BYD overseas set the record

Sealion took twelve thousand

BYD Sealion 08 launched 2 Sep 2026; Ocean sales said >12,000 orders in 24 hours. PHEV from ~229,900 yuan; EV pack 115.072 kWh, CLTC up to 900 km. Electrek 3 Sep.

The Texas robotaxi book is public

TxMCCS is a public file. Tesla Robotaxi LLC showed 7 then 45 Cybercabs on 31 August. A listing is an authorization, not a fare. SB 2807 from 28 May.

Forty-five on the Texas book

Tesla Robotaxi LLC listed 45 purpose-built 2026 Cybercabs on TxMCCS on 31 August. VINs begin 5YJA. Trackers put the Texas robotaxi book above 300. A listing is not a fare.

Now serving more of Dallas

Tesla Robotaxi posted a bigger Dallas geofence on Friday, 29 August. TeslaNorth filed it Sunday. Hours are 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., seven days, six cities. Still Model Ys.

Bifid in the factory

Hard. Bifid cipher. Keyword TESLA, period 5, I/J share.

Playfair, Tesla

Hard. Playfair square. Keyword TESLA. I/J share. X fills doubles.

Sixteen billion ordinary kilometres, still supervised

Tesla’s safety page showed Full Self-Driving (Supervised) past 16 billion kilometres in early May. In January Elon Musk had named that figure as the training data needed for safe unsupervised driving.

Brookshire starts Megapack 3

On 6 August Tesla’s Megapack account said Megapack 3 is rolling at the new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas. Designed capacity is 50 GWh a year. Each unit holds about 5 MWh.

Austin opens the two-seater on 3 September

Tesla posted Exclusive Access: Cybercab on 22 August. Invite-only in Austin on 3 September. RSVPs close 30 August at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. Livestream for everyone else. 103 Wh/km, 48 kWh, 1,412 kg.

Optimus Gen 3 goes into the old S/X hall

Tesla told JPMorgan in August that the Optimus Gen 3 design is finalized, the supply chain is essentially locked, and a production line is going into Fremont’s old Model S/X facility.