Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has won the Axel Springer Award, news that was reported on back in September. But now, it has been confirmed Musk will accept the award in person over in Germany. According to Axel Springer in an email to Tesla North, Musk will personally receive the award at the media […]
At the European Battery Conference organized by the Federal Ministry of Economics, Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke about the company’s plans at Gigafactory Berlin. Aside from creating the world’s largest battery factory in Grünheide, on top of its Tesla vehicle production plant, the company will also utilize its latest 4680 battery cells for its upcoming […]
Tesla has been making profit increases in leaps and bounds this year, and some even say that the electric vehicle (EV) tech giants could be following a playbook that made other giants what they are today. Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas thinks Tesla may well follow the playbook that Apple CEO Tim Cook used to […]
According to the daily Bloomberg Billionaires Index ranking, Tesla CEO Elon Musk surpassed Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person, with a total net worth of $128 billion. Musk recently saw a gain of $7.24 billion according to Bloomberg, due to the recent surge of Tesla, ahead of the latter’s inclusion into the S&P […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has publicly acknowledged Chinese electric vehicle (EV) maker Xpeng has a copy of the company’s Autopilot source code—but an old version to boot. Last year, Guangzhi Cao, a former Tesla engineer at Tesla, admitted in a court filing he uploaded Autopilot source code (over 300,000 files and directories) to his Apple iCloud […]
Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta is set to get a new “special” release next week, according to CEO Elon Musk on Thursday morning. “Next week’s release is special. Lot of fundamental improvements, both important bug fixes & entire new areas of functionality.” Next week’s release is special. Lot of fundamental improvements, both important bug fixes & […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is hyping up an upcoming software release for the holidays. Tesla holiday software release is 🔥🔥 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 18, 2020 On late Tuesday, Musk said “Tesla holiday software release is [fire].” When asked if there were any hints, he replied, “So many things you want & some you […]
Last Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed he was tested for COVID-19 and results came back both positive and negative. Musk then thrust himself into the COVID-19 spotlight again by saying, “Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is making headlines again, this time in regards to COVID-19. Last night, Musk said, “Something extremely bogus is going on. Was tested for covid four times today. Two tests came back negative, two came back positive. Same machine, same test, same nurse. Rapid antigen test from BD.” Something extremely bogus is […]
Nick Bilton has written a lengthy December featured story for Vanity Fair, which aims to cover the Elon Musk’s “erratic and crazy year”, according to the writer. I wrote a VF feature on Elon Musk's erratic and crazy year. When I asked him for comment about the reporting in the piece, his response was a […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is no stranger to the camera – or dare we say, the microphone. With a number of public appearances on recent podcasts and the like, the billionaire entrepreneur is not shy in sharing his opinions, ideas, and future developments with the world. Musk is set to appear on the […]
On this day in 2008, the New York Times published a story about electric vehicle (EV) company Tesla, though it was quite different than any stories being published about the company today. A tweet by @JonErlichman pointed out the fact that Tesla was on the verge of going bankrupt on this day in 2008, though […]
While Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta is only available in the United States for now, CEO Elon Musk this afternoon shared more information on countries coming next to get the beta. According to Musk, he said, “Canada and Norway are next after we get US out of early beta!” Canada and Norway are next after we […]
In recent news, Tesla paid CEO Elon Musk $3 million for 90 days worth of business insurance which indemnifies executives of the company from certain legal expenses, as reported by CNBC on Tuesday. The news comes from a filing that replaced the controversial agreement with a more traditional form of insurance. Earlier in the year, […]
In a video originally shared to Reddit and Twitter by user @ArmandVervaeck, and reposted by @LasVegasLocally, two Teslas are seen entering the first Las Vegas Boring Company tunnel (via Tesmanian). First 2 Teslas entering the @boringcompany tunnels at the Las Vegas Convention Center. pic.twitter.com/E3zWGHDJUR — Las Vegas Locally 🌴 (@LasVegasLocally) October 21, 2020 Many on […]