Tesla’s in-cabin Grok assistant continues to pick up practical tricks that make commute time genuinely useful. While many drivers use the AI to manage navigation routes or answer trivia, Grok can also act as your personal web researcher, pulling up online pages on the center display and reading entire news articles aloud while you keep your eyes on the road.
Whether you want to catch up on the latest EV developments or digest long-form guides during your morning drive, turning our written articles into custom podcasts requires just a couple of spoken prompts.
How to Have Grok Read Web Articles Aloud
Getting Grok to read articles directly from the built-in browser takes three simple conversational steps (Grok must be set to the Assistant profile beforehand):
Launch the site: Wake the assistant by tapping the microphone button on the steering wheel or saying “Hey Grok,” then say something along the lines of, “Open notateslaapp.com.” Grok launches the browser and loads the homepage.
Select your story: Say, “Read the top headlines” or “Click on the first article.” While Grok sometimes paraphrases headlines rather than quoting them word-for-word, it reliably captures the core topic and opens the page on your screen.
Start reading: Once the article loads, simply say, “Read the article to me.” Grok parses the body text, filters out display ads, and reads the story out loud through the car speakers in its natural synthesized voice.
Here’s a video showcasing how the feature works:
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You can pause the readout, ask Grok questions, or tell it to go back to the homepage whenever you’re finished.
Expanding In-Cabin Abilities and the Future Roadmap
Web narration builds on a fast-growing suite of in-cabin tools at Grok’s disposal. Running in Assistant mode, you can currently use Grok to control cabin climate, set and edit your navigation, manage phone calls hands-free, stream media, answer technical questions based on information from the Tesla owner’s manual, and configure location-based reminders.
Tesla recently also added support for Grok Bot, giving drivers access to AI agents that they can delegate tasks like checking email, managing calendar appointments, and shopping online to.
What’s more, Tesla is currently preparing even deeper Grok integrations. Official roadmaps confirm that native hands-free text messaging is on the way, letting drivers write texts and reply to SMS conversations through natural language prompts. Further out, Tesla wants to connect Grok to Full Self-Driving, allowing passengers to verbally instruct the car to change lanes, take specific routes, or pull into specific parking spots.
Grok is currently available across most of Tesla’s largest markets, including North America, Europe, Australia, and select parts of Asia and the Middle East for vehicles equipped with AMD Ryzen processors. It requires a Premium Connectivity subscription or an active Wi-Fi connection, but you don’t need to have a Grok account.
As Tesla deepens the software hooks between SpaceXAI and its vehicles, Grok is turning into a full-fledged copilot that reads, navigates, and even drives for you.
With the long-awaited reveal of the next-generation Tesla Roadster just days away, attendees planning their trip to Texas might want to keep a close eye on the skies. Tesla has started reaching out directly to event guests with an unusual heads-up: the presentation will include a “unique experience” taking place outdoors, and bad weather could force a schedule change.
The update was shared on X by @DragTimes, who posted an official email sent to reservation holders. Tesla explained in the message:
“Since this event features a unique experience that must be held outdoors, there is a possibility we may need to reschedule due to weather. We are continuing to monitor weather reports and will reach out with additional details as soon as possible.”
Update: And just like that, just hours later, Tesla has now officially delayed it’s October 1st event. Tesla posted on X just minutes ago that its Roadster event is going to be rescheduled after closely monitoring the weather with meteorologists. Tesla said because the event could only be held outdoors (hint, hint), they’ve made the difficult decision to reschedule the event to October 15th. Presumably that date is also TBD, depending on the weather cooperating, although there was no rain date announced.
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Why the Event Has to Be Outdoors
Holding a major product showcase outside is a departure from Tesla’s typical hangar and factory keynotes, but the Roadster is hardly a typical vehicle.
Tesla is likely planning live, high-speed demonstrations that can’t physically fit inside an auditorium. Elon Musk previously noted that the production Roadster’s capabilities are so extreme that people need to witness them in person so the world knows the footage isn’t AI-generated.
A major focus of that spectacle is the long-rumored SpaceX package. Tesla has teased cold-gas thrusters capable of propelling the two-door from 0 to 60 mph in under one second, and rocket thrusters blasting compressed air require wide safety runoffs and open skies.
That theory gained serious traction last week when federal regulators closed Texas airspace over SpaceX’s McGregor test site through October 2, strongly hinting at propulsion testing or an outdoor demonstration for the event.
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What to Expect From the Finished Design
Whenever the stage lights finally turn on, the supercar rolling out will look noticeably different from the curvy red prototype Tesla showed off back in 2017.
Tesla has already reopened Roadster reservations globally ahead of the showcase, and a place in line costs $50,000. While fans hope Central Texas weather stays clear for launch day (heh, get it?), waiting a few extra days for sunny skies will be well worth it if rocket thrusters are actually on the menu.
