tag Elon Musk

Tesla shares rise as investors bet on Model 3 success

EghtesadOnline: Tesla Inc's (TSLA.O) shares rose 6 percent on Thursday as investors continued to bet on CEO Elon Musk 's ability to successfully take the company out of "manufacturing hell" as it ramps up production of its mass-market Model 3 sedans.
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Publish Date:03/August/2017 | 14:03

This Man Is Spending Millions to Break Elon Musk 's Trump Ties

EghtesadOnline: The day Donald Trump was elected President, Doug Derwin came into a lot of money. Derwin is a lawyer turned venture capitalist, and he’d cashed in on a successful investment. Like so many wealthy, Silicon Valley types, Derwin used the windfall to buy a Tesla Inc. electric car and stick it to the man -- or at least to the climate-change deniers he thought Trump represented.
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Publish Date:18/April/2017 | 05:55

Elon Musk mocks short sellers after Tesla stock surge

EghtesadOnline: As Tesla Inc's strong quarterly vehicle deliveries sent its stock to a record high on Monday, Chief Executive Elon Musk took a swipe at traders betting the luxury electric car company is on a road to ruin.
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Publish Date:04/April/2017 | 05:07
“Electricity is just a bonus.”

Musk Says Tesla’s Solar Shingles Will Cost Less Than a Dumb Roof

EghtesadOnline: It’s official: After Tesla shareholders approved the acquisition of SolarCity, the new company is now an unequivocal sun-to-vehicle energy firm. And Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk didn’t take long to make his first big announcement as head of this new enterprise.
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Publish Date:19/November/2016 | 07:29

Elon Musk -backed AI startup and Microsoft sign cloud agreement

EghtesadOnline: OpenAI, the non-profit artificial intelligence (AI) research firm backed by Tesla Motors Inc's Elon Musk and other prominent tech executives, has signed an agreement to run most of its large-scale experiments on Microsoft Corp's flagship cloud service, Azure.
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Publish Date:16/November/2016 | 10:49

Elon Musk Wanted a Race. Now He Has One

EghtesadOnline: While many big automakers are ramping up their electric car programs, GM is the first to offer Tesla a serious challenge. Here’s how they really compare.
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Publish Date:17/September/2016 | 09:25

Tesla's Musk apologizes for comments on British caver

EghtesadOnline: Tesla Inc founder Elon Musk apologized to British caver Vern Unsworth for insulting comments he made about him following the rescue of a dozen Thai schoolboys and their football coach from a cave in northern Thailand.
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Publish Date:18/July/2018 | 13:39

Shouting CEO, changing rules: inside Tesla's Model 3-building sprint

EghtesadOnline: A tense and short-tempered Chief Executive Elon Musk barked at engineers on the Fremont, California assembly line. Tesla Inc pulled workers from other departments to keep pumping out the Model 3 electric sedans, disrupting production of the Model S and X lines. And weekend shifts were mandatory.
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Publish Date:03/July/2018 | 13:54

CEO Musk emails staff alleging employee 'sabotage'

EghtesadOnline: Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday in an email to staff that an unnamed Tesla employee had conducted “extensive and damaging sabotage” to the company’s operations including allegedly making unspecified code changes to its manufacturing operating system and sending what the email said was sensitive Tesla data to unnamed third parties.
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Publish Date:19/June/2018 | 10:49

Musk Sends a Tesla Into Space Atop World's Most Powerful Rocket

EghtesadOnline: An elated Elon Musk pulled off another seemingly impossible feat Tuesday when SpaceX launched the world’s most powerful rocket in 45 years, then flew two of its spent boosters back to the Florida coast for a spectacular, simultaneous recovery on land.
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Publish Date:07/February/2018 | 13:28
The first flight of the Falcon Heavy promises to be a public spectacle, with NASA selling out $195 viewing party tickets.

SpaceX’s New Beast of a Rocket Is Go for Launch

EghtesadOnline: It’s to be expected that Elon Musk and his colleagues will want to toast the first launch of SpaceX’s new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, after more than five years of delays. But excitement for the long-awaited launch has gone far beyond space nerds and Musk enthusiasts: NASA has sold out $195 tickets to a viewing party featuring a champagne toast and a commemorative glass.
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Publish Date:29/January/2018 | 13:55
While consumers must wait until 2018 for a $35,000 electric car, efforts to fix bottlenecks are sapping resources elsewhere in Elon Musk’s empire.

Model 3 ‘Hell’ Is Burning Tesla’s Other Projects

EghtesadOnline: There will be no $35,000 Teslas in 2017. The electric carmaker updated its website for customer reservations on Wednesday, including a table that shows the base Model 3 won’t be available until some time next year.
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Publish Date:04/November/2017 | 24:06
Air travel in the future will be divided among legacy carriers, supersonic startups, and maybe even Elon’s rockets. But how much for a ticket?

Supersonic Airlines Are Coming Back While Musk Dreams of Space

EghtesadOnline: For years, Elon Musk has used the analogy of destroying a commercial jet after just one flight to explain his view that rockets must be reusable if humans are ever to afford space exploration.
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Publish Date:08/October/2017 | 08:01