Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is surging today to again a new record high, and it just made Elon Musk the richest man in the world.
Somewhere there’s a sad Jeff Bezos wiping his tears with $189 billion.
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After much teasing from CEO Elon Musk, Tesla has released its long promised “holiday update.” It is now available over the air to Tesla’s entire EV fleet. The release notes of the Tesla software update 2020.48.26 have a lot of new features to offer Tesla owners.
This post will focus on one of the more robust updates released by Tesla in recent months, version 2020.48.26. Here’s a breakdown of the release notes and what new improvements Tesla drivers can expect from this update.
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Apple has gifted the world with a library of devices that have since become household names, many of which we use daily. There’s the iPhone, iPad, MacBook Pro, and AirPods; but when you think Apple, Car is not the first word to come to mind. That might soon change as recent news has breathed new life into over ten years of rumors surrounding Apple’s attempt at an electric car. Here’s everything we know so far, along with the winding road of a backstory that brought us to this point.
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As 2020 comes to a much-celebrated wrap, the Tesla community is looking toward 2021 with high hopes. As the current golden child of electric vehicle manufacturing, Tesla looks to continue its reign and scale its ever-growing fleet. Below is a compilation of what Tesla’s 2021 models include and what customers can expect when their 2021 EV is delivered to their driveway.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk wrote to employees in an email obtained by Electrek tonight that they are seeing strong demand, but the automaker needs to increase production fast in order to capitalize on it.
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Elon Musk confirmed that he personally moved to Texas full time and revealed that the reason is to focus on Tesla Gigafactory Texas in Austin and SpaceX’s Starship development in south Texas.
As for the future of the electric automaker and rocket company in California, it is still unclear.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that he tested both positive and negative for COVID-19 in a series of four tests yesterday.
The CEO, who has often made skeptical and inaccurate comments about the pandemic, used the occasion to again cast doubts on the seriousness of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that he is going to Tesla Gigafactory Berlin today to boost the local hiring effort, and he will personally interview candidates.
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Elon Musk has secured the second tranche of his stock compensation plan as the Tesla CEO is worth over $2 billion in TSLA stock, which he eventually plans to use for his plan to colonize Mars.
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In an ironic turn of events, Tesla CEO Elon Musk ends up making millions of dollars from his SEC settlement over his “funding secured” tweet.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been quite vocal both on Twitter and at last night’s earnings call about the COVID-19 shutdown. Musk is in favor of reopening the US immediately and thinks the positives in doing so outweigh the negatives. There has been both positive and negative reaction to this, but we wanted to see how our readers felt. Please vote and comment below.
If you’ve somehow missed the Tweets or commentary from last night’s earnings call, we’ve summed up below.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is warning car buyers that they need to take into account that the electric vehicle transition might cause “residual values of gas/diesel cars to plummet in the coming years.”
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Elon Musk has commented on Tesla’s acquisition of Maxwell, an ultra-capacitor manufacturer and battery technology company, and shed some lights on the automaker’s plan for the company.
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In a heartwarming and impressive scene, Elon Musk, his mother, Maye Musk, and volunteers from the local Tesla Owners club helped deliver cars to hundreds of customers late into New Year’s Eve yesterday.
Endearing moments were captured and posted to Twitter both by customers and Maye herself (pictured below).
Cybertruck is making its music video debut today in a visual released for a new song from high-profile hip-hop artist Travis Scott. The video also features Tesla’s prototype electric Cyberquad ATV that the company unveiled alongside the new electric pickup, as well as Musk’s “Not a flame thrower” from The Boring Company.
While Cybertruck can be spotted parked throughout the new video, Travis Scott can be seen riding the Cyberquad ATV prototype in several scenes.
Head below to check out the full video.
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Elon Musk announced to employees today that Tesla has “two most critical priorities” that it needs to focus on before the end of the year.
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Tesla’s Chief Designer Franz von Holzhausen has a wicked pitch. CEO Elon Musk posted a slow-motion video of the Tesla team tempting fate, hurling a steel ball towards the Tesla Cybertruck right before they were set to debut it to the world. Check it out after the jump and get excited for Tesla Armor Glass.
There’s renewed scrutiny of Tesla’s executive departures as a new report shows stats that highlight the turnover rate for execs reporting directly to Elon Musk is much higher than for other CEOs.
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Now that Tesla has a more extensive lineup of vehicles, do you ever wonder what models and variants Elon Musk drives?
The CEO has now revealed his preferred Tesla vehicles to drive these days.
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Tesla (TSLA) stock price jumped more than 4% today to keep the momentum of a rebound after a tough start of the year. The latest increase comes after Elon Musk claimed he is deleting his Twitter account.
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Tesla is trying to achieve record deliveries this quarter. It is counting on the North American market to do it with quick sales by the end of the month. US incentives are set to drop again.
Electrek has learned that Tesla is currently delivering cars at a rate of approximately 1,000 a day.
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The SEC had their day in court regarding their attempt to hold Elon Musk in contempt of court over a tweet he wrote about Tesla production.
A Judge told both parties to handle matters amongst themselves over the next two weeks.
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Elon Musk’s lawyers have now answered the court regarding the SEC’s attempt to have them hold Tesla’s CEO in contempt and it details how the federal agency is going after the automaker and its leaders in quite an absurd way over some arguably meaningless tweets.
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Elon Musk’s Boring Company is announcing today a new proposed ‘Loop’ system of tunnels for approval in Las Vegas.
If everything goes according to plan, the first leg of the system would be operational at the Las Vegas Convention Center as soon as 2021.
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