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  • Tesla’s 2026.32 update adds a built-in ad blocker to the browser.

    Tesla’s 2026.32 update adds a built-in ad blocker to the browser.

    Tesla’s 2026.32 software update adds a built-in ad blocker to the car’s web browser, along with a redesigned wheel-selection screen and the ability to search your Apple Music library from the car. It’s rolling out gradually, so it may not be on your car yet.

    What the ad blocker does

    A new “AD” button in the top-right corner of the in-car browser strips out banners, pop-up overlays, and floating videos before they load, rather than just hiding them after the page renders. That should make articles and other sites load faster and use less data over your car’s cellular or Wi-Fi connection. There’s no settings menu yet to allow-list specific sites or fine-tune what gets blocked — it’s on or off. Tesla says the change helps most on older cars with the Intel Atom-based MCU2 infotainment computer, which tend to struggle loading ad-heavy pages, though every model gets the feature.

    What else is in 2026.32

    The 2026.32.3 release notes list a handful of other changes. The Wheel & Tire screen under Controls > Service has been redesigned, swapping a plain dropdown list for a visual grid that shows each wheel option as a full-color render, bare and with the stock aero cover attached. Apple Music integration now lets you search your library directly instead of only browsing playlists. The update also carries a recall submission for Model 3 and Model Y in the EU (restoring compliance with UNECE Regulation No. 135, addressed automatically — no service visit needed) and general security fixes.

    When you’ll get it

    Tesla rolls out software in waves, and this one is early. As of September 9, 2026, 2026.32.3 had reached about 2.2% of the fleet, per Tesla’s own release notes. If it’s not on your car, there’s nothing to troubleshoot — check for it under Controls > Software, and it should arrive over the coming weeks.

    Photo by Vladimir Srajber.

  • Tesla will open its dedicated Semi factory in Nevada on September 24.

    Tesla will open its dedicated Semi factory in Nevada on September 24.

    Tesla will hold an invite-only rollout event on September 24 at its dedicated Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, marking the ceremonial opening of a plant built to eventually produce up to 50,000 electric trucks a year.

    What’s opening

    The new facility sits next to Gigafactory Nevada and covers roughly 1.7 million square feet, according to Electrek, which first reported the September 24 date on August 24, 2026. The plant is part of a $3.6 billion Nevada expansion Tesla announced in 2023, and the event will include factory tours and ride-alongs in the truck for invited guests, Teslarati reports.

    Production is already running

    The September event is ceremonial, not a launch — Tesla’s high-volume Semi line has been running since April 2026, when the company confirmed the first truck had rolled off it. Tesla program director Dan Priestley said production "is now ramping" following that line launch, per Electrek’s reporting. Analysts covering the ramp estimate Tesla will deliver somewhere between 5,000 and 15,000 Semis in 2026, well short of the plant’s eventual 50,000-truck nameplate capacity, according to FreightWaves. Tesla’s largest confirmed order to date is 500 trucks from the delivery company Einride.

    What it means if you own a car, not a truck

    The Semi factory doesn’t change anything about owning a Model 3, Y, S, or X. But it’s one data point in how much Tesla is spending right now: the company has told investors its 2026 capital expenditures will exceed $25 billion, funding the Semi ramp alongside robotaxi fleet expansion, Optimus production, and AI compute — spending Tesla says will keep growing over the next two to three years. The Semi itself uses Tesla’s Megacharger, a separate high-power charging standard from the Supercharger network passenger cars use, so the two charging systems don’t currently overlap at most sites.

    Photo by Yanqing Xu.

  • NHTSA opens an investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab safety certification.

    NHTSA opens an investigation into Tesla’s Cybercab safety certification.

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has opened an Audit Query into how Tesla certified its two-seat Cybercab as meeting federal vehicle safety standards. NHTSA opened the query, numbered AQ26002, on September 3, 2026 — the same day Tesla began limited commercial Cybercab rides in Austin, Texas, through its Robotaxi app.

    What NHTSA is looking at

    In the United States, automakers self-certify that a new vehicle meets Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) before selling it; regulators can review that certification afterward. Electrek reports that NHTSA’s query covers roughly 1,000 Cybercabs and will examine “the process and technical data on which Tesla relied when certifying the Cybercab,” including the extent to which Tesla concluded that certain FMVSS rules don’t apply to the vehicle. The agency said the inquiry was prompted by public information about the vehicle.

    The Cybercab doesn’t have a steering wheel, pedals, or side mirrors — equipment that most existing safety standards assume every car has. Tesla’s certification approach was to declare a number of those human-control-specific standards inapplicable to a vehicle with no human controls at all. NHTSA’s audit is meant to check the technical basis for that call, not to say Tesla got it wrong.

    What this means if you’re riding in one

    An Audit Query is a fact-finding step, not a recall or a finding of a defect. The Detroit News notes the review sits alongside NHTSA’s existing, separate scrutiny of Tesla’s Full Self-Driving software across millions of vehicles — a reminder that regulatory reviews of Tesla’s autonomous systems are already an active, ongoing process, not something new triggered only by Cybercab.

    For now, Cybercab rides continue in Austin at the small scale Tesla launched with on September 3. If you’re considering hailing one, there’s no new restriction on riding today — the audit is about verifying Tesla’s paperwork and engineering rationale, a process that can take months. It’s worth checking Tesla’s own Cybercab page before your first ride, since Tesla, not NHTSA, controls where and when the service actually operates.

    Photo by Leonardo Gonzalez.

  • Cybercab event guest rules and fleet registrations, two days out

    Cybercab event guest rules and fleet registrations, two days out

    Tesla’s Cybercab launch event is set for Thursday, September 3, at the company’s Austin headquarters. Tesla confirmed the date in late August, and this site covered that announcement on August 25. In the days since, Tesla has locked in who can attend, registered dozens of production Cybercabs with Texas regulators, and expanded the wider robotaxi fleet — details that weren’t settled when the date was first announced.

    Who is actually invited

    The event is invite-only. Access goes to five winners of Tesla’s Robotaxi rider sweepstakes, drawn from trips taken during an August 17–23 entry window, plus a separate list of guests Tesla selected directly. Each invitee can bring one approved guest, but that guest cannot be a content creator. Everyone attending must be at least 21 years old, and Tesla is checking IDs at the door. Invitees had to RSVP by August 30 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific time, a deadline that has already passed. Tesla says it will livestream the event, so people outside the guest list can watch online, but no one is walking in off the street.

    Tesla has started registering the vehicles

    Tesla registered its first Cybercabs with the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles this week. State registration data shows 45 Cybercabs added on August 31, which makes them legally authorized for commercial use on Texas roads — a concrete step beyond the concept Tesla first showed in 2024. It’s a state vehicle registration, not a federal safety approval; Tesla’s robotaxi service still operates under its existing testing framework. Separately, Tesla’s overall unsupervised robotaxi fleet has grown to roughly 200 vehicles across Austin, Dallas, and Houston in the past few weeks, up from the two dozen or so vehicles it had run for most of the year.

    What’s confirmed about the vehicle

    Cybercab seats two people and has no steering wheel or pedals. It runs on Tesla’s AI4 computer, the same self-driving hardware family used across Tesla’s current lineup, though reporting suggests the Cybercab’s configuration may carry more onboard memory than the version in consumer cars. It’s built specifically to run in the robotaxi fleet, not as a personal vehicle sold to individual buyers at this stage.

    What isn’t confirmed: price

    Elon Musk has previously said, in comments made this year, that he expects Cybercab to sell for around $30,000 or less by 2027. That figure has not been announced as an official price, and Tesla has not published pricing for the Cybercab as a purchasable vehicle. Treat it as a target Musk has stated publicly, not a confirmed number.

    What this event is — and isn’t

    Thursday’s event is a product demonstration for a small, pre-selected group, livestreamed for everyone else to watch. It is not a regulatory approval and does not open Cybercab rides to the general public. Tesla has not said when, or whether, Cybercab rides will be available to ordinary riders beyond the current Austin robotaxi service, or whether the vehicle will ever be sold directly to individual owners.

    Photo by Florian Avramescu.

  • Tesla says Optimus robot production has started at its Fremont factory.

    Tesla says Optimus robot production has started at its Fremont factory.

    Tesla has begun building its Optimus humanoid robot at its Fremont, California factory, according to an August 27 report from The Motley Fool. Optimus is a two-legged, human-sized robot Tesla is developing to perform manual tasks in factories and, eventually, homes. Production is running on the same line that used to build the Model S and Model X, which Tesla stopped manufacturing earlier this year and later converted for Optimus, a shift GetTesla covered in July when Tesla was still anticipating a production start.

    Tesla’s own account of the ramp comes from its second-quarter 2026 financial results, released July 22, and the earnings call that followed. On that call, CEO Elon Musk described Optimus as the most difficult product Tesla has ever tried to scale. “The production scaling challenge is very substantial. The hardest product to scale, the hardest one they’ve ever made at Tesla,” Musk said, according to a transcript published by Shacknews. He attributed the difficulty to the robot’s roughly 10,000 unique parts, most of which required Tesla to build a new supply chain rather than adapt an existing one for electric vehicles.

    Musk has repeatedly cautioned that early output will be slow. A summary of the Q2 earnings call notes Tesla expects the initial ramp to follow a flat, gradual curve rather than a fast scale-up, since a bottleneck in any one of the 10,000 parts can slow the entire line. That caution is consistent with Tesla’s own track record on this project: an August 20 Electrek report noted that Tesla had already pushed back an earlier, more specific production window and that Musk had acknowledged no Optimus units were yet doing productive work inside Tesla’s own operations.

    The first robots off the Fremont line are going into what Tesla calls “Optimus Academy,” an internal program that puts early units to work on routine tasks inside Tesla’s own factories rather than shipping them to customers. The idea is to use that real-world floor time to refine the robot’s software and hardware before Tesla scales up output further. Tesla has also continued construction on a dedicated Optimus facility at Gigafactory Texas, intended for a later version of the robot built around parts designed to be easier to manufacture than the current Fremont design.

    For Tesla owners, the news does not change anything about buying, financing, or servicing a car. Optimus is a separate product, built in a separate part of the factory, with no announced price or delivery date for outside buyers. For shareholders and factory-adjacent readers, the update answers a narrower question: the space once used to build the Model S and Model X is no longer sitting idle or merely under construction. It is now producing robots, even if Tesla itself says that output will start small and grow slowly as the company works through a parts list, and a supply chain, it has never had to manage before.

    Photo by Hyundai Motor Group via Pexels.

    Photo by Hyundai Motor Group.

  • Tesla’s Robotaxi service now runs 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. across six cities.

    Tesla’s Robotaxi service now runs 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. across six cities.

    Tesla’s Robotaxi service now runs 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days a week, across all six of its live markets — Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa — according to Tesla’s own announcement reported by Not a Tesla App on August 26, 2026. It’s a wider daily booking window than riders in most of those cities had before, and Tesla says it comes with a bigger unsupervised fleet and smarter routing behind it.

    What changed

    Austin’s unsupervised Robotaxi service had been running roughly 6 a.m. to 2 a.m., a schedule set last September before the service expanded into Dallas, Houston, Miami, Tampa, and Orlando. Tesla has now standardized hours across all six markets to the shorter 6 a.m.–10 p.m. window instead. Tesla says its unsupervised fleet is “a lot bigger” than before, and that upgraded vehicle-distribution and routing intelligence should mean shorter wait times for a ride — though the company hasn’t published exact vehicle counts. Independent community tracking puts the current unsupervised fleet at roughly 85 vehicles across all six cities, but that figure is an outside estimate, not a Tesla-confirmed number.

    Why the hours moved instead of just growing

    Some of the “growth” here may be existing vehicles shifting from supervised to unsupervised operation rather than new cars joining the fleet outright. Tesla has also reportedly found references to a “Roaming” feature for its upcoming Cybercab, which would let idle vehicles move toward busier areas on their own to cut wait times — a preview of how Tesla wants to manage fleet positioning as it scales, rather than something live for riders today.

    What it means if you own a Tesla

    This doesn’t touch your own car if you’re not in one of the six Robotaxi markets or don’t use the app — it’s about Tesla’s ride-hailing service, not a software update to personally owned vehicles. If you do ride-share in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, or Tampa, plan around the new 6 a.m.–10 p.m. window rather than the later hours some of these markets used to offer. The service’s unsupervised rides began in Austin in January 2026, after roughly seven months of supervised operation starting in June 2025 — worth keeping in mind as a still-young, geographically limited service rather than a nationwide robotaxi network.

    Photo by Makara Heng.

  • Tesla plans one of its biggest Superchargers yet, in San Francisco.

    Tesla plans one of its biggest Superchargers yet, in San Francisco.

    Tesla has filed planning permits for a 124-stall Supercharger station in San Francisco, according to Electrek’s review of the filing, published August 12, 2026. If built as proposed, it would be one of the largest Supercharger sites Tesla has put forward in a dense city center rather than along a highway corridor.

    Where and how big

    The site sits on a triangular lot at the corner of Alemany and Bayshore on the city’s south side, next to US-101, currently used as a taxi storage lot. The filing calls for 124 V4 charging stalls run by 16 Tesla power cabinets, with the V4 hardware capable of charging at up to 500 kW — though as with other 500 kW-rated Supercharger sites, most current Tesla models can’t draw that full rate yet. The plan also includes a 400-square-foot amenity building with two ADA-accessible restrooms and a small vending area for coffee and snacks.

    Why a station this size, in a city

    Most Supercharger stations near or above 100 stalls have gone up along interstate routes to serve road-trip traffic between cities, not inside dense urban neighborhoods. San Francisco has a heavy concentration of Tesla owners who live in apartments or homes without off-street parking, which means many of them rely on public charging entirely rather than topping up overnight at home. A large in-city station is a bet on that specific kind of owner needing frequent, fast charging close to where they live, not just travelers passing through.

    What’s not decided yet

    Electrek’s report is based on planning permits, not a confirmed construction start — the filing is an early step, and no timeline for breaking ground or opening has been published. Permitted plans can still change size or scope before a project is actually built. If you charge in the San Francisco area, treat this as a station to watch for, not one to plan a trip around yet.

    Photo by Reinhard Bruckner.

  • Tesla raised Cybertruck prices by $5,000. Here’s what it means for buyers.

    Tesla raised Cybertruck prices by $5,000. Here’s what it means for buyers.

    Tesla raised Cybertruck prices by $5,000 across two of its three trims on August 24, according to Electrek. If you’re shopping for a Cybertruck, here’s what actually changed.

    What the new pricing looks like

    The Dual Motor All-Wheel Drive trim went from $69,990 to $74,990, and the Premium All-Wheel Drive trim went from $79,990 to $84,990 — both $5,000 increases. The top Cyberbeast trim held steady at $99,990. Tesla didn’t announce the change; it simply updated the order pages.

    Worth knowing if you’ve been watching the price: earlier this year, Tesla briefly sold the same Dual Motor Cybertruck for around $60,000 during a promotional stretch. Buyers ordering today are paying about $15,000 more for essentially the same truck.

    Why now, and what it means for your order

    The increase comes as Cybertruck production is running well below plan. Electrek reports Tesla’s Cybertruck facility is building at roughly 10% of its planned 250,000-unit annual capacity, with U.S. sales under 20,000 a year and about 3,000 trucks sitting in inventory. A price increase during a demand slump is unusual, but it does line up with Tesla’s broader 2026 pattern of protecting margin over chasing volume on this model — the opposite of the discounting it leaned on with Model 3 and Model Y earlier in the tax-credit transition.

    For a prospective buyer, the practical takeaway is simple: check the configurator for current pricing before you order, since Tesla can — and does — adjust Cybertruck prices with no advance notice. If you already have an order in at the old price, that price should still be honored; changes like this typically apply only to new orders placed after the update.

    If you’re cross-shopping trucks, remember the Cyberbeast’s price held flat, which narrows the gap between it and the now-pricier Premium trim — worth factoring in if all-wheel-drive performance matters to you.

    Photo by Richard Harris.

  • Tesla names 36 new Supercharger sites picked by owner vote

    Tesla names 36 new Supercharger sites picked by owner vote

    Tesla announced the winners of its latest Supercharger Voting round on August 25, revealing 36 new locations selected by owners across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, according to Not a Tesla App. The winning sites include 16 in the United States, three in Canada, and locations spread across 15 other countries and regions, including Australia, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Israel, Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Portugal, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and Colombia.

    The results come from Tesla’s Supercharger Voting program, which has run on a quarterly cycle since 2022. Account holders get up to five votes per round, with a maximum of one vote per proposed site, and can also nominate locations not yet on the map. Voting has already reopened for the next selection round.

    Winning a vote is not a finished charger

    A win in the voting round does not guarantee a charger goes live on any set timeline. As Tesla North reported, sites still need to clear land acquisition, power hookups, and local permitting before construction can begin, so the 36 newly announced locations could take months or longer to open depending on the market. Tesla North also noted that an eight-stall Supercharger recently opened in Princeton, New Jersey, that had itself been a prior voting winner, illustrating the typical lag between a site being chosen and a charger actually opening to drivers.

    Neither Tesla nor the outlets reporting the winners have published exact street addresses for the 36 sites; that detail typically follows once permitting is further along. Tesla has not set a public timeline for opening any of the newly selected locations.

    Part of a broader charging build-out

    The voting program is one piece of Tesla’s wider Supercharger expansion this year, which has also included large urban projects such as a planned 124-stall V4 site in San Francisco and continued growth of the Supercharger for Business program that lets third parties, including EVgo, install Tesla-built and Tesla-operated stalls. The owner-vote mechanism remains distinct from those efforts in that it lets Tesla’s existing driver base directly influence where the network grows next, rather than Tesla or a partner selecting sites unilaterally.

    Owners who want a say in the next round can cast votes at Tesla’s Supercharger Voting page, where the current cycle is now open following the announcement of the August 25 winners.

    Photo by Giant Asparagus.

  • Tesla confirms a Cybercab launch event for September 3 in Austin.

    Tesla confirms a Cybercab launch event for September 3 in Austin.

    Tesla has confirmed a Cybercab launch event for September 3, 2026, in Austin, Texas, according to invitations sent to riders of its Robotaxi app. The event marks the first public look at the two-seat, steering-wheel-free vehicle actually joining Tesla’s Austin robotaxi service.

    What’s actually happening

    Access to the event is limited to top performers in Tesla’s Robotaxi rider sweepstakes, with winners announced August 26. Attendees must be at least 21 with a valid ID, and the RSVP deadline is August 30. Tesla says it will livestream the event, so it won’t be invite-only for everyone — anyone can watch online.

    Cybercab itself isn’t new; Tesla unveiled the concept in 2024. What’s new is a confirmed date for it to start operating as part of the same robotaxi fleet that currently runs Model Y vehicles in Austin. Per Electrek’s reporting, the production version carries a 48 kWh battery and is rated at roughly 165 Wh per mile of efficiency — Tesla’s most efficient vehicle to date, though official EPA figures haven’t been published.

    What it means if you own a Tesla

    If you’re not in Austin or don’t use the robotaxi app, this event doesn’t change anything about your car. It’s worth knowing about mainly because it signals Tesla is starting to diversify its robotaxi fleet beyond the Model Y — which matters if you’re weighing whether to use Tesla’s ride-hailing service on a future trip, or just tracking where FSD and robotaxi development are headed. Electrek’s reporting notes the current unsupervised robotaxi fleet remains small, in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 vehicles, so Cybercab’s addition is an expansion of vehicle types, not a leap in scale.

    Tesla has not said when, or if, Cybercab will be available outside Austin, or whether it will ever be sold directly to individual owners rather than operated as part of the robotaxi network. Until Tesla says otherwise, treat any timeline beyond September 3 as unconfirmed.

    Photo by Elsie Soto.