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Tesla Model X windshield connects driver with nature & tech like never before
Tesla’s Model X “Big Sky” windshield continues to grab media and consumer attention due to its unique design and gorgeous aesthetics. But beyond having world-class engineering, Model X’s panoramic windshield provides an intimate experience allowing driver and passengers to intersect with nature like never-before-seen.
A new video, filmed largely in Yosemite National Park, provides the viewer with a first person perspective on what it’s like to ride inside a Tesla Model X. The huge windshield, boasting 31-square-feet (2.9-square-meters) of glass, provides an unparalleled view of the surroundings. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has called this a “helicopter cockpit-like riding experience.” As the Model X reaches Yosemite park’s outer gates, images of puffy clouds against a deep blue sky balance wide angle shots of the Model X maneuvering carefully through traffic.
We’re left with an impression of being one with our surroundings while the vehicle continues to provide passenger comfort in the form of individually heated seats and navigation data displayed on an enormous 17″ center touchscreen.
Visibility benefits of Model X’s enormous windshield
The Model X panoramic windshield brings the world inside. Each person riding within the all-electric crossover SUV is given an enhanced ability to see around the car, accentuating the safety of all. The video reveals shots from both the driver’s and passengers’ points of view. Extending all the way above the driver and front passenger seats back to the rear seat, the windshield reinforces improved visibility for all the Model X’ occupants, regardless of their seating arrangement within the vehicle.
The larger windshield also seems to give the driver a better sense of surrounding and oncoming traffic, as several video scenes display fast-moving vehicles zooming down and around mountainsides, or over-sized campers crawling up elevation changes. In each, the Model X, due to its windshield with one massive piece of glass, empowers the driver to fuller perspectives of the road, other vehicles, and obstacles.
Plane-spotting for the kids has never been more fun in the Model X.
The Tesla Model X windshield is ultraviolet and infrared-blocking; it also includes rain-sensing, adjustable-speed windshield wipers. “The Model X has the largest all-glass panoramic windshield in production, providing an unparalleled view of the stars and the sky above,” according to a statement from the company. “Optimized solar tinting and obstruction-free view creates unlimited visibility for the driver and all passengers.”
Great for road trips
The video setting of Yosemite symbolizes the essential American yearning to be a rugged individualist. The Model X windshield reveals tall firs that foreground sheer mountain cliffs and rugged terrain. It’s a truly separate experience from driving in any other vehicle. We peer deeply ahead into a red-lit tunnel carved into a mountain, move to overhead shots of overhanging branches, and ease back down to road level two-lane traffic.
The video makes us ask, What better way is there to strive toward a better lifestyle than through the experience of owning a Model X? As the landscape moves by the windshield, the fluidity of the visual experience which is gained from the extensive windshield area invites ease of long distance travel. That, of course, is in addition to the car’s quiet, luxury features, and comfort.
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Reaffirms our green philosophy
We as viewers feel like we’re part of something bigger than ourselves. We’re part of a more sustainable and secure world, which makes us all safer and healthier. If we hadn’t before, we come to understand how Tesla has designed the Model X with its panoramic windshield in a way that combines style, acceleration, and handling with advanced technologies. We’re part of a viable alternative to fossil-fuel cars. It really is emblematic of Elon Musk’s master plan realized.
We feel part of the Tesla’s global efforts to expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy as a primary sustainable solution.
Elon Musk escalated his monthslong feud with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey this week, pledging that his own AI video tool will produce a competing version before the year is out. Responding to a fan-made, AI-generated clip of the ancient epic, Musk wrote on X, “Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer.”
In June, Musk quoted an xAI-shared trailer built entirely with Grok Imagine Video 1.5, a two-minute-plus reimagining of The Odyssey styled after a 1970s classical Hollywood epic, and predicted “full movies by the end of the year,” as Teslarati reported at the time. That trailer, built from 36 consistent shots by a single creator, was Musk’s proof of concept. This week’s pledge turns that prediction into a specific commitment, tied directly to Homer’s text rather than a generic demo.
Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer https://t.co/bVHzUmY9WN
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2026
When a fan separately proposed that Musk fund a live-action alternative, to “give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek,” Musk replied with two words: “I’m down.”
The Grok Imagine pledge lands as the tool’s underlying infrastructure has changed hands. Grok is no longer a standalone product, it folded into SpaceXAI after SpaceX’s acquisition of xAI closed in February, meaning the compute behind any Odyssey production traces back to the same Colossus supercomputers now bundled into SpaceX’s pitch to investors. Musk has separately said SpaceX’s own engineering data is being fed into the next major Grok training run, a two trillion parameter model he’s called the “2T run.”
Whether Grok Imagine can sustain a feature length narrative, rather than a series of impressive individual shots, remains the open question.
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Cybertruck
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.
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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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