Two adults and two children somehow escaped serious injuries after their Tesla plunged off a cliff along California’s Pacific Coast Highway and crashed on a rocky beach some 250 feet below.
Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is teaming with the Culver City-based XPrize Foundation to offer what’s being billed as the largest “incentive prize” in history — $100 million for the development of systems and programs to attack global warming. Bankrolled by Musk, the campaign will offer cash incentives for groups that develop “solutions that […]
(CNN) — Tesla reported record sales for the third quarter, but its high-flying stock still suffered a sell-off on the news. The electric automaker delivered a total of 139,300 cars in the quarter — easily clearing the previous record of 112,000 cars it delivered in the last three months of 2019 before the pandemic affected production and deliveries. Tesla’s […]
Tesla has filed suit in a California court against its potential rival Rivian, alleging that the Michigan-based electric truck maker poached its employees and instructed at least one employee to steal trade secrets. Rivian calls the suit “baseless.” In its lawsuit, Tesla claimed Rivian has hired away dozens of its former employees and alleged that some […]
Tesla is scrapping plans for a bargain Model Y SUV because of its short range on a single charge, CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet over the weekend. Earlier this year, the electric car maker began producing its pricier, dual-motor all-wheel drive version of the Model Y, which starts at $49,000. Tesla had planned to roll out a […]
Tesla filed suit Saturday night against Alameda County, California, after local officials there refused to let the company reopen its Fremont factory. In a series of tweets earlier Saturday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk also threatened to move the company’s headquarters to Texas or Nevada, where shelter-in-place rules are less restrictive. “Frankly, this is the final straw. Tesla will now move […]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded Thursday to Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s claim that the company had delivered more than 1,000 ventilators to the state’s hospitals treating a surge of coronavirus patients. In a series of tweets early Thursday, Musk asked Newsom to “please fix this misunderstanding” after the governor’s office told CNN the state’s hospitals […]
Tesla engineers are working on a ventilator made largely from car parts, according to a YouTube video the automaker posted on Sunday. In the video, engineers at Tesla Engineering show off prototypes and a schematic laying out the proposed ventilator design as they explain how they are re-purposing various auto parts for the much needed […]
