Elon Musk Widens Lead As Richest Person On Earth
Elon Musk's personal wealth is now $222 billion, widening his gap as the richest person in the world according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.
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Elon Musk's personal wealth is now $222 billion, widening his gap as the richest person in the world according to Bloomberg's Billionaires Index.
Electric automaker Tesla announced that its headquarters will officially move from Palo Alto to Texas, but will continue to have a major presence in the Bay Area, CEO Elon Musk said.
A Black former Tesla contract employee and whistleblower who said he suffered racial abuse while working for the company was awarded $137 million by a jury in a lawsuit.
U.S. automobile safety regulators have denied a petition seeking an investigation into Tesla software updates, saying it's unlikely a probe of the Bay Area-based automaker would find a safety defect.
Tesla says it delivered 241,300 electric vehicles in the third quarter, beating Wall Street estimates of 227,000 sales worldwide
The federal highway safety agency requested detailed information this week from Tesla on how the car company's Autopilot system detects and responds to emergency vehicles parked on highways.
Palo Alto-based Tesla has filed with the Texas Public Utility Commission to generate electricity and sell it directly to the public. Details were not included in the application but the company said in its filing it plans to sell electricity directly to consumers with a focus on those who already own Tesla cars.
Bay Area Tesla owner clubs are reminding new and longtime drivers to take measures to reduce their chances of becoming a victim of break-ins, which they said have started to rise as pandemic restrictions ease.
You're going to have to wait a long time if you want to buy just about any Tesla.
The U.S. government has opened a formal investigation into Tesla's Autopilot partially automated driving system after a series of collisions with parked emergency vehicles.
The CEO of SpaceX and Bay Area-based Tesla tweeted Wednesday that the biographer Walter Isaacson will pen the book.
A Bay Area family is the latest to sue Tesla, after a Model 3 with Autopilot engaged, collided with the family's Ford pickup truck, killing their 15-year-old son, Jovani Maldonado.
Tesla says it delivered 201,250 electric vehicles in the second quarter as the Bay Area based carmaker overcame a global computer chip shortage that has hit nearly every automaker.
The U.S. government's highway safety agency has ordered automakers to report any crashes involving fully autonomous vehicles or partially automated driver assist systems.
Tesla is recalling about 285,000 electric vehicles in China because the cruise-control function can be activated accidentally and cause cars to accelerate suddenly, creating a safety hazard, Chinese authorities said Saturday.
Tesla appears to be changing its tune on whether drivers using Autopilot should be monitored with an in-car camera to make sure they're attentive and safe.
Two key groups that offer automobile safety ratings have yanked their top endorsements of some Tesla vehicles because the Bay Area-based automaker has stopped using radar on its safety systems.
A Russian man was sentenced Monday to what amounted to time already served and will be deported after pleading guilty to trying to pay a Tesla employee $500,000 to install computer malware at the company's Nevada electric battery plant.
Elon Musk answered questions from Russian students for around 40 minutes Friday and, among other topics, he spoke about how he sees the future, proposed to build a base on the moon and a city on Mars and said he doesn't rule out the existence of alien life.
California's Department of Motor Vehicles is reviewing whether Tesla is violating a state regulation by advertising its vehicles as being fully autonomous without meeting the legal definition of self-driving.
A Tesla involved in a fatal crash on a Southern California freeway last week may have been operating on Autopilot before the wreck, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Param Sharma, the man arrested for riding in the backseat of a driverless Tesla, has documented himself performing the stunt in videos posted on his Instagram account, which is filled with other posts celebrating his luxury "gold collar" lifestyle and trolling "blue-collar peasants."
CHP in the East Bay on Tuesday announced the weekend arrest of the man spotted riding across the Bay Bridge in the back seat of a Tesla Model 3 operating on "Autopilot" mode with no one in the driver's seat.
The California Highway Patrol is looking for a man who appears to have been riding alone in the backseat of his Tesla while the car drove itself around automatically on Bay Area roads.
A Delaware judge on Monday ordered lawyers representing Tesla Inc. directors to turn over certain communications that CEO Elon Musk may have shared with the company's top in-house attorneys.
