A week ago, several verified accounts on Twitter were hacked as part of a scam to steal bitcoin from unwitting mopes by utilizing Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s name, and reportedly made off with at least $180,000. On Monday, the hackers were back at it, taking control of several hacked accounts—including a book publisher and …

Toyota is making tons of money and is looking to cut its product offerings, extreme corruption within the UAW, and is Elon Musk a commenter? All that and more in The Morning Shift for November 6th, 2018.

Big Oil doesn’t like a carbon tax, I’m shocked, Chinese spies blamed for plane tech theft, GM profit surges while Mazda sees losses, and Elon Musk is busy trying to make things happen at SpaceX. All of this and more in The Morning Shift for a very spooky Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2018.

Automakers squabbling over emissions regulations, Brexit anxiety, Chinese car sales and more await you in this The Morning Shift for Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018.

A small group of Tesla shareholders in late September accused the automaker of deceiving them about the progress of the Model 3 sedan production, claiming the company and CEO Elon Musk knew its timeline was impossible to attain. Now, the automaker is facing a federal investigation over that very issue, according to…

Tesla pulled out all the stops over the summer to hit an ambitious target set by Elon Musk: report a profit in the third quarter of this year. The automaker indeed posted a $312 million profit on Wednesday, a tremendous feat to consider, given it’s making only all-electric cars. So what now?

If you’re like most Tesla fans, you’re likely always a little disappointed that you can’t somehow liquify a portion of Tesla and drink it down, so it may become one with you, inside forever. Happily, that problem seems to be solved, unlike Model 3 production issues or deliveries, thanks to what looks to be Tesla…

Tesla may be the leader in electric vehicles at the moment, but its model of disruption has run afoul of union advocates and, potentially, labor laws. The latest: a document facing a challenge from the National Labor Relations Board in response to alleged leaks, that led one Tesla official to have employees—in his…

James Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch and a non-executive Tesla director, is “in line” to replace Elon Musk as chairman of the company, according to the Financial Times. Musk must relinquish the title after settling a fraud case last month with the SEC over tweets.

Elon Musk has had his fair share of questionable headlines recently, but it looks like he’s still out to do a little good in this world. In the midst of July’s rush to save the soccer team trapped in a Thai cave, Musk stated that he wanted to do something about the water contamination problem in Flint, Michigan. Now,…

Just days after copping to an extremely generous settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission over his infamous “funding secured” tweet, Tesla CEO Elon Musk mocked the agency on Thursday with glee, calling it the “Shortseller Enrichment Commission” (ha ha) and potentially scuttling the entire deal for, I…

I know it’s probably been like, almost an hour since you thought about Elon Musk, right? Well, I’m here to finally remedy that, by letting you know that Elon reportedly forced the Tesla board to pull out of a fairly generous settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission by threatening to resign from Tesla if…

Kanye West took a tour of Detroit’s College for Creative Studies yesterday afternoon, posting videos of himself touring various student projects. And then he apparently hopped up on a table and started ranting about Elon Musk’s troubles over alleged stock fraud, telling his audience to “leave that man the fuck alone.”

Days after it became public that Elon Musk was being sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for alleged fraud over the infamous “funding secured” tweet this summer, he and Tesla has reached a settlement that will keep him CEO—but will cost him his board chairman title.

Tesla has developed an incentivized program for regular employees to become beta testers for the automaker’s upcoming advanced Autopilot technology on the Teslas they own, according to an email obtained by Bloomberg.

Tesla without Elon Musk, Cadillac’s reinvented reinvention, Ford’s workers could take a hit, Audi may finally ditch a guy in jail and much, much more for The Morning Shift on Friday, Sept. 28, 2018. Hoo boy it’s Tesla time again.

If it feels like we haven’t heard from our old pal the boss of Tesla after a wild series of events I’ve taken to calling the Summer of Elon, it’s because he’s facing some serious allegations from the Securities and Exchange Commission over his failed Twitter plan to take the public company private. And the SEC’s …

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Tesla CEO Elon Musk for alleged securities fraud, calling his previous tweets about having the “funding secured” to take Tesla private a “series of false and misleading statements.”

Tesla’s issues with delivering new Model 3s to their customers are quite well-known, since Elon Musk himself tweeted about it, and earlier this week Musk clarified the issue, stating that it was based on an “extreme shortage of car carrier trailers.” The weird thing is that if there is such an “extreme shortage,”…

I hope you’re somewhere where a sudden outburst of joyful tears won’t get you in trouble, because it’s going to happen when you hear this: when a billionaire who owns an electric car company came out and admitted he was having trouble delivering cars, incredible, heroic strangers heard his cry for help and stepped up…