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The Nikola Two fuel-cell powered big rig hauler, set for production in 2023.

Electric truck maker Nikola looks like Tesla 2.0 — except even riskier

June 9, 2020 at 1:08 p.m.

A week before Nikola, the electric truck start-up, debuted its shares on the public market, it was time to spin up the hype machine. For some reason its founder and...

Tesla workers coming off the night shift at the Fremont, Calif., factory on March 17, 2020.

Elon Musk outburst over ‘fascist’ coronavirus shutdown shows pressure to keep up growth

May 1, 2020 at 3:53 p.m.

Elon Musk's emotional eruption on a conference call with analysts Wednesday followed a couple high-stress events. It burst forth when a financial expert asked the Tesla chief executive about how...

Teslas stack up at a delivery center in Fremont, Calif., on March 24, 2020.

Car dealers are desperate. Does that make it a good time to buy a vehicle online?

April 10, 2020 at 12:48 p.m.

New-car showrooms are closed. Inventory is beyond bloated. Car dealers are bleeding cash and ready to negotiate. In other words, if you're blessed with good health and you have a...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the groundbreaking ceremony of Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory in Shanghai, east China, Jan. 7, 2019. Wall Street analysts expect Tesla's first-quarter sales to come in well under pre-coronavirus forecasts and see net losses near $40 million when the company reports in late April, according to consensus estimates compiled by FactSet.

Stay home if you want, Elon Musk tells Tesla workers as Bay Area plant stays open

March 17, 2020 at 3:14 p.m.

Tesla's Fremont, Calif., electric vehicle assembly plant, which employs about 10,000 workers, will remain open despite the "shelter in place" lockdown issued by six Bay Area counties on Monday. Alameda...

Tesla’s Musk is mum about coronavirus impact, except to say panic is ‘dumb’

March 13, 2020 at 4:19 p.m.

Tesla had been hoping to score three profitable quarters in a row, for the first time in its history. But with the coronavirus slamming the overall economy, analysts are increasingly...

The dashboard of the software-updated Tesla Model S P90D shows the icons enabling Tesla's autopilot, featuring limited hands-free steering, making the Tesla the closest thing on the market to an autonomous-driving enable vehicle.

Your Tesla could explain why it crashed. But good luck getting its Autopilot data

February 25, 2020 at 1:40 p.m.

On Jan. 21, 2019, Michael Casuga drove his new Tesla Model 3 southbound on Santiago Canyon Road, a two-lane highway that twists through hilly woodlands east of Santa Ana, Calif....

Tesla CEO Elon Musk walks beside the new Tesla Model Y at its unveiling in Hawthorne, California on March 14, 2019. - Tesla introduced a new electric sports utility vehicle slightly bigger and more expensive than its Model 3, pitched as an electric car for the masses. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk showed off the "Model Y" late Thursday, March 14, 2019, at the company's design studio in the southern California city of Hawthorne, and the company began taking orders online.

Car buyers shun electric vehicles not named Tesla. Are carmakers driving off a cliff?

January 17, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

Regulators are demanding zero-emission vehicles. And manufacturers are scrambling to provide them, spending billions on electric-car development. Ford says a third of its vehicles will be electric by 2030. Volkswagen...

LOS ANGELES, CA - NOVEMBER 21: The electric Ford Mustang Mach-E is shown at AutoMobility LA on November 21, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. The four-day press and trade event precedes the Los Angeles Auto Show, which runs November 22 through December 1.

The electric Mustang is just the start of Ford’s drive to hit 50 mpg in 6 years

December 3, 2019 at 1:42 p.m.

The red line — the 7,000-rpm mark on a race car's tachometer — is the central motif in the new hit movie "Ford v Ferrari." You can't win a tough...

Buyers this month look over a Model 3 in a Tesla store in Cherry Creek Mall in Denver.

Tesla Model 3 can no longer be recommended, says Consumer Reports

February 21, 2019 at 4:46 p.m.

Tesla’s stock price sank Thursday after Consumer Reports blasted the reliability of the company’s new Model 3 sedan and dropped it from a list of recommended vehicles. “Consumers expect their...

Elon Musk has promised a mobile app that will signal a Tesla to drive itself around a parking lot and find a spot, checking parking signs to make sure the spot is legal.

Regulators have OKd a ‘follow you like a pet’ feature in Tesla cars, Elon Musk says

January 24, 2019 at 9:38 a.m.

For years, Chief Executive Elon Musk has been promising science-fiction-sounding remote control software for Tesla cars. He’s promised a mobile app to signal a car to drive itself around a...

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