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Musk: By 2030, The Only Cars Sold In America Will Be Electric Cars
Even the most ardent EV proponents, like Nissan, think that by 2020, the market share of electric cars will be 10 percent. Tesla CEO Elon Musk has some better predictions, brought to us by Reve: By...
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QOTD: More Or Less Government Money For EVs?
Elon Musk is known as a bigtime Barack Obama donor, and he is hoping he will get his money’s worth. Musk thinks (hopes? knows?) that government largesse for electric cars will continue unabated during...
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Musk Wants To Help Boeing. All Quiet At Boeing
Elon Musk offered Boeing Tesla’s help with its troubled Boeing 787 battery packs. He wants Boeing try the packs Tesla uses in its SpaceX rockets and Tesla cars. Ever the hipster, Musk announced the...
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After Tesla Stalls, Musk Calls NY Times Report A Fake
Tow truck delivers Model S to charging station New York Times reporter John Broder told a harrowing story of a test drive from Delaware to Connecticut in a Tesla-supplied Model S. Broder wanted to...
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Who Lost The Total Tesla Twitter War? An After Action Report
As a retired operative of the auto propaganda community, I watched the schoolyard brawl between Tesla’s Elon Musk and the New York Time’s John Broder with detached interest. I won’t re-hash it again....
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Musk Blames NY Times For $100 Million Loss, Should Blame Himself
Tesla CEO Elon Musk found the perfect scapegoat for lost Tesla sales and a 13 percent drop of the company’s stock: John Broder of the New York Times. Musk told Reuters that “Tesla has lost about $100...
View ArticleMusk Wants To Repay DOE’s Tesla Loan By Tomorrow
Loans from the Department of Energy seemed to be a great idea at the time, now they are a millstone one wants to get rid of. “Given govt loan repayment this week (prob Wed), Supercharger update will...
View ArticleTesla: The Government Gets Its Money Back
The tweet was true: As indicated on Tuesday, Tesla paid off its DOE loan on Wednesday. Nine years before the note was due, Tesla “wired $451.8 million to repay the full loan with interest,” as...
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Car Fight: Chrysler Calls Out Tesla – Who Paid Up First?
Ommm – ummmm The first thing they drummed into me when I started as a copywriter for Volkswagen: “Never use superlatives. They only get you in trouble.” Now, Elon Musk is in trouble over who was first...
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Musk Promises Triple The Superchargers, Transcontinental EV Trips
Tow truck delivers Model S to charging station Tesla “will triple its network of superchargers for electrical vehicles by the end of next month,” Elon Musk told Reuters. Musk, who has a fixation on...
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Musk Blames Car Dealers For Lackluster EV Sales
Tesla’s Elon Musk found someone to blame for the lackluster sales of EVs, and the death of some EV makers: Car dealers, and their National Automobile Dealers Association NADA. “The auto dealers...
View ArticleMan on the Edge: New York Times Interview Shows Elon Musk at His Lowest
It’s a portrait of a man who’s gone past fraying at the edges. In an hour-long interview with the New York Times, Tesla CEO Elon Musk appears as a man threatening to come apart — and it’s not a joyous...
View ArticleLocal Man Finally Hit With Libel Suit
A Silicon Valley resident had a big day yesterday. After finally revealing the real, live, human being he plans to stuff on top of a rocket for a journey around the moon, this same resident also...
View ArticleAll the Press: Tesla the Target of Criminal Probe, Report Claims
What a week it’s shaping up to be for Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Interestingly, if this latest report proves true, we can pin the blame for all of Musk’s misfortune over the past 24 hours on the presence of...
View ArticleWith Settlement Approved, Elon Musk Has 45 Days to Vacate the Chairman’s Seat
Tesla CEO Elon Musk will soon be gone as company’s chairman, but a replacement — someone who’ll need to occupy the position for three years — has yet to be named. The hourglass was flipped after U.S....
View ArticleMusk-SEC Battle Rages On; Regulator Claims Tesla CEO’s Twitter Account Is...
There’s no shortage of distractions coming out of Tesla to take the focus away from a smoldering legal battle between the automaker and its favorite foe, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission....
View ArticleJudge Delivers Musk, SEC an Ultimatum
Treating Tesla CEO Elon Musk and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission like a pair of squabbling kindergarteners, a federal judge handed down a message to both on Thursday. Basically, figure out...
View ArticleThat Elon Musk Defamation Case Is Getting Pretty Wild
If you’ve grudgingly followed the unseamly goings-ons in the defamation case filed against Tesla CEO Elon Musk by a British cave diver, things just took a turn. Documents filed to a California federal...
View ArticleHardscrabble Car Salesman Wins Defamation Trial
Sometimes the little guy wins. Elon Musk, founder of a rocket ship company and CEO of a rising automobile company/cult, left a federal courtroom on Friday more emboldened than ever to say whatever he...
View ArticleOne of Our CEOs Is Missing
Elon Musk — a polarizing figure, if there ever was one, in the world of cars — marked the end of what would normally have been a typical work week by tapping into the deepest reaches of his mind. In...
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