Tesla CEO Elon Musk presides over the handover of the first Model 3 cars in August 2017. (Tesla via YouTube) Tesla’s share price took a weird turn today after the company reported its first-quarter financial results and billionaire CEO Elon Musk dissed analysts’ concerns about the Tesla Model 3 mass-market electric car. The raw numbers… Continue reading Tesla stock goes through twists and turns as analysts focus on Model 3 car outlook
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Ford adds 26K vans to recall list for fire risk
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Elon Musk offers more detail about Tesla’s ridesharing network
On Tesla’s Q1 2018 earnings call today, Tesla CEO Elon Musk shed some light on the company’s ambitions to launch an autonomous vehicle ridesharing network. The short answer is that, from a technical standpoint, Tesla will be ready by the end of next year, Musk said. It’s not yet clear, however, when Tesla would actually… Continue reading Elon Musk offers more detail about Tesla’s ridesharing network
Elon Musk says Tesla Model Y will be a ‘manufacturing revolution’
Elon Musk said that Tesla’s forthcoming electric crossover vehicle, the Model Y, will be a “manufacturing revolution,” even though the automaker is still struggling to get its mass-market Model 3 out of the door and into customers’ driveways. In an earnings call Wednesday, Musk said that Tesla has yet to spend any capital expenditures on… Continue reading Elon Musk says Tesla Model Y will be a ‘manufacturing revolution’
Tesla sued for $2B over semi-truck patents
Rex Crum, The Mercury News Published 4:04 p.m. ET May 2, 2018 Tesla Semi (Photo: Tesla) There’s never any shortage of drama with Tesla. If it’s not concerns over the production levels of its Model 3 sedan, it’s controversy over the possible role of Tesla technology in a fatal car crash. If it’s not one… Continue reading Tesla sued for $2B over semi-truck patents
Tesla: Model 3 production could hit 5,000 per week in two months
Engadget One of the major stories about Tesla’s car business has been its struggle to build sufficient quantities of its Model 3 electric car. In a just-released earnings report the company said that prior to its most recent shutdown, it had managed to build over 2,000 cars per week for three weeks in a row… Continue reading Tesla: Model 3 production could hit 5,000 per week in two months
Tesla posts quarterly loss, Model 3 production on track
(Reuters) – Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) on Wednesday posted its worst ever quarterly loss and said its Model 3 production target remains on track, expecting about 5,000 per week in about two months. A Tesla Model 3 car is displayed during a media preview at the Auto China 2018 motor show in Beijing, China April 25,… Continue reading Tesla posts quarterly loss, Model 3 production on track
Automation, the real challenge of Tesla and its Model 3
It was one of (too many?) Many Elon Musk’s dreams: a factory without humans. While the attention of the fans and especially financial markets is turned on Tesla, which must reveal this Wednesday, May 2 after the closure of the New York Stock Exchange (around 22 hours in Paris) its results in the first quarter… Continue reading Automation, the real challenge of Tesla and its Model 3
Daimler to buy electric car battery cells from China’s CATL
Daimler reiterated it had joined the Responsible Cobalt Initiative, a programme established under a Chinese industry body to tackle risks in the cobalt supply chain arising from artisanal mining. STUTTGART, Germany: Daimler has awarded a contract for supplying electric car battery cells to China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), the German carmaker’s procurement executive, Sabine Angermann,… Continue reading Daimler to buy electric car battery cells from China’s CATL
Car manufacturer: Daimler secures battery cells from CATL in China
Daimler The Stuttgart-based carmaker will in future be supplied with battery cells from the Chinese supplier CATL. (Photo: AP) Daimler will in future buy battery cells from the Chinese manufacturer CATL and wants to ensure standards for labor and human rights with the problematic raw material cobalt. Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) has been awarded a… Continue reading Car manufacturer: Daimler secures battery cells from CATL in China