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[Tesla Observer @Tesla0bserver]

@ChiefAcorn @teslayoda It sucks that most states add extra EV reg fees ($50-290/yr) to offset lost gas tax. That said, electricity + near-zero maintenance usually saves $100-200+/mo vs ICE depending on your mileage. Leasing can keep payments low with full warranty just saying

[Tesla Observer @Tesla0bserver]

@ChiefAcorn @teslayoda You can lease it with super low monthly payments, near-zero maintenance, and massive fuel savings. Factor those in and the total cost of ownership makes it by far the cheapest option.

[Captain Eli @TheCaptainEli]

🚗💸 Gas prices vs. Tesla charging in France right now:

At the pump (Auchan):

• SP95 E10: €1.909/L (~$7.23/gallon)
• SP98: €2.037/L (~$7.71/gallon)
• Diesel (Gazole): €1.959/L (~$7.42/gallon)

Tesla Supercharger (La Seyne-sur-Mer):

• €9.85 for 57.95 kWh → only €0.17/kWh

One full tank of petrol can easily cost €80-100+ in Europe…

This Tesla charge cost less than €10.

The future is getting cheaper every day.

What do you think — still worth driving a gas car in Europe?

[Ashok Elluswamy @aelluswamy]

Unsupervised Robotaxi now available in the greater Austin area.

[Tesla Australia & New Zealand @TeslaAUNZ]

Model Y was the best selling vehicle of any kind in Australia for the month of May

Making it the first electric car in history to lead the overall AU sales charts across all fuel types

[Tesla Observer @Tesla0bserver]

@elonmusk @jamesdouma High X Income

[Tesla Observer @Tesla0bserver]

@ppscob @daltonbrewer I agreed on the first sentence, but I disagree even more with you on your second sentence... Tesla will pass $500 soon

[Tsla Chan @Tslachan]

$TSLA
Sales of Tesla in Europe for May 2026 are being made public. Here are the rates of increase and decrease in major countries.

🇳🇴 Norway: +27% (Sales in May: 3,295 units)
🇸🇪 Sweden : +71% (Sales in May: 858 units)
🇩🇰 Denmark: +136% (Sales in May: 1,752 units)
🇫🇷 France: +655% (Sales in May: 5,446 units)

[David Moss @DavidMoss]

3,000 straight miles in Canada 100.0% full Tesla Self-Driving without an intervention

If you don’t know myself, @DevinOlsenn, & @scotsrule08 are attempting to cross all of Canada all on FSD 14.3.3

We have less than a thousand miles to go!

[Nic Cruz Patane @niccruzpatane]

Tesla FSD (Supervised) is now officially available in 11 countries!

• U.S.
• Canada
• Mexico
• Puerto Rico
• The Netherlands
• Australia
• New Zealand
• South Korea
• China
• Lithuania
• Estonia (new)

Eventually, most of this map will be blue.

[Robin @xdNiBoR]

FSD is now available in 3 European countries!
🇳🇱🇱🇹🇪🇪

[Tesla Europe, Middle East & Africa @teslaeurope]

FSD Supervised now approved in Estonia🇪🇪. Rollout will begin soon

[Cern Basher @CernBasher]

Tesla patented a self-cleaning camera lens system that detects dirt, sprays cleaning fluid, and uses a small wiper to clear the lens so the camera can keep seeing properly.

This document is a U.S. patent for a “Lens Cleaning System” assigned to Tesla, Inc. It was issued on May 26, 2026, as U.S. Patent No. 12,636,684 B1. It describes a system for automatically cleaning a camera lens, for vehicles, robots, or other machines that rely on cameras.

The problem it solves is straightforward: cameras can get dirty from rain, mud, dust, oil, snow, bugs, or other debris. If the lens is dirty, the camera may not “see” clearly, which can hurt the performance of driver-assistance systems, autonomous vehicles, robotics, surveillance systems, or any machine that depends on visual data.

The invention combines software detection, liquid spraying, and a mechanical wiper. First, the system determines whether debris is on the lens. Then it can spray liquid onto the lens. After that, a wiper blade moves across the lens to remove the debris.

The diagrams show a compact assembly around a camera lens. It includes a camera/lens, a reservoir or liquid source, a nozzle or tube to spray cleaning fluid, a wiper blade, and a motor/controller that moves the wiper. The system is designed so the wiper can move across the lens and then return to a resting position.

A key point is that the system is not just a dumb washer. It can use information from the camera or other sensors to decide whether the lens is obstructed and whether cleaning is needed. For example, if the image quality drops or the system detects debris, it can trigger the cleaning process.

The patent also describes different cleaning materials. The liquid could be water, alcohol-based fluid, oil-based fluid, surfactant, or other cleaning solution, depending on the use case and environment.

The practical value is that Tesla wants cameras to remain reliable in messy real-world conditions. For autonomous driving or robotics, dirty cameras are a serious problem because vision systems depend on clean, usable images. This patent is basically about giving the camera a built-in way to clean itself instead of relying on a human to wipe it off.

[Tesla Observer @Tesla0bserver]

@Tesla For years they held it back. Most did not want to innovate. Thank you Tesla & team

[Tesla @Tesla]

From the first pioneer wagons to cross-country trips on FSD Supervised in under 200 years

[Tesla Observer @Tesla0bserver]

@DonatasStundys Well done, I'm happy for you! Enjoy ;)

[大趙 @zhongwen2005]

A Tesla Model 3 was involved in a serious traffic accident, but the driver and passengers were unharmed.
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[Jawwwn @jawwwn_]

.@PalmerLuckey: American companies don't actually have engineers anymore.

"American companies have been hollowed out."

"We're not teaching engineers how to be engineers anymore."

"We're not teaching designers how to actually design things to be manufactured."

"We're teaching them how to be high-level design shops that put together a design package, that gets sent to the real engineers in China—and they actually figure out how to do the work."

"People are turning into architecture astronauts."

"They pick components, and they put them in a nominal layout."

"But the real work of—how am I actually going to put this together? How am I going to build a manufacturing line to make this? How am I going to need to figure out how to do the one, two, three, four, five different revisions of this board to pass radio emissions and interference standards? That's all done in China. So they are the real engineers."

Via @HooverInst