It reportedly planned to re-open on Friday, but authorities say this could lead to more virus cases.

Shares in Elon Musk’s pioneering electric car company Tesla have skyrocketed. Tom Braithwaite discusses whether the company will be able to maintain its current momentum and hold off competition from traditional carmakers with Jamie Powell and Richard Waters.

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Chief executive criticised over move to offer liability cover following premium increase

Shares soar in after-hours trading following better than expected figures

The plan may be to keep the ‘pedal to the metal’ but self-funding is still out of range

On the impossibility of future earnings.

‘Stock price is too high’, writes outspoken chief executive

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Friday that the company’s stock price was “too high” in his opinion, immediately sending shares into a free fall and in possible violation of an agreement reached with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last year. Tesla shares fell nearly 12% in the half hour following his stock price tweets […]

Herbert Diess wants to sell 26m emission-free vehicles in 9 years, overtaking rivals including Californian electric pioneer

Tesla appears to be ramping up installations of its solar tile roofs in the San Francisco Bay area and will eventually roll out to Europe and China, according to CEO Elon Musk, who, in a series of tweets, provided the first substantial update since the company launched the third iteration of its product in October. […]

Tesla’s Model 3 is among the top 10 choices for car buyers in 2020, according to Consumer Reports. The nonprofit organization released its “Top Picks” of the year on Thursday, and it included Tesla’s most affordable vehicle alongside cars from automakers including Toyota, Subaru, Honda, Kia and Lexus. The Model 3 was chosen as one […]

Panasonic said it will stop producing solar cells and modules at Tesla’s factory in Buffalo, N.Y., ending a four-year joint venture with the electric automaker.  Nikkei Asian Review was the first to report that Panasonic planned to end its production agreement with Tesla . Panasonic has since issued an announcement to explain its decision. Tesla […]

Tesla is aiming to ramp up “limited operations” at its factory in Fremont, Calif., a decision that puts the company and its CEO Elon Musk in direct conflict with a stay-at-home order in Alameda County. Update: On Friday, Alameda County health officials said the automaker was told not to reopen. Employees received two emails — […]

Tesla has not been given the “green light” to open its factory in Fremont, Calif., Alameda County Health Officer Dr. Erica Pan said in a videostreamed town hall meeting Friday. Tesla made plans to open as early as Friday in defiance of the county’s extended stay-at-home order. Tesla said in an internal email sent to […]

Some of the best real-time insights into Tesla and its global fleet of electric vehicles — outside the confines of its Silicon Valley headquarters — might be through the lens of TezLab, a tiny upstart in Brooklyn. Now, a little more than two years after its founding, TezLab is on the verge of hitting what […]

Walmart accused Tesla of 'widespread negligence' that led to repeated fires of its solar systems and asking a court to force Tesla to remove solar panels from more than 240 of its U.S. stores.

Musk's credibility has been questioned by former employees and industry experts who say his plans for solar panels amount to nothing more than hot air.

Tesla will make the Cybertruck and ramp up Model Y production before moving to the $200,000 Roadster, CEO Elon Musk said. The topic came up on Joe Rogan's podcast, where Musk appeared this week for his second guest appearance. There's no clear date on when to expect the Roadster.Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.In a Thursday podcast with Joe Rogan, popular guest and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company is prioritizing its other planned cars over the $200,000 Tesla Roadster sports car. Rogan asked Musk when he'd be able to purchase a Roadster, as reported by Reuters, but Musk didn't have a date. Instead, Musk said increasing production of the Model Y midsize SUV and the building of a Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany, were his priorities. "This COVID thing's kind of thrown us

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia has protested to the European Union after one of its publications described inventor and electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla as a...

Simon Cowell's clean living lifestyle has extended to his mode of transport as he swapped his gas guzzling Rolls Royce for an environmentally friendly Tesla.

The Sign Of The Times singer, 25, parked the top-of-the-range electric vehicle in a suspended parking bay as he nipped into a cafe in Hampstead, London on Friday

The footage was caught on a Ring doorbell camera at the property in London. Thieves gained access to the supercar by using a relay system and key jamming techniques.

Charge up your flux capacitors! We're going back to the future with Tesla Motors' unveiling of its gull-winged, all-electric sports utility vehicle.

Tesla's factory in Fremont, California, has been closed since March 24 as part of a government clampdown, requiring people to stay indoors to slow the spread of the coronavirus.

The billionaire, 48, made the comment yesterday in a string of tweets that also saw him reveal he was selling all of his possessions and demand that authorities give people back 'their freedom'.

The electric car maker has clocked up a six-month period with an average market capitalisation of $100bn (£81bn), the main requirement for Musk to receive the first payout under a reward scheme.

Scottish Mortgage's co-manager Tom Slater, explains how the trust invests and why he believes 'the world's most exciting, interesting growth companies' have more good times ahead.

Elon Musk on Wednesday quipped on an earnings call that the shutdowns are 'not why people came to America or built this country, excuse me' as Tesla posted its third quarterly profit in a row.

Tesla will resume 'limited operations' at its car plant in Fremont, California, following the state shutdown

Caviar released a modified iPhone 11 Pro inspired by Tesla's Cybertruck. The case is made of titanium, which claims to provide 'absolute protection' -unlike the Cybertruck's windows, the firm implies.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed in a tweet that video conferencing is 'definitely a future feature', as the latest model it has a camera in the rearview mirror that points inside of the vehicle.

According to cybersecurity researcher who goes by the handle 'greentheonly,' hackers could retrieve a wealth of personal information from old Tesla dashboard systems, even after a full factory reset.

The automaker announced Monday that its first official venture in the oil-rich Middle East will be in the United Arab Emirates.

Serbia has protested to the European Union after one of its publications described inventor and electricity pioneer Nikola Tesla as a Croat. Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said on Saturday he has sent the protest note to Brussels after the EU's Learning Corner site for children described Tesla as a famous Croatian who was one of the first people to discover X-ray imaging. An ethnic Serb born in 1856 in the Austrian Empire in present-day Croatia, Tesla spent most of his life abroad, working in Budapest and Paris before emigrating to the US in 1884 where he assumed American citizenship. He died in New York in 1943. History books quote him as saying that he was proud of his Serb origin and his Croat homeland. Tesla's ethnicity has long been just one of many disputes and points of contention between neighbouring Balkan rivals Serbia and Croatia, which once were both part of the Yugoslav federation that broke up in a civil war in the 1990s. Croatia is an EU member, while Serbia is seeking ...

WSJ’s Tim Higgins explores how CEO Elon Musk turned Tesla into the most valuable U.S. auto maker of all time. Photo: Philip Pacheco/Getty Images

With Tesla’s latest vehicle, an electric pickup dubbed "Cybertruck," Elon Musk takes aim at a challenging but lucrative market segment. Photo: Frederic J. Brown/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images

US agency probes 12th Tesla crash tied to possible Autopilot use

Tesla Inc. suspended production at its plant on the outskirts of Shanghai, according to people familiar with the matter, bringing to a halt all of the company’s vehicle manufacturing globally.

The tweets recall Musk's controversial tweets in August 2018 when he said he had "funding secured" for a quickly-aborted campaign to take the electric car maker private.

Tesla Inc "must not reopen" its vehicle factory in the San Francisco Bay area as local lockdown measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus remain in effect, the local county health department said on Friday.

Wired.com checks out ArcAttack's musical Tesla-coil performance at Maker Faire 2010.

Engineer and inventor Greg Leyh tells us about his new Kickstarter project -- constructing two 10-story Tesla coils designed to create a lightning bolt 260 feet long.

Tesla is hard at work on a new suspension setup for the Model S that will make the electric sedan even more of a competent handler and a car aimed squarely at enthusiasts.

Damon Lavrinc and Tesla Model S owner Konstantin Othmer are using the Sidecar App to pick up passengers around San Francisco and get their first impressions of the car.

Tesla is pushing out one of its most feature-packed updates to Model S owners, with new functions, energy saving settings and --finally -- voice controls.

If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized robots building slick electric cars in a factory straight from the future. That's where the battery-powered Model S is born.

Tesla Motors is challenging the giants of the global auto industry with all-electric cars—and a new approach to building them. Take a look at their assembly lines, and the philosophy behind them.

Preorder a Tesla today—but don’t expect to get behind the wheel for another 2-3 months. We go inside Tesla’s rigorous quality testing that each of its vehicles must undergo before hitting the road. From water and drive tests to a 101-point checklist, see the exhaustive inspection these electric beauties go through.