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Government, Business, Technology, Fuel

Tesla Pitches 5,000 ‘Middle-Skill’ Factory Jobs to Texas County

Executives from Tesla Inc. will use an unassuming job-type description in their pitch to a Texas county on the merits of the carmaker’s Cybertruck plant project.

June 23, 2020
Business, Technology, Safety, Autonomous

Ford Takes on Tesla With Hands-Free Driving for Electric Mustang

Ford Motor Co. plans to install a hands-free driving system on its electric Mustang Mach-E model coming later this year as it attempts to muscle in on the high-tech turf now dominated by Tesla Inc.

June 18, 2020
Government, Business, Technology

Tesla °®¶¹´«Ã½s In on Austin, Texas, for Cybertruck Site

Tesla Inc. is zeroing in on an area in southeast Austin, Texas, for the electric-car maker’s second U.S. auto factory as Elon Musk prepares to choose a site for its production base of a new pickup truck.

June 18, 2020
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

Is Tesla Bigger Than Toyota? It’s Complicated

Many investors, including those using financial data terminals such as Bloomberg’s, were seeing something very different — that Tesla still had to gain more than $25 billion in market value to surpass Toyota.

June 15, 2020
Business, Technology, Fuel, Autonomous

Tesla’s Elon Musk: ‘Time to Go All Out’ on Semi Production

CEO Elon Musk sent an email to Tesla employees before the market opened June 10 declaring that it is “time to go all out†and put Tesla’s Semi into volume production.

June 10, 2020
Government, Business, Technology

Tesla Hails Air-Quality Effects of Shutdowns Elon Musk Called ‘Fascist’

Tesla Inc. said the drop in pollution during coronavirus-related shutdowns could embolden governments that already have been making plans to eventually ban vehicles that run on fossil fuels.

June 8, 2020
Business, Technology, Fuel

Nikola Stock Surges 104% on Third Day of Trading

Shares of Nikola Motor Co. surged 104% to a record in its third day of trading on the Nasdaq after a merger with VectoIQ Acquisition Corp.

June 8, 2020
Government, Business, Technology, Safety, TCA

Tesla Drops Lawsuit Against Alameda County

Electric carmaker Tesla dropped a federal lawsuit against Alameda County filed less than two weeks ago after resuming manufacturing at its Fremont plant against local orders.

May 21, 2020
Government, Business, Technology, Safety

Tesla Reopens California Plant, Says It Has Alameda County’s Approval

Tesla Inc. told employees that a California county health official has now signed off on safety measures the company took last week at its car plant as it restarted production in defiance of the area’s shutdown order.

May 18, 2020
Government, Business, Technology, Safety

Police Visit Tesla Plant, Underscoring Confusion on Lockdown Loosening

Police visited Tesla Inc.’s sole U.S. car plant May 13 to assess whether the electric car maker was adhering to safety protocols agreed to with the county that Elon Musk publicly said he would defy earlier in the week.

May 14, 2020