Tesla opens its own exclusive lane at the US-Mexico border
2 years, 5 months ago

Tesla opens its own exclusive lane at the US-Mexico border

Daily Mail  

Elon Musk's SpaceX has its own town in Texas and now Tesla has an exclusive border patrol lane between the Lone Star State and Nuevo León, Mexico to cut travel time down for its suppliers. Scroll down for video There is a large green sign above Tesla's lane with the company's name shown in its iconic logo text Ivan Rivas, the region's economy minister, told Bloomberg that Nuevo León is becoming an 'electro-mobility hub,' and that he expects the EV industry to contribute to between five percent and seven percent of investment in the state this year. DailyMail.com has contacted the US Customs and Border Protection and has yet to receive a response An image of the TESLA lane, first reported on by Bloomberg, shows SUVs and not commercial trucks, which suggests other employees may also being using the special border crossing. Tesla's lane sits at border patrol between Texas and Nuevo León, Mexico to cut travel time down for its suppliers During the meeting, Musk said that Tesla did not yet decide on a location, but is looking to build outside of the US.

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California plan that might cut Teslas from EV tax credit drives Elon Musk nuts
3 weeks, 5 days ago

California plan that might cut Teslas from EV tax credit drives Elon Musk nuts

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. California’s potential plan would likely not include Musk’s cars because the program would be …

'Thanks For Your Support': Elon Musk Says Tesla Shareholders Voting For His USD 56 Billion Pay Package
6 months, 1 week ago

'Thanks For Your Support': Elon Musk Says Tesla Shareholders Voting For His USD 56 Billion Pay Package

News 18  

Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday said that Tesla shareholders are voting to approve his $56 billion pay package and to move the electric vehicle maker’s legal home to Texas. The resounding endorsement by shareholders of unprecedented remuneration terms in US corporate history may alleviate worries about Musk’s tenure at Tesla, while bolstering the company’s position in challenging a court …

Tesla to focus on low-cost cars: No India, Mexico factory plans now?
8 months ago

Tesla to focus on low-cost cars: No India, Mexico factory plans now?

Hindustan Times  

Tesla said on Tuesday that it will use its existing factories to build new and more affordable vehicles as early as late this year, leaving investments in new factories in Mexico and India unlikely in the near term. "I think it's a positive that he's not just barreling ahead with an expansion plan, ignoring the challenges in the market and …

Ahead of Elon Musk's India visit, Tesla explores showroom locations in New Delhi, Mumbai: Report
8 months, 1 week ago

Ahead of Elon Musk's India visit, Tesla explores showroom locations in New Delhi, Mumbai: Report

India TV News  

Washington: Ahead of Tesla CEO Elon Musk's visit to India, the US electric carmaker is looking at potential showroom locations in New Delhi and Mumbai ahead of plans to begin sales in India later this year, two people familiar with the discussions told news agency Reuters. India last month cut electric vehicle import taxes to 15% from as much as …

Musk wants Tesla investors to vote on switching the carmaker's corporate registration to Texas
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Musk wants Tesla investors to vote on switching the carmaker's corporate registration to Texas

The Independent  

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Musk wants Tesla investors to vote on moving corporate registration to Texas
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Musk wants Tesla investors to vote on moving corporate registration to Texas

Associated Press  

Elon Musk wants Tesla investors to decide on moving the company’s corporate listing to Texas after a Delaware court decided he shouldn’t get a multibillion-dollar pay package. The electric car company’s CEO said early Thursday that Tesla would get shareholders to vote on whether to switch its corporate registration to Texas, where its physical headquarters is located. “Tesla will move …

Elon Musk predicts Tesla self-driving cars may come ’later this year’
1 year, 5 months ago

Elon Musk predicts Tesla self-driving cars may come ’later this year’

Live Mint  

Elon Musk-owned electric car giant Tesla may finally develop a fully autonomous vehicles "later this year. "In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision," Elon Musk said via video link at the opening ceremony of an artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai. Electric vehicles make up a …

Mexico Is Dreaming Bigger Than Tesla
1 year, 6 months ago

Mexico Is Dreaming Bigger Than Tesla

Slate  

In 2021, Bernardo Urriza, an engineering major at the Tecnológico de Monterrey’s Mexico City campus, built an electric vehicle for his graduating thesis. As a Tesla Gigafactory arrives in the country and big automakers like General Motors, BMW, Ford, Stellantis, and Kia increase their electric vehicle production there, Mexico’s auto industry is gearing up to play a role in the …

China's Industry Minister Jin Zhuanglong, Tesla's Elon Musk meet, discuss electric cars
1 year, 6 months ago

China's Industry Minister Jin Zhuanglong, Tesla's Elon Musk meet, discuss electric cars

The Hindu  

China’s Industry Minister met Tesla Limited CEO Elon Musk on May 31 and the two discussed development of electric and “intelligent networked” vehicles, the Ministry said. Jin Zhuanglong and Elon Musk “exchanged views on the development of new energy vehicles and intelligent networked vehicles,” said a statement by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. On Tuesday, Foreign Minister Qin …

Elon Musk Teases New Tesla Products While Warning About Near-Term Economic Challenges
1 year, 7 months ago

Elon Musk Teases New Tesla Products While Warning About Near-Term Economic Challenges

Live Mint  

Elon Musk teased two new Tesla models while forecasting a challenging year ahead for the carmaker as higher interest rates pinch buyers. Mr. Musk didn’t provide details about the two new products, though said Tesla could produce more than five million units a year of the two models combined. Mr. Musk, who previously said the hire from NBCUniversal would allow …

Tesla may start producing electric cars in Mexico next year: Report
1 year, 9 months ago

Tesla may start producing electric cars in Mexico next year: Report

Hindustan Times  

Tesla Inc could begin producing its first cars in Mexico next year, with the electric vehicle maker close to receiving its final permits allowing factory construction to begin in Nuevo Leon near the U.S.-Mexico border, the state's governor said on Monday. Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk announced the investment last week, saying the Austin, Texas-based company had selected Mexico for …

Tesla’s growth ambition comes with a $175 billion price tag
1 year, 9 months ago

Tesla’s growth ambition comes with a $175 billion price tag

Live Mint  

AUSTIN, Texas—Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. spent around $28 billion to cement itself as the world’s most valuable car company. Today’s largest auto maker sells roughly half that annually, while Tesla delivered around 1.3 million vehicles to customers globally last year. Mr. Kirkhorn, the CFO, said his investment forecast of up to $175 billion, including around $28 billion already spent, was …

Mexican states in hot competition over possible Tesla plant
1 year, 9 months ago

Mexican states in hot competition over possible Tesla plant

Associated Press  

MEXICO CITY — Mexico is undergoing a fevered competition among states to win a potential Tesla facility in jostling reminiscent of what happens among U.S. cities and states vying to win investments from tech companies. It painted the Tesla logo on a lane at the Colombia border crossing into Texas last summer, and erecting billboards in December in the state …

Elon Musk picks California for Tesla’s engineering headquarters
1 year, 10 months ago

Elon Musk picks California for Tesla’s engineering headquarters

Live Mint  

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that he would establish the global engineering headquarters of the posh car in California. During an event with California Governor Gavin Newsom, Musk said, " This is I think the poetic transition from the company that founded Silicon Valley to Tesla". The new Tesla engineering headquarters will be in a former Hewlett Packard building …

Elon Musk: Tesla’s main competition will come from China
1 year, 10 months ago

Elon Musk: Tesla’s main competition will come from China

Live Mint  

On a conference call with analysts following the release of Tesla's quarterly earnings, CEO Elon Musk predicted that the electric vehicle manufacturer’s largest rival will be a Chinese firm. Even though manufacturing was hampered by China's now-abandoned Covid-Zero legislation, Tesla nonetheless produced more than 710,000 electric vehicles there in 2022, accounting for nearly 52% of its global output. Due to …

Elon Musk brings in China’s Tesla chief to head the new Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas
2 years ago

Elon Musk brings in China’s Tesla chief to head the new Tesla Gigafactory in Austin, Texas

Firstpost  

Musk has often said that he does not want to be the CEO of any of his companies. Tesla may be the first of Musk’s companies where we will see him handing over the day-to-day operations to someone else, and getting back to hardcore engineering. Elon Musk has brought longtime executive and the company’s president in China, Tom Zhu, to …

Elon Musk has ‘freed the bird’, but has he slipped into China’s cage?
2 years, 1 month ago

Elon Musk has ‘freed the bird’, but has he slipped into China’s cage?

Firstpost  

Last month, Tesla cut prices across its line-up in China, partly reversing several increases earlier this year, as Musk’s EV pioneer seeks to increase sales after is Shanghai factory doubled annual production capacity to about 1 million cars New Delhi: While Elon Musk has touted his acquisition of Twitter as “ freeing the bird ”, as the freeing of speech …

Elon Musk says Tesla's new factories are 'gigantic money furnaces'
2 years, 6 months ago

Elon Musk says Tesla's new factories are 'gigantic money furnaces'

Daily Mail  

Tesla's CEO Elon Musk said his new car factories are 'losing billions of dollars' due to supply chain woes and battery shortages. Musk said Tesla's Texas factory produces a 'tiny' number of cars because of challenges in boosting production of its new '4680' batteries and as tools to make its conventional 2170 batteries are 'stuck in port in China.' Telsa …

Musk says Tesla’s new car factories ‘losing billions of dollars’
2 years, 6 months ago

Musk says Tesla’s new car factories ‘losing billions of dollars’

The Hindu  

Tesla Inc's new car factories in Texas and Berlin are "losing billions of dollars" as they struggle to increase production because of a shortage of batteries and China port issues, Chief Executive Elon Musk said in an interview published on Wednesday. Musk said Tesla's Texas factory produces a "tiny" number of cars because of challenges in boosting production of its …

Tesla’s Texas, Berlin factories ‘losing billions of dollars’
2 years, 6 months ago

Tesla’s Texas, Berlin factories ‘losing billions of dollars’

Al Jazeera  

A shortage of batteries and China COVID curbs have left the EV maker struggling to ramp up production, Elon Musk said. Tesla Inc’s new car factories in Texas and Berlin are “losing billions of dollars” as they struggle to increase production because of a shortage of batteries and China port issues, Chief Executive Elon Musk has said in an interview. …

Elon Musk Launches Tesla Gigafactory in Texas, Will be Used to Build the Cybertruck
2 years, 8 months ago

Elon Musk Launches Tesla Gigafactory in Texas, Will be Used to Build the Cybertruck

News 18  

Electric car-maker Tesla has opened its Austin, Texas-based Gigafactory, as Elon Musk aims to take his electric car company to the next phase of growth with the production of Cybertruck. Tesla held an event, billed as a “Cyber Rodeo,” to which it invited 15,000 people to listen to live music, eat food, and pay homage to Elon Musk and his …

Musk says Tesla will build vehicle designed to be a robotaxi
2 years, 8 months ago

Musk says Tesla will build vehicle designed to be a robotaxi

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla will build a vehicle dedicated for use as a robotaxi, and it will start making three new vehicles next year, CEO Elon Musk told fans at a party celebrating the opening of a Texas factory. Musk didn’t give details of the robotaxi other than to say it will “look quite futuristic.” He also said Tesla will …

Tesla inaugurates Texas manufacturing plant, size of 100 soccer fields. In pics
2 years, 8 months ago

Tesla inaugurates Texas manufacturing plant, size of 100 soccer fields. In pics

Live Mint  

Tesla welcomed throngs of electric car lovers to Texas Thursday for a huge party dubbed a "cyber rodeo" to inaugurate a manufacturing plant the size of 100 soccer fields. Online buzz has swelled ever since Tesla's colorful but controversial founder and chief executive Elon Musk tweeted word of the event, with reports of perhaps as many as 15,000 guests taking …

Tesla delivers first cars from Berlin factory
2 years, 9 months ago

Tesla delivers first cars from Berlin factory

CNN  

Washington, DC CNN Business — Tesla opened its third assembly plant near Berlin, Germany, and made the first deliveries of its Model Y sedan there Tuesday. VW sold 452,900 electric vehicles worldwide in 2021, about half of Tesla’s production, but it sold a total of 8.9 million vehicles overall. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, right, and Elon Musk, Tesla CEO attend …

Silicon Valley’s tech monopoly is over. Is the future in Austin, Texas?
2 years, 10 months ago

Silicon Valley’s tech monopoly is over. Is the future in Austin, Texas?

LA Times  

When Tesla announced last fall that it was moving its corporate headquarters from California to Texas, officials in Sacramento seemed more surprised than concerned. Yet the decision by the electric vehicle pioneer’s chief executive, Elon Musk, to move Tesla’s headquarters to the Texas state capital of Austin may signal gathering clouds on the horizon of California’s economic future. It’s true …

Tesla Shanghai Plant Delivered 4 Lakh Vehicles in 11 Months Till November 2021
3 years ago

Tesla Shanghai Plant Delivered 4 Lakh Vehicles in 11 Months Till November 2021

News 18  

Tesla’s Shanghai plant had delivered over four lakh vehicles as of November 2021, the US electric car maker said. Deliveries at Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory came in at 413,283 vehicles in the first 11 months of this year, up 242 per cent from the same period last year. The current annual production capacity of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory has exceeded 450,000 vehicles, …

Tesla confirms it has shifted corporate headquarters from California to upcoming Gigafactory in Texas
3 years ago

Tesla confirms it has shifted corporate headquarters from California to upcoming Gigafactory in Texas

Firstpost  

Tesla says it has officially moved its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to a large factory under construction outside of Austin, Texas. The filing said the relocation from Palo Alto, California, to what Tesla calls a “Gigafactory” on Harold Green Road near Austin was done on Wednesday. Company news releases in 2020 said about 10,000 work at the Palo Alto …

Tesla officially moves headquarters from California to Texas
3 years ago

Tesla officially moves headquarters from California to Texas

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Tesla says it has officially moved its corporate headquarters from Silicon Valley to a large factory under construction outside of Austin, Texas. The filing said the relocation from Palo Alto, California, to what Tesla calls a “Gigafactory” on Harold Green Road near Austin was done on Wednesday. Company news releases in 2020 said about 10,000 work at …

Tesla details $1 billion costs for new Texas factory, targets year-end completion
3 years, 1 month ago

Tesla details $1 billion costs for new Texas factory, targets year-end completion

The Hindu  

Tesla Inc is planning to spend more than $1 billion on its new vehicle factory in Austin, Texas, and plans to complete construction by the end of this year, public filings with a Texas state agency showed. Filings submitted to the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation on Friday outlined Tesla's spending on various manufacturing capabilities at its Austin factory. …

Column: Elon Musk’s moving Tesla’s HQ to Texas is mostly about posturing
3 years, 2 months ago

Column: Elon Musk’s moving Tesla’s HQ to Texas is mostly about posturing

LA Times  

Elon Musk’s corps of sycophants, along with promoters of the age-old Texas vs. California competition, cheered and chortled last week when Musk announced he was moving the headquarters of his Tesla electric vehicle company from Silicon Valley to Austin. In any event, the headquarters relocation wasn’t entirely news: Musk first announced his intention to move Tesla’s headquarters out of California …

Elon Musk says Tesla will move HQ from California to Texas
3 years, 2 months ago

Elon Musk says Tesla will move HQ from California to Texas

Associated Press  

Tesla will relocate its headquarters from Palo Alto, California, to Austin, Texas, though the electric car maker will keep expanding its manufacturing capacity in the Golden State, CEO Elon Musk said Thursday. Musk, who last year said he was moving to Texas from California, gave no timeline for the move when he addressed shareholders at Tesla’s annual meeting. While applauding …

Elon Musk says Tesla headquarters could still move out of California
4 years, 4 months ago

Elon Musk says Tesla headquarters could still move out of California

LA Times  

Despite winning a standoff with local health officials over reopening his factory, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk is sticking with his threat to move company headquarters to another state. Musk’s take-his-ball-elsewhere warnings first came in a May 9 tweet, after Alameda County officials ordered him not to reopen Tesla’s Fremont assembly plant until COVID-19 closure restrictions were lifted. Musk tweeted …

Tesla picks Texas site for second US vehicle assembly plant
4 years, 5 months ago

Tesla picks Texas site for second US vehicle assembly plant

Associated Press  

Electric car maker Tesla Inc. has picked the Austin, Texas, area as the site for its largest auto assembly plant employing at least 5,000 workers. The new factory will build Tesla’s upcoming Cybertruck pickup and will be a second U.S. manufacturing site for the Model Y small SUV, largely for distribution to the East Coast. Musk has threatened to move …

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