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Business, Technology, Autonomous

Musk Says Tesla Is ‘Very Close’ to Developing Fully Autonomous Vehicles

Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk said the carmaker is on the verge of developing technology to render its vehicles fully capable of driving themselves, repeating a claim he has made for years but been unable to achieve.

July 9, 2020
Government, Business, Technology, Autonomous

Tesla Pushes China’s EV Bubble Closer to Bursting

Tesla Inc.’s new Shanghai plant has churned out super-popular Model 3 electric sedans for the past six months, catapulting the company atop the sales chart and piling the pressure on cash-strapped local rivals. There was another casualty last week.

July 8, 2020
Business, Technology, Autonomous

Tesla Bull Case Raised Above $2,000 a Share at Morgan Stanley

Morgan Stanley analysts lifted their bull-case price target for Tesla Inc. to $2,070 after an “extraordinary†rally saw the stock overshoot a previous best-case scenario of $1,200. But they still don’t recommend buying Tesla shares.

July 7, 2020
Business, Technology, Fuel

Tesla Beats Delivery Expectations, Sending Shares Surging

Tesla Inc. reported a sequential gain in quarterly deliveries that seemed improbable weeks ago, sending its stock surging toward Wall Street’s most bullish price target.

July 2, 2020
Business, Technology, Fuel

Tesla China Plant Might Have Come to the Rescue Last Quarter

Tesla Inc. endured a roughly seven-week shutdown of its most important car plant in the world last quarter, but its brand-new backup factory may have saved the day.

July 1, 2020
Business, Technology, Equipment, Autonomous

Tesla Plans Battery Facility in California After Threat to Move

Tesla Inc. is planning to expand a battery-research facility in the San Francisco Bay Area.

June 25, 2020
Government, Business, Technology, Fuel

Tesla Pitches 5,000 ‘Middle-Skill’ Factory Jobs to Texas County

Executives from Tesla Inc. will use an unassuming job-type description in their pitch to a Texas county on the merits of the carmaker’s Cybertruck plant project.

June 23, 2020
Business, Technology, Safety, Autonomous

Ford Takes on Tesla With Hands-Free Driving for Electric Mustang

Ford Motor Co. plans to install a hands-free driving system on its electric Mustang Mach-E model coming later this year as it attempts to muscle in on the high-tech turf now dominated by Tesla Inc.

June 18, 2020
Government, Business, Technology

Tesla °®¶¹´«Ã½s In on Austin, Texas, for Cybertruck Site

Tesla Inc. is zeroing in on an area in southeast Austin, Texas, for the electric-car maker’s second U.S. auto factory as Elon Musk prepares to choose a site for its production base of a new pickup truck.

June 18, 2020
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

Is Tesla Bigger Than Toyota? It’s Complicated

Many investors, including those using financial data terminals such as Bloomberg’s, were seeing something very different — that Tesla still had to gain more than $25 billion in market value to surpass Toyota.

June 15, 2020