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:

Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla customers will have access to a built-in dashcam very, very soon.

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.

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.   

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 

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.

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.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he believes the Model 3 is the last product on which the company will have to bet its livelihood in an interview with Bloomberg. "I believe Model 3 is the last bet-the-company situation," he said. "To the best of my judgment, I do not think we have any future bet-the-company situations. We will still need to work hard and be vigilant and not be complacent because it is very difficult just to survive as a car company. But it will not be the same level of strain as getting to volume production of Model 3."

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 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 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.

The Tesla Model S is the leading EV in the U.S. Market researcher IHS has revealed an exact number for Tesla Model S registrations in the first quarter of this year.  This comes on the heels of a vague statement made about Tesla sales last week. Last week IHS issued its quarterly Automotive Plug-in [...]

We are live-blogging the Tesla conference call set for 11 a.m. Pacific (2 p.m. Eastern) Friday. Tesla did not give any hints about what it will discuss on the call, but on Twitter earlier Friday Chief Executive Elon Musk said the call would be about a Model S product.

According to Charged EVs, that accounts for every model Tesla would be able to create in the auto’s first year. Jurvetson also discussed the benefits of embracing the driving technology Tesla is developing, saying that the cars are an ideal way to eliminate traffic gridlock, get people moving more efficiently, and provide an exceptionally safe commute to travelers. “I believe they are already safer than my parents,” Jurvetson said of the “robocars”, “and I would trust my kids with them.”

Tesla’s underwriters bought up all possible extra shares in the deal, boosting the amount of money the electric carmaker raised. Tesla raised $738 million from a stock sale, which closed on Wednesday, according to a regulatory filing, far exceeding the electric carmaker’s original estimates. The company originally was looking to raise closer to $500 million last week, and then boosted that number to about $650 million a day later by agreeing to sell more shares.

The Tesla Model S P85D performed well on Consumer Reports' road tests — so well that the 80-year-old publication is calling the Tesla the best car it has ever tested.

The mine will potentially supply Tesla's Gigafactory outside of Reno, Nevada.

In August 2014, Tesla CEO Elon Musk talked about "a fairly exciting upgrade" (i.e., an improved battery pack) to the company's first car, the Lotus-based Roadster. Today, we can finally put a price tag on what it'll cost you to give your aging all-electric sports car around 35-percent more energy capacity and around 40-percent more range. In short, getting the new, roughly 70-kWh pack will set you back $29,000. Be warned: The new pack is heavier than the older one.

Elon Musk is clearly in the 2016 race for Supervillain of the Universe, because on the "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," he suggested there were two ways to make Mars hospitable for humans and one option is to drop thermonuclear bombs on it.

click to enlarge Activist Post Western energy sanctions levied against Russia are already threatening to trickle down and compromise the energy security of the entire...

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Elon Musk is likely blushing.

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and green technology wizard, thinks gasoline and diesel fuel are dead. Musk was addressing a room full of Flemish and Belgian reporters when one asked him to weigh in on the recent Volkswagen scandal, in which the company rigged its cars to fraudulently pass emissions tests. The reporter asked if he was worried it would cause people to “lose their faith” in green technology. “I think it’s the opposite,” Musk replied.

Tesla is scheduled to deliver the first of its Model X crossover SUVs to customers next week. The startup carmaker will hold an event at its factory in Fremont, California, September 29, as the first "Signature Series" Model X vehicles roll off the assembly line. CEO Elon Musk will be there, as well as Business Insider, so check back for coverage. In the meantime, consider this: The Model X isn't just the most important car Tesla has ever built...

By 2017, Tesla is going to have a vehicle with a 600-mile range on the market. One of the primary issues with the Tesla Model S is that it can only go a couple hundred miles before requiring a charge. This new model will address that problem. Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, announced the company would soon be able to equip cars with the battery and powertrain technology required for 620 miles per charge.

As it has been announced at Tesla, known for making electric cars, it is expanding its line of products and one of the first is the device called the Powerwall. The Powerwall is an enormous battery capable of storing energy both solar and from the grid, thus making it available for later usage. Apparently, Tesla’s technology will be employed to ‘enlighten’ homes, offices and streets of California.Real estate developer The Irvine Company and Advanced Microgrid work together to use...

Tesla shares plunged more than 15% after Consumer Reports announced it was withdrawing its recommendation of the company's flagship Model S P85D electric sedan. The price of Tesla shares had climbed by the closing bell, but it still ended the day down 6.6%. The consumer products ratings publication gave the $104,000 electric car a "worse-than-average" rating in its latest report about the predicted reliability of new vehicles.

In the buzz over the Tesla autopilot update, a lot of commentary has appeared comparing this Autopilot with Google’s car effort and other efforts and what I would call a “real” robocar — one that can operate unmanned or with a passenger who is not paying attention to the road. We’ve seen claims that “Tesla has beaten Google to the punch,” but while the Tesla release is a worthwhile step forward, the two should not be confused as all that similar.

During the press conference for the release of the Autopilot, Tesla CEO Elon Musk referred to each Model S owners as an “expert trainer” – meaning that each driver will train the autonomous features of the system to feed the collective network intelligence of the fleet by simply driving the electric vehicle on Autopilot. He said that the system should improve every day, but that improvements might only become noticeable every week...

Tesla has already begun production at their $5 billion battery factory, according to the company’s third quarter 2015 shareholder letter. In October, production of Tesla’s Powerpacks and Powerwalls moved from Fremont to an automated assembly line at the Gigafactory. The early move, which appears to have occurred months before originally planned, was due to growing demand for Tesla Energy products. The move will delay many deliveries of energy products from late 2015 to early 2016...