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Police Hunt For Driver In SHOCKING Flying Tesla Viral Video!

What happens when you commit a crime, film it, and go mega-viral for this? Something tells us you get caught real quick. If you saw that video of a Tesla flying through the air and crashing hard going around social media over the past 24 hours of so, then you’re witnessing the above scenario unfold […]

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The chaos of war and COVID continues to close car factories

Enlarge / A VW employee assembles an ID. 3 electric vehicle at the VW factory in Dresden in 2021. (credit: Volkswagen) Any hopes that the auto industry’s supply chain shortages were easing up appear to be comprehensively dashed this week. In Europe, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused BMW and Volkswagen to halt production at […]

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Tesla fires employee who posted YouTube videos of Full Self-Driving accident

Enlarge / A Tesla with Full Self-Driving enabled, a moment before hitting a bollard in San Jose. (credit: AI Addict ) Ex-Tesla employee John Bernal says he was fired for posting YouTube videos about Tesla’s Full Self-Driving (FSD) beta . He had been creating the videos with regard to about a year. Bernal says that […]

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Tesla hikes prices on all cars, with cheapest Model 3 now nearing $50K

Enlarge / Tesla Model 3. (credit: Salwan Georges/The Washington Post) Tesla raised prices last night on every model it sells. The move comes just a week after the company increased prices for its long-range battery packs by $1, 000. The new increase means that the cheapest Tesla, a Model 3 with rear-wheel drive, now costs […]

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Elon Musk tries to get out of settlement with SEC, says he was “forced” into it

Enlarge / Elon Musk at a press conference at SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Texas on February 10, 2022. (credit: Getty Images | Jim Watson) Tesla CEO Elon Musk today asked a federal judge to terminate a 2018 settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, saying he’s tired of the SEC using the consent decree to […]

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Musk “invites” union vote at Tesla plant despite long history of hostility

Enlarge (credit: JIM WATSON/AFP) It’s no secret that Tesla CEO Elon Musk is annoyed with President Joe Biden. The president frequently fails to mention Tesla when discussing electric vehicle production in the US, instead referring to Ford’s and GM’s comparatively nascent efforts. Musk, who has a tendency to hurl juvenile insults, has called Biden a […]