Tesla is facing a criminal investigation by the U.S. Justice Department over CEO Elon Musk’s haphazard tweets about his desire to take the company private, according to a report from Bloomberg.
In a webcast news conference tonight, Elon Musk revealed that the first paying customer to fly on the ambitious SpaceX rocket known as the BFR, for Big Fucking Rocket, will be Yusaku Maezawa, a Japanese billionaire best known for founding the online, custom-sized clothing company Zozo. Along with Maezawa, there will…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk will indeed be facing a lawsuit over his July tweet in which he called Vernon Unsworth, a British expat living in Thailand who assisted with the rescue of a dozen boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave, a “pedo.”
Tesla drivers have been complaining for a long time now about their cars with even minor body damage taking weeks, if not months, to repair. Very often, the shops doing the work blame a lack of parts from Tesla itself. But now Tesla CEO Elon Musk is saying that the company is bringing bodywork repairs in-house,…
Tesla heads back to court later this month to continue a trial over allegations from the National Labor Relations Board that the automaker’s management violated federal labor laws. When both sides meet in court, they’ll duke it out over a new, potentially thorny legal issue that emerged in late August: a tweet from…
Elon Musk thinking about letting someone else run Tesla, California and Trump are being cordial over emissions, GM has a big recall, and more await you in The Morning Shift for Thursday, Sept. 14, 2018.
Hello readers. You may have heard that EV entrepreneur, disrupteur sauvage and tweet connoisseur Elon Musk is having a “difficult time,” currently. Which is bad for electric vehicles and the optimistic pursuit of capital in the face of our impending doom, only one of which I really care about.
Elon Musk dared – DARED – to have a puff of loud on the Joe Rogan podcast last night. That should be totally fine! There’s nothing wrong ethically or morally with having a little cheeba, and while inhaling the jazz cabbage is totally legal on the state level in California, marijuana is still criminalized federally.…
By now we’ve all seen the pictures of Elon Musk on Joe Rogan’s podcast, smoking a joint like he’s a freshman in an Oberlin doom room with a brand-new nickname and surrounded by people who never knew him in high school. So let’s have some fun. Let’s have a caption contest!
Dieselgate might finally be winding down, there’s more turnover at Tesla, Elon Musk used a legal recreational substance, and Mercedes is being cautious with its new EQC. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for Friday.
Stories on the inner-workings of Elon Musk’s mind have been flowing like wine in recent days, thanks to the Tesla CEO’s botched attempt at taking the company private. The latest comes by way of the Wall Street Journal, which sets the scene with a cheery anecdote about the one time Musk (purportedly) head-butted a car…
Ford’s credit rating tumbles, Hyundai’s not selling enough cars in China, and Elon Musk may be facing a lawsuit soon—this and more on The Morning Shift for Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018.
Following a wild month of allegations after Azealia Banks claims she was stranded at one of Elon Musk’s California properties, including speculation on his sex life, claims he tweeted while on acid, an accusation that his attorneys took her phone to delete evidence and conflicting statements on whether she actually…
Tesla violated U.S. labor laws when CEO Elon Musk tweeted in May that his employees would lose their stock options if they organized a union, according to the National Labor Relations Board.
People really want Elon Musk to just stop tweeting, Toyota plans to flood China with plug-in hybrids, Canada wants a piece of the new trade agreement between the U.S. and Mexico, and more on The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2018.
Less than a week after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced that no, he in fact would NOT be taking Tesla private because the funding was not quite as “secured” as he said it was, you’d hope that he’d turn a new leaf, and settle down a bit. But no. No. Not at all. He’s on Twitter asking if anyone has happened to look into…
Tesla may not be going private after all, but the drama from that ordeal is far from over. Are you excited for more? Strap yourselves in, kids, it’s gonna be a long night.
More than two weeks after Elon Musk took everyone by surprise with a haphazard pitch to take Tesla private, without any substantive proposal in place at the time, the automaker’s CEO is now scrapping the plan.
Fact-checking the President, some Musk thoughts, more Volkswagen troubles and more. This is The Morning Shift for Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018.
