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Tesla is a US automaker and clean-energy company making electric vehicles, battery storage, solar products, and autonomous-driving technology.
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Tesla is moving its Austin robotaxi cutoff from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., with Elon Musk naming pets that are hard to see at night as the main problem to solve. Each added hour after dark now overlaps an open federal review of how well Tesla's cameras spot hazards in poor visibility.
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Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in the third quarter, about 24,500 more than analysts expected, almost all of them Model 3s and Model Ys. With US buyers pulling back, that volume now rests on Europe and China while Tesla's pitch moves to robotaxis and trucks.
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Tesla's Emergency Drive Away lets US owners leave a Supercharger mid-charge, about two months after a shooting at one in Idaho killed four people. Tesla has not said whether drivers pay for the broken handle and damaged car when the emergency is real.
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Gavin Newsom signed California's SB 1246, under which robotaxi operators can be penalized when a car blocks police or firefighters for more than 30 minutes. By July 2028, Waymo, Tesla and Zoox have to know how fast their own staff can reach a stalled car in each city.
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Rivian delivered 19,248 vehicles in the third quarter, up 45%, while overall EV sales fell nearly 24% after the federal tax credit ended. Nearly all of the gain is the R2's first full quarter, so the evidence that buyers will pay for a Rivian without a subsidy covers one launch period.
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California's SB 1246 makes robotaxi firms send technicians to stuck cars, with fines up to $10,000 a vehicle when one blocks responders over 30 minutes. For operators, clearing a stuck car now takes paid field staff in every California city they serve.
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Tesla nearly quadrupled its authorized Cybercab fleet in Texas to 169 in a month, against Waymo's 1,154 autonomous vehicles in the state. With the shares down 18% this year, the stock depends on that pace holding for many more months.
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FCC's Covered List has restricted new imports of humanoid and four-legged robots since July, in a market where Chinese firms ship 80 to 97% of humanoids. The cost to US builders turns on whether the list grows to cover the Chinese actuators and magnets they still buy.
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Waymo staff watching two teens through a cabin camera called 911 over a gun that fired water-filled Orbeez. Robotaxi cameras now feed both human reviewers and automated violation checks, so telling riders who is watching has become a design choice AV teams have to make on purpose.
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Google is flying four TPUs, roughly one server's worth of compute on a kilowatt of solar power, in Project Suncatcher's first orbital test. The satellite can show whether the chips survive heat and radiation in orbit, a smaller question than whether computing there is cheaper.
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Sell ratings on Tesla have fallen to 13.1% of 61 analyst calls, the smallest bearish share since April 2023, according to Bloomberg data. The calls leaving sell are landing in hold as the stock lags, so analysts are backing off the bear case with no sign yet that they are paying for Musk's robotaxis.
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Consumer Reports and Northeastern studied 15 automakers and found drivers can unknowingly agree to driving-data collection at a new car's first start-up. The exposure is consent given on a touchscreen, and tracking where the data goes falls to whoever owns the car or the fleet.
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Ceer, the EV maker majority-owned by Saudi Arabia's PIF, showed two premium cars that compete with Lucid, in which the fund holds about 58%. For a Saudi fleet weighing the two PIF-backed brands, any comparison has to wait until Ceer publishes prices.
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South Korea's parliamentary transport committee called BYD Korea's head, its passenger-car chief and Tesla Korea's head to testify at its audit on Oct. 15. Both carmakers' Korean operations go on the record, and any further cost depends on what lawmakers do next.
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Atomic, a Boston startup founded by former Tesla planners, announced a $12.5 million Series A, but an SEC filing shows $18.5 million sold. The money funds AI that already places daily purchase orders for customers whose results, so far, only Atomic has reported.
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Atomic raised $12.5 million after its recurring revenue quintupled this year, according to Jon McNeill, whose firm incubated it. The case that operators now let its software reorder stock on its own rests on what McNeill and the founders say.
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Tesla produced several hundred Optimus robots a week last month, The Information reported, against a stated goal of about 20,000. Anyone budgeting a humanoid pilot for 2027 should plan on a small number of robots, each doing one closely supervised job.
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Tesla has begun delivering its Semi trucks, with an expected price of just under $300,000 for the 500-mile version before incentives. Fleets promised lower ownership costs have to build that case themselves while charging access remains a hurdle.
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Tesla opened its first dedicated Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, built to make 50,000 trucks a year. It has set no date for reaching that rate, so fleets and investors are working from a capacity target until the trucks ship.
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A wheel-free robotaxi carrying employees on public roads is a controlled pilot, not a product. The reported gap to the paid Austin fleet is a few days, and that interval is the thing to time.
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