{"updated":"2026-10-15T22:30:39.180Z","items":[{"title":"Company that put gas engines in Teslas goes bankrupt owing $37 million","url":"https://electrek.co/2026/10/15/obrist-hyperhybrid-gas-engine-tesla-bankruptcy/","source":"Electrek","published":"2026-10-15T21:26:12.000Z","excerpt":"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 o…"},{"title":"TSMC Confirms Terafab Talks, Says the Fab Has to Be Run by TSMC","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/15/tsmc-terafab-talks-must-run-the-fab/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-15T20:50:59.000Z","excerpt":"TSMC CEO C.C. Wei confirmed talks about Musk's Terafab on the Q3 earnings call, said TSMC has sent teams to Texas, and said the fab must be run by TSMC. Nothing is signed. The post TSMC Confirms Terafab Talks, Says the…"},{"title":"United Now Has Starlink on Nearly Half Its Daily Flights, and a Tracker to Find Them","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/15/united-starlink-nearly-half-flights/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-15T20:25:49.000Z","excerpt":"United Airlines says Starlink Wi-Fi is now on more than 635 aircraft and nearly half of its daily departures, and it launched a tracker to check flights. The post United Now Has Starlink on Nearly Half Its Daily Flights…"},{"title":"Tesla Announces a Driver-Voted 12-Stall Supercharger in Key West, Florida","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/15/tesla-key-west-supercharger-voting-winner/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-15T20:00:12.000Z","excerpt":"Tesla Charging announced a new 12-stall Supercharger in Key West, Florida, calling it a Voting Winner Site. The post Tesla Announces a Driver-Voted 12-Stall Supercharger in Key West, Florida appeared first on TeslaNorth…"},{"title":"Amazon shuts out Elon Musk’s Grok Bot so he may just build his own rival store","url":"https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-grok-bot-amazon-shopping/","source":"Teslarati","published":"2026-10-15T19:35:11.000Z","excerpt":"Musk promises SpaceX will cover Grok Bot purchase errors, tells users to shop beyond Amazon. The post Amazon shuts out Elon Musk’s Grok Bot so he may just build his own rival store appeared first on TESLARATI ."},{"title":"Tesla remote operators keep crashing its ‘Robotaxis,’ data shows","url":"https://electrek.co/2026/10/15/tesla-remote-operators-crashing-robotaxis/","source":"Electrek","published":"2026-10-15T16:39:08.000Z","excerpt":"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…"},{"title":"Elon Musk says Tesla’s Roadster demo could be a bang, quite literally","url":"https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-tesla-roadster-demo-tease/","source":"Teslarati","published":"2026-10-15T16:08:07.000Z","excerpt":"Musk says tonight's Roadster demo will be a banger, maybe literally. The clues add up. The post Elon Musk says Tesla’s Roadster demo could be a bang, quite literally appeared first on TESLARATI ."},{"title":"Tesla confirms Autopilot/FSD was ‘engaged’ when car crossed a median and killed a man","url":"https://electrek.co/2026/10/15/tesla-driver-assist-median-crossing-vineland/","source":"Electrek","published":"2026-10-15T14:03:35.000Z","excerpt":"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 wh…"},{"title":"Tesla loses Cybercab assembly lead to Rivian R2 weeks after launch","url":"https://electrek.co/2026/10/15/tesla-cybercab-assembly-lead-leaves-rivian-r2/","source":"Electrek","published":"2026-10-15T12:43:06.000Z","excerpt":"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 launc…"},{"title":"Elon Calls It a “Major Threshold” as Gas-Only Cars Drop Below Half of Global Sales","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/15/gas-only-cars-below-50-percent-musk/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-15T12:00:30.000Z","excerpt":"Elon Musk called it a \"major threshold\" after a viral post on gasoline-only cars falling below 50% of global new-vehicle sales, based on data first reported by Nikkei Asia on October 2. The post Elon Calls It a “Major T…"},{"title":"Elon Musk breaks his silence on the Starlink impact to Ukraine drones","url":"https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-starshield-vs-starlink-ukraine/","source":"Teslarati","published":"2026-10-15T04:49:32.000Z","excerpt":"Musk says the US military and president set Starshield limits, not SpaceX, amid Ukraine complaints. The post Elon Musk breaks his silence on the Starlink impact to Ukraine drones appeared first on TESLARATI ."},{"title":"Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Confirms Someone Burned Starlink Antennas Near Sofia","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/14/bulgaria-starlink-antennas-arson-sofia/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-15T02:27:19.000Z","excerpt":"Prime Minister Rumen Radev confirmed in parliament that Starlink antennas near Sofia were set on fire, saying an intensive probe with partner services is underway and asking DANS not to leak details. The post Bulgaria’s…"},{"title":"Grok Bot Can Now Split Its Inbox Into Plus Aliases","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/14/grok-bot-plus-aliases-email/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-15T02:22:24.000Z","excerpt":"SpaceXSI's Sam Sokolin says Grok Bot now supports plus aliases for sending and receiving email, plus routines that only trigger for mail to a specific alias. The post Grok Bot Can Now Split Its Inbox Into Plus Aliases a…"},{"title":"Elon Musk Says the US Government, Not SpaceX, Controls Starshield Limits","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/14/musk-starshield-us-government/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-15T00:01:17.000Z","excerpt":"Elon Musk says Starshield is owned and controlled by the US government, with its limits set by the military, while Starlink remains SpaceX's own civilian and defensive service. 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The post Tesla opens the Q&A for its biggest earnings call yet appeared first on TESLARATI ."},{"title":"Starlink Just Switched On in Another Caribbean Island Nation","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/14/starlink-curacao-launch/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-14T19:21:27.000Z","excerpt":"Starlink's satellite internet is now available in Curaçao, the Dutch Caribbean island off Venezuela's coast, a week after the island's government signed its telecom concession. The post Starlink Just Switched On in Anot…"},{"title":"The AI Answering Starlink’s Phones Just Got a Major Upgrade","url":"https://teslanorth.com/2026/10/14/grok-voice-3-spacexsi-2/","source":"Tesla North","published":"2026-10-14T19:02:53.000Z","excerpt":"SpaceXSI released Grok Voice 3.0, a speech-to-speech model it says tops independent voice benchmarks, already runs in Tesla cars and resolves about 70% of Starlink support calls. 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On October 6, more than 85,000 Powerwall owners sent over 600 MW to the grid, the bulk of a combined 745 MW…"},{"title":"FAA kicks off review of SpaceX’s bid to fly Starship nearly every day","url":"https://www.teslarati.com/faa-review-spacex-starship-launches/","source":"Teslarati","published":"2026-10-14T14:18:12.000Z","excerpt":"FAA is reviewing SpaceX's plan for 456 Starship launches a year, up from 25 today. The post FAA kicks off review of SpaceX’s bid to fly Starship nearly every day appeared first on TESLARATI ."},{"title":"Tesla Roadster livestream: everything Tesla has revealed before Thursday night","url":"https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-roadster-livestream-waco-texas/","source":"Teslarati","published":"2026-10-14T05:31:44.000Z","excerpt":"Tesla will stream the Roadster event Thursday at 7:55 p.m. Central. Here is what's known. The post Tesla Roadster livestream: everything Tesla has revealed before Thursday night appeared first on TESLARATI ."},{"title":"Tesla is unveiling the new Roadster for real this time, promise","url":"https://electrek.co/2026/10/13/tesla-roadster-event-thursday-nine-years-delays/","source":"Electrek","published":"2026-10-14T01:36:48.000Z","excerpt":"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 sho…"},{"title":"EVs cost less than a year ago, but September brought a setback","url":"https://electrek.co/2026/10/13/evs-cost-less-than-a-year-ago-but-september-brought-a-setback/","source":"Electrek","published":"2026-10-13T19:55:12.000Z","excerpt":"New EVs still cost less than they did a year ago, but September brought buyers a double hit: higher prices and smaller discounts. more…"}],"errors":[]}