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Elon Musk: Doubters of Model 3 delivery number are in for a ‘rude awakening’
Tesla test driver says next Roadster will be ‘proper weapon,’ Musk’s speed claims are ‘conservative’
Tesla CEO Elon Musk elicited quite a bit of skepticism when he boasted in June 2017 that the electric automaker’s next-generation Roadster would be able to accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in under two seconds — a feat that Musk said would make the vehicle the “fastest production car ever.”
Tesla still isn’t profitable 8 years after its IPO. But, it hasn’t been alone.
Since it went public eight years ago, Tesla’s share price has risen nearly 2,000 percent.
Tesla second-quarter production totaled 53,339 vehicles, a 55% increase
Tesla met a closely watched goal for production, however it fell short on deliveries during the second quarter.
Hedge fund manager betting against Tesla gets box of short shorts from Elon Musk: ‘He is a man of his word!’
It’s unclear when Musk sent the shorts to Einhorn but, in the past week, the Tesla chief executive has found himself embroiled in a controversial move to take his auto company off public markets. Since telling his followers he has “funding secured” for the deal, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has requested more information… Continue reading Hedge fund manager betting against Tesla gets box of short
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Hedge fund manager betting against Elon Musk gets box of short shorts
Greenlight Capital president David Einhorn tweeted Friday he got the pairs of short shorts that fellow billionaire Elon Musk promised him last week.
Honda faces the real cost of Brexit in a former Spitfire plant
BMW UK plants: Mini, Oxford (4,000 staff); Rolls-Royce, Goodwood (1,700); engines, Hams Hall, Birmingham (800); bodywork, Swindon (850) Makes: Minis, all Rolls-Royce model HONDA UK plants: Cars and engines, Swindon (4,000 staff) Makes: Civic NISSAN UK plant: Cars and engines, Sunderland (7,000 employees) Makes: Qashqai, Leaf, Juke ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Such are the surreal options facing Honda… Continue reading Honda faces the real cost of Brexit in a former Spitfire
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Christine Todd Whitman: Oil industry is ‘peddling misinformation’ about electric vehicles
As states and cities push for more and more ambitious clean energy targets, the electricity that powers our lives will increasingly be derived from solar, wind, nuclear and other low- or no-emission or non-polluting energy sources. And battery recycling will become more common as economies of scale make it an increasingly profitable business. That will… Continue reading Christine Todd Whitman: Oil industry is ‘peddling
misinformation’ about electric vehicles
The 2018 Mazda CX-3 is a nice car, but you should just buy a Mazda 3
It’s noisier than you might expect given that the Mazda approaches $30,000. That’s my biggest problem with the CX-3. While our Grand Touring model came with everything you would conceivably want in a small crossover — automatic high beams, a heads-up display, blind-spot monitoring and more — there’s no ignoring that this is still a… Continue reading The 2018 Mazda CX-3 is a nice car, but you should just buy a
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