Haye Kesteloo is the Editor in Chief and Founder of EVXL.co, where he covers all electric vehicle-related news, covering brands such as Tesla, Ford, GM, BMW, Nissan and others. He fulfills a similar role at the drone news site DroneXL.co. Haye can be reached at haye @ evxl.co or @hayekesteloo.
Tesla is now offering 3.99% APR financing on the new Model Y Performance for up to 72 months, extending subsidized financing to the only Model Y trim it had kept at full-price borrowing costs.
Tesla's German factory operated at 54% capacity in 2025 and built fewer vehicles, yet its net profit rose 36% to EUR 77.1 million, according to the annual report of Tesla Manufacturing Brandenburg SE.
A drone flyover of Gigafactory Texas on July 18, 2026 captured 245 Tesla Cybercab units staged across Austin factory lots, more than double the 102 cars observers counted five weeks earlier.
After losing his license for a year following a blackout crash, Dutch entrepreneur Wilco de Kreij says a new Tesla Model Y with FSD Supervised is his answer to the fear of another medical emergency at the wheel.
Tesla's Texas robotaxi tracker jumped by 58 vehicles on July 15, pushing the company's registered fleet in the state to 175 and marking its biggest one-day increase in the public Texas DMV-based tracker yet.
Tesla says European customers have now logged more than 50 million kilometers on FSD Supervised, a figure that is roughly 28 times larger than the 1.8 million kilometer dataset used to help win the system's first type approval in the Netherlands.
Tesla's FSD V14.3.5 update removes the Park requirement for Camera Preview, letting drivers check any exterior or interior camera feed, including the cabin camera, while the car is moving.
American EV drivers now pay $43 a month less to fuel their cars than gasoline drivers do in nearly every state, as gas prices surged 37% and charging costs rose just 16% since the Iran war began in February.
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