Electric vehicles

Elon Musk’s firing of Tesla Supercharger team sparks concern about future of EV industry

Business
Jessica Roberts

Elon Musk is on the warpath. Now that the electric vehicle industry is no longer growing exponentially, he’s pivoting toward robotics, having ...

Tesla slashes its summer internship program to cut costs, as Elon Musk fights to save his $45 billion pay plan

Business
Jessica Roberts

Elon Musk’s latest cost-cutting victims: Summer interns. Tesla Inc. is rescinding offers just weeks before internships were set to start, prompting aspiring ...

Tesla lays off multiple teams in latest round of cuts

Business
Jessica Roberts

Tesla plans more job cuts as two more executives exit: Report Elon Musk is reportedly planning hundreds more job cuts across Tesla ...

Tesla founder Musk visits China as competitors show off new electric vehicles at Beijing auto show

Business
Jessica Roberts

BEIJING (AP) — Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk met with a top government leader in the Chinese capital Sunday, just as ...

Elon Musk delays India visit as Tesla, SpaceX eye huge market

Business
Jessica Roberts

Elon Musk postponed a visit to India which would have included a meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, saying he must tend ...

Tesa’s cybertruck recall for faulty accelerator pedal adds to pile of bad news for Elon Musk

Business
Jessica Roberts

Tesla is recalling all 3,878 of the 2024 Cybertrucks sold so far after it discovered that the accelerator pedal can become stuck, ...

Tesla wants shareholders to reinstate $56 billion Musk pay package tossed by a Delaware judge

Business
Jessica Roberts

DETROIT — Tesla will ask shareholders to reinstate a $56 billion compensation package for CEO Elon Musk that was rejected by a ...

Nissan says it will make next-generation EV batteries by early 2029

World
David Turner

YOKOHAMA, Japan (AP) — Nissan expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029, the company said ...

Argentina’s Javier Milei meets Elon Musk in Texas

Business
Jessica Roberts

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — One is an erratic billionaire entrepreneur and self-declared free-speech absolutist, prone to profanity-laden rants against “wokeness” and ...

Will China flood globe with EVs, green tech? What’s behind latest US-China trade fight

Politics
Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — China’s burgeoning production of electric cars and other green technologies has become a flashpoint in a new U.S.-China trade ...