
Tesla VP of Finance Sendil Palani Exits After 17 Years, Extending Company’s Finance Leadership Churn
Tesla VP of Finance Sendil Palani is leaving after 17 years. What his departure means for Tesla's finance leadership and CFO succession bench.
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Tesla VP of Finance Sendil Palani is leaving after 17 years. What his departure means for Tesla's finance leadership and CFO succession bench.

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 “Tesla’s Secret Weapon Is a Giant Metal Box,” a new piece by Andrew Moseman published…

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…

There is no dipstick to pull, no cam belt to squint at, no oily fingerprints on a used paper service record. Buying a used EV or second-hand electric car strips away half the checklist that ICE buyers have relied on for decades.

Six consecutive months of year-on-year sales declines. That is the streak BYD is now on, and February made it the worst single month since the pandemic shut down China’s economy in early 2020. According to a stock market filing released Sunday, BYD’s global sales fell 41.1% from February 2025, with domestic sales collapsing 65% to…

A door that won’t open in a crash isn’t a design quirk. It’s a death trap. China’s government just codified that reality into law, and the ripple effects will hit EV design studios from Munich to Fremont. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology published rules banning concealed, electrically operated door handles on vehicles sold…
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