The Polaris Dawn mission crew, from left: Medical officer Anna Menon, pilot Scott Poteet, commander Jared Isaacman, and mission specialist Sarah Gillis. Polaris Program / John Kraus Jared Isaacman, th...
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EV start-up Polestar takes shots at Tesla’s Elon Musk in Super Bowl ad
Electric vehicle start-up Polestar, which is expected to go public this year, used its first-ever Super Bowl ad to indirectly take shots at its competitors, including Tesla and Volkswagen. The 30-seco...
Holdouts Still Blocking Key Bridge Connecting Canada And U.S. After Police Clear Away Most Protesters
Topline Most demonstrators drove away peacefully Saturday morning from the Ambassador Bridge, but Canadian police were facing off with a handful who continued to block the critical border crossing lin...
SpaceX’s Starship is solution to efficient space travel
Elon Musk gestures as he speaks during a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility near Boca Chica Village in South Texas on February 10, 2022. Jim Watson | AFP | Getty Images CAMERON COUNT...
Watch Elon Musk give an update on SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket
Note: SpaceX is producing the webcast for this event. [The livestream is slated to begin at 9 p.m. ET. Please refresh the page if the web player above is not visible.] SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is giving a...
SpaceX losing Starlink satellites due to geomagnetic space storm
A batch of Starlink satellites deploy in orbit after a launch on Nov. 13, 2021. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX expects to lose nearly an entire launch’s worth of Starlink satellites after a sto...
Elon Musk’s Tesla helped make EVs ‘possible in America’
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday recognized Tesla as a pioneer of electric vehicle manufacturing in the U.S. “We admire the range of American companies that have innovated, i...
Why solar geomagnetic storms destroy satellites like SpaceX Starlink
Left: A Falcon 9 rocket carries 49 Starlink satellites toward orbit on Feb. 3, 2022. Right: An April 16, 2012 solar eruption is captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. SpaceX / NASA The s...
Tesla owns service centers: Pros and cons
Tesla is known for sparking an electric vehicle revolution. It’s also brought services to customers, like mobile repairs and over-the-air tune-ups, that were once reserved for only the most elit...
Tesla cut a steering component to deal with chip shortage
Employees work at the Tesla Gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, Nov. 20, 2020. U.S. electric car company Tesla in 2019 built its first Gigafactory outside the United States in the new Lingang area, w...
America Is Still Missing 2.5 Million Workers—Most Won’t Return To Work This Year
Topline Despite red-hot labor demand, a majority of the roughly 2.5 million Americans who dropped out of the labor force during the pandemic and still aren’t looking for jobs won’t return ...
Tesla’s Bitcoin Investment Hits Nearly $2 Billion—Here’s How That Compares To Billionaire Novogratz’s Galaxy, Dorsey’s Square And More
Topline Electric carmaker Tesla revealed in a public filing Monday that the value of its bitcoin holdings ballooned to nearly $2 billion by the end of December, confirming the firm helmed by billionai...
Volvo Cars, Northvolt to build gigafactory in Gothenburg
A Volvo XC40 Recharge car on display at the 38th Thailand International Motor Expo 2021. Peerapon Boonyakiat /SOPA Images | LightRocket | Getty Images Volvo Cars and Northvolt said Friday they would b...
Satellite internet tier at $500 per month
SpaceX has quietly rolled out a new, more powerful “premium” tier of its Starlink satellite internet service that’s targeted at businesses and enterprise customers. The new product, ...
How The Auto Industry Should Learn From Honeywell and Nest
OCTOBER ’21: A Tesla Model Y electric vehicle is displayed on a showroom floor at the Miami Design … [+] District after reporting $1.6 billion in profits for the three months prior. (Photo...
Tesla to recall FSD Beta software that let drivers roll past stop signs
Tesla will recall software from 53,822 of its Model S, X, 3 and Y vehicles in the U.S. to eliminate a feature that let cars automatically roll through stop signs, according to records published today ...
Cathie Wood Buys More Robinhood And Tesla, Tells Investors To Take ‘Advantage’ Of Volatility
Topline Widely-followed stock picker Cathie Wood of Ark Invest, looking to bounce back as her funds continue to underperform, is using recent market volatility to buy the dip on big growth names like ...
Tesla climbs more than 10% on Monday after Credit Suisse upgrade
A Tesla mobile service vehicle outside a dealership in Vallejo, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2021. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Shares in electric vehicle maker Tesla climbed...
Brand Has 75% Share Of State’s EV Market
Tesla continues to dominate electric vehicles sales in the biggest U.S. market for them. Getty Images Billionaire Elon Musk moved Tesla’s headquarters and his residence to Texas, but California remain...
Electric vehicle fires are rare, but hard to fight — here’s why
Electric vehicles provide a path to better air quality, reduced fuel costs and comprise a growing new category for automakers. But with the transition to electric transportation comes a new challenge:...
Tesla Reported Record Profits. Its Stock Was Punished. It’s a Better Buy Than GM or Ford.
Text size The reaction to Tesla’s fourth-quarter earnings report was the worst to an earnings beat in its history. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg What the heck just happened to Tesla stock? Its shares go...
Elon Musk And The Other Billionaires Whose Fortunes Fell This Week As Tech Stocks Continue To Struggle
THE CHANGING FORTUNES OF THE WORLD’S RICHEST The founders of Tesla, Oracle and Airbnb lost billions of dollars this week amid surging market volatility and continued pressure on tech stocks. D espite ...
Will The $25,000 Tesla Ever Really Happen?
The big news from Tesla’s Battery Day in 2020 was the somewhat nonchalant announcement that the company would be making a $25,000 car with fully autonomous capabilities. The implication at the time wa...
Walmart’s Bringing The Farm Closer To The Store
Walmart is venturing with hydroponic vertical gardening company Plenty to bring the farm closer to … [+] the store. This dovetails with their pledge to meet a plethora of sustainability targets ...
Evangeline Lilly Is The Latest Celebrity To Rail Against Covid Vaccines Or Mandates
Since the first approved Covid-19 vaccine was administered in the U.S. in December 2020, these celebrities have spoken out against vaccination or mandates requiring them, with some spreading toxic mi...
Nothing New To See Here
PALO ALTO, CA – NOVEMBER 05: A Tesla Model S car is displayed at a Tesla showroom on November 5, … [+] 2013 in Palo Alto, California. Tesla will report third quarter earnings today after t...
Netflix Is Still Overvalued By At Least $114 Billion
PARIS, FRANCE – NOVEMBER 02: Netflix logo is displayed during the ‘Paris Games Week’ on November … [+] 02, 2017 in Paris, France. Netflix is an American company offering stream...
Elon Musk’s SpaceX planning for record 52 launches in 2022
A Falcon 9 rocket launches the GPS III SV05 satellite on a mission for the U.S. Space Force on June 17, 2021. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX broke its own annual orbital launch record last year, and ...
Tesla stock drops 8% as investors digest new vehicle delays
Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveils the Cybertruck at the TeslaDesign Studio in Hawthorne, Calif. The cracked window glass occurred during a demonstration on the strength of the glass. Robert Hanashiro | USA ...
The fund that made $700 million on GameStop knew it was time to sell after an Elon Musk tweet
NurPhoto | NurPhoto | Getty Images One hedge fund got the GameStop trade just about perfectly right last year — buying it under $10 and selling when the meme stock peaked. The sell signal it used? An ...
EV manufacturing jumps in UK, overall production sinks to 65-year low
A Nissan Leaf on the forecourt of a dealership in Lincoln, U.K. Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images Car production in the U.K. slumped by 6.7% to just 859,575 units in 2021, new figures publish...