Tesla
A fatal crash, production problems and now a recall.
It’s been a bad week to be a tech company.
“Looks lame anyway,” Musk tweeted.
Will Tesla be acquired? Will it meet its production deadlines? And who will date Elon Musk?
The Verge’s Tamara Warren breaks down what’s the deal with those Tron-looking trucks (and why they have no mirrors) on Too Embarrassed to Ask.
But you’ll go super fast and probably look fly as hell.
Musk revealed his semi trucks at an event on Thursday.
It’s part two of his master plan.
Musk said it was not because they “believe in being mean.” He added that journalists should be ashamed of themselves for how they wrote about the Tesla firings.
The company said it would produce 1,500 Model 3s in the third quarter but only produced 260.
Example: Mark Zuckerberg announced an augmented-reality mapping tool to help the Red Cross.
However, the company delivered a total of 26,150 cars — a new quarterly high.
We haven’t seen entire new hardware functions being made available through software upgrades — that’s going to change.
The National Transportation Safety Board met on Tuesday to determine the cause of May’s fatal Tesla crash.
His startup, Aurora, is building software to make cars fully autonomous.
Levandowski proposed a @FakeTesla Twitter account to “start calling Elon [Musk] on his shit.”
Lattner made a brief stop at Tesla, which he left in June.
The company had a total of 518,000 preorders but 455,000 net orders at last count.
It’s electric.
Tesla is seeing continued demand for its mass market car, with an average of 1,800 reservations for the Model 3 a day.
Musk handed over the keys to the first 30 owners on Friday night.
Tonight marks a significant moment in Musk’s famous “Master Plan.”
The first 30 people who purchased a Model 3 will get it hand-delivered from the Tesla CEO.
Will Lucid ever launch its Tesla-like sedan? Or will it be a Ford?
Murdoch and Rice will serve as independent board directors.
Musk is terrified of an AI takeover.
If Elon Musk sticks to his plan, Tesla has a shot.
The electric vehicle manufacturer delivered a little more than 22,000 vehicles in Q2 of 2017.
Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others? Good question.
It has fewer bells and whistles so that it’s easier to manufacture.
Tesla recently broke records for car deliveries, so now Wall Street expectations for revenue are at an all-time high.
Aurora was founded by Chris Urmson, the former CTO of Google’s self-driving car project, and Sterling Anderson, Tesla’s former director of Autopilot.
But it can’t touch GM or Ford when it comes to sales.
Tesla delivered 25,000 cars in the first quarter while Ford’s sales dropped more than 7 percent in March.
Tencent, a Chinese internet giant, is also an investor in Chinese ride-hail player Didi Chuxing.
The company is offering $250 million in common stock and $750 million in convertible notes.
The electric carmaker needs more production capacity.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk made the announcement on the Q4 earnings call.