Every time a Tesla owner taps “Send Command” in the app and the car responds in seconds, that experience traces back to a five-person team Thomas Dmytryk assembled in early 2015. Dmytryk, a director at Tesla who most recently held…
The numbers coming out of Windsor, Ontario right now are striking. Jahn Engineering, a tool and die shop that has served automakers on both sides of the border for years, has seen its sales fall nearly 70% since U.S. policy…
Sendil Palani, Tesla’s Vice President of Finance, announced his departure from the company today via X, closing out 17 years that started during Tesla’s near-bankruptcy in early 2009. Elon Musk replied to the post within minutes: “Thanks for an epic…
Three robotaxi CEOs will sit across from federal regulators on Tuesday. One conspicuously prominent company will not be at that table. According to Reuters, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration holds its National AV Safety Forum on March 10 in…
The Cybercab gets the stage time. The Optimus robot gets the press releases. But a shipping-container-sized battery called the Tesla Megapack is quietly generating the cash flow that keeps the rest of Musk’s ambitions alive. That’s the core argument in…
The vacant lot next to Fred Ippolito’s Volkswagen dealership in West Islip, New York, says more about the current state of auto retail than any industry report. According to the Wall Street Journal, Ippolito bought it four years ago, convinced…
Tesla’s Canadian Model 3 inventory has gone to zero. A check of Tesla’s Canadian storefront shows no Model 3 units available for order, and the timing lines up directly with Canada’s new 6.1% tariff on Chinese-built EVs, which replaced the…
The Austin mass shooting that killed three people and wounded more than a dozen on March 1 has now drawn Tesla into a civil lawsuit — one that alleges the company ignored warning signs about the gunman’s behavior long before…
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.…
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…
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…
The single most telling number from Scout Motors’ reservation update isn’t 160,000. It’s 87%. That’s the share of reservation holders who chose the 500-mile extended-range version of the Scout Traveler SUV and Scout Terra pickup over the pure battery-electric option.…
