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more about #elonmusk more comments → Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: No, naptime isn't until after you've finished the fender flares. You want milk and cookies? Well, make sure it's ready for the Geneva show and then ... more » evoCS-Hench-Minion to the stars: Since when did Elon Musk start hosting Sprockets? more » slackinfux: OH GOD, he's BREEDING?!? Women will do anything for a guy with money. more » CopterBob: Obviously the kids all have more hand-on car experience than Elon does. more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: Looks like California has really loosened up its child labor laws. They probably aren't even represented by the IG Kindergarten union. But I bet tho... more » new22003: This guy is a modern day Gerald Wiegert. more » Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face: So thats what they are paying the workers.. Crayons and expensive molding clay! I guess the indians / chinese / japanese contract workers got too exp... more » Scandinavian Flick: Admitedly, I haven't been following this too closely, but how far is the Model S from production, really? There has been one sitting in their showroo... more » Devin LaDawri: That isn't the Design team. That's the PR department... more » Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet: And I thought it was just some wild story. more » ThreeLitre: Could he have a bigger, more ridiculous shit-eating grin on his face? more » SeanKHotay: Funny thing...wasn't it Eberhard's seed that created it? more » Comrade Clockwork: No wonder they don't have any cars built. If he wanted to pay workers to pick their nose and take naps he could've just managed GM. more » Hate Personified: ENTIRE TEAM IS BABIES! more » Flathead Smith: I thought the Fair Labor Standards Act took care of oppressive child labor abuses like this. more » -
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Elon Musk And His Tesla Model S Design Team
Tesla's Elon Musk, pictured with his children for a New Yorker photo shoot in front of a clay model of the not-anywhere-close-to-production Tesla Model S sedan. [New Yorker] -
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SpaceX Launches Second Successful Orbital Rocket
As the Space Shuttle Endeavor waits on the launch pad for optimal weather conditions, the Elon Musk-founded SpaceX launched its second successful rocket into orbit late Monday night carrying a Malaysian satellite into orbit. More » -
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Elon Musk Smacks Down Eberhard, Predicts Tesla Profitability Next Month
Tesla-cofounder Martin Eberhard's lawsuits and smack-talking of the electric automaker's got current CEO Elon Musk deciding to set the record straight in a ginormous blog post. Bottom line: He expects the company to be profitable next month. Also, Eberhard sucks.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is speaking right now at Wired Live. What's he saying? For starters, he wants to buy a car factory from a Detroit automaker so he can produce 100,000 cars per year. More craziness below. More » -
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Tesla Co-Founder Eberhard Sues Elon Musk, Tesla
Tesla Motors co-founder Martin Eberhard, ousted from the company in November 2007 by then-chairman Elon Musk, has now filed suit in Califonria Superior Court against both Musk and Tesla Motors alleging slander, libel and breach of contract. More » -
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Tesla Now Worth Less Than Twitter
Daimler's 10% stake in Tesla for "double digit millions" pegs Tesla's value at less than a billion dollars and probably closer to $100 million. That means Tesla's likely worth less than Twitter! -
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Tesla's Elon Musk Continues War Of Aggression Against Volt, REVs
We thought Tesla's Elon Musk decided to give up anti-Detroit not-so-Big-Three rhetoric, but he's gone on the attack again against GM's Chevy Volt and Range-Extended Vehicles. Oh, that rapscallion! More » -
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Tesla Model S Electric Sedan Mostly Revealed
Tesla once again teased the Tesla Model S, an electric sports sedan with a 225-mile range and a $60,000 price, which we heard yesterday will debut March 26 and get built — maybe, eventually.
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Tesla Model S Coming March 26, But Where's The DOE Funding?
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk sent an announcement-filled email to customers today, including a March 26th date for the Tesla Model S reveal, a profitability promise, new stores and a curious statement about government funding. More » -
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Tesla Increases Prices On Already-Ordered Roadsters
Tesla's informed customers who've placed $50,000 deposits down for their Roadsters, the price of options they ordered has gone up. Now they need to fork over more money or lose a shot at owning one. More » -
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Tesla Roadster Sport: More Charge For More Change
If you want an electric sportscar but worry the Tesla Roadster isn't as fast or expensive as it could be, the Tesla Roadster Sport is for you. But what does an extra $20K get you? More » -
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A Peek Inside The Soon-To-Be-Dead Tesla Motors Detroit Office
Given the situation with Tesla Motors lately, you know, Ze'ev Drori getting the boot and Elon Musk taking the reins as CEO, word of firings of "25-30% of their total staff of 300 employees and contractors" and the closing of the Detroit location (more accurately, the Metro Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, MI) via blog post, it's no wonder an anonymous reader decided to head out to their Rochester Hills office and take a look. The Rochester Hills facility was opened at the end of January 2007, and was to be the development facility for the Tesla Model S electric sedan, so the closing is a foreboding indicator of the future direction Tesla is heading on that project. Let's take a look inside this essentially doomed location... More »
