Martin Tripp, accused of 'sabotage' by Elon Musk, to pay $400,000 to end lawsuit

Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Tesla A former Tesla Inc factory employee will pay Elon Musk's electric car maker $400,000 after it accused him of tipping reporters about alleged production inefficiencies and delays, a court filing shows. The payment by Martin Tripp, a former process technician at Tesla's Gigafactory...

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New electric cars have problems in latest Consumer Reports survey

Filed under: Auto News,Green,Green,Audi,Kia,Tesla,Ownership,Electric Continue reading New electric cars have problems in latest Consumer Reports survey New electric cars have problems in latest Consumer Reports survey originally appeared on Autoblog on Tue, 1 Dec 2020 16:37:00 EST. Please see our terms...

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S&P 500 to swallow Tesla in one gulp on Dec. 21; shares keep on surging

Filed under: Earnings/Financials,Green,Tesla Tesla Inc shares jumped 4% in extended trade on Monday after S&P Dow Jones Indices said it would add one of Wall Street's most valuable companies to the S&P 500 index all at once on Dec. 21. Adding Elon Musk's Tesla to Wall Street's most followed benchmark will force index...

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NHTSA opens investigation into Tesla suspension failures

Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Tesla,Safety,Crossover,Electric,sedan The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating complaints that suspensions can fail on nearly 115,000 Tesla electric vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has 43 complaints that linkages near the ball joints...

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Tesla's upcoming S&P 500 debut fuels 'crazy' trading volume

Filed under: Earnings/Financials,Green,Tesla,Electric If you traded a stock in the past week, there's a fair chance it was Tesla. Shares in the electric car maker led by CEO Elon Musk rose almost 3% on Wednesday and have now surged 40% since Nov. 16, when it was announced Tesla would join the S&P 500 in December. One...

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Tesla issues two recalls covering 9,500 U.S. vehicles

Filed under: Auto News,Recalls,Tesla,Green Automakers,Safety,Crossover,Electric Tesla Inc is issuing two recalls covering about 9,500 vehicles for roof trim that may separate and bolts that may not have been properly tightened. The larger recall covers 9,136 Model X cars from the 2016 model year, the National Highway Traffic...

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Tesla mulls expanding in Europe with compact vehicles, says Musk

Filed under: Green,Tesla,Hatchback,Electric U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla is looking at expanding in Europe by entering the mass-market segment with a compact car, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Tuesday. "Possibly in Europe it would make sense to do, I guess, a compact car, perhaps a hatchback or something like that,"...

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Tesla breaches $500 billion in market value

Filed under: Earnings/Financials,Green,Tesla,Electric Shares of the electric-car maker have risen nearly 28% since the S&P Dow Jones Indices confirmed they would add the company to Wall Street's benchmark index from Dec. 21. The recent rally has also boosted Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk's net worth by $7.2 billion...

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Tesla workers deemed essential in California

Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Plants/Manufacturing,Tesla,Electric Workers at Tesla Inc's California vehicle factory are deemed essential and are not impacted by the state's latest restrictions to curb a new surge in coronavirus infections, the California health department said on Friday. Tesla and local California...

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Tesla Model 3 crash at 100 mph sends burning battery cells flying into homes

Filed under: Green,Tesla,Electric Continue reading Tesla Model 3 crash at 100 mph sends burning battery cells flying into homes Tesla Model 3 crash at 100 mph sends burning battery cells flying into homes originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 19 Nov 2020 09:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of...

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