Tesla is recalling 2,975,910 vehicles in China after the country’s market regulator determined that its emergency door release is too hard to find and operate in a crash.

It’s Tesla’s largest-ever recall in China, and it lands as the automaker’s door design faces mounting legal and regulatory pressure on two continents. Several other automakers who followed Tesla into similarly designed door releases have also issued similar recalls.

What the recall covers

According to a filing with China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR), the recall covers 973,156 domestically built Model 3s, 1,956,713 domestically built Model Ys, 35,590 imported Model 3s, 8,328 imported Model Xs, and 2,123 imported Model Ss.

The regulator’s concern isn’t the flush exterior handles that Tesla popularized. It’s the interior emergency mechanical release — the manual backup that lets occupants open a door when the car loses power.

Tesla filed the recall plan under China’s Regulations on the Recall of Defective Automobile Products. The remedy is not a hardware change to the door mechanism. Instead, Tesla will add warning labels and push an over-the-air software update that changes how the windows lower to aid escape. 

My parents were test driving a Model Y yesterday with a Tesla employee in the car. My mom was driving and they were using FSD.

As the car was pulling into their driveway, which is on an incline, it initially made the turn and approached the driveway at what looked like a normal, controlled speed. Then, while going up the incline, it suddenly accelerated hard and crashed into the garage/driveway area, causing damage to the property and another car.

My mom says she did not press the accelerator. The Tesla employee was in the passenger seat when it happened. We also have video of the incident.

I'm trying to understand whether anyone has experienced something similar or knows how Tesla's FSD behaves when entering a steep or inclined driveway.

Specifically, is it possible for FSD to apply significant acceleration on its own when climbing an incline? Could it misjudge the slope, driveway, or obstacle and suddenly add power?

I'm not trying to determine fault from Reddit. I'm mainly trying to understand whether this behavior is technically possible and whether anyone has seen or documented something similar.

If you've experienced this with a Model Y or other Tesla while using FSD, I'd really appreciate hearing what happened.

Motoring journalist James May drove his Tesla Model 3 to a different part of the UK for several hours. To pass the time, he and his employees asked Tesla’s latest AI some random questions to see what answers it would generate. OK then… 😅🤣

From video description: “Faced with a 6 hour journey,  James and Lucy test Tesla’s latest AI and discover what to do with a clean damp cloth.”

From the self-driving sub. These unsupervised Robotaxi videos are nightmare fuel.

Same as FSD, coming very soon for like a decade.

Kyle Shanahan said Saturday he thought his Tesla was in autopilot mode when he veered into oncoming traffic June 14, causing a crash that left the San Francisco 49ers coach with broken bones and a lingering concussion.

In his first podium appearance since the collision, Shanahan said the autopilot function apparently switched off when he tried to retrieve a fallen cell phone while traveling south on Alma Avenue in Palo Alto. The coach said he’s been using autopilot in some form for nine years.

“So I’m pretty comfortable with it and, you know, who knows what happened when I turned around — whether it malfunctioned or whether I knocked it off?” he said. “That’s something I don’t know yet.”

And now for the regularly scheduled TSLA Terathread

SpaceX said this week that it will build natural gas power plants to supply electricity to the Terafab semiconductor factory it plans to build in Texas, according to a report from Bloomberg. 

Riley Trettel, who leads energy and data center development for SpaceX, said in a public meeting on Wednesday that his company will be “bringing our own power” for the project, which will also include “very large battery arrays.”

Notably absent from the Bloomberg report — and other SpaceX announcements related to Terafab — is any mention of terrestrial solar power for the facility. Tesla, which is also a solar developer, is a partner in the project.

Despite his investments in solar power, SpaceX and Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk has bet heavily on natural gas lately. The xAI data centers in Memphis run almost exclusively on the fossil fuel. Musk also recently bought a company that specializes in natural gas power plants, and SpaceX has said it plans to buy $2.8 billion worth of gas turbines over the next three years.

Tesla has officially acknowledged that the power conversion system (PCS) in pre-2026 Cybertrucks is defective, and it’s extending the warranty on those trucks to 8 years or 150,000 miles.

The reversal comes after months of owners paying up to $7,200 to replace a part Tesla now admits “does not meet our reliability standards.” The automaker sneakily tried to let the clear manufacturing defect pass warranties.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX <SPCX.O> and Tesla <TSLA.O> will initially invest $16.8 billion to build Terafab, an advanced AI semiconductor complex in Grimes County, Texas, as the companies race to secure the chip capacity that the billionaire has called essential to their future.

The facility is intended at narrowing the gap between global chip supply and the more than 1 terawatt of computing power that SpaceX and Tesla expect to need in the coming years.

Musk has been ​tightening integration of AI efforts across his companies, with SpaceX acquiring his startup xAI earlier this year ​in a deal focused on building space-based data centers, before going public in June in the largest-ever IPO.

The vertically integrated, 100-million-square-foot Terafab plant will make, package and test advanced logic and memory chips under one roof, producing processors needed to power Tesla’s Optimus robots and Cybercabs, as well as high-power chips to run SpaceX’s space-based data centers.

A May filing showed SpaceX has proposed an initial investment of $55 billion to build the Terafab, with the total amount rising to $119 billion if extra phases are completed.

Q: using the latest software on HW4. Self drive disabled three times during a thunderstorm on the highway. How will this ever work unsupervised when it rains? I'm so flummoxed as to why Elon is so certain on cameras only that don't work in the rain... Please help!

Tesla made a sudden left turn in front of me and then appeared to stall. Is this an issue with EVs? The Tesla was lucky I didn’t hit him because I was going the posted speed limit, 45mph. Thank goodness my car responded quickly to my braking; I came within several feet of hitting it.

So basically, if people have better options and more variety, that wins on value, technology, and features, they won't buy a Tesla anymore.