Tesla has scaled Optimus production from a few dozen a week in Q2 to several hundred a week by August (roughly 10x), targeting 1,000+ units weekly by year-end and eventually 20,000
The EU-wide vote on Tesla's supervised FSD that Musk teased for October 6 didn't happen
SpaceX has stopped bidding for new commercial Falcon 9 launches, reserving the rocket for U.S.
Google will send its first orbital AI test satellite, MVP, to space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 Transporter-18 rideshare on October 1
Finnish President Alexander Stubb publicly asked Elon Musk at the UN to extend Starlink coverage over areas with Russian ballistic-missile launchers
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed to intervene in X Corp. and Elon Musk's lawsuit challenging the European Commission's €120 million fine
Tesla said it has surpassed 15,000 cumulative vehicle registrations in Ireland, while reaffirming it remains in talks with Ireland's Department of Transport and the National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) over FSD (Supervised) approval -- a status update rather than a new approval, with seven EU countries including Czechia already cleared.
Tesla's EU new-vehicle registrations rose 52.7% year-over-year to 12,547 units in August
Wall Street firm Citizens set its Tesla revenue estimates 4% below consensus for 2027 and 12% below for 2028, arguing the market is pricing in Optimus and robotaxi contributions arriving sooner than Citizens expects -- a more specific follow-up to the cautious view it first flagged when initiating coverage at Market Perform in July.
Tesla held a rollout event at its new Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, handing trucks to fleet customers including PepsiCo, US Foods, DHL and WattEV -- the clearest sign yet that the truck is moving from pilot builds toward its planned 50,000-unit annual production run, following the September 18 factory opening and the record 2,500-unit order announced September 22.
✓ = officially confirmed by Tesla. Others are estimates from historical patterns — see ir.tesla.com.