Zero emission truck deployments SURGED up 37% in 2025 as momentum builds
Zero emission truck deployments SURGED up 37% in 2025 as momentum builds

CALSTART’s Zeroing in on Zero-Emission Trucks report is out, and the results are in: after getting off to a slow start in the first half of 2025, zero-emission truck deployment in the US picked up steam in the second half, climbing to 4.14% of all new …

Survey Sunday: with nearly a trillion dollars, will Elon try to make things right?
Survey Sunday: with nearly a trillion dollars, will Elon try to make things right?

Last week, we asked Electrek readers a simple whether they believed that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, after becoming the world’s first trillionaire, would finally make good on the ambitious promises he spent years making about accelerating sustainab…

TechCrunch Mobility: All eyes on Tesla FSD

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.

Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2026 delivery consensus: 406,000 vehicles expected
Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2026 delivery consensus: 406,000 vehicles expected

Tesla released its company-compiled delivery consensus for the second quarter of 2026, and Wall Street analysts now expect the automaker to deliver 406,024 vehicles.
That would be just 5.7% growth over the 384,122 vehicles Tesla delivered in Q2 2025 — …

Tesla settles FSD crash lawsuit as federal investigations continue

The lawsuit was connected to a fatal 2023 crash involving a vehicle using the company’s advanced driver assistance system known as Full Self-Driving.

Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal ‘Full Self-Driving’ pedestrian crash
Tesla settles lawsuit over fatal ‘Full Self-Driving’ pedestrian crash

Tesla has quietly settled the lawsuit brought by the family of a pedestrian killed by a Model Y running “Full Self-Driving,” according to Bloomberg. The terms were not disclosed.
It’s the first known pedestrian death tied to FSD — and the same crash th…

Tesla Semi slides on ice and impressively regains control
Tesla Semi slides on ice and impressively regains control

Tesla’s Semi program lead Dan Priestley shared a video of the electric truck holding its line on icy winter surfaces, sliding under control rather than skidding out of it.
The clip is a rare look at the Tesla Semi’s Vehicle Dynamics Control (VDC) syste…

Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles
Trump DOT proposes dropping the brake pedal requirement for fully autonomous vehicles

The Trump administration’s Department of Transportation proposed on Wednesday removing the federal requirement for brake pedals in vehicles designed to be driven exclusively by automated driving systems. The rule change, if adopted, would eliminate one…

Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter
Toyota is closing in on GM as America’s top-selling automaker as hybrids surge and EVs falter

Toyota is gaining on General Motors in the race for America’s sales crown, and the gap is now the narrowest it has been in half a decade. A new forecast from Cox Automotive, released on Wednesday, projects Toyota will sell approximately 1,250,000 vehic…

Tesla to hire 1,000 more Giga Berlin workers as Europe demand returns
Tesla to hire 1,000 more Giga Berlin workers as Europe demand returns

Tesla plans to hire another 1,000 workers at its Gigafactory outside Berlin, the automaker confirmed Thursday, as it moves to ramp production at its only European plant.
The hiring push comes as Tesla targets 7,500 vehicles per week at the Grünheide fa…