Tesla News

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is among a roster of chief executives from Silicon Valley set to meet with president-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday, according to news reports. Musk has suggested that climate change is among the most urgent challenges facing mankind, one reason his company makes only...

The Fremont City Council recently approved an expansion of Tesla's factory.

Tesla will recall three types of accessory adapter because of the risk of overheating.

Tesla opened a "gallery" in Michigan that can show electric cars, but can't sell them.

The Finnish city of Vaasa wants to be the location for the next Tesla Gigafactory.

Tesla launch a software update to add Autopilot functions next month, according to Elon Musk.

Consumer Reports cited numerous issues with the Model X in a recent review.

Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has always followed a different path than the rest of the automobile industry. Among the ways it has violated industry convention is ignoring annual model changes and simply updating its cars whenever changes were ready for production. This has occasionally made for...

Tesla's retail stores will be revamped to promote Powerwall battery packs, according to a new report.

Tesla and SolarCity collaborated on a renewable-energy project in American Samoa.

Tesla may have taken capabilities out of the Model S and Model X because of a supplier switch.

A Tesla video shows what self-driving cars "see."

Tesla's new manufacturing boss will seek to reach annual production of 500,000 electric cars by 2018.

Ah, Tesla Motors, source of hope, dreams, visions, contempt, dismissal, hilarity, frustration, and so much more. The Silicon Valley startup automaker, now in its ninth year of making electric cars, has built close to 150,000 expensive battery-powered luxury vehicles and defied critics numerous...

The Tesla Model S topped Strategic Vision's annual Customer Love Index.

Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray called Tesla a "fraud" for taking government subsidies while failing to turn a profit.

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Tesla’s claim that its Autopilot driver-assistance software is safer than a human driver. After a fatal Autopilot crash last May, the company said the death was the first in 130 million miles of Autopilot driving—and noted that, “among all...

Tesla will charge a fee for access to its Supercharger network of DC fast-charging stations.

To those of us who cover the world of electric cars, Tesla's refusal to release its sales data in the conventional format is a continual irritant. Starting in June 2012, when the company said it didn't plan to release monthly sales because its backers didn't care, Tesla Motors has provided only...

Late last week, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk held a press conference whose underlying message was support for the proposed combination of Tesla with solar installer SolarCity. Musk's cousin Lyndon Rive runs SolarCity and Musk sits on its board, but the proposed acquisition has been criticized by...