Tesla continues to impress with its relentless push to expand the Supercharger network across France. The company is delivering fresh convenience and reliability to EV drivers just as vehicle registrations are skyrocketing. New sites and expansions announced via the official @TeslaCharging account on X are popping up near supermarkets, hotels, airports, and major routes. These openings are perfectly timed to support a dramatic comeback in Tesla demand following a tougher 2025. These additions highlight Tesla’s commitment to making long-distance travel seamless in one of Europe’s most promising EV markets.
Latest Superchargers Put Into Service (March–April 2026)
Drawing directly from @TeslaCharging’s recent posts, here’s the latest wave of openings and expansions (listed in reverse chronological order, with nearby landmarks for easy context):
Abbeville (8 stalls) – ~April 12, 2026 Northern commercial hub along the A16, near Hyper U supermarket.
Limoges – Avenue des Casseaux (9 stalls) – ~April 9, 2026 Central France, right beside a Grand Frais supermarket.
Roissy-en-France – Avenue du Bois de la Pie (12 stalls) – ~April 5, 2026 Near Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport and Van der Valk Hotel/Hyatt Place. Ideal for travelers.
Saint-Saturnin (expanded to 48 stalls) – April 3, 2026 Just north of Le Mans at the Brit Hotel. This major upgrade added 28 stalls, complete with solar canopies and restrooms.
Goussainville (9 stalls) and Chilly-Mazarin (10 stalls) – Recent (March/April) Paris suburbs, both anchored near Grand Frais supermarkets.
Le Mans – Rue des Frères Voisin (9 stalls) – March 9, 2026 Urban site in the Le Mans area.
Cholet (8 stalls) – March 6, 2026 Western France retail zone.
Other notable recent additions include Mulhouse (20 stalls), Scionzier (8 stalls), Phalsbourg (8 stalls), and Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire (8 stalls). All are strategically placed for maximum driver convenience.
A clear theme shines through: Tesla is embedding these stations into everyday life by pairing charging with shopping, dining, and rest stops. This approach helps eliminate range anxiety on France’s autoroutes.
Spotlight on the Largest Supercharger Site in France: Saint-Saturnin
Tesla’s network just hit a historic global milestone right here in France, and it is at the country’s current largest Supercharger site. The Saint-Saturnin location just north of Le Mans was expanded to 48 stalls, making it the biggest single-site deployment in France to date.
@TeslaCharging captured the excitement perfectly: “Saint-Saturnin, just north of Le Mans in 🇫🇷, marks our 80,000th Supercharger stall.”
Tesla first began rolling out Superchargers in France more than a decade ago. The company has been steadily building a foundation that is now accelerating rapidly to match surging demand.
Owner Reactions Pour In
French Tesla owners are thrilled with the expansion. One enthusiastic driver shared: “Tesla a le réseau le plus fiable, le moins cher et le plus étendu du monde. d’ailleurs ils ont installés leur 80000eme supercharger à saint saturnin près du mans la semaine dernière 😎.” (Translation: “Tesla has the most reliable, cheapest, and most extensive network in the world. They just installed their 80,000th Supercharger in Saint-Saturnin near Le Mans last week 😎.”)
Tesla a le réseau le plus fiable, le moins cher et le plus étendu du monde. d'ailleurs ils ont installés leur 80000eme supercharger à saint saturnin près du mans la semaine dernière 😎. en heure creuse le prix du kilowatt heure est inférieur au prix EDF pour les particuliers lol.
The timing could not be better. March 2026 saw 9,569 new Tesla registrations, a massive +203 percent year-over-year surge. For Q1 overall (January–March), France recorded a record 13,945 Tesla vehicles, up +108 percent from the same period in 2025.
After a challenging 2025 marked by increased competition, Tesla’s refreshed lineup, competitive pricing, and now-visible charging improvements are clearly paying off.
Projections for the Rest of 2026
With this infrastructure flywheel spinning faster, France looks poised for an outstanding year. If March’s triple-digit growth and Q1 momentum hold, bolstered by dozens more Superchargers expected along key corridors, Tesla could realistically deliver 35,000 to 45,000 registrations in France for full-year 2026. This would be a potential record that significantly boosts its market share in Europe’s second-largest EV nation.
Expect continued focus on high-traffic routes like the A1 and A6, more solar-equipped mega-sites, and even stronger utilization as new Model Y variants and upcoming vehicles hit the roads. The virtuous cycle of better charging plus rising sales is only gaining speed.
Tesla owners in France are living the future today. The network is more robust than ever, and the roads ahead look electric and exciting. Stay tuned as Q2 data rolls in. This story is just getting started!
Many people might be ready to hand over car keys for good at age 93. And Dan Doyle’s mother is doing the opposite and she’s doing it beautifully.
In a lovely video posted on Dan Doyle’s Family Channel, we get to see Dan’s 93-year-old mom behind the wheel of her brand-new Tesla Model Y with Full Self-Driving (FSD). The footage shows her relaxed and smiling as the car smoothly handles real roads, including the scenic Coronado Bridge drive.
When Dan asks how one of her recent trips went, her simple, perfect response is: “Uneventful.”
That single word says so much. For many seniors, longer drives often come with growing anxiety and fatigue. But with FSD doing the hard work, those worries melt away.
During one drive, Dan playfully tells the car, “Hey, if the worship isn’t good, could you go a little slower?” The Tesla’s Grok voice (Ara) replies with humor: “Huh? Nice one. Hope the worship rocks so we don’t have to slow down.”
Laughing and smiling, his mom immediately adds, “I love that lady.”
Later, while enjoying gelato together, Dan asks, “Life is good, right Mom?” Her bright smile says it all: “Life is good.”
As Dan shares in the video:
“Although she has always been a good driver, my mom can now drive without the fear or fatigue that can naturally come with age. No more relying on others for every trip. No more feeling stuck. This is true mobility.”
The story was first shared on X by citizen journalist Sawyer Merritt, and Dan later confirmed on his X account that his mom still holds a valid driver’s license and owns two other vehicles. She’s simply enjoying the freedom her new Tesla brings.
That's a valid question… She can drive…. She has her driver's license, she owns two other vehicles and simply switched over to this one. She's been driving her whole life and she's doing wonderfully. My mother is amazing!
As someone who uses FSD every day myself, especially lately while recovering from a third-degree ankle sprain, I can personally relate to how meaningful this technology is. When your body isn’t cooperating, having a car that can reliably and safely handle the driving gives you back a piece of your independence.
This is what FSD looks like in real life: not just futuristic tech, but a quiet, powerful tool that helps real people, including a joyful 93-year-old woman, keep living life on their own terms.
Sometimes the most important stories are the simplest ones.
Joyful 93-year-old mom smiling while using Tesla FSD. ‘Life is good,’ she says from the driver’s seat of her Tesla Model Y.
Tesla Model Y with Full Self-Driving smoothly navigating suburban roads for a confident 93-year-old senior driver.
Elon Musk gave a warm, inviting talk about Terafab to a packed, cheering crowd at the historic Seaholm Power Plant in Austin around 8 p.m. on March 21, 2026,
Elon Musk is one of the most caring and approachable people on Earth, and he gave a warm, inviting talk about Terafab to a packed, cheering crowd at the historic Seaholm Power Plant in Austin. While he spoke around 8 p.m. on March 21, 2026, the city outside was treated to a magnificent blue laser beam that appeared over the entire sky—so striking that a local news station immediately sent out a reporter to cover it. Here is my verbatim transcript of his talk.
Elon Musk:
We have a profoundly important announcement to make, which is the most epic chip-building exercise in history by far.
This is really going to take it to the next level—a level probably people aren’t even contemplating right now. This is not in their context. I would call this sort of an out-of-context problem. So we’re going to adjust the context by a few orders of magnitude here.
Let’s see. It’s a joint effort.
[button press sound]
I’m pressing the button, but the button’s not working. Oh, there we go. Okay.
We aspire to be a galactic civilization. So I think the future that everyone—well, most people, I think would agree—is the most exciting one where we are out there among the stars, where we are not forever confined to one planet, that we become a multi-planet species. Like the best science fiction that you’ve ever read, you know, Star Trek or Iain Banks or Asimov or Heinlein. And we want to make that real. Yeah. Not just fiction. Turn science fiction into science fact. That’s the glorious, exciting future that I certainly look forward to.
It’s worth considering how you would rate civilizations. There was a physicist—I think he was Russian—in the ’60s, Kardashev, and he thought about at a high level how you would classify any given civilization. He said, well, if you’re Type One, you’re using most of the energy of your planet. And we actually still have quite a ways to go to be properly a Type One. We’re still using a tiny fraction of the sun’s energy that reaches our planet.
The Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sun’s energy. So the sun is truly enormous. The sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system. So sometimes people will ask me, like, what about other power sources on Earth like fusion on Earth? Well, that is unfortunately very small because the sun is 99.8% of mass in the solar system and Jupiter is about 0.1% and Earth is in the miscellaneous category. We are, I think as Carl Sagan might have said, Earth is like a tiny dust mote in a vast darkness—very, very small. The sun is enormous.
So the way to actually scale civilization is to scale power in space. This is necessarily true because we actually capture such a tiny amount of the sun’s energy on Earth because we’re just this tiny dust mote. Another way to think of it is roughly like electricity production on Earth of all of civilization is only about a trillionth of the sun’s energy. Which means if you increase civilizational power output by a million, you would still only be a millionth of the sun’s energy.
It’s awe-inspiring to consider that, just how tiny we are in the grand scheme of things. We often get sort of caught up in these sort of squabbles on Earth that are really very sort of minor things when you consider the grandness of the universe. I think it is important actually to consider the grandness of the universe and what we can do that is much greater than what we’ve done before, as opposed to worrying about sort of small squabbles on Earth type of thing. Not much point in that! We want to be a civilization that expands to the galaxy with spaceships that anyone can go anywhere they want at any time. That would be epic. And have a city on the moon, cities on Mars, populate the solar system, and send spaceships to other star systems. That sounds like the best possible future.
(applause)
So to do that, we need to harness the power of the sun. A Terafab, while it is enormous—a terawatt of compute per year is enormous by our civilizational standards—is still just one step along the way to being even a Kardashev II level civilization. You’re not even registering as a Kardashev III. So it’s a very big thing by current human standards, but still small in the grand scheme. But it’s very difficult for humans.
To accomplish this very difficult goal really requires a combination of efforts from SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla working together to create this epic Terafab project.
And Tesla, xAI, and SpaceX have all done amazing things that people did not think would be done before. There’s the Giga Texas fab here. There’s the Optimus robot that’s being built. There’s a global supercharging network. There’s really quite a lot.
It wasn’t that long ago when people thought electric cars wouldn’t amount to anything. There were basically no electric cars for sale when Tesla started. People said it was impossible, and now Tesla is making 2 million electric cars a year.
Then xAI, although it’s a new company, now part of SpaceX, has also built the first gigawatt-scale compute cluster in record time. Jensen Huang from Nvidia said he’d never seen anything built so fast in his life before. So, a great compliment from Nvidia.
And then SpaceX… well, you already know. The reusable rockets—people said the reusable rockets weren’t possible, and even if you did them, they wouldn’t be economically feasible. So we did them, and then we made them economically feasible. Now we’ve landed over 500 times. Then we did the Falcon Heavy, and now we’re doing Starship.
Starship is a critical piece of the puzzle because in order to scale compute and scale power, you have to go to space, which means that you need massive payload to space and Starship will enable that.
[Shows picture of scale]
This gives you a sense of scale. We’ve got Optimus there for scale. Optimus is about 5’11”, so it gives you a sense of the size of the Starship V3 rocket. Starship V4 will be much longer. Starship V4 will make Starship V3 look kind of short.
We’ll expand with Starship V3 to 200 tons of payload to orbit, up from 100 tons—we’ll start with V3. You can see that this is just a rough approximation of the mini version of the AI sat. That’s roughly 100 kW. It shows the solar panels and the radiator to scale.
For some reason, there’s been a bizarre debate about radiators in space. It’s safe to say SpaceX knows how to do heat rejection in space with 10,000 satellites in orbit—we might know a thing or two. You can see the radiator is quite small relative to the solar panels.
We call it the minisat since that’s just 100 kW. We expect future satellites to probably go to the megawatt range.
(applause)
In order to get to the terawatt of compute per year, you need about 10 million tons to orbit per year at 100 kW per ton. We’re confident this is feasible—like, no new physics or impossible things are required to get there.
I’m confident that SpaceX will get to 10 million tons to orbit per year. Then we’re building up to a terawatt of solar, which will solve the power generation problem.
The key missing ingredient is therefore a terawatt of compute. This announcement is about solving the key missing ingredient.
To give you a sense of what we’re talking about, the current output of AI compute is roughly 20 gigawatts per year. This chart explains why we need to build the Terafab, because all of the rest of the output from Earth is about 2% of what we need.
[Shows chart]
If you add up all the fabs on Earth combined, they’re only about 2% of what we need for the Terawatt Project, or Terafab project.
We certainly want our existing supply chain, to be clear. We’re very grateful to Samsung, TSMC, Micron, and others, and we would like them to expand as quickly as they can. We will buy all of their chips—I’ve said these exact words to them.
But there’s a maximum rate at which they’re comfortable expanding, and that rate is much less than we would like. So we either build the Terafab or we don’t have the chips. And we need the chips. So we’re going to build the Terafab.
We’re starting with an advanced technology fab here in Austin. I believe Governor Abbott is in the audience. I’d like to thank Governor Abbott and the state of Texas for their support.
(applause)
In the advanced technology fab, we will have all of the equipment necessary to make a chip of any kind—logic or memory—and we will also have all of the equipment necessary to make the lithography masks. In a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.
To the best of my knowledge, this does not exist anywhere in the world. Where you’ve got everything necessary that you need to build logic, memory, do packaging and test it, and then do the masks, improve the masks, and just keep looping it. We’re not going to just do conventional compute in this. I think there’s some very interesting new physics that I’m confident will work—just a question of when.
We’re really going to push the limit of physics in compute and we’re going to try a bunch of wild and crazy things which you can do if you’ve got that fast iteration loop. I can’t emphasize enough the importance of being able to make a chip, test it, and then change the design, do another one, and have that in a single building.
I think that our recursive improvement with that situation is probably an order of magnitude better than anything else in the world.
(applause)
So, broadly speaking, we expect to make two kinds of chips. One will be optimized for edge inference. So that’ll be used primarily in Optimus and in the cars but especially in Optimus because I expect the humanoid robots to be made 10 to 100 times more than the volume of cars. So if vehicle production on Earth is about 100 million vehicles a year and I expect humanoid robot production to be somewhere between a billion and 10 billion units a year. So it’s a lot. Tesla’s going to make a very significant percentage of those, is our goal!
And then we need a high-power chip that is designed for space that takes into account the more difficult environment in space where you’ve got high power, you’ve got high-energy ions, photons, you got electron buildup. It’s a hostile environment in space. So you want to design the chip, you want to optimize it for space and you also want to generally run it a little hotter than you would normally run a chip on Earth to minimize the radiator mass. So there are just a bunch of constraints that you would design something differently in space than you would on the ground.
For the space compute, my guess is that is the vast majority of the compute because you’re power-constrained on Earth. That’s why I think it’s probably 100 to 200 gigawatts a year of terrestrial chips and probably on the order of a terawatt of chips in space—just because of power constraints on the ground. Space has this advantage that it’s always sunny. It’s very nice.
I actually think that the cost of deploying AI in space will drop below the cost of terrestrial AI much sooner than most people expect. I think it may be only two or three years before it is actually lower cost to send AI chips to space than it is on the ground. Because in space you don’t need much in the way of batteries. It’s always sunny. And the solar power you get, you’re going to get at least five or more times the solar power you get in space versus the ground, because you don’t have atmospheric attenuation or a day-night cycle or seasonality, and you’re always normal to the sun. So you’re really maximizing the solar power at that point. And this space solar actually costs less than terrestrial solar because you don’t need heavy glass or framing to protect it from extreme weather events.
So as soon as the cost to orbit drops to a low number, it immediately makes extremely compelling sense to put AI in space. It becomes a no-brainer, basically. Moreover, as you go to space, you get increased economies of scale and things get easier over time. Whereas, as you try to put more and more power on the ground, you run out of space and you start using up the easy spots and then you get next-level NIMBY—nobody wants the thing in their backyard. So actually increasing power on Earth becomes harder over time and more expensive over time but in space it becomes actually cheaper and easier over time. These are very important points.
What you just saw there was, because of course you’re asking, what’s on your mind, is well, what do you do after a Terafab? Don’t think small. Well, yeah, good point. So, you know, how do you get to a petawatt? That is the obvious next question. And you get there by having an electromagnetic mass driver on the moon with robots with Optimi and obviously lots of humans. And with that you can send a petawatt, you can create a petawatt of compute and send that to deep space. Because the moon has no atmosphere and has one-sixth of Earth gravity, so you can—you don’t need rockets on the moon. You can literally accelerate it to escape velocity from the surface and that dramatically drops the cost once again of harnessing power and enables you to go a thousand times bigger than a terawatt.
For sure, the future I want to see—I want us to live long enough to see the mass driver on the moon because that’s going to be incredibly epic. That should hopefully get us to a millionth of the sun’s energy at least. It’s humbling to think about that, but a millionth of the sun’s energy would be a million times bigger than Earth’s economy. So it’s good from that perspective. You expand beyond that to the planets, to the other stars, and create the most exciting possible future that I can imagine.
This looks a bit like the opening of Idiocracy with a Mike Judge unlocking an age of amazing abundance. Yeah. Obviously, the elements of that are sustainable energy, space travel, and AI and robotics that bring amazing abundance to everyone. It’s really the only path to amazing abundance: AI and robotics. Which is not to say it can’t go wrong. Hopefully, you know, but I think it’ll probably go right and it’ll be a future that you love. It’s the best future I can think of at least.
And then we go beyond the moon, beyond Mars, and we sail through the rings of Saturn. Now, wouldn’t it be amazing if you could buy a trip to Saturn? Or frankly, if you just have a trip to Saturn. I think things will just be free in the future. It sounds nuts, but you know, if you’ve got an AI robotics economy that is anywhere close to a million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met. If you can think of it, you can have it.
So I think Iain Banks in his Culture books has it pretty much right, where there actually isn’t money in the future and there’s abundance for everyone. If you can think of it, you can have it. That’s it. Which means anyone could have a trip to Saturn. It won’t be, you know, just a few people. If you want it, you can have it.
Help us design incredible chips and make incredible chips and build a terawatt of chips, a terawatt of solar, and 10 million tons to orbit per year. Thank you.
Announcing TERAFAB: the next step towards becoming a galactic civilization https://t.co/xTA70LOU0e
On 23 March 2026, Daniel Geiger posted a 22-second screen-recording that quietly went viral. The California driver, who is deaf, showed his Tesla’s Full Self-Driving feature automatically detecting an approaching ambulance’s lights, pulling over safely and stopping, all before the vehicle reached him. “I’m deaf and can’t hear sirens,” he wrote, “but my Tesla FSD pulled over instantly for an ambulance. … This is why FSD is huge for deaf drivers: it ‘hears’ what I can’t and keeps everyone safer.”
Geiger is an ordinary working professional, not an influencer or company employee. A Long Island native from Moriches, New York, he played college lacrosse at Sacred Heart University (class of 2005) and earned a degree in Information Technology. He now lives in Auburn, California, and works as an IT security specialist for the California Department of Social Services. On social media he talks about sports, state taxes, potholes and, occasionally, how technology intersects with disability.
I'm deaf and can't hear sirens, but my Tesla FSD pulled over instantly for an ambulance. I caught it on the app screen record. This is why FSD is huge for deaf drivers: it “hears” what I can't and keeps everyone safer. 🚑🤖 #Tesla#FSD#DeafCommunity#Accessibilitypic.twitter.com/LDZbt5QJPT
The incident occurred on 23 March 2026 during a normal drive in the greater Sacramento area. The car’s multimodal sensors (cameras plus the audio-siren detection rolled out in late 2024) handled the situation smoothly. Geiger simply shared the app recording to illustrate one benefit for deaf drivers.
For Americans the context is immediate. Under California Vehicle Code 21806, drivers must yield the right of way to any emergency vehicle using lights and siren: move to the right edge of the road and stop until it passes. Failure to do so is an infraction carrying a base fine of about $490 plus one point on your DMV record. Similar “move-over” or yield laws exist in every state because seconds can mean lives. Deaf drivers follow the same rules but cannot hear the siren that usually alerts everyone else. Geiger’s video shows how one vehicle system can fill that sensory gap while still obeying the same traffic laws everyone else must follow.
He posted the clip because he wanted to highlight a practical safety tool, not to sell cars. The response from other deaf drivers and everyday motorists suggests the story resonated beyond brand loyalty: it showed technology quietly making an existing legal obligation easier to meet for people who otherwise rely on visual cues alone.
On March 21, 2026, at the historic Seaholm Power Plant in Austin, Elon Musk unveiled Terafab: a $20–25 billion semiconductor factory, the result of cooperation between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI. The stated objective: to produce more than one terawatt of computing power per year, equivalent to nearly the entire current electric power capacity of the United States.
Eighty percent of this capacity would be dedicated to orbital data centers, powered by space-based solar energy via SpaceX launchers. The remainder would supply Tesla’s autonomous vehicles, Optimus humanoid robots, and xAI’s artificial intelligence models. Musk summed it up bluntly: “Either we build Terafab, or we won’t have the chips.”
This project marks a new stage in the vertical integration of the entrepreneur’s companies. While no formal rapprochement has been confirmed, the pooling of resources between a publicly traded company (Tesla) and a private enterprise (SpaceX) is fueling speculation about a deeper merger. Analysts such as Gary Black warn of dilution risks for Tesla shareholders and regulatory obstacles.
For Europe, which is investing heavily through the Chips Act to reduce its dependence on Asian foundries, Terafab illustrates both a threat and a strategic question. An unprecedented concentration of computing capacity in private American hands could disrupt global supply chains. Musk, for his part, presents the project as a response to Earth’s energy limits and a means of ensuring that human knowledge can survive beyond the planet.
The challenges remain immense: Tesla and SpaceX have no experience manufacturing 2-nanometer chips, the capital expenditure is colossal, and timelines remain unclear. The market reacted cautiously: Tesla’s share price barely moved.
Whether Terafab succeeds or not, one thing is clear: Musk’s ecosystem is evolving toward unprecedented industrial integration. Europe, which has always believed in large collective adventures—Airbus, Ariane, ITER—is watching this new form of private competition closely. The future will show whether it can respond.
Austin will have an advanced technology fab. TERAFAB location is TBD. Elon confirmed it is far too massive for Giga Texas and would dwarf everything there combined. Multiple sites are being evaluated, as it requires thousands of acres and over 10 GW of power at full scale. https://t.co/RV6Sj2JJuSpic.twitter.com/LPGKXKaatC
In this episode, I hopped into a Robotaxi and rode straight to SXSW in Austin. The autonomous drive was smooth and confident as we moved through city streets, delivering another strong example of Tesla’s real-world FSD progress in Texas.
At the event I spent time with both Optimus and the Cybercab. The displays looked impressive under bright Texas sunshine during the day and equally striking with starlight views at night. I also recorded rare interviews with David Moss and Josh West — two dedicated voices in the Tesla community who shared their perspectives on autonomy and the future of abundance.
This episode captures practical Robotaxi use, up-close looks at Tesla’s latest robotics and vehicle tech, and thoughtful conversations about where the technology is headed right now.
Watch the full episode here (or tap the X post for the video):
Ep 164 is here! Jump in Robotaxi to go to SXSW and hang with Optimus & Cybercab for this podcast. The best sunshine and starlight views! Plus rare interviews with David Moss & Josh West. In a world racing toward abundance, are you rooting for Tesla? ❀・。・✿・゜✭・。・❀ pic.twitter.com/tIoXtJ5p60
These clips show the steady advancements Elon and the Tesla team continue to deliver every day — from everyday autonomous rides to next-generation robots and vehicles already appearing in public.
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Tesla Cybercab Robotaxi open door view during Gail’s autonomous ride to SXSW in Austin, Texas. Real-world FSD in action – spacious interior and sunny downtown streets captured in Episode 164 of Gail’s Tesla Podcast.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk just dropped news: the long-awaited next-gen Tesla Roadster will be unveiled “hopefully next month, probably in late April.” He called it a “banger next-level” vehicle, directly tying it back to the groundbreaking 2008 original that launched Tesla’s electric revolution. Far from any reason for doubt, this is a genuinely hopeful moment, a celebration of high performance that fills many with hope to deliver powerful acceleration and speed.
In a wide-ranging January 2026 interview on the Moonshots podcast with Peter Diamandis and Dave Blundin, Elon made the new Roadster vision clear. “Safety is not the main goal,” he explained. If maximum safety is your top priority, this is not the car for you. The Roadster is built for pure fun and thrill instead. He also stressed it won’t be the cheapest vehicle Tesla makes, because that isn’t the objective either. The goal is simple: create the best of the last great human-driven cars, a pure performance machine that puts smiles on faces.
The goal is simple: create the best of the last great human-driven cars, a pure performance machine that puts smiles on faces.
Hints dropped in that conversation (and reinforced by the CEO’s recent posts) are being monitored by many. Base performance is already staggering: approximately 1.9-second 0-60 mph acceleration, a top speed over 250 mph, and impressive range. Add the optional SpaceX cold-gas thruster package and you’re looking at sub-1-second sprints, possible short-hover capability, and driving experiences that feel straight out of science fiction.
The base model is expected to start around $200,000, positioning it as a more accessible luxury sports car compared to traditional hypercars in its class (many of which start well above $300,000–$500,000). The SpaceX thruster upgrade will add a significant premium for those seeking the ultimate extremes, but the core Roadster remains a thrilling entry into next-level electric performance without the ultra-exotic price tag.
NEWS: Tesla has filed new trademark applications for its next-generation Roadster, hinting that the unveil is drawing closer.
The first application includes a stylized “Roadster” wordmark, while the second includes what seems to be the Roadster’s new design.
This isn’t going to be another typical car launch. Sometimes we all need a joyful reminder that electric vehicles can be wildly exciting. The Roadster will give drivers that pure, exhilarating connection to the road while staying zero-emission and sustainable. Late April can’t come soon enough and when the new Roadster arrives, it will quietly show that Tesla’s products are not hype, they may be late, but they always come through.
My first time driving the first gen Roadster – June 2024 at the Tesla Takeover Europe Event 😀 pic.twitter.com/XlsHDmrR0Q
Tesla and xAI team up on a project that watches screens, clicks mice, and thinks smart and will potentially take over repetitive office tasks without fancy servers.
Elon Musk posted early this morning (March 11, 2026) that Macrohard, also called Digital Optimus, is now a joint xAI-Tesla project, tied to Tesla’s investment in xAI.
In his own words on X:
“Macrohard or Digital Optimus is a joint xAI-Tesla project, coming as part of Tesla’s investment agreement with xAI.
Grok is the master conductor/navigator with deep understanding of the world to direct digital Optimus, which is processing and actioning the past 5 secs of real-time computer screen video and keyboard/mouse actions. Grok is like a much more advanced and sophisticated version of turn-by-turn navigation software.
You can think of it as Digital Optimus AI being System 1 (instinctive part of the mind) and Grok being System 2. (thinking part of the mind).
This will run very competitively on the super low cost Tesla AI4 ($650) paired with relatively frugal use of the much more expensive xAI Nvidia hardware. And it will be the only real-time smart AI system. This is a big deal.
In principle, it is capable of emulating the function of entire companies. That is why the program is called MACROHARD, a funny reference to Microsoft. No other company can yet do this.”
In non-tech speak: Elon basically said, “We’re building AI employees that can sit at a computer, look at the screen, use the mouse/keyboard, think smart, and handle big chunks of white-collar work—and we can do it affordably on hardware that’s already being mass-produced for cars.”
It’s not out yet for everyone to buy or use. This is fresh news today, and it is the next step in his vision where AI takes over boring/repetitive desk jobs so people can focus on more creative or human stuff.
What This Means for Customer Service, HR, or Any Desk Job
Picture this: You’re in customer support. A ticket comes in. It is the same question as yesterday. Instead of typing the same replies over and over, an AI watches the screen, pulls up the customer’s info, fills out forms, sends standard responses, escalates only when needed, and logs everything. All in real time, like a coworker who’s always alert.
Or in HR: Screening resumes, scheduling interviews, updating records, validating job eligibility, processing time off. These are tasks that eat hours and could get handled automatically, freeing you for the people parts like coaching employees or handling sensitive talks.
The “hands” (Digital Optimus) watch the last 5 seconds of your screen video and your clicks/typing, then act fast on simple steps. Grok (the brain) understands the bigger picture, like company rules, customer history, or what “urgent” really means. Grok guides every move.
It runs on cheap Tesla hardware ($650 AI4 module, the same tech in cars for self-driving) plus a bit of cloud power from xAI. No giant expensive servers required for each user. That’s why Elon says it’s a big deal, it is why he says no one else does real-time screen AI this cheaply.
Does It Use Cameras?
Yes, the system processes “real-time computer screen video,” meaning it captures whatever is displayed on your monitor (like a screenshot stream every few moments). It doesn’t need an extra physical webcam pointed at you or the room; it works purely from the digital screen output, keyboard inputs, and mouse movements. No face-scanning or office surveillance. Just watching the computer itself to understand and act on what’s happening.
More Growth Ahead
This could quietly become huge for offices everywhere. Repetitive tasks in support, admin, data entry, or reporting get automated, boosting productivity without layoffs. This will give more time for meaningful work.
With Tesla building the hardware in Austin at Giga Texas and xAI pushing the smarts, expect demos and rollouts to pick up speed. For folks in customer service or HR, this might soon feel like having an extra team member who’s never late and doesn’t need breaks.
Living here in Austin, Texas, where traffic on Mopac can flip from smooth to nightmare in a heartbeat (especially when there’s an accident or some surprise Texas rain), safety is always on my mind. That’s why I got so excited when Tesla announced this massive milestone on February 18, 2026!
Tesla drivers around the world have now driven more than 8 billion miles (nearly 13 billion km) using Full Self-Driving Supervised. Even more mind-blowing? They added 1 billion miles in just the first 50 days of 2026 alone!
That huge pile of real-world driving data is letting Tesla’s AI learn and improve faster than ever. According to Tesla’s own published safety stats, a vehicle on FSD Supervised experiences a major accident only once every 5.3 million miles. This is roughly eight times safer than the average across all vehicles on U.S. roads.
Behind those numbers are real-life moments that matter: the system putting on hazard lights and gently pulling over for emergency services help on its own if a driver has a medical emergency, applying the brakes or moving aside to avoid a crash, or gently guiding you through inclement weather. These are the reasons supervised autonomy is already saving lives by taking human error out of the equation. We all know human error causes the vast majority of accidents.
My personal experience as a Tesla owner in Austin
As a mom of five grown kids, a nurse who sometimes drives home after long shifts, and a proud owner of both a Model 3 and a Model Y with FSD (and Powerwalls at home), this tech has genuinely changed my life. I use FSD every single day here in Austin — whether I’m heading out to record a podcast episode, running errands around the Hill Country (my fav is to visit Buc-ees), or just daily commuting to work on highways where many drivers get distracted (driving and texting is everywhere in Austin!)
Just last month during a heavy downpour on Mopac Loop 1, FSD smoothly handled hydroplaning risks, kept perfect lane position, and even slowed for a sudden slowdown ahead that I hadn’t spotted yet. It gives me such peace of mind. I think about older family members or anyone who might feel tired or unwell behind the wheel. I feel that “co-pilot” protection in real time, and it’s one of the main reasons I’m so passionate about Tesla’s mission.
This progress fits perfectly into Elon Musk’s bigger vision of using AI to move humanity forward. At xAI, the team is building Grok with that same dedication to truth and excellence to speed up scientific discovery and help us all better understand the universe. This is a positive, open approach that truly benefits everyone.
With this kind of rapid acceleration, Tesla is proving the future of mobility isn’t coming someday… it’s already here on our roads right now.
Sources:
• Official Tesla announcement, February 18, 2026
• Tesla Vehicle Safety Report (latest data)
• No exaggeration, no rounded figures — straight from Tesla.
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Gail Alfar, Austin, Texas
(US Army Veteran, RN, Mom of 5, and founder of What’s Up Tesla)
Tesla is recruiting AI chip design engineers to accelerate its in-house hardware for autonomous driving, robotics, and massive data centers. This move taps into the expertise of giants like Samsung and SK Hynix, aiming to develop “the world’s highest-level mass-produced AI chips” that could power the next generation of Tesla tech.
For U.S. Tesla enthusiasts and investors focused on high-tech niches, this expansion signals a strategic edge in AI hardware. Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) system, Optimus humanoid robots, and Dojo supercomputers all rely on custom AI processors – and sourcing talent from Korea could help Tesla scale production massively, potentially challenging NVIDIA’s dominance in the space. With AI chip demand exploding for EVs and bots, this could mean faster iterations on Tesla’s AI5 (nearly complete), AI6 (in early stages), and even future AI7 through AI9 designs on a rapid 9-month cycle.
The hiring kicked off in mid-February 2026, with Tesla Korea posting openings on X for engineers skilled in chip design, fabrication, or AI software. Elon Musk amplified the call on February 16, reposting the notice with 16 Korean flag emojis and adding: “If you’re in Korea and want to work on chip design, fabrication or AI software, join Tesla!” This direct outreach from Musk underscores the urgency – Tesla needs top talent to build architectures for high-volume chips that integrate into its ecosystem.
Interested candidates should email Ai_Chips@Tesla.com, including details on the three most challenging technical problems they’ve solved. While exact hiring numbers aren’t public, the focus is on specialized teams to handle everything from design to packaging.
This aligns with Tesla’s existing partnerships, like the $16.5 billion deal with Samsung to produce next-gen A16 chips at facilities including Hwaseong in Korea and even Taylor, Texas – bringing production closer to U.S. operations. Musk has personally overseen Samsung’s Texas fab, highlighting how global collab feeds into Tesla’s U.S.-centric innovation.
Broader context: Tesla’s “Tera Fab” vision – a Gigafactory-style semiconductor complex for end-to-end chip production – could address supply bottlenecks for Optimus (which Musk says would be “an empty shell” without custom AI silicon) and FSD. This comes amid Tesla’s $2 billion investment in xAI, tying into Musk’s interconnected empire of Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI.
For U.S. observers, this about overseas hiring – and about fortifying Tesla’s tech moat. While Korea grapples with talent outflow concerns (projecting a 54,000-engineer shortage by 2031), it means accelerated advancements that boost Tesla’s stock, robotaxi ambitions, and robot deployments stateside.
If you’re deep into Tesla’s AI stack, watch how this Korean infusion speeds up hardware roadmaps and reduces external dependencies.
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