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Who’s Coming, Who’s Going at Tesla Motors
Tesla has had two senior employees depart recently, but has acquired the services of Felix Godard, designer to the upcoming Porsche Mission E sports car.
Working at Tesla could be a dream job. It is one of the most high profile and innovative companies in both the tech and automotive worlds, but with that also comes high stresses.
Elon Musk is known to demand a lot of his people. Some get burned out after a while. Others just want a fresh set of challenges. One of those is Riccardo Biasini. He joined Tesla in 2011 and worked his way up in the company to the senior system engineer leading the company’s vehicle propulsion team.
SpaceX and Tesla rated most meaningful work in high tech. Also, most stressful, but that goes with the territory. https://t.co/y8s4UdMF5z
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 6, 2016
Biasani has just announced he is leaving the company to head up the AI unit at George Hotz’s start-up, Comma.ai. Hotz says his company will soon offer aftermarket systems that bring lane keeping and automatic braking to new cars. He promises his system will outperform any others on the market — including Tesla’s Autopilot.
According to Forbes, Hotz is using an Acura ILX as his test vehicle. It is equipped with 6 cameras, Lidar, and radar. A computer with a Nividia graphics card resides in the trunk and coordinates the inputs from all devices using machine learning algorithms that Hotz developed.
Also leaving Tesla is James Chen, vice president of regulatory affairs and deputy general counsel. Most recently, Chen spearheaded the operation that defeated the General Motors sponsored legislation in Indiana that would have eliminated the company’s ability to sell cars directly to customers in that state. Chen has not revealed what company he is going to next.
On the plus side, Tesla has hired Félix Godard, the designer for the interior of the futuristic Porsche Mission E electric sports car. Godard will play an important role in designing the interior of the Model 3. At is reveal, the Model 3 featured on a minimalistic dashboard unlike any seen on a production prototype before.
Tesla has confirmed that dashboard is what will be in the Model 3 when it rolls off the assembly line. When Porsche revealed a prototype of the Mission E, it had this to say in a press release. “Instruments are intuitively operated by eye tracking and gesture control, some even via holograms — highly oriented toward the driver by automatically adjusting the displays to the driver’s position.”
Elon Musk has hinted that Phase 2 of the Model 3 reveal — scheduled to take place closer to the date when production begins — will be more astounding than Phase 1. The Porsche Mission E concept may offer an important clue as to what Tesla has in mind for the final production version of its car. A full head’s up display spread across the entire windshield? Holograms? Imagine a $35,000 sedan that has the same technology as the most advanced Porsche in history.
Anytime someone leaves Tesla, there are stories about poaching and outrageous signing bonuses. The process works both ways, with the company attracting talent from other companies and some of its employees finding the grass is greener elsewhere. Tesla probably won’t miss a beat from the departure of Ricardo Biasini or James Chen. But the arrival of Félix Godard suggests exciting times ahead for Tesla.
Source: BGR, Forbes
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) reported its earnings for the first quarter of 2026 on Wednesday afternoon. Here’s what the company reported compared to what Wall Street analysts expected.
The earnings results come after Tesla reported a massive beat on vehicle deliveries for the second quarter, delivering 489,126 vehicles and building 451,758 cars during the three-month span.
This was a major shock for those on Wall Street as they anticipated somewhere around 400,000 deliveries for the quarter, and showed Tesla still has plenty of demand for its vehicles around the world and in the U.S. despite losing the $7,500 EV Tax Credit last year.
Tesla Q2 2026 Earnings Results
- Non-GAAP EPS – $0.33 reported vs. $0.53 expected
- Revenues – $28.236 billion reported vs. $26.4 billion expected
- Free Cash Flow- -$1.092B
- Profit -$ 4.751B
Tesla (beat/missed) analyst expectations, so the market response to the company’s quarter is what we will look for next.
Tesla shares closed today down just over 1 percent, trading at $374.01.
In the past, it has been anyone’s guess with what Tesla shares will do after they report earnings. Strong quarters have resulted in sharp drops, while lackluster quarters have seen the stock shoot up considerably.
Tesla will hold its Q2 2026 Earnings Call in about 90 minutes at 5:30 p.m. on the East Coast. Remarks will be made by CEO Elon Musk and other executives, who will shed some light on the investor questions that we covered earlier this week.
You can stream it below. Additionally, we will be doing our Live Blog on X and Facebook.
Q2 2026 Earnings Call https://t.co/zZS6ii2TWK
— Tesla (@Tesla) July 22, 2026
Tesla is about to make parking in busy parking lots at businesses and other points of interest less stressful than ever by allowing drivers more control over where they park and how, CEO Elon Musk confirmed on X.
Tesla has been working to improve the parking performance of vehicles utilizing the Full Self-Driving suite, but now it is looking to add more customization, allowing drivers to choose the specific space they park in, but also potentially the orientation the car pulls into the spot:
It’s coming soon
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2026
Musk has reiterated on X twice over the past several weeks that Tesla is working to make things with the FSD suite based more on the driver’s specific preferences and behaviors that were seen in past drives.
Essentially, it sounds like if you tend to park away from a business to avoid other vehicles, Tesla FSD will soon recognize that preference of yours and start parking further away as well. Additionally, the prospect of assigned parking spaces has been something many owners have voiced concerns about.
Living in a community with assigned parking spaces makes using FSD incredibly difficult as it will rarely park in the correct spot when there are so many to choose from. This is also pertinent in work settings where there are sometimes assigned parking spaces.
The updates to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving suite in terms of listening to driver preferences with parking are also extending to routing. Tesla announced yesterday that with the release of its 2026 Summer Update, it was adding Automatic Navigation and Preferred Routes:
Tesla reveals 2026 Summer Update with crazy fixes to Nav and more
Tesla has always maintained the idea that any human input is bad input, and that, ideally, Tesla Full Self-Driving will always make the right decision. Of course, this is all in theory, but the issue is that so many of Tesla’s interventions have come because it does something that is not necessarily wrong, but perhaps not what the driver would prefer.
Taking these preferences into account will help Tesla alleviate some of the potentially unnecessary interventions that drivers perform.
Tesla is starting to prepare for the launch of the Optimus robot in its smartphone app, new coding strings show. Elon Musk has referred to Optimus as what will be the greatest-selling product of any kind of all time, and now, Tesla is getting ready for its launch.
Tesla’s smartphone app had several first-time mentions of the Optimus program, according to Tesla App Updates, who intially reported on the appearance. Here’s what they found:
A Dedicated “Robot” Phone Key Authentication
Tesla is working on a Bluetooth Low Energy, or BLE, authentication that is specifically for robots. This does not only apply to Optimus, though, as Robotaxi, which is Tesla’s autonomous ride-hailing platform, might also identify vehicles within the fleet as robots as well.
Tesla shows rapid teardown of Model S and X lines, paving the way for Optimus at Fremont
Essentially, pairing your phone as a key to anything Tesla identifies as a robot to a “whitelist” of authorized devices. Optimus, Robotaxi, or other products that fall into this category will only respond if the device trying to communicate with it is authorized.
This is a great security feature that will eliminate at least face-value and low-level threats.
Home Data Collection and System Alerts
This appears to be somewhat of a neural network for Optimus within your house. There will be a dedicated screen that asks for consent to collect both video and spatial data while Optimus performs in-home tasks. Everything from vacuuming, washing dishes, dusting, and other activities will be tracked.
There will also be a comprehensive alert system that will track everything from low battery to mechanical issues.
Other Changes
Most of the changes tracked in this particular app update are related to Tesla’s 2026 Summer Update, and include things such as image assets for new features, a preview of the new custom wraps feature, and other unique features.
You can check out our coverage on what is included with the 2026 Summer Update here:
Tesla reveals 2026 Summer Update with crazy fixes to Nav and more
Tesla (TSLA) Q2 2026 earnings results: miss on EPS, beat on revenue
Tesla is about to make parking in busy lots less stressful than ever
