The NHTSA has just officially announced that the 2026 @Tesla Model Y is ​the first ​vehicle model to pass ⁠the agency’s new ​advanced driver assistance ​system tests. 2026 Tesla Model Y vehicles, manufactured on or after Nov. 12, 2025, successfully met the new criteria for four newly integrated advanced safety tests: • Pedestrian automatic emergency braking • Lane keeping assistance • Blind spot warning • Blind spot intervention “Today’s announcement marks a significant step forward in our efforts to provide consumers with the most comprehensive safety ratings ever,” said NHTSA Administrator Jonathan Morrison. “By successfully passing these new tests, the 2026 Tesla Model Y demonstrates the lifesaving potential of driver assistance technologies and sets a high bar for the industry. We hope to see many more manufacturers develop vehicles that can meet these requirements.”

Tesla has released a Plaid Pickleball Paddle by Selkirk for $350. The face material is Florek Carbon Fiber. "Inspired by the aerodynamic design of Tesla vehicles, the Tesla Plaid Pickleball Paddle by Selkirk is a technologically advanced paddle co-created from the ground up through relentless testing and ideation. Every curve and layer was engineered and optimized for high performance play." Shop: shop.tesla.com/product/tesla…

“In one year, @xAI has become the second largest taxpayer in the city and county after FedEx,” said Bill Dunavant III, a Memphis businessman who sits on the board of directors of the city’s chamber of commerce. The company has also donated funds to Memphis schools and other organizations and hired workers to go around the city and pick up trash. "Finishing Colossus 2 will cost tens of billions of dollars, some AI and data center experts say. The Nvidia chips alone cost a fortune: Musk will need to spend at least $18 billion for the roughly 300,000 more chips he needs to complete the Memphis project. Musk said in July that Colossus 2 will have a total of 550,000 chips and has separately signaled it could eventually have a million processing units." The speed at which xAI is doing all of this is incredible.

Number of accidents per million miles: • Tesla: 0.15 • Waymo: 1.16 • US Average 3.90 via Bloomberg Intelligence

BREAKING: For the first time ever, the @Tesla Model Y was officially the best-selling car overall in the world in 2023, with 1.23 million units sold. This is the first time an EV took the #1 spot in global sales. What's crazy is that Model Y production started only 4 years ago. Note: While others have already claimed the Model Y was the best-selling car in the world in 2023, tonight we received Toyota's official 2023 sales data to support the claim, which is why I waited to report the news until now.

BREAKING: Oil giant bp to buy $100 million of Superchargers from Tesla. As early as 2024, Tesla chargers will be installed across the bp pulse network, including at key bp, Amoco, ampm; and Thorntons-branded sites, TravelCenters of America locations and at bp pulse’s large-scale Gigahub™ charging sites, near airports and in major metropolitan areas across the US.

A single ICE vehicle sparked a massive 1,500-vehicle fire at London airport car park this week. “We don’t believe it was an EV” Andrew Hopkinson, chief fire officer for Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service, said. “It’s believed to be diesel-powered."