Tesla has lowered the purchase price of its Model Y by $3,000, so its Long Range AWD will now cost $49,990, Electrek reported. The Model Y just began shipping in March, and earlier this month Tesla reported better-than-expected delivery numbers for all its vehicles in the second quarter, so the reason for the price cut isn’t totally clear. But it’s likely to help boost sales at a time when all carmakers are feeling the pinch of the economic downturn.

U.S. electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. “I’m extremely confident that level 5 or essentially complete autonomy will happen and I think will happen very quickly,” Musk said in remarks made via a video message at the opening of Shanghai’s annual World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC).

Elon Musk's electric car business exceeds the value of almost every company in the S&P 500, including some iconic American companies. Shares of Tesla (TSLA) were up 4% in midday trading Wednesday to a new record high of above $1,120 a share. At that price, Tesla's market cap is nearly $210 billion.

Three Tesla workers say they’ve been fired after opting to stay home from the Fremont, Calif., factory rather than risk being potentially exposed to the coronavirus. The company, which reopened in May in defiance of county orders at CEO Elon Musk’s direction, told workers they could remain home if they had reservations about working during a pandemic. If “you feel uncomfortable coming back to work at this time, please do not feel obligated to do so,” Musk told workers in an email as he reopened the production plant.

Tesla says its Model S Long Range Plus is the first electric vehicle to achieve over 400 miles of EPA-rated range. The company said in a news release Monday that the vehicle has "an official EPA-rated range of 402 miles, representing a nearly 20% increase in range when compared to a 2019 Model S 100D with the same battery pack design."

Elon Musk has perhaps the most exciting portfolio of businesses on the planet. There's SpaceX with its mission to Mars, and Tesla with its super-fast hi-tech electric cars. He claims his Hyperloop concept could revolutionise public transport. And even his Boring Company is kind of interesting - it aims to find new ways to dig tunnels. So which one will end up changing the world most? It is my contention that it will be his battery business.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is protesting the various lockdowns meant to curb the novel coronavirus' spread in the US. Late on Tuesday, Musk tweeted a Wall Street Journal opinion article that called into question how effective lockdown orders were for saving lives. "Give people their freedom back!" Musk tweeted next to the article link.

Data can be retrieved even after owners perform a factory reset, researcher says.

CEO announces electric carmaker would begin production Monday following weekend of threats over Covid-19 restrictions

As Tesla shares rebound in Monday’s markets, the fundamentals have now completely disconnected from the valuation of the stock. Again. Apparently hopes of actions from central banks are more important than selling cars. Also, Wedbush this morning included Tesla in its list of Golden Opportunity stocks, apparently without the aid of an stock price chart, since Tesla’s stock’s close was Friday was double its level of early December 2019.

Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) has received government approval to build Model 3 vehicles in China equipped with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, a document on Ministry of Industry and Information Technology website showed. Reuters exclusively reported in February that Tesla was in advanced talks to use LFP batteries from CATL (300750.SZ) that contain no cobalt - one of the most expensive metals in electric vehicle (EV) batteries - in cars made at its plant in China.

A new Tesla leak shows that the automaker has Model 3 vehicles with 100 kWh battery packs, which would result in over 400 miles of range. Late last year, Tesla hacker ‘Green’ found some code hinting at a Model 3 with a 100 kWh battery pack and Ludicrous mode.

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.