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Tesla is a US automaker and clean-energy company making electric vehicles, battery storage, solar products, and autonomous-driving technology.
Tesla says its single-seat Roadster Rocket reaches 60 mph in under 0.59 seconds. TechSpot reports a one-second demo run and says it is unclear whether owners will get the full capability.
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Tesla is expected to unveil the redesigned Roadster on 15 October 2026 at a SpaceX site in Texas, six years after the 2020 deliveries it promised. Musk's range and acceleration claims have yet to be shown in a production-ready car, so the figures Tesla commits to are the test.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said a thruster-equipped Roadster shown at a SpaceX test site in Texas will go into production in 2028. He also said the vehicle's success is not guaranteed, and the date stays a claim until a price or a filing backs it.
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Tesla's terms for Roadster reservations of up to $250,000 leave the final price open and guarantee no delivery, Business Insider reported. It also describes the payment as fully refundable, so a holder risks the wait and an unset price.
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Tesla showed a redesigned Roadster lifting over five Teslas on 10 cold-gas thrusters near Waco, Texas, with production slated for 2028. None of what the livestream showed has been recorded in a production vehicle, so the claims stay Tesla's own.
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Volvo will build a hands-free, point-to-point driving system on three Nvidia products and launch it before the end of the decade. Volvo keeps its own driver-understanding and connected-safety systems, so what it buys is the driving layer.
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Nickel from two Sulawesi mines linked to primary-rainforest loss may be in VW, Ford and Tesla batteries, the Guardian reported. Filings do not give the sales volumes that would tie ore to a specific car. For automakers, the near-term exposure is disclosure.
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TSMC has confirmed talks with SpaceX on Terafab, wccftech.com reported, in the same week Elon Musk praised Micron's pricing on future memory. The Samsung-side complaints that followed rest on one engineer's unverified post on X.
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TSMC CEO C.C. Wei confirmed talks with Musk's Terafab on the third-quarter call and said TSMC must run any fab. Musk has said his companies will build and run it, so each side is claiming the operator's job.
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Barclays says Tesla and SpaceX could announce a merger before Tesla's annual meeting, which it expects by Dec. 6. Qz reported that broker non-votes, tallied against a proposal, were roughly 11% of outstanding votes at the 2025 meeting.
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Sunrun and Tesla home batteries sent a record 745 MW to California's grid on October 6, up from 669 MW a day earlier, Sunrun said. The figure comes from two called evenings, so it shows response to a request and little about an ordinary week.
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Cox Automotive's third-quarter count of almost 263,000 US EV sales is about 40% below the tax-credit rush of a year earlier. Europe registered 277,006 in July alone, so a US plan should start from 263,000 and treat 2025 as a one-off.
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Terafab will reportedly receive its first ASML EUV scanner in mid-2027, months before SemiAnalysis expects the shell of its development fab to be done. That is about three years ahead of the projected volume date at the Grimes County fab.
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Tesla plans to start Roadster 2 deliveries next year, six years after the car was supposed to reach driveways. Deposit holders from 2017 get a hypercar from a company its CEO now tells investors to treat as a robotics and autonomy business.
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BYD will grow its car-carrier fleet from 8 to 18 ships by 2029, according to shipping industry reports cited by Rest of World. One industry estimate puts the shipping saving over chartering at up to 40% a car.
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NHTSA is weighing a petition alleging about 1,000 Tesla robotaxis exceed speed limits in active school zones. Most defect petitions never become formal investigations, and the agency recorded no crashes, injuries or fatalities in this one.
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Rivian spinoff Mind Robotics named former Ford EV chief Doug Field president, a year after its founding and with more than $1 billion raised. Field takes over the daily business from Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe, though the company has yet to show a robot in public.
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Boston Dynamics finalized a four-finger Atlas hand with 13 degrees of freedom, while Tesla's Optimus keeps five fingers and 22. The nine-degree gap is where Optimus's extra actuators, assembly labor and rework sit, according to the Korea Herald's sources.
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Tesla is renaming Full Self-Driving (Supervised) as Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe after Germany's transport ministry called the name "somewhat misleading". The system works the same way under the new name, and its speed allowance above posted limits is still open.
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Tesla raised Optimus output at Fremont from a few dozen robots a week to several hundred by August, The Information reported. Tesla has not confirmed those figures or a release date, so a late-2027 purchase plan rests on a target.
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