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Musk Statement on Tesla Production Raises Questions

DETROIT — Tesla CEO Elon Musk is once again drawing scrutiny for questionable comments he made to Wall Street analysts, this time involving the status of his company’s vehicle production.

April 9, 2021
BusinessTechnologyEquipment

Tesla’s Blowout Deliveries Lift Shares Even as Smaller Peers Lag

Tesla Inc. first-quarter delivery numbers blew past analysts’ estimates, helping the stock fend off a slide in the broader electric vehicle industry amid growing skepticism about the future of President Joe Biden’s infrastructure bill.

April 6, 2021
BusinessTechnologyFuel

Tesla Deliveries Smash Expectations on Reception in China

Tesla Inc. delivered more cars than expected in the first quarter, a strong start to a year in which CEO Elon Musk will be scaling global operations and building two more factories.

April 2, 2021
BusinessTechnologyFuelAutonomous

NLRB Finds Elon Musk Tweet Violated Labor Law

DETROIT — Tesla CEO Elon Musk has tweeted his way into trouble with another federal agency, this time the National Labor Relations Board.

March 26, 2021
BusinessTechnologyAutonomous

Tesla, Apple Trigger Wall Street Dreams of $3 Trillion Valuation

A growing chorus of Wall Street professionals is predicting that electric and autonomous vehicles sales will propel Tesla Inc. and Apple Inc. to $3 trillion each in market value by 2030.

March 22, 2021
GovernmentBusinessTechnologySafety

NHTSA to Investigate Tesla Crash With Tractor-Trailer

DETROIT — The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is sending a team to Detroit to investigate a crash involving a Tesla that drove beneath a semitrailer.

March 16, 2021
BusinessTechnologyFuelAutonomous

Tesla Names Jerome Guillen President of Heavy Trucking

Tesla Inc. said Jerome Guillen, who’s been president of automotive since September 2018, transitioned last week to president of Tesla heavy trucking.

March 15, 2021
BusinessTechnologyFuelAutonomous

Tesla Shares Drop After Fire at EV Maker’s California Plant

Tesla Inc. shares fell a day after firefighters responded to an incident at the company’s factory in Fremont, Calif., containing a blaze in an area of the property under construction.

March 12, 2021
BusinessTechnologyFuel

In Wake of Outages, Tesla Plugs Secret Battery Into Texas Grid

The move marks Tesla Inc.’s first major foray into the epicenter of the U.S. energy economy.

March 8, 2021
BusinessTechnologyFuelAutonomous

VW’s Electric Car Stacks Up Well Against Tesla, Analyst Says

A teardown of Volkswagen AG’s first dedicated electric vehicle found it measures up favorably with Tesla Inc. models in several key aspects, sending the German carmaker’s shares to levels last seen before its diesel emissions scandal.

March 3, 2021