Tesla CEO Elon Musk has occasionally suggested that the company might produce a mobile phone, but Tesla has never announced such a product.

A rumor circulated online in September 2025 claiming that the electric car manufacturer Tesla had announced the “Pi Phone,” a mobile phone with free satellite internet connection through SpaceX’s Starlink service. According to the posts, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had announced the phone, supposedly priced at $789, by saying “Apple should be worried.”

For example, on Sept. 23, the Facebook page Trend Fuel posted (archived) the story, receiving more than 170,000 likes. The post displayed a picture of Musk holding up the supposed phone. The post began, “It’s official. The $789 Tesla Pi Phone just changed the entire smartphone game and it’s not just hype.” Snopes readers emailed us to ask whether the rumor was true.

We reached out to Tesla as part of reporting this story but have not heard back.

Other Facebook users and YouTube channels also shared the same claim. Some of those posts featured links in top comments leading to articles hosted by WordPress blogs.

However, searches of Bing, DuckDuckGo, Google and Yahoo found no credible news media outlets reporting about a Tesla phone. Prominent news media outlets would have widely reported this rumor, if true, and Tesla or Musk would have publicly announced the phone on their social media profiles. That had not happened.

Rather, the person or people who authored the story fabricated the entire tale. Several posts sharing the claim likely aimed to earn advertising revenue on websites linked from the aforementioned Facebook posts.

This is not the first time rumors of a Tesla phone have spread across the internet — Snopes previously fact-checked a similar claim in June 2024. The rumor likely spreads because Musk has previously suggested in social media posts that his companies might investigate producing mobile phones at some point in the future.

Sources:

Izzo, Jack. “Elon Musk Launching Cellphone to Compete with ‘Woke Apple’?” Snopes, 11 Jun. 2024, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/elon-musk-tesla-cell-phone/.

Neog, Anupal Sraban. “Is the Tesla Pi Phone Real or Fake? Viral Pictures Debunked.” Primetimer.Com, 25 Sep. 2025, https://www.primetimer.com/features/is-the-tesla-pi-phone-real-or-fake-viral-pictures-debunked.