Tweeting on Thursday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he is “thinking of” leaving his jobs to instead become an influencer. "It would be nice to have a bit more free time on my hands as opposed to just working day and night, from when I wake up to when I go to sleep 7 days […]
On Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that the electric vehicle manufacturer’s highly-anticipated cybertruck will first arrive with a four-motor variant. Turning to Twitter, the CEO wrote, “Initial production will be 4 motor variant, with independent, ultra-fast response torque control of each wheel.” Musk has labelled the cybertruck, constructed from stainless steel, as an “insane […]
According to an email obtained by CNBC, on Friday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk urged staff to reduce the cost of customer deliveries, rather than rushing orders out to hit the company’s end of quarter sales goals. The email comes amid ongoing rising shipping costs. 2021 has seen Tesla struggle to deliver new vehicles to customers […]
The Tesla CEO made the sales after exercising options to buy 2.15 million shares, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Since November 8, Musk has sold around 9.2 million shares worth approximately $9.85 billion. The flurry of sales follows Musks’s Twitter poll in which he asked his followers whether or not he […]
According to court filings on Monday, JPMorgan Chase filed a lawsuit against Tesla for $162.2 million, accusing Musk’s electric vehicle company of “flagrantly” breaching a contract related to stock warrants after its share price rocketed. JPMorgan claims that Tesla breached the terms of a contract that was signed between the companies about repricing the warrants. […]
Ford has teamed up with Purdue University to create a prototype of a cable that could fully charge an electric vehicle’s battery in just five minutes. While there is still work to be done, the cable could nonetheless help overcome the final major obstacles preventing the adoption of EVs from becoming mainstream. Currently, slow charging […]
Chris West, CEO of Verbal Identity, explores the similarities between billionaires Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, and Steve Jobs. An obvious thing is the huge personal fortunes made from the companies they built. The less obvious thing is how they skillfully used language to build those companies (and those fortunes). Steve Jobs and Warren Buffett had […]
The new sports utility vehicle is likely to be a successor to the manufacturer's current SUV, the G3 and the G3i. It's scheduled to be launched at the Guangzhou auto show on November 19. Following the news, Xpeng shares were up 10% in afternoon trade in Hong Kong. Xpeng currently sells two sedans, the P5 […]
Musk’s trust sold over 3.5 million shares worth over $3.88 billion in a flurry of trades on Tuesday and Wednesday. The transactions were not marked as 10b5, which means they were not scheduled sales. The financial filings show that Musk is also selling a separate block of shares in his company via a plan that […]
According to a report by Bloomberg Wealth, the $50 billion drop marks the largest ever two-day decline recorded in the history of the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. While Musk still maintains his spot as the world’s richest man, his loss has narrowed the gap between the Tesla CEO and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the second richest […]
Shares in Tesla jumped 12.6% last week as Hertz announced it had ordered 100,000 vehicles to be delivered by the end of 2022. However, Musk has since tweeted, "I'd like to emphasize that no contract has been signed yet,” causing Tesla’s rally to stall. Tesla’s CEO also went on to say that "Tesla has far […]
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