Category: tesla

Mixed Martial Arts: UFC Fighter Gets Tesla After Calling out CEO Musk

Beneil Dariush waited six months for Tesla to deliver a car he had ordered and decided to speed up the process by calling out the company’s CEO Elon Musk immediately after his UFC 262 lightweight bout with Tony Ferguson last weekend. “Elon, where’s my wife’s car, bro?” Dariush said in his post-fight interview on Saturday….


Tesla Cooperating With Chinese Authorities After Accident Killed Police Officer

BEIJING—Tesla Inc said on Tuesday it would work with authorities to investigate a car accident in China that local police said caused the death of a police officer and injured another. A video circulated on China’s Twitter-like Weibo and in local state media showed a Tesla Model X next to two police officers lying on…


Crash Victim Had Posted Videos Riding in Tesla on Autopilot

LOS ANGELES—The driver of a Tesla involved in a fatal crash that California highway authorities said may have been on operating on Autopilot posted social media videos of himself riding in the vehicle without his hands on the wheel or foot on the pedal. The May 5 crash in Fontana, a city 50 miles east…


China Lawyer Says Tesla Protest Is Designed to Please the CCP

Following her protest against Tesla at the Shanghai Auto Show last month, a woman surnamed Zhang, owner of a Tesla electric vehicle from Anyang, Henan Province, filed a lawsuit on May 6 with Beiguan Court against Tesla China and its Vice President Tao Lin for defamation. She is demanding a public apology and about $7,800 in…


China in Focus: Beijing’s Sudden Turn on Tesla: From Friend to Foe?

In this episode of our special report, we look at what’s going wrong with U.S. carmaker Tesla’s love affair with China. Once a darling for the Chinese regime, Tesla is now facing an unprecedented attack from Chinese regulators and state media. Robert Spalding, a national security expert said: “They do this every single time… They…


China in Focus: Beijing’s Sudden Turn on Tesla: From Friend to Foe? [Premiering on 5/14 at 9pm ET]

In this episode of our special report, we look at what’s going wrong with U.S. carmaker Tesla’s love affair with China. Once a darling for the Chinese regime, Tesla is now facing an unprecedented attack from Chinese regulators and state media. Robert Spalding, a national security expert said: “They do this every single time. They…


NTD Business Full Broadcast (May 13)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk makes a surprising U-turn about accepting Bitcoin as payment for Tesla cars. How did the crypto market react? No credit score? That might be less of a problem when fall comes. Banks are planning to give credit cards to those without one. Companies are paying producers significantly more for things like…


Crash, Arrest Draw More Scrutiny of Tesla Autopilot System

LOS ANGELES—Federal safety regulators are sending a team to California to investigate a fatal freeway crash involving a Tesla, just after authorities near Oakland arrested a man in another Tesla rolling down a freeway with no one behind the steering wheel. Experts say both cases raise pressure on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to…


Tesla Suddenly Stops Accepting Bitcoin as Payment

Tesla will no longer accept the cryptocurrency bitcoin as payment, the company’s CEO Elon Musk announced on Wednesday. Musk said the abrupt move came because of worries over how much energy bitcoin mining, or production, consumes. “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has…


Ready to Exit China? Tesla Pays Off $614 Million Loan for Its Shanghai Factory

News Analysis Tesla has recently repaid in full the $614 million loan for the construction of its Gigafactory 3, a super factory located in Shanghai. After the news broke out, the rumor that Tesla may be preparing to leave the Chinese market spread fast on social media. The construction of the Shanghai plant began at…