When Tesla finally rolled out the redesigned second-generation Roadster at its McGregor event this month, most of the attention stayed on the thrusters, the suction fans, and the short flight off the end of an inverted track. The cabin itself received far less stage time, yet videos posted by Sawyer Merritt and a fresh clip from Tesla itself now give the clearest look yet at the interface that sits beside the squared-off yoke.
Elon Musk stood outside a SpaceX test site near Waco on Thursday night as an Aero White Tesla Roadster climbed a steep inverted ramp, held fast by suction fans even on the vertical face, rotated in midair with cold-gas thrusters, and settled onto the pavement below. The same car then lifted itself clear of a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3 in a single pass, completing what engineering vice president Lars Moravy labeled a kick flip before touching down cleanly.
Tesla Charging posted a brief demo today and a short line under it. Emergency Drive Away lets you shift into Drive while still plugged into a Supercharger. For anyone who has sat in a stall with the cable locked into the port, that sentence rewrites a rule the cars have enforced for years.
Tesla confirmed on Tuesday that Grok inside its cars can now do real work, not only answer questions and change cabin settings. Drivers already able to wake the assistant from the App Launcher, a long press on the steering wheel microphone, or a spoken “Hey Grok” can ask it to check an inbox, tidy a calendar, or walk through files, chats, and tasks without picking up a phone. Tesla’s own post put it plainly: Grok in the car can now do meaningful work for you, all hands-free.
Jack Scarlett opened the first episode of Top Gear Tech by walking into a finished production Tesla Semi eight years after the 2017 reveal. A small pilot fleet reached customers in late 2022. Those trucks and later units have now logged about 17 million test miles that fed the version now leaving the line.
Tesla posted three words on X Saturday. “Go for launch.” A red sports car sat under hard vertical light, the kind used on a pad before a rocket leaves the ground. The date 10.01 ran across the bottom of the frame. A countdown on the company’s Roadster page now points at the same Thursday. Invites followed within hours.
Gold two-seaters started carrying passengers through Austin this week after a quiet Thursday event and a Friday opening on Tesla’s Robotaxi app. Early riders who managed to snag one described a ride so uneventful it felt almost ordinary, which is the whole point of a taxi that never asks you to drive. Cybercab is a purpose-built two-door electric coupe with butterfly doors, no steering wheel, no pedals, and no side mirrors. Tesla designed it only for unsupervised robotaxi work. You book it the same way you book a Model Y robotaxi, then walk up to a car that opens itself when you are close enough. Doors also close on their own once both people are seated. A tap on Start Ride on the big center screen sends it rolling.
Gold two-seaters with butterfly doors rolled through downtown Austin on Thursday, September 3, and none of them had a steering wheel. Tesla used an invite-only gathering at ACL Live to put its purpose-built Cybercab into the same Robotaxi app that has already been carrying paying riders in Model Y SUVs since June 2025. Guests got the first spins Thursday evening. Broader public hails in a limited Austin zone were set to open Friday.
Official remote-control Cybertrucks have shown up for years, most of them licensed, most of them expensive, and almost none of them built to float. Dafotil KT912A, priced at $30.59 (was $36), skipped the licensing fee and the premium price, then gave the angular stainless look a pair of fat tires and a sealed body that actually works in water.
Prop Department set a simple goal for a recent build: take a full-size Tesla Cybertruck and turn it into something anyone could drive from a distance. There is no driver in the seat, and there are no complex software overrides of the truck’s own systems. Instead, there are motors, linkages, and painstaking wiring that allow someone outside the vehicle to handle the steering, throttle, transmission, and brakes. The project belonged to WhistlinDiesel, whose videos often end with expensive machinery in pieces, so the finished truck needed to work well enough for a high-speed run that might not go gently.