Bill Gates paid Tesla a compliment for coaxing the car industry to go electric. If he was expecting kind words in return, he apparently shouldn’t have spoken about challenges that still lie ahead – or about his new Porsche.
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All of last week, Tesla was tempting and taunting the pros, lighting up brokerage phone lines and getting blood pumping like no time since 1999.
Within minutes of the stock market’s open on Tuesday, shares of Tesla shot up 17%. Which feels extraordinary, except for the fact that they gained more the previous day.
As Tesla observers try to understand how and why the stock has tripled in a little more than three months, analysts are second-guessing the notion that the Model 3 maker will be caught anytime soon.
Tesla’s market value briefly topped $100-billion for the first time, a threshold that will trigger a huge payout for Elon Musk if he can sustain the feat for months.
Elon Musk’s rocket company has one last, major hurdle to clear before it attempts an historic first flight of astronauts for Nasa: proving it can safely abort a mission if something goes wrong after takeoff.
Elon Musk’s suggestion for how to fix Twitter? Identify the bots. Musk, the SpaceX and Tesla CEO, was asked on Thursday by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey how he would fix the social network.
Glencore is negotiating a long-term contract to ship cobalt to Tesla ’s new electric vehicle factory in Shanghai, according to people familiar with the matter.
SpaceX has launched 60 more mini Internet satellites, this time testing a dark coating to appease stargazers.
Elon Musk is getting a laugh out of a 503-day-old marijuana joke that securities regulators didn’t find so funny.