Tesla

Tesla has used a submission to a Senate inquiry to push for Australia’s long-delayed autonomous vehicle laws to be brought forward. In Submission 258 to the Senate Select Committee on Productivity in Australia, dated 16 October 2026, Tesla asks the Commonwealth to accelerate the proposed Autonomous Vehicle Safety Law (AVSL)…

FEW companies are hailed as proof of free-market genius more than Tesla. Yet, at every turn that mattered, it stood on public capital. In 2010 it borrowed $465m from a US federal programme open to every carmaker building cleaner vehicles, in a country where transport is now the largest source…

What is the most valuable car brand in the world? According to market researcher Interbrand, it is Toyota, but the answer depends heavily on who you ask. Toyota is the most valuable car brand in the world. At least, that is according to Interbrand’s annual brand ranking. It attributes a…

OnStar AI in Your Car and Phone The most specific and significant announcement that affects GM vehicle owners is the plans to add AI to OnStar in the next couple of months. OnStar AI Assistant will first come to the 2027 Cadillac Lyriq through an over-the-air update, with other models…

Live Science asked its readers whether they think flying cars will be widely available in the next five years. (Image credit: Donald Iain Smith via Getty Images) Content Manager, Live Science Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the…

Known for wanting to push beyond what the world sees as normal, Elon musk and Tesla has created the first idea of flying cars. For decades, flying cars has existed mainly in movies, books, stories and at best science fictions but Elon Musk’s Tesla has brought the idea much more…

The Tesla Roadster performed its first public airborne maneuvers on October 16, 2026. (Or, more likely, a hollow/significantly lightened mockup version of the Roadster did.) But California-based flying car startup, Alef Aeronautics, just completed its 1,000th logged flight, and to mark the milestone, it put out a clip of its…

Everything that matters for Tesla should scale in Q2 2027. AI5 chips in April 2027 integrating with Optimus. Customer cars start joining the Robotaxi fleet in Q2 2027 Optimus targets to 20,000 a week (a 1 million/year run rate) by Q4 but should be substantial in Q2 2027. Factories scaled…

Tesla will have factories scaled to 5 million cars per year by 2030. I, Nextbigfuture, believe this will be 3 million more autonomous vehicles. Cybercabs mostly, maybe 500K semi (semi will be robotrucks). 2 million regular model Y and 3. Q2 2027 turn on the customers for the robotaxi fleet.…

Tesla has agreed a deal to integrate Chinese fintech giant Ant Group’s Alipay digital payment software into its vehicles in China, as Elon Musk’s firm steps up efforts to offer localised smart features amid intense competition in the Chinese market. The agreement, signed on Tuesday, will see Tesla roll out…