TSLA -1.71% vs Nasdaq -0.52% to close at $348.75 · 7:10am AEST
US cash is closed for the weekend. Tesla's last regular close is Friday: $348.75, down 1.71 percent, with the Nasdaq down 0.52 percent. That gave back Thursday's 2.60 percent bounce and lagged a down tape rather than leading one. Volume was about 33 million versus a 41 million average, so don't hang a thesis on the session. After-hours printed $348.19, down another 56 cents. Don't overfit that print. Next cash open is Monday around 11:30pm Melbourne.
Tesla quoted AI chief Ashok Elluswamy on Saturday with "Less than a week away" against Elluswamy's "The streets won't be the same anymore." That timing matches the invite-only Austin Cybercab launch event on 3 September. RSVP closes tonight, 30 August at 11:59pm PT, which is 4:59pm Monday Melbourne. That is an event, not a confirmed paid public start. tesla.com still says Cybercab rides are "in the future."
Tesla Robotaxi posted that it is now serving more of Dallas, with before-and-after maps of the service area. That is a geofence expansion in an existing unsupervised metro, not a new city and not a hours change. Paid unsupervised Model Y rides are still 6am to 10pm, seven days a week, in Austin, Dallas, Houston, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa. Tesla.com still lists those six metros.
Elon Musk said on X Saturday that SpaceX and Tesla are each building 100 gigawatts a year of solar production capacity as fast as possible, and that natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years. He added that the limiting factor for gas turbine production is casting blades and vanes. That is Elon on X, not an IR filing, and the post cut off mid-sentence, so don't stretch it into a capacity timeline.
Tesla Europe said the entry-level Model 3 now comes with 572 kilometers of WLTP range, up from 534, thanks to new tires. Not a Tesla App says that is a factory switch from 18-inch Photon wheels to 18-inch Prismata on the Rear-Wheel Drive car in left-hand-drive European markets, with no battery change. The United Kingdom and Ireland configurators still show the old Photon setup and 534 kilometers. It is a rolling-resistance tweak, not a new pack.
Tesla Motors Australia emailed Hardware 3 owners that FSD Supervised v14 Lite is in active development for Australia and New Zealand. The same note says it is already rolling in North America and South Korea. Not a Tesla App picked that up from an owner who posted the email Friday. That is development underway, not a release date, and Europe still does not have a matching note.
Einride's CEO, Roozbeh Charli, told FreightWaves they expect about 75 of their 500 Tesla Semis deployed this year and the rest by the end of 2027. Teslarati flagged the interview Friday. The original August 18 order was phased over 24 months starting September. This tightens that into a year-end first tranche. It is still an order, not trucks already in the yard.
Calendar: Cybercab Austin invite event is 3 September, RSVP tonight at 11:59pm PT. Tesla Semi has an invite-only Semi Rollout at Sparks on 24 September, RSVP 2 September. IAA Transportation in Hannover is 15 to 20 September, where Tesla said it will unveil Semi specs for Europe. Street estimate for Q3 earnings is around 21 October.
