Tesla could soon support lossless content on Apple Music, according to Discord user Merk, who came across a Hi-Fi icon when listening to Apple Music over WiFi. While Apple Music isn’t the first or only Hi-Fi option, it’ll be great to see another service with high-quality streaming.
With the upcoming 2024.26 update, Tesla is adding YouTube Music and Amazon Music, so there has definitely been a recent trend to add more music services and increase Premium Connectivity usage.
Apple Hi-Fi
Given the screenshot, it seems that Tesla may support Apple Music lossless audio streaming, but this wasn’t announced in any of the release notes or anywhere else. We’re not 100% sure yet whether this is just a bug in the UI or an upcoming feature – but Merk did mention he was on WiFi when he saw it.
He also noted that it sounded clear, but it's hard to assess whether the quality is better without listening to an A:B sample of the same track – one Hi-Fi, and one regular. Apple Music as a streaming service does support a lossless high-quality streaming codec on the AAC format – Apple brought lossless music to its Android Apple Music app in 2022 for flagship Android devices that have DAC support. However, they don’t support “bit-perfect” or “true Hi-Fi” on non-Apple devices.
If you’ve seen the Apple Hi-Fi icon on your Apple Music in your Tesla, let us know on X.
What Is Hi-Fi Audio
What exactly is Hi-Fi audio you may ask? Well, here’s a short, non-audiophile rundown. There are two major types of audio – High Fidelity, and regular. High Fidelity audio is further broken down into two types – regular Hi-Fi and “bit-perfect”.
Regular Hi-Fi audio is still compressed, and some information can still be lost, but it is still higher quality than a CD or MP3 file. Meanwhile, “bit-perfect” audio is uncompressed, raw audio that should be a 1:1 match for what the studio produced and is how it is intended to be heard.
Tidal’s Hi-Fi Audio
For now, Tesla’s Hi-Fi audio choice has been limited to Tidal, a smaller, slightly lesser-known competitor to other music streaming services. While Tidal may be less known, it does bring “bit-perfect” Hi-Fi audio with it, but with some exceptions.
Hi-Fi audio on Tidal has to be downloaded in advance on WiFi and takes up space on your Tesla’s glovebox USB drive (or part of the game storage space on the internal SSD on the Models S and X). This means that while you can listen to Hi-Fi audio on Tidal, you’d have to download albums or playlists in advance, otherwise you’d get stream-quality audio.
Tesla puts a massive amount of effort into their audio engineering, so Hi-Fi music is a great benefit for Teslas.
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With Q1 2025 now behind us, another round of Tesla’s Supercharger Voting has wrapped up. The previous vote took place back in December, and we now get to see which locations came out on top.
Let’s take a look at the Q1 2025 winners of the Supercharger Vote:
North America
🇺🇸 Lake Wales, FL
🇺🇸 Henderson, NV
🇺🇸 Clarksville, TN
🇺🇸 Roswell, NM
🇺🇸 Long Beach, CA
🇺🇸 Decatur, IL
🇺🇸 McAlester, OK
Europe
🇬🇧 Bournemouth, United Kingdom
🇮🇹 Bari, Italy
🇵🇱 Wrocław, Poland
🇨🇿 Hradec Králové, Czech Republic
Asia-Pacific
🇰🇷 Namyangju - South Korea
🇦🇺 Nicholls, Australia
Supercharger Voting Q2 2025
Another quarter means another round of Tesla's Supercharger Voting, giving Tesla owners the chance to influence where new Supercharger sites will be built. Following the Q1 2025 voting round, Tesla is now opening the polls for Q2 2025.
How to Vote
To participate in the Q2 2025 Supercharger Voting, visit the Tesla Supercharger Voting page and sign in to your Tesla account. You can vote for up to five different locations, with a limit of one vote per location, every three months. The most popular Superchargers are displayed on the leaderboard, and you can also suggest new locations for future voting cycles.
We’ve known for a while now that Tesla has been using a custom build of FSD to allow its newly produced vehicles at Giga Texas and Fremont to autonomously navigate themselves from the production line to the outbound delivery lot.
While we knew they were using a custom build of what was likely FSD Unsupervised, thanks to a recent post from Tesla AI on X, this has now been confirmed. Tesla has also confirmed it has accrued over 50,000 driverless miles, totalled from vehicles autonomously driving themselves to delivery lots.
Giga Texas production now uses FSD Unsupervised to deliver cars from end of line to the outbound logistics lot.
Over 50,000 driverless miles have been accrued between California and Texas factories so far pic.twitter.com/79zKY0U6Ox
For most of Tesla’s vehicles - that’s a 1.4-mile trip that is shared with pedestrians, cars, trucks, and construction equipment. You can see in the video that the Teslas are navigating public roadways and encountering real human drivers.
That’s great news, especially since many were wondering whether Tesla would secure the necessary approvals in time to launch their Robotaxi network in June.
Increased Confidence
Following Tesla’s post to X, Musk followed up by saying that when Tesla launches FSD Unsupervised soon, it will be the first time there will be a generalized, pure AI solution to autonomy. Tesla and several executives continue to post more content about autonomy and the Robotaxi network, leading us to believe they’re feeling confident in the June launch.
Model Ys autonomously navigate a 1.4 mile trip on a road shared with pedestrians, cars, semi trucks, construction equipment & more pic.twitter.com/iPx2fs78v2
Back when Tesla initially announced the autonomous travel of its vehicles from production to loading lots, they mentioned that the Cybertruck was the only vehicle at Giga Texas not receiving that same treatment.
Now, that’s changed - Cybertruck is now also navigating through the Cybertunnel to make its way from the factory directly to the loading docks, all on Unsupervised FSD. And that’s making us even more excited, especially because Tesla was supposed to launch an FSD Update for the Cybertruck a little while ago - but it hasn’t made it to production yet. This update is set to bring Start FSD from Park, as well as Actually Smart Summon - bringing the Cybertruck to feature parity with Tesla’s other AI4 vehicles.
Cybertrucks autonomously navigate a 0.6 mile route traversing beneath one of America's fastest highways, emerging through a steep 17% grade to reach their destination pic.twitter.com/3ZMYCRPhIj
Now that Tesla is confidently using a build of Unsupervised FSD to navigate the tight confines of the tunnel and park, we’re pretty sure that Tesla will likely launch the expected FSD update in the near future.
FSD Update Soon?
It’s been a while since any FSD hardware variant has received an FSD update. It appears that Tesla has been focused on Unsupervised FSD and launching FSD outside of North America.
It seems like we may get a new FSD update soon, and we don’t believe it’ll be just for the Cybertruck. Those who have the opportunity to sign up for Tesla’s new Early Access program will likely be some of the first recipients to receive the FSD update, so stay tuned.
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