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Tesla is only a few months away from its planned Roadster demo, and it might be getting a fresh new logo to boot. The automaker filed two new trademark applications on Tuesday with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. One of the filings shows a sleek design featuring three minimalist lines that appear to form a vehicle. The second application is for the styling of the name. The company submitted protections for "Roadster" in an all-caps styling with a stretched shape and segmented letters.

China is banning Tesla-style concealed door handles on electric vehicles to address safety concerns regarding people getting trapped inside their cars. The ban will take effect on January 1st next year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's announcement, and will require all vehicles sold in China to have mechanical release door handles on the inside and outside.

According to The New York Times, the new Waymo funding came from Alphabet, Dragoneer Investment Group, DST Global, and Sequoia Capital. The fact that investors outside Alphabet put money in is a vote of confidence. The investment puts Waymo's valuation at $126 billion. Ford's market cap is $55 billion and GM's is $78 billion. The disparity highlights the hurdles to the industry's growth.

If you're an electric-vehicle enthusiast in the United States, you can't help but be a bit jealous of Europe right now. Increased competition from China has forced the European automakers to get better and better, and now, buyers have more and better choices than they've ever had. It's little wonder why EVs outsold gas cars in Europe in December for the first time. But Tesla, as of late, has largely been left out of that success story. Perhaps due to their bounty of EV choices,

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but that's pretty demonstrably false. It's a good reminder that consumer sentiment often lags the reality on the ground. Americans don't have a damned clue who makes good EVs. That's what I took away from the January, 2026 edition of the Electric Vehicle Intelligence Report, which measures consumer sentiment toward EV brands. Surveyed consumer sentiment toward EV brands seems to be based on vibes and internal-combustion car experience, not anything resembling reality.

Tesla has confirmed that it is now producing both the anode and cathode of its 4680 battery cells using a dry-electrode process, marking a key breakthrough in a technology the company has been working to industrialize for years. The update, disclosed in Tesla's Q4 and FY 2025 update letter, suggests the company has finally resolved one of the most challenging aspects of its next-generation battery cells.

The following are live updates from Tesla's Q4 and FY 2025 earnings call. I will be updating this article in real time, so please keep refreshing the page to view the latest updates on this story. 16:25 CT - Good day to everyone, and welcome to another Tesla earnings call live blog. There's a lot to unpack from Tesla's Q4 and FY 2025 update letter, so I'm pretty sure this earnings call will be quite interesting.

Tesla Inc.'s ( NASDAQ: TSLA) share price pulled back 4.0% in the past week. The company reported a 46% drop in annual profit for 2025 but announced plans for $20 billion in capital spending. It also said it would end production of its flagship Model S and Model X vehicles. While it began operating "unsupervised" robotaxi rides in Austin, Texas, the NHTSA is investigating reports of Tesla vehicles with automated systems running red lights and making dangerous lane changes.

Tesla beat Wall Street's expectations, but reported its first-ever decline in annual revenue and said profits fell by 46% last year, while revenue from car sales fell by 11% year-over-year in the last quarter. Executives largely shrugged off the headwinds, with Musk and other top employees reiterating in the analyst Q&A their belief that autonomous vehicles will shortly render traditional forms of transport obsolete.

You can still buy the vehicles as long as there are units to be sold, and Tesla promises to support them for as long as people have them. Once they're gone, though, they're gone for good, because Tesla is converting their production space in the company's Fremont factory into a space for the manufacturing of Optimus humanoid robots.

Tesla will discontinue the Model S and Model X in the second quarter of 2026, Elon Musk said in an earnings call with investors today. Musk said the reasons for cancelling the vehicle programs was to make room at Tesla's Fremont factory for production of its Optimus humanoid robot. The Model S is Tesla's luxury sedan, first released in 2012, while the Model X was its SUV with gull-wing doors, introduced in 2015.