Software
Halloween Mode, Optimus hand
Graveyard on the centre screen, car under a bedsheet, a robot hand out of the dirt. Looks a lot like the new Optimus hand if you ask me.
Tesla
FSD, Europe, the car
Supervised driving, European approvals, Terafab, and Grok Bot in the cabin. Tesla posts that need a price or a date go to Markets.
Markets
Tesla and SpaceX
Live TSLA and SPCX on one chart, Q3 earnings on 21 October, and last deliveries.
Video
Tracker
FSD Supervised Europe
8 of 27 EU countries have recognised the Dutch RDW approval. Countries, TCMV meetings, and the path to 15 votes and 65% population — on one page.
Tracker
Software updates
What each firmware number actually adds, in plain English — and whether it has reached cars in Ireland, or is still a US-only FSD build.
Reviews
Tesla car reviews
Model 3, Y, S, X and Cybertruck — who each one is for, how they drive, and what you give up. Independent notes, not a brochure.
Video
FSD
Four minutes in the Alps
Tesla Europe posted Supervised driving through Swiss snow. This is the clip the Nordics keep asking for.
Owner ask
Climate that reads the weather
We can already schedule preconditioning by time. The winter update I want: only fire it if the outside temperature actually needs it.
From the posts
Video
FSD
Germany is 19% of the EU
More people than all eight approved countries combined.
Video
Semi
Megacharger in Georgia
First site outside California — up to 1.2 MW per stall.
Video
Chips
Terafab, a million wafers
Austin plan at roughly 70% of everything TSMC makes today.
Europe
Germany is the rest of the story
Germany is about 19% of the EU’s population — more than all eight countries that have already approved FSD Supervised, combined. When Berlin moves, the EU-wide vote math moves with it. National yeses and the TCMV log now live on the same tracker.
Ireland
Beast vs the pothole
Tesla says FSD is finally learning to dodge potholes. When it lands on Irish roads that is the final boss — not a mountain pass, a crater on a regional road with oncoming traffic and a bus that will not move.
One of Tesla’s top AI engineers told an owner this week that improvements are coming for both potholes and dodgy navigation. I will believe it when Beast takes the N-road without flinching.
Chips
Terafab is bigger than a car launch
Elon is in talks with TSMC about making chips in Texas. Terafab is the $16.8 billion plant Tesla and SpaceX are building in Grimes County. The Austin plan tops out at a million wafer starts a month — roughly 70% of everything TSMC makes today, from a site none of these companies has ever run.
If TSMC actually operates it, that is a bigger deal than any trim or colour this year. I posted it that way because that is how it reads from the shareholder seat — the live quote and the next print live on Markets.
In the car
Grok Bot already has a job
You can link Grok Bot to the car through Tesla developer options. Ten minutes before the drive home it can check the weather and, depending on the temperature, warm the cabin, the wheel, the glass — or cool it if the sun has been sitting on Beast all day.
That is not a concept video. That is one of the bots I actually run. The longer version lives on the Grok desk.
Games
Robotaxi Boss on the desk.