Elon Musk has finally been forced to rethink his vaulting ambitions for Tesla. The news on Tuesday that Musk will dismiss more than 3 000 employees, or about 9% of the company’s workforce, underscored what many
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Elon Musk expressed confidence about Tesla achieving the next production goal for its crucial Model 3, predicting that manufacturing will become a strength for the electric car maker over time. The CEO said it’s
Elon Musk’s idea of creating a credibility rating site for journalists and media outlets seems wacky on the face of it. For one, the proposed name, Pravda, is cringe-making for a Soviet-born journalist like me. But not
In hindsight, Elon Musk’s statement at the beginning of Tesla’s latest earnings call that “We’re going to go as long as there are good questions to answer” sounds less like encouragement and more like a warning
A few hours after Elon Musk berated analysts for what he perceived as unimaginative questions, Volkswagen has said it was writing a cheque for batteries that almost match Tesla’s entire market value. VW has awarded
The earnings report started optimistically enough, with Elon Musk forecasting an end to Tesla’s cash-burning days after blazing through another $1bn last quarter. But by the end of Tesla’s first-quarter conference call, Musk
Elon Musk started Tesla with a goal of accelerating the switch to electric cars by about a decade. That wish is now catching up with him. Starting with Jaguar’s I-Pace crossover and later this year Audi’s Q6 e-tron, virtually every
On the surface, locally listed media and Internet behemoth Naspers doesn’t have much in common with US electric vehicle producer Tesla. But scratch below the surface and the companies have more in common
Electric buses were seen as a joke at an industry conference in Belgium seven years ago when the Chinese manufacturer BYD showed an early model. “Everyone was laughing at BYD for making a toy,” recalled
When Damien Maguire moved to the countryside outside Dublin, he struggled to keep the lights on at home because of the town’s constant power outages. He found a solution inside his electric cars: their batteries