SpaceX shares started trading on the Nasdaq on June 12, 2026. The long-private aerospace manufacturer and space transportation company priced its initial public offering at $135 per share. When markets opened, the stock jumped to $150 and climbed as high as $176.50 during the session before closing near $161. That performance gave Elon Musk’s SpaceX a market value above $2 trillion by the end of the day.
Tesla has officially pushed back the public debut of its next-generation Roadster to August or later this year. The engineers are still ironing out the bugs in the cold gas thruster kit that they are creating with SpaceX. The event is expected to take place in Texas, and it will be Tesla’s first full-fledged vehicle showcase since the Cybercab presentation in 2024.
Lars Moravy serves as Tesla’s vice president of vehicle engineering. During a recent appearance on the Ride the Lightning podcast he answered a direct question about fitting a third motor into the Model 3. His answer left little room for doubt. He thinks about the possibility all the time. The exchange happened at a moment when Tesla had just finished deliveries of the final Model S and Model X Plaid cars. Those vehicles carried the tri-motor layout that gave the Plaid name its reputation for extreme acceleration. With those models now gone from the lineup, the badge sits unused for the first time in years.
Tesla built plenty of strength into the Cybertruck from day one. Yet some owners want extra layers when they leave the pavement behind for extended travel. Unplugged Performance responded with a full expedition package that bundles protection, lighting, storage, and access into one coordinated set of parts. The UP Invincible Expedition Package, sometimes called their Stage 3 build, focuses on real-world needs rather than show. Every piece mounts to the chassis with simple bolts. No stainless body panels get cut. All factory cameras, sensors, the frunk, charge port, and the native forty-eight-volt lighting system stay fully operational. Owners can remove sections later and return closer to stock if plans change.
Monday evening at Katie’s Woods Park in Grapevine a silver Cybertruck eased down the boat ramp and entered the waters of Grapevine Lake. Jimmy Jack McDaniel sat behind the wheel with two visitors from Germany along for the ride. He had tried this before with success or so he later told officers. This time the water proved too much.
On May 9th, workers at Tesla’s Fremont factory in northern California were left staring at a still production line, which is an unusual sight to say the least. Aerial images of the final cars in the outbound lot showed them lined up and ready to be picked up by their new owners, just like they used to be, though these weren’t quite like the typical batch. There were only 250 Model S cars and 100 Model X SUVs produced, all of which included the Plaid powertrain and a number of handcrafted features that set them apart.
Bandimere Speedway in the Colorado mountains once hosted plenty of memorable runs before it shut down for good. High up at nearly 5,800 feet, the thin air tests every vehicle that rolls through the gates. On one recent afternoon a stock Tesla Model Y pulled into the staging lane next to a fully equipped Ford Police Interceptor Utility from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Both drivers lined up for a clean quarter-mile sprint, lights flashing and siren blaring from the Ford as the green lights flashed.
Remmy Evans learned via a friend that a Tesla Model 3 was sitting in some guy’s driveway in Idaho. The owner had bought it cheaply with the intention of removing the drivetrain and installing it in an old car from the 1970s, but he abandoned the plan after realizing how much time the body work would take. Evans was able to negotiate a price of exactly $2k and walk away with a rolling chassis that was still capable of moving on its own.
Tesla finally received approval on April 10 from the Dutch vehicle regulator, the RDW, for its Full Self-Driving Supervised system to be used on European roads. They were the first to receive approval for this advanced technology across Europe, marking a significant milestone for the company. This means that the program has been cleared to run on public roads in the Netherlands, and the distribution began the next day, April 11, for a limited number of early testers who had been patiently waiting.
Tesla owners with HW4 hardware awoke today to get a lot more out of their automobiles. The most recent FSD (Full Self-Driving) version 14.3 was released with the recently released software update 2026.2.9.6, and it’s impossible not to get the impression that some significant progress has been achieved since the first drive. The team basically ditched the existing AI compiler / runtime and started over, using a new method called MLIR.