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Elon Musk Just Taught a Huge Lesson to Every CEO in America. I Hope They're Paying Attention
Tesla delivered 241,300 vehicles in the third quarter of 2021. That surprised many, beat Wall Street's expectations, and sent the company's stock price up 5 percent. Tesla managed this at a time when most car company sales have dropped sharply due to supply chain issues. The mindset Elon Musk and Tesla employees used to overcome these issues is something every business leader and especially every entrepreneur can learn from.
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A Tesla mystery: Why didn't auto-braking stop these crashes?
While regulators investigate a spate of Teslas steering themselves into parked vehicles, Tesla owners have been reporting faulty collision avoidance systems
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Tesla is moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas
Where it’s building the next US Gigafactory
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MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
By the end of this week, potentially thousands of Tesla owners will be testing out the automaker’s newest version of its “Full Self-Driving” beta software, version 10.0.1, on public roads, even as regulators and federal officials investigate the safety of the system after a few high-profile crashes.
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Ford will recycle its EV batteries with ex-Tesla exec’s startup
Ford has tapped startup Redwood Materials — run by former Tesla chief technology officer JB Straubel — to handle the recycling of its electric vehicle batteries. The two companies also plan to use this new partnership to help build out the battery supply chain in the United States, which is something that the Biden administration has stressed as a goal.
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Tesla scraps its referral programs for everything but solar roof
Earning 1,000 miles of free Supercharging is no longer possible, according to the Tesla website. For several years, when someone bought a Tesla electric vehicle through a referral, both the referred customer and referrer were rewarded with 1,000 miles worth of free fast charging on the Tesla Supercharger network. Solar panel referrals could bring in as much as $500 cash. One Supercharger session typically fills up, say a standard Tesla Model 3 battery, for about $25.
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Tesla will make sure you are a good driver before giving you access to Full Self-Driving Beta
Elon Musk said that Tesla will use its telemetry data to make sure customers are “good” drivers before allowing them to access its Full Self-Driving Beta software. This is a tricky situation since those customers already paid for the software. Last week, Tesla started pushing its new Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta v10 software update to its early access fleet.
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Tesla opens a showroom on Native American land in New Mexico, getting around the state's ban on automakers selling vehicles straight to consumers
Tesla has opened a sales, service, and delivery center in New Mexico on Native American land, The Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The move allows it to bypass legislation that bans automakers from selling their vehicles straight to consumers in the state, rather than through third-party dealers, the publication reported. Nambé Pueblo in Santa Fe County isn't subject to the state law.
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Elon Musk is angry about a new bill that includes a $4,500 tax incentive for electric vehicles built by companies with unions
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has criticized a bill that could benefit electric vehicle manufacturers with unions. Democrat House lawmakers on Friday put forward a bill that would give a $4,500 tax incentive to consumers buying electric vehicles assembled at US facilities with a union.
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Tesla footage reveals man lied about getting hit by car, police say
A man in Slidell, Louisiana, was arrested after he allegedly lied to police about getting hit by a car in a gas station parking lot on Sept. 3, according to the Slidell Police Department. At about 4 p.m., officers were dispatched to a gas station after a man called 911 to report he was allegedly hit by a car in a "busy gas station parking lot."
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Tesla files to become an electricity provider in Texas
Tesla has also built several utility-scale energy storage systems around the world, but typically hasn't functioned as the retail electricity provider there.
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Hitting the Books: How Tesla engineers solved the problem of exploding EV batteries
Between CEO Elon Musk's often erratic antics, strident competition from existing industry titans, and a public that is still not fully sold on the idea of traveling via electrical charge, Tesla's road to prominence has not been a smooth one. But facing a federal investigation into its driver assist systems, is far from the biggest roadblock the company has navigated.
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Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke
After a dense presentation about the undeniably impressive work Tesla is doing with AI, the company’s self-anointed Technoking, Elon Musk, capped the evening by bringing out a dancer in a spandex suit. Behold, said Musk: my Tesla Bot.
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Elon Musk says we need universal basic income because 'in the future, physical work will be a choice'
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is stepping behind the universal basic income movement because of the potential rise of robots — in fact, he's working on one himself.
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Elon Musk unveils Tesla robot after warning AI will take over humanity
‘Essentially, in the future, physical work will be a choice. If you want to do it, you can, but you won’t need to do it’, Mr Musk said.
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Tesla is actually going to make a 'Tesla Bot' humanoid robot for general purpose use
Tesla announced that it is actually going to make a humanoid robot, called Tesla Bot, and it will be able to grab your groceries for you and perform other menial tasks. No, it’s not a joke. At its “AI Day” today, Tesla released many details about its progress to develop AI technology to power its self-driving system.
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US government opens probe into Tesla Autopilot crashes with emergency vehicles
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has opened a probe into Tesla’s Autopilot software, citing the cars’ repeated collisions with parked emergency vehicles. The NHTSA investigation will cover Tesla Models Y, X, S, and 3 vehicles released from 2014 through 2021. The federal agency says since 2018 it has logged 11 incidents (which include 17 injuries and one fatality) in which Tesla vehicles using the company’s Autopilot features, like Traffic-Aware Cruise Control, have crashed into stationary emergency vehicles.
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How Tesla's Model 3 triggered The Osborne Effect, and caused the ICE market to melt
Global new car sales have fallen steady since 2017, when Tesla released the Model 3. Many consumers are waiting to buy the right EV for them.
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While they were asleep, their Teslas burned in the garage. It’s a risk many automakers are taking seriously.
The fire inspector cited the thermal management system in one of the Tesla Model S sedans as one of two possible causes in the blaze, which showed what can happen when one electric car ignited another in the garage.
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Elon Musk Says He's Close to Solving 'One of the Hardest Technical Problems That's Ever Existed.' Is He Really?
The eccentric billionaire has been making technology history for decades. But this next milestone of human invention may prove to be his biggest achievement yet.
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