A former Tesla employee has filed a formal whistleblower complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging the automaker failed to disclose to shareholders that authorities had uncovered an alleged drug trafficking effort involving an employee at its Gigafactory plant in Nevada dealing “substantial”…

Former Tesla technician Martin Tripp told Jalopnik on Thursday that he’s lawyering up and plans to file a countersuit against the automaker, which accused him on Tuesday of stealing reams of confidential data and making false claims to news outlets. That’s all to say nothing of his heated, headline-grabbing email…

After cryptically saying in an email over the weekend that Tesla had been sabotaged by a recently-fired employee, the automaker sued a former technician on Tuesday, alleging he stole reams of confidential data and made false claims to news outlets.

The Tesla Model 3 is said to be in production hell as the automaker scrambles to ramp up and meet demand and orders for the new electric sedan. There have been multiple reports of hand-built parts that should be automated, delays and poor quality control. Now Tesla employees claim batteries are also being…

Tesla is currently working to address manufacturing issues at its Gigafactory in Nevada, which led to a three month delay in the production schedule of the Model 3 sedan. At the same time, Jalopnik has learned the company’s director of battery engineering left the company in recent weeks.

Tesla’s off to a rocky start with the production launch of the new Model 3 sedan, spurred in part by the company’s unorthodox approach to making cars. On Friday, the Financial Times revealed another unusual method to production: In numerous instances the company “shipped cars from the factory that lacked key parts,”…

All eyes are on whether Tesla can mass produce the new Model 3 sedan as promised, but reports as of late indicate production holdups and delays far greater than anticipated. In a letter to shareholders Wednesday, the automaker said the “primary constraint” on the Model 3 production line has been issues at the…

Tesla’s Model 3 might be the make-or-break vehicle for the automaker, but founder Elon Musk is continuing to push a future vision of the company anyway. That means an emphasis on investing heavily in electric vehicle infrastructure. And while it’s probably overly-optimistic for now, Musk said last week that Tesla will…

Hazmat crews have responded to a chemical spill at the Tesla Gigafactory, the company’s battery plant in operation while under construction outside Reno, planned to be the biggest factory in the world. Several workers are said to feel sick, and a section of the factory has been evacuated. Update: It was a cleaning…

The tax incentive deal to attract Faraday Future to Nevada has drawn intense scrutiny thanks to the company’s reported financial straits. And now the state’s treasurer, Dan Schwarz, is calling for an audit on the government agency that organized the subsidies for FF, as well as Tesla’s Gigafactory.

For a company that’s been criticized often for setting goals it doesn’t meet, Tesla hit the mark on Wednesday with its enormous plans for the Gigafactory: production has begun inside the currently-1.9 million square foot facility on Tesla’s first battery cells, which will power everything from its energy storage…

Leonardo DiCaprio visits Elon Musk. One says something about saving the planet, and the other agrees.

Downtown Reno is bleak. It calls itself the “Biggest Little City in the World,” a name left over from a different legal and moral era, when the economy rode high on gambling and out-of-state travelers seeking divorce. That fortune has long since ebbed, and on Virginia Street, Reno’s main drag, the casinos keep company…

When Tesla first hit the market, everyone sort of laughed that they were building an electric car off of a bunch of laptop batteries. Wasn’t there something better for them to use? As it turns out, not really. And there are a few reasons why we’re still stuck in that lithium-ion technology.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk hosted the grand opening for Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory on Friday night, but only after receiving an offstage pep talk reminding him to “smile a lot,” and that “everything is awesome.”

If you’re like me, you may have been unreasonably excited to see that Tesla was flaunting its new Model 3 in a bright shade of red when it invited journalists out to see it’s Gigafactory earlier this week. The same red Model 3 is at tonight’s public grand opening of the Gigafactory—too bad it’s not a real car.

I never understood why Tesla insisted on calling its new battery factory a “Gigafactory.” It’s just a factory, after all, and we already have a word in English for that—“factory.” But then I saw it up close, and the enormity of it all is mind-boggling. When finished, it will be the largest factory in the entire world…

Earlier today, CNBC’s Fast Money invited Jalopnik on the show to talk Tesla Motors, so we drew straws and sent Michael Ballaban—mostly because he was the only one with a clean suit and a trimmed beard.

Getting a glimpse of Tesla’s new Gigafactory 1 is a pretty big deal—police even arrested a journalist for trespassing (and allegedly ramming security with his Jeep) in October. But thanks to a photographer who recently visited the factory, you can catch a few looks at it without having to go through all of that…

Just last week two Reno Gazette-Journal staffers were arrested after allegedly sneaking onto the grounds of Tesla’s Nevada Gigafactory and tangling with corporate security. Tesla said the journalists attacked their guards as they tried to escape, but an attorney from their paper, not surprisingly, has a different side…