CEO of Tesla Motors Elon Musk waves after ringing the opening bell at the NASDAQ market in celebration of his company’s initial public offering in New York June 29, 2010. Brendan McDermid | Reuters At the time of Tesla’s IPO 15 years ago, the company had generated roughly $150 million in revenue in its lifetime.… Continue reading Tesla’s IPO was 15 years ago. The stock is up almost 300-fold since then
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Tesla says it made its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer
A Tesla logo outside the company’s Tilburg Factory and Delivery Center. Karol Serewis | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the automaker completed its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer, routing a Model Y SUV from the company’s Austin, Texas, Gigafactory to an apartment building in the area on June… Continue reading Tesla says it made its first driverless delivery of a new car to a customer
Elon Musk claims Tesla delivered its first car fully autonomously from factory to customer
Elon Musk claims Tesla has delivered its first car fully autonomously from the factory to a customer’s home “across town.” If true, I’d argue that this is actually a bigger deal than its “Robotaxi” with supervisors, but there are still questions about the value of such a system. The Tesla CEO announced on X: The… Continue reading Elon Musk claims Tesla delivered its first car fully autonomously from factory to customer
TechCrunch Mobility: The Tesla robotaxi Rorschach test and Redwood’s next big act
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Less than a week ago, Tesla robotaxis began rolling out and giving rides to invited customers in Austin. As Sean O’Kane and I wrote this week, the… Continue reading TechCrunch Mobility: The Tesla robotaxi Rorschach test and Redwood’s next big act
We checked out Tesla’s supervised, invite-only robotaxi launch. Here’s what we saw
Tesla’s June launch of its long-awaited “robotaxi” requires a lot of qualifiers: it was supervised, open only to a few invitees and included somewhere between 10-20 vehicles. The stock jumped 8% the day after the launch, and some participants and observers called it a success. The shares have largely given back that gain since then.… Continue reading We checked out Tesla’s supervised, invite-only robotaxi launch. Here’s what we saw
The First Week of Tesla’s Robotaxis Has Been a Disaster
While autonomous vehicle companies like Waymo and Baidu clock hundreds of thousands of self-driving taxi trips, Tesla is lagging far behind. We’re now one week into the EV giant’s robotaxi pilot in Austin — a program Elon Musk has teased for over a decade — and it’s going about as horribly as expected. Citizens who’ve… Continue reading The First Week of Tesla’s Robotaxis Has Been a Disaster
Debut Named to TIME’s List of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025
Debut’s inclusion in the TIME100 is the first time a biotech beauty company has made the list since its inception. SAN DIEGO, June 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Debut, the biotech beauty leader, was named to the TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025. The annual list highlights 100 companies making an extraordinary impact around the world. Debut, named in… Continue reading Debut Named to TIME’s List of the TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2025
Clean Technica: Tesla Robotaxi Pilot, Big Tesla Sales Drop in Europe, BYD Growth & Profits — 15 Top Cleantech Stories of the Week004073
It’s officially summertime now, and there’s always less news in the summer, but the cleantech news never truly pauses globally, so we still have a number of big stories to share from the past week. 1. Tesla’s tiny robotaxi pilot started in Austin, Texas. Tesla fans/shareholders are super enthusiastic about it and seem to think… Continue reading Clean Technica: Tesla Robotaxi Pilot, Big Tesla Sales Drop in Europe, BYD Growth & Profits — 15 Top Cleantech Stories of the Week004073
Clean Technica: Is Waymo Worth Way More Than $45 Billion In Midst Of Tesla Robotaxi Launch?004072
The Wall Street Journal published an article today bringing up the question in the title. Now that Tesla has launched a kind of robotaxi trial in Austin, Texas, with a small number of cars and it’s clearly not perfect, one could ask if Waymo is being massively undervalued compared to Tesla. “Waymo was last valued… Continue reading Clean Technica: Is Waymo Worth Way More Than $45 Billion In Midst Of Tesla Robotaxi Launch?004072
Travis Kalanick is trying to buy Pony AI — and Uber might help
Uber founder Travis Kalanick is looking for ways to buy the U.S. arm of Chinese autonomous vehicle company Pony AI, according to The New York Times. Kalanick is reportedly working with investors to finance an acquisition, and Uber may even help make the transaction happen, the Times reports. Pony AI went public last year and… Continue reading Travis Kalanick is trying to buy Pony AI — and Uber might help