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Tesla Model S P100D up for grabs in Dream Giveaway’s first EV prize, June 25 deadline
Dream Giveaway, just as the company’s name suggests, is in the business of giving away vehicles that one would classify as a “dream car.” Starting with two Chevrolet Corvettes in 2008, the Florida-based organization has expanded its national sweepstakes initiative over the year. By popular demand, the organization has turned its sights on another American muscle car this year: one that boasts 920 lb-ft of torque and a 0-60 mph time of 2.2 seconds – the Tesla Model S P100D.
The world’s fastest production car happens to be Dream Giveaway’s first all-electric vehicle prize, which the company is set to give in July. The last day to enter will be June 25, 2019.
More than an organization that gives away America’s most-desired vehicles, Dream Giveaway also supports several humanitarian causes. Tickets for the Model S P100D are not even acquired through regular purchases. Instead, they are obtained depending on the amount of donations that participants in the sweepstakes wish to give.
A key nonprofit that will be supported by the Tesla Model S P100D raffle is Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), a grassroots movement that started back in 1980 by a mother in an unassuming American kitchen table. During that year, the number of deaths from drunk driving ended up exceeding the number of deaths from wars fought by America. The number of fatalities from drunk driving has largely decreased over the years, thanks to the advent of safety-focused vehicles like the Model S. But there’s still work to be done, and MADD pledges to see things through until drunk driving deaths reach zero.
It should be noted that MADD is but the tip of the iceberg for the organizations that will benefit from Dream Giveaway’s Tesla Model S P100D sweepstakes. Other benefactors for the Model S giveaway are Honor Flight of West Central Florida, which helps veterans visit memorials free of charge; Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries, which helps Detroit’s homeless population; Smile Network International, which aids kids born with a cleft palate; the National Guard Educational Foundation (NGEF), which aims to raise awareness about the work of the National Guard; and Bright Pink, which is dedicated to the prevention and early detection of breast cancer.
The winner of Dream Giveaway’s Tesla Model S P100D sweepstakes will be bringing home a pretty unique vehicle. Since acquiring the car, the organization has given the Tesla a number of upgrades, in the form of aftermarket wheels, a carbon fiber interior trim, and lowered suspension. A Tesla wall charger is also bundled with the vehicle, and all of its taxes, which are worth around $35,000, have been paid.
Don’t miss this last chance to participate in Dream Giveaway’s Model S P100D sweepstakes. Enter by June 25, 2019, and get a chance to take home this all-electric beast.
Dream Giveaway originally reached out to Teslarati with the goal of raising awareness for New Beginning Children’s Homes, through a sponsorship that would amplify reach for their The Tesla Model S P100D sweepstakes.
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Tesla Mobile App gets a new feature that wrap fans are going to love
Tesla’s Summer Update removes the USB drive step from customizing your car’s digital wrap design.
Tesla’s latest 2026 Summer Update quietly closes out one of the more tedious steps in personalizing a Tesla’s digital appearance. Uploading a custom wrap design used to require a USB drive. Now it doesn’t.
The feature is listed in Tesla’s release notes as “Send Custom Wraps from Mobile App.” The company described it plainly: “Skip the USB drive and upload a custom wrap of your car from the mobile app. Instructions for creating a custom wrap here: github.com/teslamotors/custom-wraps.”
The digital wrap tool has been around since Tesla’s 2024 Holiday Update, when it launched for Cybertruck owners first, as Teslarati reported at the time. Getting a design onto the car meant formatting a USB drive, creating a folder named exactly “Wraps,” dropping in PNG files sized between 512×512 and 1024×1024 pixels and under 1 MB each, then plugging the drive in and applying the wrap through Toybox. Tesla expanded the tool to other models and renamed it from “Colorizer” to “Paint Shop” with the 2025 Holiday Update, while also adding license plate and window tint customization alongside the wraps.
Custom wraps via mobile app https://t.co/5OydZ26g9p pic.twitter.com/uexU0ZePxu
— Tesla (@Tesla) July 22, 2026
The latest Summer Update removes the USB step from that process. Owners will be able to pull a design from wherever they saved it, whether that’s a download from social media or something built from Tesla’s own GitHub templates, and push it to the car directly through the app.
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It’s a small fix relative to the rest of this latest release, which also included expanded Grok voice commands, automatic navigation that learns regular routes, and self-driving stats inside the mobile app, all detailed in our rundown of the full Summer Update. The USB requirement was one of the more common complaints about Paint Shop since it launched. Tesla did not say when the wrap upload change would reach individual vehicles, only that the broader update is rolling out now in waves.
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Tesla Diner is throwing a birthday party with a Franz-signed special treat
Tesla Diner turns one on July 21 with Optimus, roller skates, and a Franz-signed hat.
Tesla is throwing its Hollywood Diner a first birthday party on July 21 and the celebration comes with a guest list of unique items, including a limited run of Tesla Diner birthday hats personally signed by Tesla Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen for the first 50 customers who place an in-car order at midnight.
One year after lines wrapped around the block on Santa Monica Boulevard for a diner that most of the restaurant industry did not take seriously, Tesla is making the case that the concept was worth the years it took to build. The concept had been in Musk’s head since at least 2018, when he floated the idea of “an old school drive-in, roller skates and rock restaurant” on X, describing it years later as “‘Grease’ meets ‘The Jetsons’ with Supercharging.”
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What made the diner genuinely different from any restaurant that came before it was not the menu or the nostalgia. It was the ordering model. Tesla owners could place food orders directly from their vehicle’s touchscreen before arriving, a small feature that hints at something much larger on the horizon. As the Cybercab and unsupervised FSD expand across major cities, the diner model becomes a template for an entirely new kind of commerce. A robotaxi pulling in to charge does not need a human to walk up to a counter. The vehicle places the order, the food is ready on arrival, and the passenger never interrupts the experience of being driven somewhere else. It is the first glimpse of what drive-through commerce looks like when the car is doing the driving.
As Teslarati has reported, Musk signaled immediately after opening that the Hollywood location was only the beginning, posting that Tesla would expand the concept to major cities worldwide and along Supercharger corridors on long-distance routes if the first location proved successful. One year in, the birthday celebration on July 21 makes a strong case that it has. Tesla announced a full day of events including a Cybercab on display, a birthday menu, Optimus in attendance, face painting, a photo booth, roller skating servers, a light show, a Skypad DJ, and complimentary collectibles.
If Musk’s ambition holds, the Hollywood diner is year one of something much bigger. The birthday party is the proof of concept. The robotaxi fleet is the business model waiting behind it.
Tesla Diner is turning 1 on July 21st, so we’re throwing a party
Come swing by for a day full of fun:
– Cybercab on display
– Birthday menu
– @Tesla_Optimus
– Face painting for kids & adults
– Photo booth
– Servers on roller skates delivering your order
– Light show
– Skypad DJ… pic.twitter.com/TD8pOjihYs— Tesla North America (@tesla_na) July 18, 2026
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NTSB findings on fatal Tesla crash tell a very different story
The NTSB confirmed the driver, not Tesla’s FSD, caused the fatal Texas house crash.
The National Transportation Safety Board released preliminary findings Wednesday confirming that a Tesla driver, not the vehicle’s software, caused a fatal crash in Katy, Texas in June. The driver, 44-year-old Michael Butler, had engaged Full Self-Driving Supervised mode on Rose Hollow Lane, a residential street with a 30 mph speed limit, before manually overriding the system by pressing the accelerator pedal all the way to 100%. Data recovered from the 2025 Tesla Model 3 showed the vehicle was traveling over 70 miles per hour when it struck a home and killed 76-year-old Martha Avila, who was inside. Weather was clear, the road was dry, and it was daylight.
Texas man charged in fatal Tesla crash where he blamed Autopilot
Butler told authorities he had passed out at the wheel. But security camera footage obtained by the NTSB told a different story, and showed the car accelerating through an intersection before leaving the road entirely. Police also found that Butler’s phone had Google searches including the terms “Tesla FSD not aggressive enough 2026” and “Tesla FSD too timid,” raising serious questions about how he was using the system before the crash. Butler has since been charged with manslaughter. The victim’s family has filed a lawsuit against both Butler and Tesla, alleging negligence.
The NTSB findings aligned directly with what Tesla VP of AI Software Ashok Elluswamy had already stated publicly on X in the weeks after the crash, writing that “the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100%.” The data confirmed his account.
Yup. In this case, the driver manually overrode self-driving by pressing the accelerator all the way to 100% of the accel pedal in this residential area. They reached a speed of 73 mph during the crash, and had the accelerator pressed even after the crash.
— Ashok Elluswamy (@aelluswamy) June 22, 2026
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Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2026 earnings results: miss on EPS, beat on revenue
