Tesla CEO Elon Musk is Fortune’s Business Person of the Year
Kind of a no-brainer IMO. Fortune doesn’t mention it but Musk has taken to social media and direct communication with…
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk goes on two different shows to say he will cut back on media
Media organisations will be disappointed to learn that Tesla CEO Elon Musk plans on cutting back on media appearances. In the…
Tesla opens Springfield Oregon Supercharger, announces West Coast Corridor open
Tesla today officially announced the Springfield Oregon Supercharger had opened thereby allowing Tesla owners to travel the whole West Coast…
Tesla taps another Apple manufacturing veteran to lead vehicle manufacturing technologies
Tesla seems to be joining many other Silicon Valley companies in hiring employees away from Apple. Only weeks after poaching…
Tesla hires a lead Apple Store architect from Callison
It’s no secret that Tesla’s retail strategy is inspired by Apple’s. In 2010, the automaker hired George Blankenship as VP of Store…
China’s auto giant BAIC opens its R&D center in Silicon Valley to develop electric vehicles
The Chinese auto giant Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Co, through its Beijing Electric Vehicle Co subsidiary, opened a research and development…
Panasonic and its partners to invest $1B in Tesla’s Battery Gigafactory, how does Tesla fund the rest?
You’ll recall that I picked Panasonic and Solar City to be among partners in Tesla’s upcoming Gigafactory announcement back in…
Tesla now offers test drives out of Harrods in London
Tesla announced today via Instagram that the company now offers test drives out of Harrods, a popular upmarket department store…
The chip guru who built Apple’s Ax microprocessors joins Tesla to lead the Autopilot Hardware Engineering team
Electrek has learned that Tesla this month quietly hired high-profile microprocessor engineer Jim Keller as Vice President of Autopilot Hardware Engineering. Tesla today…
Tesla hires yet another chip architecture titan out of Apple’s PA Semi, feeding the rumor that it plans to design its own silicon
If there’s indeed a poaching chess game going on between Tesla and Apple, it would appear the automaker is winning in…
Apple poaching electric vehicle engineers contributed to Mission Motorcycles’ bankruptcy says CEO
San Francisco-based Mission Motorcycles, a maker of high-end electric motorcycles, recently filed for bankruptcy amid financial troubles. In the filing, current CEO Mark…
Tesla’s VP of Product Technology leaves for Facebook
Rich Heley was one of Tesla’s biggest hire and quickly rose in the executive ranks of the automaker. We broke…
Tesla Model S gets IHS Teardown treatment: “Unlike any car ever made, more like an iPad”
Tesla’s Model S (or a wrecked one) got the IHS Supply teardown treatment and if you are wondering what makes…
Tesla’s Jerome Guillen is taking a leave of absence and Doug Field is moving up
In Tesla’s recently published 10Q SEC filing, the company confirmed that Jerome Guillen, Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Service,…
Stephen Colbert: ‘I woke up yesterday and my Tesla could drive itself’ [Video]
Stephen Colbert, on his popular Late Nite television show, discussed the Tesla V7 software update and the ability of the…
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang takes delivery of his new Tesla Model X
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang announced that he took delivery of a rare Tesla Model X P90D, presumably a ‘Founder Series’…
Tesla is not Elon Musk’s only company developing high-tech battery packs
Between established automakers accelerating their electric vehicle programs and the newcomers in the EV industry – like Apple, Faraday Future…
Smug alert: How to own electric like a boss
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2nfd7HrJ60] In case you are wondering, that Yugo-looking EV is called the Buddy EV. The Norwegian electric vehicle’s range is…
Tesla’s VP of Finance and Worldwide Controller leaves for Amazon
In just the past few weeks, Tesla lost 2 Vice-Presidents. Last week, we reported on Tesla’s Vice President of Global…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk talks about the fire with Bloomberg
[ooyala code=”1iNnFiZzpGDO8aDQVaNNNplR-qHESdwf” player_id=”null”] Tesla CEO Elon Musk stopped by the Bloomberg office to discuss TSLA stock valuation and other fun…
When a recall isn’t a recall. Tesla is replacing plug adapters on charging cables
Oh lordy. The press has gotten ahold of a lunker with its latest TESLA RECALL! meme. Unfortunately for the sensational,…
Elon Musk calls Apple the ‘Tesla Graveyard,’ warns of the complexities of car manufacturing
Apple’s so-called “poaching war” with Tesla has been a hot topic for the company’s CEO Elon Musk and in a…
Tesla’s biggest competition for talent might not be Apple but Faraday Future, an LeTV-backed startup in Los Angeles
The so-called “poaching war” for top automotive engineering talent between Tesla and Apple gathered quite a few headlines in the past…
Tesla likely working on an autonomous ride-sharing scheme but hasn’t decided on implementation
Adam Jonas, a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley covering Tesla Motors and the automotive industry, is nothing if not persistent. During…