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Tesla's profits keep falling, but it has guided for higher CapEx in the coming year. To fill the gap, it just opened a $30B credit line.

Tesla has two cars, the S60 and the S75, that are physically more or less identical, but one costs $8500 more than the other. The cheaper car ($66K base price)

Building the smallest Compute Engine VM that serves Gemma 4 E2B on one Tesla T4, installing the driver and vLLM after boot, and a walkthrough of every option in the shell script that starts, checks and queries the server.

Google's QAT Gemma 4 E2B keeps its embedding tables in bf16, and on a Tesla T4 they are most of the model. Packing them to int4 on the grid QAT trained them onto cuts model loading from 6.33 to 2.86 GiB, with every greedy test output token-identical, and raises vLLM's output throughput 11-37% over Google's own W4A16 export.

A step by step deployment of Gemma 4 E2B with vLLM on a single Tesla T4 attached to a Compute Engine VM, and a measured comparison of the QAT w4a16 checkpoint against the bf16 reference on the same card.

Tesla's Semi truck, with a 500-mile range, is about to hit the road in big numbers, with the company saying it plans to make 50,000 units a year.

Tesla launched high-volume Tesla Semi production at a 50,000-truck/year Nevada factory, with 4680 cells, a new drivetrain, and deliveries starting now.

A Belgian safety group found Tesla FSD sped in 55% of tested Brussels 30 km/h zones, averaging 44 km/h, days before the EU-wide approval vote.

Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.

We finally drove the production-bound 2027 Tesla Semi, toured Tesla’s new Nevada factory, and learned what it’s like to pilot the 82,000-pound electric Class 8 truck.

A newly established no-fly zone in central Texas suggests that Tesla's upcoming next-gen Roadster reveal might involve hardware operating well off the asphalt

Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has insisted investors think of his electric automaker as a robotics and autonomous vehicle company now. He’s targeted a $20 trillion valuation—nearly four times the value of market leader Nvidia —on that premise. But his Tesla team was in Sparks, Nevada, on Thursday to focus on, well, an electric vehicle: the long-awaited Tesla Semi . The Semi concept first rolled onto a Tesla event stage in late 2017 . Nearly a decade later, Tesla officially launched high-volume production at a livestreamed but invite-only event at the company’s factory. It targeted a niche audience: the cost-conscious people who manage large trucking fleets. A handful of them, all men, trooped across the stage to be thanked for their orders to a pulsing techno beat. “It’s going to be, really, a driver’s truck. It’s like a sports car in truck form.” Musk said in a pre-taped video played during the evening event. (Musk, for years the ringmaster at Tesla’s circus-like events, skipped his second vehicle debut in a row ; he was attending a White House China State Dinner featuring President Xi Jinping .) Read full article Comments

Tesla’s pivot from making electric cars to humanoid robots is facing challenges because of complex robot hands and disgruntled employees pushing back against training their robotic replacements. The struggle to scale up production comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has bet the company’s future on AI and robotics. As someone who frequently makes claims that fail to materialize, Musk has described the Optimus humanoid robot as potentially “the biggest product ever” during Tesla’s second-quarter 2026 earnings call . But he also acknowledged that making an autonomous humanoid robot capable of handling many different tasks is “one of the hardest things to solve”—and now extensive reporting by The Information has revealed multiple complications that Tesla is trying to tackle while developing general-purpose robots and scaling up for mass production. Tesla’s Fremont factory in California has already stopped making the Model S sedan and Model X SUV as of May 2026, with the company switching both line workers and engineers over to working on Optimus, according to The Information. Read full article Comments

Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last month, after it repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year. However, this strategy is reportedly creating manufacturing snags, like issues lining up parts precisely, as The Information notes: "Not only are the Optimus production lines new, but the Optimus parts are much smaller and have to fit together far more precisely than car parts." It reports that even in the "V3" Optimus robots it's currently producing, the hands and f … Read the full story at The Verge.

Remember the Tesla Semi? The long-gestating, heavy-duty truck first introduced in concept form in 2017 is finally in volume production as of April 2026 - nearly a decade after its initial introduction. On Thursday evening, the company held yet another event for the Semi to demonstrate to customers and investors that the long wait was finally over. The event was held at Tesla's new Semi factory next to Gigafactory Nevada, where the company says it can build 50,000 trucks a year, or 1,000 per week. The purpose was to announce a raft of new (and old) customers for the Semi, including PepsiCo, US Foods, DHL, WattEV, ABF, Einride, IMC, and OK P … Read the full story at The Verge.