Tesla shares sank by as much as 7.1 percent Tuesday after Bloomberg News said the company is facing a criminal probe over CEO Elon Musk's tweets about taking the company private. Bloomberg said the Justice Department is running the criminal investigation in tandem with a civil securities fraud probe of Musk's comments. It cited two people familiar with the matter. Tesla acknowledged the agency asked for documents from the company after Musk's now infamous tweet in a statement released Tuesday:

Tesla’s energy division has deployed a new Powerpack project in Florida, apparently the first of its size in the state, to protect the University of South Florida against blackouts. Catherine Stempien, head of Duke Energy in Florida, said that they installed a 100 kW solar array and a “350 kW Tesla Powerpack and inverter system” – pictured above – at a parking garage on the University of South Florida campus.

Granted my undergraduate degree is in psychology... this makes no sense to me: What puzzles me about Elon Musk is his plan to mine / colonize the solar system in respect to rockets. Given electro-magnetic - gravitic tech has existed since T Townsend Brown and Searle since the 1920''s, one would think that if anyone would be developing, using Tesla tech it would be Elon Musk - yes (?) https://abcn.ws/2NZ5kl1 

For two years Dezzimond Vaughn was a well-regarded worker at the Tesla factory in Lathrop, California. Then he became involved in trying to organize a union and suddenly his job was on the line. “They started changing rules without any remorse,” Vaughn, a 31-year-old former Tesla computer-numeric-controlled (CNC) heavy machinery operator, told the Guardian. He cited a strict attendance policy Tesla implemented and backdated that deducted points from employees every time they clocked in late or were absent.

Tesla Motors Canada has won its case against the Ontario government over electric vehicle rebates.

Billionaire tech executive Elon Musk has revived his internet tirade against a British cave explorer, weeks after Musk apologized for calling the man a "pedo." Musk, chief executive of automaker Tesla and rocket company SpaceX, said on Twitter on Tuesday that the diver hadn’t sued him over the slur that Musk used in July — and asked whether the absence of a lawsuit wasn't "strange."

Elon Musk was apparently none too happy when British cave diver Vern Unsworth said the submarine Musk built — and shouted about to the world on Twitter and in the New York Times — was a “PR stunt” and that he should stick said sub “where it hurts.” So much so that Musk logged on to Twitter and proclaimed Unsworth a “pedo,” without any evidence to back his claims, to his 22 million followers.

Mercedes-Benz, the world’s largest maker of luxury cars, is rolling out its first in a series of battery-powered models, adding to a growing array of high-end brands targeting Tesla Inc.

The emails say "WTF."

Shares of electric car maker Tesla Inc. fell more than 6 percent early Friday after the CEO appeared to smoke marijuana during an interview and the company's accounting chief left after a month on the job. CEO Elon Musk appeared on "The Joe Rogan Experience" overnight. About two hours into the podcast, which can be seen on YouTube, Musk inhales from what the host says is a combined marijuana-tobacco joint, which Rogan notes is legal. Rogan passes the joint to Musk, who also takes a sip of whiskey.

The stock plunge extends a painful week for the automaker. As of Thursday's close, the stock had already lost 7 percent on the week.   

Tesla has reached a preliminary agreement with the Shanghai government to build an auto factory that would rival production from its lone U.S. assembly plant, as Elon Musk takes his biggest step yet to expand overseas.

Elon Musk has called a British diver who helped rescue schoolboys from a flooded cave in Thailand ‘pedo guy’ on Twitter. The entrepreneur’s outburst came after diver Vern Unsworth told Mr Musk to “stick his submarine where it hurts” after describing his offer to help with a miniature submersible as a “PR stunt”. Mr Musk travelled to the Tham Luang caverns in Chiang Rai this week and presented the six-foot submarine - which he said could help free 12 schoolboys stranded for weeks inside the cave.

Tesla’s stock lost 4% of its value Monday following a rough weekend for its CEO Elon Musk. Musk, who has taken to Twitter in recent weeks to combat his critics, drew criticism this weekend after calling a diver involved in the rescue of a Thai soccer team a “pedo.” The diver, Vern Unsworth, had criticized Musk’s effort to create a small submarine to rescue the soccer team members.

Tesla Stock Analysis - Tesla is one among those stocks that do not need much consideration before investing into it. Because, people believe that the stock has always been in trend and will remain in trend forever. Isn’t that notion completely contradicting? At one stance, we deem that stock prices

The island nation of Samoa is continuing its effort to convert from diesel-reliant powerplants to 100% renewable energy with the help of Tesla’s scalable Powerpack battery storage solution. Over the past year, the California-based electric car and energy company had been hard at work installing and launching two Tesla Powerpack sites in the country, both of which are designed to capture the abundance of renewable energy, otherwise lost without a means for storage, and offer grid stability to local utilities.

One of the first owners of a Tesla Solar Roof says he’s “amazed” by the product, revealing the surprising usage statistics behind the company’s blend-in tiles. Tri Huynh, a senior manager at Nvidia that made headlines in March when he first shared photos of his installation, gave a new interview on Saturday detailing his experiences.

Musk tweets about a mini electric car. Twitter goes wild.

Tesla Inc and Chief Executive Elon Musk were sued twice on Friday by investors who said they fraudulently engineered a scheme to squeeze short-sellers, including through Musk’s proposal to take the electric car company private. The lawsuits were filed three days after Musk stunned investors by announcing on Twitter that he might take Tesla private in a record $72 billion transaction that valued the company at $420 per share, and that “funding” had been “secured.”

Tesla fans can buy branded t-shirts, jackets, hats and hoodie sweatshirts. Soon, they will also be able to buy Tesla "short shorts," according to a tweet from Tesla CEO Elon Musk, in his seemingly never-ending war of words against investors betting against the company. Tesla did not immediately respond to an email seeking information on cost and when the "short shorts" will be available.

Three days after Elon Musk tweeted that he had "funding secured" to take Tesla private, we still don't know who, if anyone, has agreed to provide the billions of dollars needed to buy out the company. But plaintiffs' lawyers aren't waiting any longer for Musk to provide more details. On Friday, stock trader Kalman Isaacs filed a class-action lawsuit arguing that Musk's Tuesday tweets constituted securities fraud. The lawsuit, first reported by Reuters, appears to be the first one claiming that Musk's Tuesday tweets violated federal securities law.

You don’t have to own a Tesla to drive a Tesla—or, at least, a car that runs like one. Elon Musk’s electric car company is notoriously grumpy about Tesla owners working on their own cars, but that hasn’t stopped enthusiastic mechanics from fixing up the vehicles and even lifting the electric motors out of Teslas and putting them in the chassis of other, formerly gas guzzling cars.

Tesla whistleblower Martin Tripp is tweeting internal emails, photos and vehicle identification numbers that he says are evidence of flawed manufacturing practices at Tesla's battery factory, and product sold by Tesla that is imperfect, and could put drivers' lives at risk. Tripp has, in previous interviews, said that Tesla's Gigafactory took dangerous manufacturing shortcuts, and that Elon Musk had direct knowledge of these and failed to intervene.

Apple should buy a stake in Tesla now for the sake of both companies, Tesla investor Ross Gerber told CNBC on Monday. "This is [Apple CEO] Tim Cook's gift of all gifts," Gerber said on CNBC's "Squawk Alley." Gerber, co-founder & CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, said a potential investment from Apple in Tesla could be hugely beneficial to both companies.

Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada has now become the biggest battery factory in the world with an output of 20 GWh per year and growing. Now a new audit of the factory shows that Tesla is still on pace to comply with its obligations with the state for the factory as it now employs over 3,000 workers. As per Tesla’s deal with the state of Nevada to build the factory there, the company receives tax breaks and other incentives as long as it respects an investment schedule and hiring requirements.

Tesla will remain a publicly traded company, CEO Elon Musk said late Friday, just weeks after he floated the idea of going private in order to ward off short-sellers and volatility in the company's stock. In early August, Musk touched off a firestorm by saying on Twitter that he was considering taking Tesla private at $420 per share, adding that funding was "secured." In the wake of that announcement, the billionaire and his company have been buffeted by skepticism, in addition to the threat of a regulatory probe.

Authorities say a Tesla operating in auto mode crashed into a San Jose fire truck on Highway 101 early Saturday morning. San Jose Fire Fighters Local 230 wrote on Twitter "For the 2nd time in recent months SJ FF's escaped serious injury as a @teslamotors “Zero Emissions” vehicle slammed into the back of a #SJFD FireEngine." Authorities say the vehicle was traveling at 70 MPH in auto mode, but the auto braking system was not engaged.

Tesla Motors has filed a patent for an innovative new type of hybrid car battery that can travel long distances without massively raising the cost.

Shares of Wall Street darling Tesla Motors fell 6% Wednesday after the high-flying stock was downgraded by an investment house and pictures and video of a mysterious Tesla Model S fire circulated on the Internet.

The Tesla Model S fire that we asked everyone not to get all worked up about because it's just like any other car fire is still not a big deal (in fact, it may be less of a deal than an ordinary car fire)--but it's interesting to see that the owner of the car that burned understands that, too...

The first Tesla Model S to be delivered in Norway rolled onto its streets on August 7. By the end of September, it had become the best-selling car in the country—not just among electric vehicles but conventional ones too.

When the car-turned-submarine from the 007 classic "The Spy Who Loved Me" was sold at auction in September for nearly a million dollars, the identity of the buyer was kept secret, as it usually is in collector car auctions. Thursday night, a Tesla Motors spokeswoman confirmed that the submarine, modeled after a Lotus sports car, had been bought by Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

Tesla Motors picked AT&T as its in-car Internet service provider, the Washington Post reports. The deal puts AT&T in charge of the many functions on the Model S electric car that are already controlled via wireless network. It was formally announced at an event in San Francisco yesterday.

The company is often seen as the Apple of car makers so Elon Musk's decision to update the current flagship Model S with a Google Chrome web browser and Android emulating operating system (OS) could surprise some.

Tesla Motors Inc., the top seller of premium all-electric autos, slid 12 percent after reporting quarterly vehicle sales that missed some estimates and lower revenue from regulatory credits while projecting little changed fourth-quarter results.