Despite “significant challenges with the battery module line at Gigafactory 1 in Nevada, and later with our general assembly line in Fremont” Tesla managed to deliver nearly 140,000 Model 3 vehicles in 2018. That trend continued through Q1 2019 with the elect…
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Tesla Is Losing Money Again As Deliveries Decline
2019 has been rocky for electric automaker Tesla: It announced it would start rolling out Model 3 sedans priced at $35,000, then made it more difficult to order them. It said it would close all of its showrooms, then said it would keep some openand raise pric…
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Will Get a Stricter Twitter Babysitter
It takes far more than 280 characters to describe Tesla CEO Elon Musks disputes with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Late Friday, Musk and the SEC reached a settlement in their latest clash over his tweets. The dispute stems from February, when th…
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It’s Elon Musk vs. everyone else in the race for fully driverless cars
The Tesla CEO is forging his own path toward full autonomy At Tesla’s “Autonomy Day” event for investors on Monday, Elon Musk was full of trash talk for his competitors and their technology. LIDAR, the light beam sensor that practically everyone views as an e…
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Elon Musk on taking Tesla private: ‘That ship has sailed’
Elon Musk would prefer if Tesla, which is known for its volatile share price and is among the most heavily shorted stock, were a private company, but acknowledged during an earnings call Wednesday that it wasn’t likely. Musk can dream, can’t he? “Unfortunat…
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