
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 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 Scout Motors would need dealer partners to move its American-built trucks and SUVs. Today it’s…

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 previous 100% surtax under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January 2026 trade agreement with Beijing. The…

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…

The numbers out of Denmark on Monday are short and blunt: 419 new Tesla registrations in February 2026, down 18% from the same month a year ago. The data comes from bilstatistik.dk, Denmark’s vehicle registration trade platform, and was reported by Reuters. Denmark Adds to Tesla’s Northern European Decline Denmark’s 18% February drop is the…

February registration numbers from across Europe show Tesla posting some of its best year-on-year gains in months. Norway was up 75.6%, France up 55%, Spain up 74%, according to registration data published by Automotive World. On paper, that reads like a genuine recovery. The problem is the floor those numbers are measured against: January 2026…

Ten days. That’s how long Tesla kept the door open on a $59,990 Cybertruck. On March 1, the introductory price disappeared from the configurator and the new base figure landed at $69,990 — still $10,000 less than the Premium trim, but a notable jump for buyers who weren’t fast enough to order. Autoblog first reported…

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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