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Tesla faces a $1 million negligence lawsuit after the March 1 Austin mass shooter, Ndiaga Diagne, was linked to a prior assault on a 65-year-old employee at Giga Texas. Learn about the evidence gap and Tesla’s safety record.
The vote Tuesday night wasn’t close enough to stop anything, and everyone in the chamber knew it. Nashville’s Metro Council passed a resolution expressing concerns about The Boring Company‘s Music City Loop tunnel project 20 to 15, with 2 abstaining. The resolution has no legal force. It cannot delay tunneling or alter the route. It…
Tesla still holds roughly $800 million worth of bitcoin on its balance sheet, based on the company’s disclosed BTC holdings and market prices at the time of writing. That number hasn’t moved much in the headlines lately, but it matters today because Elon Musk is actively pushing crypto enthusiasm for a different venture: X Money,…
Elon Musk took the witness stand Wednesday in San Francisco federal court — wearing a black suit and tie, not a Tesla hoodie — to defend himself in a class-action securities fraud trial brought by former Twitter shareholders. The case centers on one of the messiest corporate deals in recent memory: Musk’s on-again, off-again, $44…
Rivian officially launches the Rivian Adventure Department (RAD), a specialized skunkworks team of engineers and designers. Focused on pushing
The documents don’t lie. When the Justice Department released what it described as millions of pages from its Jeffrey Epstein investigation on January 30, 2026, Elon Musk was not a peripheral name. He was a frequent correspondent. So was his brother Kimbal Musk, who sits on Tesla’s board. What those emails show directly contradicts the…
A lithium-ion battery fire doesn’t wait for management to approve additional headcount. That’s the core of a lawsuit now sitting in San Francisco federal court — after Tesla moved it there from California state court — filed by Nina Mirani, a former regional manager at Tesla Energy‘s Hayward, California distribution hub. According to court filings…
A federal appeals court has handed Tesla another courtroom loss, this time over a patent covering automated electric vehicle charging systems. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) issued a split decision on February 26, affirming that Tesla failed to invalidate a patent held by Charge Fusion Technologies, LLC. The full ruling,…
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