The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has announced it will begin developing new federal safety standards for vehicle emergency door exit systems after concerns that occupants can become trapped in vehicles following electrical power failures.
The decision follows multiple incidents involvin

On July 22, Tesla reported its results for the second quarter of 2026.
Although the company generated more than USD 100 billion in revenue on a trailing twelve-month basis for the first time in its history and also achieved a new record in Q2 vehicle deliveries during the quarter, its operating income plummeted due t

In a post on X on July 21, 2026, Tesla announced that it had expanded its robotaxi service to Orlando and Tampa, Florida. The company began its Florida operations in Miami earlier in July 2026. With this expansion, Tesla now has driverless operations across seven cities in the U.S. These include its three locations i

On July 16, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said it was denying ‌a 2024 petition filed by Tesla to avoid a recall fix for about 19,900 vehicles with headlights that may exceed maximum lighting levels.
The recall covers 2017-2023 model year Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y vehicles.
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On July 13, Paper Transport, LLC (PTI), a De Pere, Wisconsin-based transportation provider, announced that it is entering a new Pilot Program with the Tesla Semi. The company will test the Semi’s Long Range configuration through “dedicated operations within the Chicago market.”
Chicago’s colder-weather climate will t

Tesla's AI5 chip has been taped out and is about to enter mass production at Samsung Foundry in Taylor, Texas using the company's 2nm-class process technology, according to a post by a principal engineer at Samsung Foundry.
"The Tesla-Samsung Al5 chip has reached tape-out," James Kim, a principal engineer at Samsung

On July 10, Tesla shared a video demonstrating the decommissioning of the original Model S and Model X assembly line in Fremont, California. Tesla Manufacturing’s post, captioned “End of an era,” captured a historical moment for the company.
Completed in just 46 days, the teardown involved removing robotic arms and c

On July 3, Tesla announced that it has expanded its Robotaxi program to Miami, Florida, making it the third state where the autonomous ride-hailing platform has launched since last summer.
Tesla announced in a posting on X that the Robotaxi suite would now officially launch rides in its first geofenced area in Miami,

Tesla is opening its Gigafactory Berlin to outside startups through the new Cell Giga Challenge, inviting companies to test technologies on its live battery cell production line as it ramps 4680 output toward 18 GWh annually.
Run with Berlin-Brandenburg startup platform JUNI, and backed by Germany’s federal economics

On June 28, a Tesla Semi rear-ended two passenger vehicles in western Nevada, killing two people and leaving another with life-threatening injuries, in what appears to be the first known fatal crash involving the fully electric Class 8 Semi.
The incident happened on Sunday morning on US 50 in Dayton, Nevada, about an

On July 2, Tesla launched the Model Y L in the U.S. and Puerto Rico, just months after phasing out the Model X SUV, as the longer-wheelbase version of the Model Y that has been in China since 2025.
The Model Y L is slightly longer than the Model Y configurations that have been available in the U.S., and features a th

On July 2, Tesla announced that it produced 451,758 vehicles, up 10.1% from the same period one year ago, delivered 480,126 in Q2 2026, up 25.0% from Q2 2025, and deployed 13.5 GWh of energy storage products, up 40.6%.
The results showed a significant increase from the same period one year ago when it produced 410,24

On June 24, it was reported that Tesla is preparing to officially enter the Mercosur market by establishing direct operations in Uruguay and expanding its presence in Argentina.
According to the reports, the company has appointed a regional general manager and has already homologated the Model 3 and Model Y in Urugua

On June 26, Tesla published its latest company-compiled delivery consensus of sell-side analysts as a preview to its actual Q2 2026 results. Tesla had done the same ahead of releasing actual Q4 2025 and Q1 2026 figures as a way of tempering analysts’ expectations before release of the actual quarterly report.
The con

On June 25, Andre Thierig, Senior Director at Giga Berlin, announced Tesla’s plans to increase vehicle production at its Gigafactory Berlin-Brandenburg to 7,500 vehicles per week. The ramp-up is scheduled to begin in October 2026. The expansion is expected to create an additional 1,000 jobs.
The announcement follows

On June 22, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Administration (NHTSA) said that it will open a formal investigation into a crash involving a Tesla Model 3 that drove into a home in Katy,  Texas on June 19, killing a woman inside. 
The driver told police the vehicle was using Tesla's automated driving assistance system

On June 23, Traficom, the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency, announced that it is evaluating the approval of Tesla’s FSD (Supervised) driver assistance system in Finland based on the provisional type of approval granted by the Netherlands.
The agency is participating in the EU-level review process, working

On June 23, Cars.com released its American-Made Index that ranks current-year vehicles judged to contribute most to the U.S. economy. Now in its 21st year, the 2026 list was developed after evaluating nearly 400 vehicles, using production process criteria. 
   •    Location(s) of final assembly
   •    Percentage of

Tesla launched its Model Y L variant, built at Gigafactory Shanghai, in China in July 2025, with a longer wheelbase and a third row usable for adults. A new report indicates that Tesla will finally launch the Model Y L in the U.S. this fall.
Taking the place of the three-row Model X discontinued in April, the new rep

On June 18, Reuters reported that Sweden’s transport authority has told the European Union it should vote against approving Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (Supervised) across the bloc unless the system’s ability to exceed posted speed limits is removed.
The recommendation, from a previously unreported April 30 letter to t