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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…
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,…
A Reuters investigation published today — based on previously unreported California DMV records and a state spokesperson — reveals that Tesla logged zero miles of autonomous test driving on California public roads in 2025. That makes it six years in a row. Meanwhile, Elon Musk has spent more than a year telling investors and analysts…
The Boring Company has been sitting in Nashville with its Prufrock-MB1 tunnel boring machine since January, engine ready, waiting on permits. Today, the last major regulatory hurdle cleared. By tonight, the company announced it was already 2.5 feet into the ground. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee announced Wednesday that the Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) and…
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…
The first Tesla robotaxi crash in Austin happened just weeks after the service launched. The most recent batch of five happened in a single month. In between, the pattern stayed consistent: federal data shows Tesla’s autonomous fleet is hitting things at a rate that would get a teenage driver’s insurance canceled. Bloomberg’s Kara Carlson reported…
The internal documents tell one story. Tesla’s press statement tells another. According to works council election records obtained by German business daily Handelsblatt, Giga Berlin’s headcount dropped from 12,415 in 2024 to 10,703 today. That’s 1,712 fewer workers. A 14% decline. Tesla’s response? “Compared to 2024, there has been no significant reduction in the number…
Five months ago, Elon Musk called Dojo an “evolutionary dead end” and disbanded the entire team. Now he wants to put it in orbit. The whiplash is real. Over the long weekend, Musk announced on X that Tesla aims to restart work on Dojo3, its previously abandoned third-generation AI chip. The twist? This time it…
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