The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is charged with establishing safety and fuel economy standards for motor vehicles

The “Actually Smart Summon” feature enables drivers to remotely summon or move their vehicles to them or another location via a mobile phone app.

Tesla makes breakthrough in FSD technology, allowing vehicles to navigate to loading docks without human involvement.

Elon Musk on Saturday stoked hopes for the company's EVs equipped with its FSD driver assistance technology reversing by themselves "soon."

Tesla will launch an “unsupervised, no one in the car” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. “We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything’s okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those in the car as a top priority,” Musk said.

Duffy, a 53-year-old former Wisconsin congressman and reality TV star, was approved on a 77-22 vote in the Senate.

The new Transport Secretary tells the NHTSA to review all fuel economy rules. This will have massive effects across the industry.

Sean Duffy, Trump's pick to lead the Department of Transportation, will support NHTSA's safety probes into Tesla's vehicles.

The news comes from CEO Elon Musk, who finally admitted it during Wednesday's Tesla earnings call (via Electrek ). "The truth is that we will need to replace all HW3 computers in vehicles where FSD was purchased," said Musk after Tesla's head of FSD, Ashok Elluswamy, said the company is "not giving up on it."

Tesla has made billions off electric cars its rivals aren't selling, but President Donald Trump's anti-EV policies put that revenue stream at risk.

Tesla reported disappointing fourth-quarter earnings for 2024, with revenue of $25.7billion (£20.6billion) falling short of Wall Street analysts' predictions of $27.2billion (£21.8billion). The electric vehicle maker's shares dropped approximately four per cent in after-hours trading following the announcement on Wednesday.