Electric truck maker Nikola looks like Tesla 2.0 — except even riskier
A week before Nikola, the electric truck start-up, debuted its shares on the public market, it was time to spin up the hype machine. For some reason its founder and...
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Elon Musk outburst over ‘fascist’ coronavirus shutdown shows pressure to keep up growth
Elon Musk's emotional eruption on a conference call with analysts Wednesday followed a couple high-stress events. It burst forth when a financial expert asked the Tesla chief executive about how...
Car dealers are desperate. Does that make it a good time to buy a vehicle online?
New-car showrooms are closed. Inventory is beyond bloated. Car dealers are bleeding cash and ready to negotiate. In other words, if you're blessed with good health and you have a...
Stay home if you want, Elon Musk tells Tesla workers as Bay Area plant stays open
Tesla's Fremont, Calif., electric vehicle assembly plant, which employs about 10,000 workers, will remain open despite the "shelter in place" lockdown issued by six Bay Area counties on Monday. Alameda...
Tesla’s Musk is mum about coronavirus impact, except to say panic is ‘dumb’
Tesla had been hoping to score three profitable quarters in a row, for the first time in its history. But with the coronavirus slamming the overall economy, analysts are increasingly...
Your Tesla could explain why it crashed. But good luck getting its Autopilot data
On Jan. 21, 2019, Michael Casuga drove his new Tesla Model 3 southbound on Santiago Canyon Road, a two-lane highway that twists through hilly woodlands east of Santa Ana, Calif....
Car buyers shun electric vehicles not named Tesla. Are carmakers driving off a cliff?
Regulators are demanding zero-emission vehicles. And manufacturers are scrambling to provide them, spending billions on electric-car development. Ford says a third of its vehicles will be electric by 2030. Volkswagen...
The electric Mustang is just the start of Ford’s drive to hit 50 mpg in 6 years
The red line — the 7,000-rpm mark on a race car's tachometer — is the central motif in the new hit movie "Ford v Ferrari." You can't win a tough...
Tesla Model 3 can no longer be recommended, says Consumer Reports
Tesla’s stock price sank Thursday after Consumer Reports blasted the reliability of the company’s new Model 3 sedan and dropped it from a list of recommended vehicles. “Consumers expect their...
Regulators have OKd a ‘follow you like a pet’ feature in Tesla cars, Elon Musk says
For years, Chief Executive Elon Musk has been promising science-fiction-sounding remote control software for Tesla cars. He’s promised a mobile app to signal a car to drive itself around a...