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Tesla Inc. TSLA 5.04% Chief Executive Elon Musk on Tuesday will spell out his vision for the future of the company’s car batteries. The Silicon Valley electric vehicle maker—along with automotive suppliers and rivals such as General Motors Co.—are on the hunt for batteries that are better and cheaper. Here […]
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Elon Musk laid out a plan for Tesla Inc. TSLA 1.95% to build a cheap electric car using drastically lower-cost batteries to make a $25,000 vehicle and potentially turn the company into the world’s largest auto maker. The electric-car maker’s chief executive said Tuesday he was targeting eventual annual production […]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced a new 200 mph version of the Model S sedan with a range of 520 miles per charge, along with plans to build a $25,000 autonomous car within three years during the company’s Battery Day meeting on Tuesday. Tesla named the Plaid version of the […]
CLOSE Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced playful features coming to the brand’s range of electric vehicles, but it seems the company is exploring some next-level safety features, too. The automaker is working on a motion-detection device that could pick up whether a child was left behind in a hot car. […]
Polestar, the one-time performance brand of Volvo, has now branched out on its own as a fully-fledged automaker. It took a big step forward in its mission to be a real player in the electric vehicle (EV) space, with the introduction of its latest offering, the Polestar 2. Now I […]
Tesla Inc.’s (TSLA) billionaire founder Elon Musk said that the electric car maker sees “strong” order demand during the coronavirus pandemic even as some dealerships have been shut down. “We saw strong orders through the whole pandemic, we still had a good order volume,” Musk said in an interview to […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has built Tesla into one the most powerful brands in the world. Jae C. Hong/Associated Press In the car business, it’s often said that brands are grand, but products pay the bills. In other words, you can capture or retain customers with what your company stands […]
A rendering of Tesla’s forthcoming Gigafactory near Berlin, Germany. Tesla Tesla is rapidly growing its worldwide manufacturing footprint. The company is operating factories in California, Nevada, New York, and China. A new plant is under construction in Germany, and Tesla just announced another factory will be built near Austin, Texas. […]
Tesla (TSLA) posted a profit in the second quarter, defying Wall Street estimates after the electric car-maker delivered more vehicles than expected in the quarter despite virus-related disruptions. Here were the main results from Tesla’s Q2 report, compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Revenue: $6.04 billion vs. $5.4 billion […]
“Wow, Elon Musk!” That was the cathartic cheer and cry of relief in millions of American homes on May 30, after two months of forced confinement, when the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon Capsule lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying two American astronauts bound for the International Space Station. […]
Elon Musk. Steve Nesius/Reuters Elon Musk has had a tumultuous yet successful life. He was bullied as a child but ultimately attended an Ivy League university, going on to become the CEO of two companies, Tesla and SpaceX, and the founder of three more. He’s also been married three times and […]
Tesla Billionaire Elon Musk has started selling Tesla-branded “short shorts” in a stab at sceptical short-sellers who bet against the electric car company. The sale of the satin shorts comes after the Tesla boss joked online that the car company was planning to “make fabulous short shorts in radiant red satin […]
If you think that the Tesla Cybertruck deserves to be displayed in a museum, then look no further. Petersen Automotive Museum is now showcasing this super futuristic truck from June 20 until June 26. Marking its first-ever appearance since its introduction last November, Tesla is giving visitors an up-close look […]
