Tesla has filed a USPTO trademark for 'Megapod,' modular data-center hardware for AI computing — a self-contained compute system it may sell, filed less than a year after it shut down its Dojo supercomputer.

Tesla has unlocked its multi-camera grid view so it now works while driving, not just in Park. The feed layout shows all the car's cameras live at road speed, with tap-to-expand full-screen views.

Tesla has started pushing Full Self-Driving (Supervised) V14 to cars in Australia and New Zealand through software update 2026.16.6, which carries build v14.3.3. The first wave is limited to Hardware 4 vehicles, so current Model 3 and Model Y owners get it first, while HW3 cars wait for a lighter version or a retrofit. It arrives roughly a year after Tesla first brought FSD to the two markets.

From 30 June 2026, ChargePoint will close the accounts of private drivers in Europe, keeping its app and RFID card only for people whose access is arranged through an employer, fleet operator or leasing company. Affected drivers can still charge at ChargePoint stations using a contactless bank card, a roaming app or a third-party service, and any money left in a ChargePoint Wallet can be refunded within 90 days.

A German regional court has ruled that if an electric car's real-world range falls more than 10% short of its official WLTP figure, that counts as a material defect — and the buyer can withdraw from the purchase. The decision treats the manufacturer's range claim as a binding guarantee.

A Dutch collective claim over Tesla's broken Hardware 3 self-driving promises has grown to nearly 7,000 owners and won the backing of leading law firm Kennedy Van der Laan. Owners want refunds of up to €6,400 plus compensation for lost vehicle value.

Tesla has quietly killed a workaround that let drivers dismiss the mandatory FSD disengagement feedback menu by double-tapping the microphone. A new minimum recording time now forces owners to either wait or pick a reason.

Sweden's Transport Administration has told the EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles to vote against approving Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) across the bloc unless the system's ability to exceed posted speed limits is removed. The April 30 letter surfaced just as the committee prepares to take up an EU-wide approval, complicating Tesla's path to a single continental rollout after several countries already granted national approvals.

A newly granted Tesla patent describes a motor-driven strut that can retract a wheel before it strikes a pothole, working alongside the company's fleet road-roughness mapping to smooth the ride and trim energy use.

Porsche's 2027 Taycan makes the 105 kWh battery standard, charges at up to 320 kW for as much as 700 km of WLTP range, adds a paid 'E-Shift' virtual gearbox, and switches to a native NACS port in North America.

Code uncovered in Tesla's app version 4.58.0 shows the company is building Live Updates-style charging notifications for Android, bringing the lock-screen experience iOS users have had for years. The feature is not switched on yet, but the groundwork looks complete.

Under regulatory pressure in the US and China, Tesla is redesigning its interior and exterior door handles around a single mechanical-plus-electronic release. The Cybercab's new one-pull lever previews where the rest of the lineup is heading, with the changes expected to reach Europe's Berlin-built cars.

Tesla has installed a free car vacuum between the stalls at a V4 Supercharger in Lindau, Germany — believed to be a first for the network. It is the latest sign of Tesla turning charging stops into proper rest stops with lounges, canopies and amenities.

Greater Manchester Police seized a Tesla Cybertruck in Whitefield because the vehicle has never been type-approved for UK or EU roads. The case is a reminder that the few Cybertrucks in Europe are private US imports that cannot be legally registered or driven here.

The European Transport Safety Council wrote to transport ministers across the EU on 12 June 2026, urging them to demand evidence on the safety of Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) before accepting its provisional European approval. The road-safety body criticises the closed-door committee process that could make hands-off driving legal continent-wide and wants the European Commission to pause and hold a public debate first.

Tesla plans pre-assembled, plug-and-play Megacharger units for the Semi that deliver up to 1.2 MW and can be dropped into place rather than built on site, mirroring its folding Supercharger strategy.

A Reuters investigation reports Tesla gave Dutch and Swedish regulators self-published FSD safety statistics that independent researchers call misleading; the Netherlands says its approval did not rest on those figures, while US senators have asked NHTSA to review the same claims.

Plastic doll heads sold for $20-50 on Chinese platforms are tricking Tesla's cabin camera into reading an attentive driver, the latest move in a long arms race over driver monitoring as FSD expands in Europe.

EPA certification documents reveal the production Cybercab's full specifications for the first time: a single front-mounted 219 HP motor, a 48 kWh battery, a 3,113 lb curb weight and class-leading 165 Wh/mi efficiency. Tesla separately cleared a key US regulatory hurdle that readies the two-seat robotaxi for public roads.

Fastned and Places for London have opened their first ultra-rapid charging hub at Hatton Cross near Heathrow — 12 bays at up to 400 kW, open around the clock, with free charging from 15 to 19 June 2026 and 24 more London sites to follow.

Reports say Keir Starmer's government will dilute the UK's Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate, reducing the share of fully electric new-car sales required by 2030 from 80% to 50% and giving hybrids a longer runway. The headline 2030 ban on new pure petrol and diesel cars stays. The change responds to softer-than-expected EV demand and industry lobbying; a formal announcement is expected within weeks.

Global EV sales reached 1.8 million in May 2026 and 7.5 million year-to-date, with Europe up 23% even as North America fell 26% and China continued to recover.

Tesla expanded its unsupervised Robotaxi geofence to cover the entire Austin metro area (~245 sq mi) on 3 June 2026, and detailed how the cars hand control to first responders and can be geofenced around emergencies. The catch: the active driverless fleet is still only about 20 cars, a fraction of Waymo's.

NAF and Motor drove 24 EVs from Oslo until empty on 3 June 2026. BMW iX3 went furthest at 781 km (+1.4% vs WLTP), Xpeng X9 over-delivered by 11.4%, MG IM6 under-delivered by 11.7% — and for the first time in years Tesla didn't enter a single car.

BYD confirms a European rollout of its 1,500 kW Flash chargers — roughly 3,000 units by 2027, one site every ~50 km on busy corridors, 300 UK stations by end of 2027, and a target price under 50p per kWh, powered by on-site batteries.

At WWDC 2026 Apple unveiled Route Sharing, a feature that lets an iPhone feed live navigation straight into a car's screen — removing the FSD map-sync problem that had stalled Tesla CarPlay. It ships in iOS 26.4, so Tesla need not wait for iOS 27.

UK owners have voted the Tesla Model 3 the best car to own in Auto Express's 2026 Driver Power survey. It scored 88.55% overall, won Engine & Gearbox, Safety Features and Quality & Reliability, and took the survey's only 100% rating for drivetrain smoothness.

A newly surfaced Tesla patent replaces the electronics inside a matrix headlight with a thin light-reactive film, a design that could slash the cost of both building and repairing adaptive headlights.

Fresh May 2026 registration data shows battery-electric cars holding around a quarter of the market in Germany and Austria, with BEV demand propping up otherwise flat new-car markets across the continent.

Tesla has installed its first folding V4 Supercharger in Europe, a factory pre-assembled unit that ships more stalls per truck, halves installation time and cuts deployment cost by more than 20%. A full European motorway rollout is targeted for Q3 2026.

Belgium has authorised Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) for use on public roads, becoming the fifth European country to allow the feature after the Netherlands, Lithuania, Estonia and Denmark. The Flemish approval applies nationwide.

Tesla has opened its first full Center in Slovakia, combining sales and service in Bratislava and ending years in which Slovak owners had to drive to Vienna for official support.

Tesla's first European FSD safety report shows cars running FSD (Supervised) in the Netherlands had 3.5x fewer collisions than manually driven Teslas between 10 April and 5 June 2026 — including zero collisions across 16.6M highway kilometres.

Denmark's Road Traffic Authority, Færdselsstyrelsen, approved Tesla Full Self-Driving (Supervised) on 9 June 2026, making Denmark the fourth European country to greenlight the system in roughly eight weeks. The authority accepted the Dutch RDW's provisional type approval after its own independent review. Rollout to Danish owners is expected to begin soon.

Seventeen EU member states signed a non-binding Joint Declaration of Intent at the June 2026 Transport Council in Luxembourg, pledging to coordinate cross-border autonomous-driving trials and build common European standards. The EU added €20 million from the Connecting Europe Facility for the digital infrastructure self-driving cars need — groundwork that matters for Tesla's FSD ambitions in Europe.

In Edmunds' independent real-world test, the entry-level 2026 Model 3 RWD drove 393 miles (about 632 km) — 30 miles beyond its EPA rating — and posted the best efficiency figure of any production EV the outlet has tested, beating the Mercedes CLA 350 and Audi A6 e-tron on the same route.

Tesla has applied to Nevada regulators for a commercial robotaxi permit covering the Las Vegas area, requesting authority to run up to 5,000 autonomous vehicles in the first year — a filing far larger than its current fleet of roughly two dozen cars.

A new iSeeCars study of more than 174 million vehicles ranks Tesla sixth among all car brands for long-term durability, with a 4.6% chance of reaching 250,000 miles — ahead of Subaru, Volvo, Mercedes, BMW and Porsche, and attributed to the mechanical simplicity of electric drivetrains.

Tesla has delivered more than 300,000 vehicles in the UK over 12 years, handing over the milestone car at its Manchester hub while highlighting more than 2,100 Superchargers and over 1 GWh of installed Powerwall capacity.

Tesla has reportedly pushed its long-awaited next-generation Roadster demonstration to August or later, blaming continued work on the SpaceX cold-gas thruster system. It is the latest in a string of slipped dates for a car first shown in 2017.

Tesla has added a new metallic shade, Coastal Blue, to the entry rear-wheel-drive Model Y in Europe. Built at Gigafactory Berlin, it costs €1,300 in the configurator and is the fourth paint choice for the base car.

Social Democrats in the European Parliament want a stricter electric-vehicle quota for company-car fleets than the European Commission proposed, lifting the EU-wide target to 54% from 45% and ending tax breaks for fossil-fuel company cars from 2028. A parliamentary vote is not expected before November 2026, and the wider auto package may not be finalised until 2027.

Tesla has made the 16-inch centre touchscreen and the darker Alcantara-style headliner standard across every Model Y trim in North America, and the refreshed interior has also reached the entry European RWD car — with no price increase attached.

Prague's city-owned utility PRE has switched on the Czech capital's largest charging hub in Praha 9, with 161 connectors including two 400 kW Alpitronic fast chargers and real-time load management.

Tesla AI chief Ashok Elluswamy presented a slide listing every country awaiting Full Self-Driving regulatory approval. For Europe, that means more than 30 markets are still in the queue behind the Netherlands, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Tesla's China wholesale volume reached 85,982 vehicles in May 2026 — up 39% year on year and its strongest month of the year. The figure matters to Europe because Gigafactory Shanghai still feeds the continent's Model 3 supply.

Drone footage on 27 May 2026 captured the first standing steel of Tesla's dedicated Optimus humanoid-robot factory at the Giga Texas North Campus. Tesla is adding more than 5.2 million square feet of new building space by end of 2026 at an estimated $5–10 billion investment, with high-volume Optimus production targeted for 2027.

Three Tesla owners drove a Model 3 from Vancouver to Halifax on FSD (Supervised) v14.3.3 between 25 and 29 May 2026, covering 3,760 miles (6,051 km) in 4 days 21 hours without a single disengagement. Tesla's Autopilot lead Ashok Elluswamy publicly congratulated the team.

Tesla self-certified its Cybercab as an SAE Level 4 autonomous vehicle under a new Texas commercial-AV law that became enforceable on 28 May 2026. The same day, Elon Musk shared video of gold Cybercabs driving themselves out of Giga Texas with no driver and no safety chase. Volume production has been underway since April 2026.

Tesla registrations climbed sharply across most of Europe's major markets in May 2026, with France up 655% and Germany up 322% year on year. The rebound is real, but it is measured against a deeply depressed May 2025.