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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…
Fourteen crashes. An estimated 800,000 miles. One city. Those numbers come directly from Tesla’s own vehicle safety reports filed with federal regulators, as analyzed by Bloomberg’s Kara Carlson using data from NHTSA’s Standing General Order database. Five Crashes Across Six Weeks Paint a Damaging Picture Tesla’s latest vehicle safety report covers five incidents from December…
The phrase keeps showing up. Musk has described a future of “sustainable abundance” driven by AI and robotics in multiple public appearances over the past year, including at Tesla’s November 2025 shareholder meeting. It’s a large claim from the CEO of a company that just posted a roughly 60% profit drop in Q4 2025 while…
The man who led the development of Tesla’s Cybercab from concept to first production unit just walked out the door. Victor Nechita, who held the title of Vehicle Program Manager for the Cybercab, announced on LinkedIn that he’s leaving Tesla after nearly six years to move to Boston. The departure was first flagged on X…
Six months of covering Tesla’s door handle safety crisis. Six EVXL articles documenting trapped children, fatal crashes, and a design flaw Elon Musk insisted on despite engineer objections. On Tuesday, Congress finally moved, Bloomberg reports. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce forwarded the Securing Accessible Functional Emergency Exit Act, or SAFE Exit Act, to the…
Morgan Stanley just did what Tesla hasn’t: put a real number on the 100-gigawatt solar bet we warned readers about four days ago. The answer is somewhere between $30 billion and $70 billion. For context, Tesla’s entire capital expenditure budget this year is already north of $20 billion before a single solar cell rolls off…
Joe Ward started at Tesla as a logistics intern in the UK back in 2010. Fifteen years later, he’s been handed the keys to the entire global sales operation. The timing tells you everything about where Tesla’s automotive business stands right now. Bloomberg reported today that Tesla has tapped Ward, its vice president for Europe,…
The final 2025 scorecard is brutal for Tesla. BYD sold 2.26 million battery-electric vehicles last year. Tesla delivered 1.64 million. That’s a 620,000-unit gap that grew every quarter, and it happened while BYD was locked out of the world’s second-largest auto market entirely. The damage extends far beyond the headline numbers. In the countries where…
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