Overview
- Tesla published its 2026 Summer Update release notes Tuesday, and has begun a staged rollout that will reach vehicles over the next several weeks.
- Grok, Tesla’s in-car AI assistant, now handles hands-free phone calls, music search and playback, climate control, glovebox access, and vehicle-specific questions by voice.
- Navigation gains routine-aware features: Automatic Navigation can suggest and route to regularly visited stops and Preferred Routes favors roads drivers actually take.
- Several functions moved into the Tesla mobile app include setting Arrival Energy for trips, uploading custom wraps, and viewing and sharing self-driving statistics from a phone.
- The update also adds Caraoke scoring and a rear-display lock for parental control, and Tesla is separately rolling FSD v14 Lite to Canadian HW3 cars with wider, hardware- and region-dependent distribution to follow.