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Photo: Getty ImagesThe Morning ShiftAll your daily car news in one convenient place. Isn't your time more important?Tesla is putting its workers on hold and cutting salaries, car production is warily re-starting, airlines are cutting airplanes, and some ventilators. All that and more in the Morning Shift for April 8,…

James Dyson may have designed his ventilator the fastest, but Tesla's engineers are getting there, too. Just weeks after Elon Musk volunteered Tesla's services, here are the company's engineers showing you their prototype. They're making good use of already-on-hand automotive parts and even the infotainment system for the Model 3,…

Tesla is seemingly furloughing employees or cutting their pay. James Martin/CNET For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Tesla told employees that it'll furlough US workers and cut salaries as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, according to Reuters and Forbes, which…

NEW YORK — Engineers at Tesla Inc showed a prototype for a ventilator on Sunday evening in a video published on the company's YouTube channel, as hospitals around the country overwhelmed by coronavirus patients face device shortages. The design for the ventilators relies heavily on Tesla car parts, one of…

Bill Gates is a man with a coronavirus plan: Simultaneously fund the development of seven different coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines to discover a fix as quickly as possible — even if it wastes billions of dollars. The Microsoft co-founder revealed his intention while appearing on the Daily Show with Trevor Noah last week. Gates, one…

Health systems around the world are in dire need of ventilators to help treat the most critical COVID-19 patients. These ventilators essentially breathe for a patient when their lungs become too inflamed or full to work by themselves and thus ensure enough oxygen is continuing to circulate around the body…

By Kate DuguidNEW YORK (Reuters) - Engineers at Tesla Inc showed a prototype for a ventilator on Sunday evening in a video published on the company's YouTube channel, as hospitals around the country overwhelmed by coronavirus patients face device shortages.The design for the ventilators relies heavily on Tesla car parts,…

Sandy Munro is the guy to call when companies want to cut the excess and create a seriously lean product to roll down the manufacturing line. So he's just the person to comb over the Tesla Model Y. Autoline went inside Munro's facility with a Model Y Performance variant. In…

While many carmakers in the US and Europe have shut down production in response to the novel coronavirus, factories in China are beginning to come back online as infection counts decline.That includes the factory making the Polestar 2, a roughly $60,000, 408-horsepower electric sedan under Volvo's performance electric-vehicle brand. Production…

Cars of the future are almost certainly going to be powered by electricity. We’re not going to have much choice as governments around the world look to ban petrol and diesel powered vehicles in favor of EVs. On one hand, this is obviously great for the environment, but it makes…