Tesla

Tesla founder Elon Musk’s $44 billion bid to buy Twitter has led to a wave of concern that Tesla’s rapid expansion in China will make Twitter TWTR, -1.81% more vulnerable to pressure from the Chinese government.  China is, after all, Tesla’s second-largest sales market after the U.S. — accounting for…

Electric cars are far more than just an environmentally friendly option these days. There is a clear high-end market for electric vehicles, which push specs, technology, and luxury to the limit. At the top of the luxury pile sits the Lucid Air, which has finally started arriving on the driveways…

Twitter’s new buyer Elon Musk still must have his tweets about his electric car company Tesla pre-approved after a US judge on Wednesday rejected an appeal to free him from oversight. Musk last month filed a motion to overturn Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) restrictions imposed following his 2018 tweet,…

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As Tesla's profits and prices grabbed headlines last week, a potentially pivotal development for the global car industry flew largely under the radar. The US electric pioneer disclosed that nearly half of the vehicles it produced in the first quarter were equipped with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries — a…

A Tesla car on autopilot crashed into a US$3.5 million ($5.3m) private jet after its owner reportedly tried to call for it using the vehicle's "Smart Summon" feature.The collision happened at an event hosted by aircraft manufacturer...Read More

(Source: OPPO) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Chinese smartphone maker OPPO announced on Tuesday through its official Weibo account that it has entered into a partnership with the Tesla China team to manufacture digital car keys. The OPPO digital key will be adapted to all versions of the Tesla…

Elon Musk, who has just bought Twitter for $44 billion, will have to manufacture his Tesla cars in India, and not China, if he wants to come and sell the vehicles in the country, Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari said here on Tuesday. Reiterating that Musk will…

Most automakers are dying to sell you—and the world—an electric car. But they’re up against the challenge of our global-warming time: dauntingly tight supplies of both batteries and the ethically sourced raw materials required to make them. Tesla and Volkswagen are among the automakers who see manganese—element No. 25 on…

Topline Tesla billionaire Elon Musk railed against regulators Monday morning after a court filing unearthed dozens of text messages between him and a Saudi investor discussing a deal to take the electric carmaker private—fanning the flames of a four-year-old spat that forced Musk to step down as Tesla chairman and…