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Tesla now California's top automotive employer
Tesla has knocked off Toyota as the biggest auto employer in the state of California, employing over 6,000 people to the Japanese company's 5,300. That lead is only likely to grow, as the EV manufacturer prepares to add another 500 jobs by the end of the year, and as Toyota begins its relocation to its new North American headquarters in Texas. The news comes barely a week after the company announced a $50 million loss during the first quarter of 2014.
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Tesla promises electric car revolution
Drivers of Tesla electric cars will soon be able to drive the length of the country with only one 20-minute recharging break, according to the company’s billionaire founder Elon Musk. Next month the first right-hand-drive models of Tesla’s £70,000 Model S Performance Plus car will arrive in Britain, with the company claiming it can travel 300 miles on a single charge.
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Tesla Motors Now California’s Biggest Auto-Industry Employer
Tesla Motors is now the largest auto-industry employer in California - employing more than 6000 people within the state, with a further 500 jobs expected to be added to that figure before the end of 2014.
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California's "Improbable" Bid To Land Tesla's Gigafactory
Earlier this year, Tesla Motors said four states were finalists for its $5 billion gigafactory. They were Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas. Since then, California has been trying to nudge its way onto the list, with a bid that even Tesla describes as a long shot.
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Tesla Will Lead In Self-Driving Vehicles
Tesla plans to have an autonomous vehicle on the road in as soon as a "few years".
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Elon Musk May Give Away Its Tesla Supercharger Patents To Spur Electric Car Development
Elon Musk has said repeatedly he wants to “do something controversial” with Tesla's collection of electric car patents, but he finally offered specifics at the UK launch of his Tesla Model S on Sunday. The Tesla Motors CEO said he would like to open up the designs for his Supercharger systems — the free fast-charging stations designed to quickly refuel Tesla’s electric cars — to create a standard for other car makers to use.
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Good Guy Tesla: All Our Patent Are Belong To You
Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.
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Tesla accelerates race toward open-source cars
Linux and open source have long played a major role in cars' electronics, but now Tesla is taking open-source automobiles to a whole new level — by setting free its electric car patents.
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What Elon Musk did -- and did not -- do when he "opened" Tesla's patents
Did the CEO of Tesla really “give away” the company’s patents. No, but he did do something more important. In case you missed it, the episode in question is this week’s blog post by Tesla CEO’s Elon Musk titled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You,” which has had the tech and automotive world buzzing about what he's up to. Likewise, Musk didn't, as some stated, give away Tesla’s patents to his competitors or anyone else.
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Why Elon Musk Just Opened Up All of Tesla's Patents
Yesterday, one of the more interesting people in Silicon Valley did one of the more interesting things that the car industry has seen in a while. Elon Musk, the C.E.O. of Tesla, opened up all of his patents. “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology,” he wrote in a blog post. Tesla’s competitors can now freely take advantage of its batteries, chargers, or sunroofs.
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A Civil War Is Brewing In The Race To Replace Gasoline-Powered Cars
Elon Musk announced Thursday that Tesla would open up its patents for fair use. Among other things, he said a company's relying on patents for revenue is a sign of weakness, and he slammed the state of patent controls in America. Hidden among the patents announcement was Musk's comments on automakers' use of fuel cells, which use the reaction from combining hydrogen with oxygen to generate electricity.
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Electric banana
Interesting physical experience with electric Tesla coils
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Proterra, an Electric Bus Maker, Aims to Follow the Tesla Model
The South Carolina maker of an $850,000 electric bus announces a $40 million investment round led by Kleiner Perkins
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Tesla is now most important automaker in world, Morgan Stanley says
Could Tesla Motors be the world’s most important car company? Morgan Stanley Research analyst Adam Jonas makes that argument in a new report to investors. “Not even two years after the delivery of the first Model S, Tesla Motors has transformed from fledgling start-up to arguably the most important car company in the world. We are not joking,” Jonas wrote. “Tesla is also emerging as an emblematic force in America's effort to foster high tech manufacturing job growth.”
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How to build a Tesla, according to Tesla
The company's wide-ranging patent portfolio has been opened up for anyone to use. Here's what's in it.
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A Tesla for $30k?
Tesla's Model S is way too expensive for most people to consider at $70,000, but the company confirmed today that it's working on a cheaper compact set to launch in 2016. Tesla makes some of the coolest cars on the market, but for many people the $70,000 Model S is too expensive to justify buying. Thankfully it looks like the company is also working on a cheaper Model E that might not come at such a high price.
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The Great American Road Trip Has Gone Electric
The road trip may be the perfect expression of American’s obsession with freedom. The ability to hop in a car and go wherever we want whenever we want has inspired a canon’s worth of books and films. It is the stuff of dreams, and very often of vacations.
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Stolen Tesla splits in half and burns in LA
One owner of the ultra-desirable Tesla Model S has seen his pride-and-joy cut in half and on fire after it was stolen and crashed in LA. While the Tesla Model S is undeniably one of the most desirable electric cars on the market thanks to it's sleek looks and excellent performance, it has also suffered scrutiny over the risk of fire breaking out after an accident.
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Elon Musk Donates $1 Million to New Tesla Museum
For his 158th birthday, Nikola Tesla got a day named in his honor and a new science museum with $1 million in funding from billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk.
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White House responds to Tesla petition, passes buck to states, Congress
Last June, a petition filed on the White House's "We The People" site about direct-to-consumer car sales took less than a month to reach 100,000 signatures, the threshold required for a response from the Obama administration. "State legislators are trying to unfairly protect automobile dealers in their states from competition," the petition read, and it made no bones about Tesla's direct-sales efforts standing out from the standard dealership sales model found throughout the United States.
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