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Tesla Energy said Oct. 6 that new Model 3 and Model Y cars can now back up a home through Powerwall 3, adding over two days of power in an outage. Tesla's Powershare page ties it to U.S. and Puerto Rico orders placed on or after Oct. 1.
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles and produced 464,391 in Q3 2026, with 13.7 GWh of energy storage deployed. Deliveries beat consensus and ran about 22,000 ahead of production; full financials arrive Oct. 21.
On Oct. 1, 2026, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-18 rideshare from Vandenberg is scheduled to loft Planet Labs’ Project Suncatcher M1 prototype with Google TPUs, the first flight test for Alphabet’s orbital AI compute moonshot.
Speaker Julie Menin issued a subpoena on Sept. 28 requiring Elon or a SpaceXAI representative to testify under oath on Oct. 5. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have agreed to appear.
SpaceX's Starship went orbital for the first time on Monday, deployed all 26 Starlink V3 satellites, then ended the flight early with a Pacific splashdown north of Hawaii about three hours after launch.
Tesla Semi launched high-volume production at the Sparks plant. Company target about 50,000 trucks a year. Elon congratulated the Semi team.
Starlink says Starlink Mobile is available in Uganda with Airtel Uganda for apps and messaging where cell signal is not. Second African market after DRC.
SpaceX rolled Ship 41 to the pad and stacked Starship. Launch stays on track for Monday, Sept. 28, pending regulatory approval. Elon: preparing for Monday.
Starlink posted a ¥0 Mini rental start in some Japan regions. The residential page lists ¥7,100 a month and no hardware start cost in some areas.
Starlink named Mobicom for Starlink Mobile across Mongolia for herders, miners, and remote areas without cell signal. Order path not in the post.
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