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Take a robotaxi ride this week and you might end up at the Cybercab launch.

Tesla's robotaxi account posted the offer yesterday: more rides, better odds.

Rides have to be completed by 11:59 p.m. on August 23, and winners are told by 9 a.m. on August 25. Tesla did not say where or when the Cybercab launch event is, or which of the four service cities count. Right now that list is Austin, Dallas, Houston and Miami.

The full details of the Cybercab Launch Event raffle is on Tesla’s page here, they do actually point out that you can enter without making a purchase by mailing a specific paper to them, as this is one of the common requirements for such raffles.

Tesla is reportedly preparing to publicly launch the Cybercab in Austin, Texas, with an internal deadline as soon as the end of this month, it turns out.

500 Tesla Semis.

Einride plans to deploy 500 Tesla Semi trucks across North America on its Saga AI fleet intelligence platform, in what the company calls the world's largest Tesla Semi deployment to date.

The trucks will serve Amazon and other Einride customers across freight corridors in California, Texas, New Jersey, Illinois, and Georgia.

The deployment will take place in multiple phases over the next 24 months, starting in September 2026 already, with the trucks financed through third-party financing solutions. Einride said the 500 Semis will triple the size of its deployed electric truck fleet.

Einride says the deployment also moves roughly $800 million of potential long-term annual recurring revenue, agreed under joint business plans with shippers, into active freight capacity.

By the way, Einride is no ‘random’ player with big goals, it has been playing the electric trucking game for years now, has lots of other e-trucks already in its fleet, and has had its own autonomous cabless electric trucks in the works.

One of the longest-running labor disputes in Swedish history is over. IF Metall is calling off its nearly three-year strike against Tesla Sweden after the company bought out all of its remaining striking union members.

Tesla never signed a collective agreement, which IF Metall was seeking.
IF Metall posted about the strike's end on Facebook, and the union blamed Tesla's strikebreaking practices for the failure of its long strike.

And here is what that unlocks, in addition to Tesla Sweden finally returning to regular business. More than 250 Tesla Supercharger stalls across 20 locations in Sweden are about to come online. Some have been fully built since 2023, sitting finished but powerless.

Locally, they've been called "ghost stations." Union sympathy actions from Seko, Elektrikerna, and Vision blocked electricity companies from connecting the stalls to the grid for the duration of IF Metall's strike against Tesla, Sweden's longest at 1,021 days.

The blockade lifts on Wednesday, August 19. Once connected, Tesla says the additions will expand its Swedish Supercharger network by more than 20%, to over 1,600 stalls at more than 100 locations.

Tesla was not just waiting it out either. To get around the blockade, it wired some Swedish Supercharger sites to Megapacks instead of the grid.

Your Model Y can now power things that are not a Model Y. Tesla has switched on vehicle-to-load on Model Y Premium in the US, through the $80 Tesla Outlet Adapter.

The adapter gives you two 110-volt outlets, good for up to 20 amps, or roughly 2,400 watts. It needs the newer power conversion system, which arrived around June 2026, plus a Gen 3 Mobile Connector.

Model Y Performance, Model Y L and the Cybertruck are on the list too. Model Y Standard and every Model 3 are not. Tesla will tell you in the app's shop whether your car qualifies.

There is a catch, and owners found it fast. Plenty of newer cars get blocked at checkout with "This product is not compatible with your 2026 Model Y", because they shipped with the older 48A single-phase power conversion system rather than the two-piece unit V2L needs. That includes cars delivered as recently as February 2026.

Tesla has since published a 344-step retrofit procedure to swap the old unit for the new one. It needs the car on a lift, the high-voltage battery isolated and the coolant drained, the part alone runs about $1,750 before labour, and there is no customer-facing retrofit program so far...

Tesla has launched a Certified Pre-Owned program in the US and Puerto Rico.

Every car goes through a 115-point inspection covering cosmetic, functional and structural condition, and carries a one year or 10,000 mile Pre-Owned Limited Vehicle Warranty on top of whatever is left of the original New Vehicle Limited Warranty and the eight-year Battery and Drive Unit cover.

Buyers also get a vehicle history report with ownership, title, and accident records, plus a free month each of FSD (Supervised) and Premium Connectivity. Canada does not get it (yet?).

Tesla's Robotaxi fleet went an entire month without causing a single crash, according to the latest NHTSA Standing General Order data filed in July 2026.

The filing covers mid-June to mid-July and lists two incidents involving Tesla's unsupervised Model Y vehicles in Texas. In both cases, the Tesla was stationary and a human driver in another vehicle caused the collision. No passengers were aboard either robotaxi, and no injuries were reported.

Tesla applied to run up to 5,000 robotaxis in Clark County, and the Nevada Transportation Authority granted a permit for ten, issued on July 27 and surfaced this week from the authority's own permit documents.

The conditions come with it. A 45 mph cap, a geofenced service area, cars clearly marked as robotaxis, human supervision alongside the driverless operation, and any crash, security incident, system failure or disabled vehicle reported within five working days.

The cars also cannot pick up or drop off within a quarter mile of Harry Reid International Airport without the Clark County Department of Aviation signing off. Zoox was approved for up to 100 vehicles in the same market…

Tesla is building a dedicated robotaxi charging and “robocar carwash” facility in south Austin that includes plans for 80 wireless chargers for the Cybercab.

The project is planned at 405 E. St. Elmo Road, across from Tesla’s St. Elmo service center. The current permit documents show 48 V4 Supercharger stalls and 12 V3.5 Supercharger cabinets, while a second phase calls for two additional V4 charging cabinets capable of supporting 80 wireless chargers.

The filings were spotted by longtime Tesla Supercharger tracker MarcoRPi1, who noted that the site is being developed specifically as a Robotaxi fleet charging hub.

Tesla Energy has put whole-home backup on a subscription. The new Powerwall Lease bundles two Powerwalls with Tesla Electric retail power in parts of Texas that have retail electric choice.

The lease runs $122 a month in year one with a 3% annual escalator, and an $87 monthly credit for staying on the Tesla Electric Backup plan brings it down to about $35. There is a $100 order fee and installation is listed at $0. Homes with solar are not eligible, and the credit only starts once the system is installed, granted permission to operate and enrolled.

Tesla has filed plans for what could become one of the largest Supercharger stations ever proposed: a 124-stall V4 Supercharger in San Francisco. If approved, the project would transform an industrial lot at 75 Waterloo Street into a massive fast-charging hub that appears designed for throughput above all else.

The proposed site includes 124 V4 Supercharger stalls, 14 folding power supply units, several Supercharger cabinets, four switchboards, multiple transformers, new parking lot lighting, extensive electrical infrastructure, and a small support building.

However, it almost looks like it’s meant more for fleet operations than for humans 🤔

SpaceX flew two Falcon 9s 38.5 minutes apart on August 15th, a new company record for turnaround between launches!

Remember the Starship that would not sink. Well that has been a rollercoaster.

Ship 40 came down intact in the Indian Ocean on July 24, Elon said on August 7 that recovery was "not looking good right now", but then as a surprise for all of us again, as SpaceX posted:

“After approx. 24 days at sea, the SpaceX Recovery team successfully guided Starship to a location just off the coast of Christmas Island. A team of SpaceX engineers is on their way to conduct additional analysis on the vehicle in calmer waters before attempting to return it to Starbase”

Flight 14 is asking for more. A public FCC application for extra radio frequencies shows SpaceX planning a full orbit of Earth, the booster returning to the launch site for a tower catch, and, for the first time, an attempt to catch the ship itself.