Tesla CEO Elon Musk last week said he doesn’t think Twitter’s board of directors shares the same financial interests as the social media platform’s investors. “With Jack [Dorsey] departing, the Twitter board collectively owns almost no shares,” Musk said in a tweet, replying to a shareholding breakdown of each of the members of Twitter’s board. […]
TED on Sunday released organization head Chris Anderson’s over one-hour-long exclusive interview with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. The interview was recorded at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, on April 6, just one day before the company’s Cyber Rodeo event to celebrate the grand opening of the factory. Musk shared his thoughts on what […]
German newspaper WELT last week published the full video of Axel Springer SE CEO Mathias Döpfner’s interview with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk. Döpfner, who is also a reporter for WELT, sat down with Musk at Tesla’s Fremont Factory for a rare interview following the company’s Gigafactory Berlin delivery event in Germany. Check out the full […]
A group of Tesla shareholders, suing company CEO Elon Musk over his 2018 tweets about having “funding secured” to take Tesla private, said in recent court filings that a federal judge has ruled that the tweets were false — reports Yahoo Finance. According to one of the filings, a U.S. court ruled on April 1 […]
Following significant pushback against Tesla’s decision to remove the complimentary Corded Mobile Connector from new electric vehicle (EV) purchases and instead sell it as a standalone product for $275 USD, company CEO Elon Musk says the company will slash the price to soften the blow. “We will drop mobile connector price to $200 & make […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has confirmed the company no longer includes a Gen 2 Mobile Connector Bundle with new vehicle purchases. The company’s website made changes today, as spotted by @Tesla_Adri, to no longer indicate the Mobile Connector comes with purchases. Instead, a price of $400 USD is indicated for the Corded Mobile Connector with […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday spoke at the 2022 TED Talk in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Interviewer Chris Anderson — the head of TED — asked Musk about everything from Tesla’s future to his $43 billion USD offer to buy social media platform Twitter. Anderson touched a bit upon Tesla’s past as well, asking the […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk casually offered to buy Twitter for $43 billion in cash this week, and one analyst predicts that the buyout will, in fact, take place. Wedbush’s Daniel Ives believes Twitter will accept Musk’s buyout offer of around $43.4 billion, though it won’t happen without a significant amount of drama, according […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to participate in the 2022 TED Talk conference in Vancouver, BC, Canada, slated for today. According to the 2022 TED Talk program, Musk is joining the “Session 11: Awe” panel, on Thursday, April 14, 2022, which starts from 8:45 AM to 11:30 AM PDT (11:45AM EDT to […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has been quiet over the past few days on Twitter, and now we know why—he was drumming up an offer to buy the company. On Thursday morning, Musk said, “I made an offer” and shared a link to an SEC filing, where he is offering to buy the rest […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is facing a lawsuit from a Twitter shareholder claiming his delay to disclose the purchase of the stake, manipulated the market. Musk is being sued by Twitter shareholder Marc Bain Rasella, who has alleged the CEO didn’t disclose the ownership of over 5 percent stake in the social media company immediately, […]
After acquiring a 9.1% stake in Twitter, and then being offered a seat on the company’s board, Elon Musk “has decided not to join our board”, explained Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal on Sunday evening. “Team, Elon Musk has decided not to join our board. Here’s what I can share about what happened,” wrote Agrawal on […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Elon Musk was featured at an event focusing on space exploration at the Chinese embassy in Washington on Saturday — reports Yahoo Finance. The news comes just a few months after China submitted a complaint to the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs alleging that the country’s Tiangong Space Station […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday evening that Twitter users who pay $2.99 USD/month for the Twitter Blue subscription “should get an authentication checkmark.” https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512957577092608004 The authentication checkmark “should be different from ‘public figure’ or ‘official account’ checkmark,” Musk clarified in a follow-up tweet. The Tesla CEO’s original tweet has received […]
With lithium prices skyrocketing from $17,000 per tonne in 2021 to a whopping $78,032 per tonne in 2022, Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks the electric vehicle (EV) maker may itself have to get into mining and refining the mineral at scale to keep production costs in check. “Price of lithium has gone to insane levels! […]
