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SpaceX Starman reaches beyond Mars in his cherry red Tesla Roadster

Elon Musk used to go to work in that Tesla Roadster before the car embarked upon its space journey.

Nov 4, 2018

Fancy a bottle of Teslaquila? Elon Musk files patent for Tesla-themed liquor

Teslaquila was first an April fool's joke by Tesla CEO Elon Musk who said in a tweet that he was found passed put by a Tesla model 3, surrounded by Teslaquila.

Oct 14, 2018

James Murdoch rumoured to replace Elon Musk as Tesla chairman

Murdoch currently serves on the boards of Twenty-First Century Fox and News Corp.

Oct 11, 2018

US justice department probes Tesla over CEO Elon Musk's tweets about taking company private

The probe by the Justice Department, which can press criminal charges, comes on top of a civil probe by the Securities and Exchange Commission and shareholder lawsuits.

Sep 19, 2018

Tesla's Elon Musk smokes marijuana on a live web show; company shares crash

The billionaire's behaviour has raised concerns about his leadership.

Sep 8, 2018

Elon Musk cancels plans to take Tesla private; plan cancelled after board meeting

This decision comes after Musk had tweeted that he wanted to take the company private.

Aug 25, 2018

Fire breaks out near Tesla factory in California; CEO Elon Musk confirms no injuries

A fire broke out near electric carmaker Tesla's production plant in Fremont, California on Thursday.

Aug 24, 2018

Kalashnikov wants to take on Tesla with its retro-look CV-1 electric 'supercar'

The Russian manufacturer, famous for the AK-47 assault rifle, says the CV-1 will rub shoulders with the best in terms of technolgy, speed and range.

Aug 24, 2018

Elon Musk to make Tesla accessible to masses; reveals plans of low-priced electric vehicle

Musk said that he hoped to scale production at Tesla and lower their design and technology costs enough to be able to offer a truly mass-market electric vehicle.

Aug 19, 2018

Tesla whistleblower alleges company of spying, drug dealing in Nevada Gigafactory

Tesla said it took the allegations that Hansen brought to the electric car maker seriously and investigating it.

Aug 17, 2018

Saudi Arabian PIF 'reluctant' for Tesla buyout proposal

While Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk is said to have made an offer of $72 million, there are still no takers to make the company private.

Aug 12, 2018

Tesla privatisation plans: Board of directors evaluating Elon Musk's plan to take company private

In an email to Tesla employees earlier on Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk had said that he is going to take Tesla private in the future at a price of $420 per share.

Aug 9, 2018

Elon Musk's Tesla moves first to hike prices in China as trade war hits car makers

Tesla has hiked prices on its Model X and S cars by about 20 percent in China in response to a US-China trade war.

Jul 10, 2018

Elon Musk's Tesla ponders new avenues of income, zeroes in on free Internet

This Premium Connectivity package is going to be optional for the customers but chargeable, keeping customers locked in

Jun 26, 2018

Free money to everyone (UBI) will become necessity if robots snatch away all human jobs: Elon Musk

Universal basic income (UBI) is essentially a cash handout that a state or region distributes among its people; irrespective of their employment status

Jun 19, 2018

Elon Musk-owned The Boring Company to bring high-speed transit tunnels to Chicago

The SpaceX owner's infrastructure and tunnel construction firm, The Boring Company gets the green signal to operate a high-speed underground transportation system from O'Hare airport to downtown Chicago.

Jun 15, 2018

Elon Musk promises 'full self-driving features' by August this year for Tesla cars

The only thing holding this tech back are software-based gates that the company has imposed on their vehicles.

Jun 14, 2018

Tesla sends home 9% workers as Elon Musk chases elusive profits

The measure means that some 4,100 of the firm's 46,000 employees will lose their jobs. The layoffs will not affect operations at the factory producing the Model 3.

Jun 13, 2018

Tough government rules keep Tesla away from Indian roads: Elon Musk

Last year, Tesla CEO Elon Musk had said that Tesla's cars could come to India in the summer but there was no further news. Musk later blamed the FDI norms for delay in Tesla's entry into the Indian market.

May 30, 2018

Ex Google CEO Eric Schmidt says Elon Musk is 'wrong' on AI

Space X CEO Elon Musk has been a critic of Artificial Intelligence and has asked for strict control of the technology to curb its threat. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, however, says that AI is more good than bad.

May 26, 2018