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Tesla settles with EPA over Clean Air Act violations in California
The US Environmental Protection Agency has reached a settlement with Tesla after the agency found that the automaker violated the Clean Air Act at its factory in Fremont, California. In particular, the EPA determined that Tesla violated the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Surface Coating of Automobiles and Light-Duty Trucks from October 2016 to September 2019.
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Elon Musk accuses the SEC of leaking information against him
Tesla CEO Elon Musk's lawyer has accused the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) or leaking information about a federal probe to retaliate against him, CNBC has reported. "It has become clearer and clearer that the Commission is out to retaliate against my clients for exercising their First Amendment rights—most recently by criticizing the Commission on the public docket and by petitioning this Court for relief," said Musk attorney Alex Spiro.
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Tesla faces another US investigation: unexpected braking
U.S. auto safety regulators have launched another investigation of Tesla, this time tied to complaints that its cars can stop on roads for no apparent reason. The government says it has 354 complaints from owners during the past nine months about "phantom braking" in Tesla Models 3 and Y. The probe covers an estimated 416,000 vehicles from the 2021 and 2022 model years.
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Musk donated over $5.7 bln in Tesla shares to charity in Nov
Tesla chief executive Elon Musk donated a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world's most valuable automaker to a charity from Nov. 19 to Nov. 29 last year, its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed on Monday.
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EV start-up Polestar takes shots at Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Volkswagen in Super Bowl ad
Polestar, which is expected to go public this year, used its first-ever Super Bowl ad to indirectly take shots at its competitors, including Tesla and Volkswagen.
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Fart Horn Recall Affects Half a Million Teslas
U.S. federal highway regulators have decided they will no longer let speeding Teslas blast booming fart noises at people. Gaze upon the government working as intended.
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Horrific allegations of racism prompt California lawsuit against Tesla
Racist slurs were hurled daily at Black workers at Tesla’s California plant, delivered not just by fellow employees but also by managers and supervisors, California’s civil rights agency alleges in an explosive lawsuit filed against the company Thursday.
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California agency accuses Tesla of racial segregation at factory
A California agency filed a racial discrimination complaint against Tesla on Wednesday, accusing the electric carmaker of segregating Black employees at its factory in the US state. The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) "found evidence that Tesla's Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are subjected to racial slurs and discriminated against in job assignments, discipline, pay, and promotion," said Kevin Kish, the agency's director, in a statement.
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This Tesla Using FSD Beta Trying To Drive Into A Cyclist Is Comedy Gold
I mean, the possibility of the danger here isn't funny, but the whole setup really is.
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Tesla says the SEC delivered another subpoena in ongoing conflict over Musk tweets
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission issued a new subpoena to Tesla in November 2021, a financial filing from the company revealed on Monday. The financial regulator is trying to determine whether Elon Musk and his electric car maker complied with a revised settlement agreement that the agency struck with them in 2019. According to Tesla’s filing, the SEC is seeking information on the company’s “governance processes around compliance with the SEC settlement, as amended.”
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Tesla says it held nearly $2 billion worth of bitcoin at the end of 2021
Tesla said Monday in a filing with the SEC it was holding nearly $2 billion in bitcoin at the end of last year. The company purchased a total of $1.5 billion in bitcoin in 2021. The cryptocurrency finished the year up nearly 60%, trading above $46,000 on Dec. 31. It had slipped as low as $30,000 in July amid concerns over a regulatory crackdown in China, then rallied to an all-time high above $68,000 by early November. Bitcoin was trading just below $43,000 on Monday morning.
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California is ‘revisiting’ Tesla’s Full Self-Driving beta in light of ‘dangerous’ videos
The California Department of Motor Vehicles is “revisiting” its opinion to not regulate Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta software. The news comes after numerous safety advocates and regulators have expressed concern about the company’s willingness to allow its customers to test its Level 2 driving feature in public. (The news was first reported by the Los Angeles Times.)
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Self-driving car companies zoom ahead, leaving U.S. regulators behind
Self-driving vehicle companies from Tesla Inc to General Motors Co's Cruise are racing to start making money with their technology, outrunning efforts by regulators and Congress to write rules of the road for robot-driven vehicles.
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The Average Cost Of Building A Tesla Revealed In Year-End Earnings Report
According to the most recent information from Tesla, its cost of goods sold is about $36,000 per vehicle, an industry high.
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Elon Musk says social media accounts that track his travel movements are becoming a 'security issue'
Elon Musk has said that social media accounts tracking his travel movements are "becoming a security issue." The Tesla CEO on Monday responded to a Twitter post discussing the risk posed to Musk and his family in publicly posting details about his travel plans. "Yeah, unfortunately this is becoming a security issue," Musk said, without providing further detail.
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Elon Musk says Tesla will raise price of "Full Self-Driving" driver assistance to $12,000
In a series of posts on Twitter, where he has 69.2 million followers, Musk wrote, "Tesla FSD price rising to $12k on Jan 17. Just in the US."
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Elon Musk criticizes California's proposal to cut solar energy incentives as 'anti-environment'
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has accused California's government of pushing "anti-environment" legislation. The California Public Utilities Commission put forward a proposal last month that would slash the amount of incentives available to people who install solar energy systems on their roofs. The proposal is due to be voted on later this month.
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Startup Says Its Solar Upgrade for Teslas Adds 60 Miles in Range per Day
A startup called EV Solar Kits is working on a photovoltaic upgrade package for Tesla vehicles that it says will cost just $5,000 and add up to 60 miles of range per day. “There’s so many pain points that EV owners have, whether it’s range anxiety or lifestyle aversion,” cofounder Steele Wasik told Futurism. “There’s just so many variables when it comes to EVs. It’s kind of the Wild West right now. I wanted to see if I could take a swing at solving these problem with an aftermarket product.”
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Tesla Model S Goes 752 Miles with a Prototype Battery from a Michigan Startup
Imagine an electric car that covers 752 miles on a single charge. You can't buy it today, but a modified Tesla Model S drove that distance across Michigan last month. It was the work of a two-year-old Michigan startup, Our Next Energy (ONE), which says it is aiming to make safer and more sustainable batteries. ONE retrofitted the car with a battery holding twice the energy of Tesla's original—while fitting entirely within the same space. It's a proof of concept for the company's own future battery design.
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Why Tesla Soared as Other Automakers Struggled to Make Cars
The yawning disparity between the performance of the electric car company and established automakers last year reflects the technological change roiling the industry. For much of last year, established automakers like General Motors and Ford Motor operated in a different reality from Tesla, the electric car company.
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