable Level 4 driverless operation requires redundant percept...
- Nevada Clears Tesla, Waymo And Uber For Up To 8,000 Paid Robotaxis In Clark County — — The Nevada Transportation Authority granted Tesla up to 5,000 driverless taxis, Waymo up to 1,000 and Uber up to 1,000 through Zoox and Motional, open...
- Tesla Recalls Nearly 3 Million EVs In China Over Hidden Door Handles — — Tesla and eight other automakers will install warning labels and push software updates to help occupants find hidden manual door releases, in China's...
- Nevada Approves Up to 8,000 Robotaxis For Tesla, Uber And Waymo In Las Vegas — — Nevada's transportation regulator unanimously cleared Tesla, Uber and Waymo to run paid robotaxi services across Clark County, unlocking up to 8,000 d...
- Tesla Sets Cybercab Launch Event For September 3 In Austin — — Tesla has begun sending invitations for a Cybercab launch event in Austin, Texas on September 3, taking the two-seat driverless robotaxi from Warner B...
- Nevada Clears Tesla, Uber And Waymo For 7,000 Robotaxis In Clark County — — The Nevada Transportation Authority unanimously granted commercial autonomous-vehicle permits to Tesla, Uber and Waymo, clearing them to deploy up to...
- LG Energy Opens $4B Michigan Plant For Tesla Megapack 3 LFP Supply — — LG Energy Solution cut the ribbon on a $4B lithium-iron-phosphate cell factory in Lansing, Michigan built to supply Tesla's next-generation Megapack 3...
- Arevon Fires Up 300MW/1,200MWh Nighthawk BESS, Its Largest Standalone Battery — — Arevon Energy has brought its 300MW/1,200MWh Nighthawk battery storage project in Poway online under a long-term PG&E contract — its largest standalon...
- Tesla And SpaceX Break Ground On $16.8B Terafab Chip Complex In Grimes County, Texas — — Elon Musk's two flagship companies formally committed $16.8B to Terafab, a vertically integrated 100M-sq-ft semiconductor complex north of Houston tha...
- BYD To Unveil First Humanoid Robots In August At Di Space Centres, Escalates Race With Tesla Optimus — — BYD confirmed it will debut its first humanoid robots in August inside its Di Space experience centres, putting the world's largest EV maker in direct...
- Tesla Robotaxi Expands to Orlando and Tampa as Austin Fleet Stalls at 17 Cars — — Tesla switched on driverless Robotaxi service in Orlando and Tampa on July 21, 2026 — but its Austin flagship still runs on roughly 17 unsupervised ca...
- Tesla Q2 2026: $28B Revenue Beat, Cybercab In Production — — Tesla posted a Q2 revenue beat of $28.24B and hit $100B TTM revenue as it confirmed Cybercab is in production, Optimus production lines are installing...