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Ford joins 3M, GE in speeding up ventilator, respirator production

Reuters
Posted at Mar 24 09:01 PM

Ford Motor Co said on Tuesday it was working with General Electric's healthcare unit and 3M Co to speed up production of ventilators for patients and respirators for healthcare workers as the coronavirus pandemic escalates. Read more »

Deniers and Disbelievers: 'If I Get Corona, I Get Corona.'

John Branch, The New York Times
Posted at Mar 23 10:12 AM

Across the United States, from Florida beaches to California mountains, casinos to national parks, legions dismissed the growing demands this past week to isolate themselves and stop congregating as the coronavirus spread through the country and shut down nearly all facets of American life. Read more »

Tesla gets court approval to clear forest for German Gigafactory

Reuters
Posted at Feb 21 08:04 AM

Tesla Inc got approval from a German court on Thursday to continue to cut down forest near the capital Berlin to build its first European car and battery factory, in a defeat for local environmental activists.   Read more »

Tesla shifts gears with plans to issue more shares

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 14 09:39 AM

Tesla shifted gears Thursday and said it would issue new shares to raise fresh cash, as the electric carmaker responded to the coronavirus epidemic impact on its Shanghai factory and the China car market. Read more »

Iconoclastic Musk basks as Tesla shares soar

Luc Olinga, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Feb 05 09:07 AM

Elon Musk is some way away from his goal of sending millions of people to Mars, but Tesla's shares are heading into orbit on Wall Street, leaving conventional automakers in the dust.  Read more »

Tesla moves closer to opening first European factory with German property deal

Reuters
Posted at Jan 20 01:06 AM

US electric car pioneer Tesla has agreed to buy a property on the outskirts of Berlin, bringing it a step closer to opening its first European factory, local authorities said on Sunday. Read more »

Tesla's market value zooms past that of GM and Ford combined

Noel Randewich, Reuters
Posted at Jan 09 03:25 PM

Fueled by a surprise third-quarter profit, progress at a new factory in China and better-than-expected car deliveries in the fourth quarter, Tesla’s stock has more than doubled in the past three months. Read more »

Musk hands over made-in-China Teslas to early buyers in Shanghai

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 07 06:12 PM

Tesla CEO Elon Musk presented the first batch of made-in-China cars to ordinary buyers on Tuesday in a milestone for the company's new Shanghai "giga-factory", but which comes as sales decelerate in the world's largest electric-vehicle market. Read more »

Tesla secures $1.29-B loan from Chinese banks for Shanghai factory

Reuters
Posted at Dec 27 07:34 AM

Tesla Inc entered into agreements with lenders in China for a secured term loan facility of up to 9 billion yuan ($1.29 billion), according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. Read more »

2019 Yearender: Tech -- Third telco, 5G loom as iPhone goes 'Pro'

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Dec 26 08:51 PM

The world was on the cusp of the "internet of things" with telecommunications firms and smartphone makers racing to adopt the new mobile standard, 5G. Read more »

US tech giants sued over cobalt mine child labor deaths

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Dec 17 08:28 PM

Five US tech giants including Apple, Microsoft and Google parent Alphabet have been named in a lawsuit over the death of child laborers in cobalt mines in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »

Tesla, Apple among firms accused of aiding child labor in Congo

Matthew Lavietes, Thomson Reuters Foundation
Posted at Dec 17 08:12 AM

The legal complaint on behalf of 14 families from Congo was filed on Sunday by International Rights Advocates, a US-based human rights non-profit, against Tesla Inc, Apple Inc, Alphabet Inc, Microsoft Corp and Dell Technologies Inc..   Read more »

Tesla and Ford trade challenges in macho truck world

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 27 09:01 AM

Dueling tough talk was exchanged on Twitter after Tesla chief executive Elon Musk posted a video of a freshly-unveiled "Cybertruck" trouncing a Ford F-150 in a tug-of-war. Read more »

Tesla cybertruck orders near 150,000 just days after chaotic launch

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 24 06:17 PM

Tesla's new electric pickup truck has secured almost 150,000 orders, the company's chief executive Elon Musk boasted on Twitter, just two days after its big reveal went embarrassingly wrong.  Read more »

Musk announces new Tesla factory will be in Germany

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 13 06:47 AM

A new Tesla auto factory for the European market will be based in Germany, chief executive Elon Musk said Tuesday.   Read more »

Elon Musk back on Twitter after break

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 06 08:42 AM

Elon Musk, who garnered attention for quitting Twitter last week, is back on the social platform, with little explanation for the hiatus or the return. Read more »

Tesla shares rev higher after update on profits, China

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 24 06:56 AM

Tesla shares raced higher in after-hours trading after the company announced its factory in China had started production, while a quarterly update showed better-than expected financial results.  Read more »

Harley struggles to fire up new generation of riders with electric bike debut

Rajesh Kumar Singh, Reuters
Posted at Oct 07 07:52 PM

Harley-Davidson Inc is betting on electric motorcycles to attract the next generation of younger and more environmentally conscious riders to reverse declining US sales. Read more »

Probe of Tesla crash points to Autopilot 'overreliance'

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 05 07:12 AM

A January 2018 crash involving a Tesla and a firetruck was due to driver inattention and the "Autopilot" system design that allows motorists to disengage, federal investigators said Wednesday.   Read more »

Tesla drops cheapest Model X, S variants, cuts prices to simplify lineup

Yilei Sun and Norihiko Shirouzu, Reuters
Posted at Jul 16 03:03 PM

Tesla Inc has dropped the standard-range variants of its Model X and Model S from its product lineup and adjusted prices across its range, in a sales push that comes days after the US electric vehicle maker reported record deliveries. Read more »