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Tesla has launched its own brand of tequila after CEO Elon Musk first proposed the idea two years ago on his Twitter account. According to CNN Business, the company’s liquor brand launched on Thursday, November 5 and the product sold out quickly online following high demand. The drink was only available in certain U.S. states […]

Elon Musk leapfrogged Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday to become the world’s third-richest person, with an estimated fortune of $115 billion, according to Bloomberg. While Zuckerberg previously sat higher in the rankings of world billionaires, with an estimated net worth of $111 billion, Musk’s fortune grew a staggering $87.8 billion this year due to […]

Billionaire Wall Street analyst Chamath Palihapitiya has claimed that Tesla might soon be worth over a trillion dollars, making it one of just six companies ever to read the incredible benchmark, according to CNBC. The claim comes as shares in the company, founded by Elon Musk, have reached new heights, trouncing previous expectations from the […]

Lyndsay Tucker is a 25-year-old college student that works in the Sephora of San Jose, California, but she has the distinction of talking to some of the most influential people in the nation thanks to inheriting the old phone number of Tesla CEO Elon Musk. According to National Public Radio’s report, Tucker has gotten strange […]

Elon Musk reopened his Tesla factory on Monday, defying the local health department’s orders to remain closed, ABC News reported. Located south of San Francisco, the plant had been deemed “non-essential” and shut down on March 23. “Tesla is restarting production today against Alameda County rules. I will be on the line with everyone else. […]

A California politician is not taking well to Elon Musk’s threat to pull his Tesla company out of the state. After the billionaire tech mogul said this week that he was considering pulling out of California due to the state’s ongoing coronavirus restrictions, state representative Lorena Gonzales responded with a succinct tweet attacking him. “F*ck […]

Elon Musk said he is considering pulling Tesla out of the state of California over the state’s ongoing restrictions to prevent spread of the coronavirus, which has forced the company’s facilities to close through June. The Tesla CEO spoke out on Saturday, taking to Twitter to announce plans for a lawsuit against the Alameda County […]

Elon Musk and Grimes may face a problem with their new son’s name. While they’ve announced they intend to name their son X Æ A-12, TMZ is reporting that California law makes that name illegal. According to a supervisor at the Department of Public Health Vital Records Office in Los Angeles, it is against the […]

Known for his comedic and chaotic four-minute and twenty-second vlogs, YouTuber David Dobrik has continued to grow in popularity in recent months. In his most recent vlog, Dobrik attempted the crazy Flying Tesla Challenge. He was inspired to try the stunt after watching two Instagram stars, josh_ofthe_jungle and nickpasquale1919 show off a number of dangerous […]

Elon Musk’s company, Tesla, has hit a major roadblock in its plans to build a giga-factory in a small German town on the outskirts of Berlin. On Saturday, more than 250 residents protested the plans, claiming that the factory would “steal” available water from locals and wreak havoc on wildlife in the area, according to […]

Technology entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk recently took to Twitter to reveal his thoughts on his Wikipedia page, which he claims to have read Sunday for the first time in “years.” “Just looked at my wiki for 1st time in years. It’s insane! Btw, can someone please delete ‘investor’. I do basically zero investing,” […]

One lucky person is going to enjoy an extra special Christmas this year. Popular YouTuber David Dobrik is giving back this holiday season by gifting one fan a brand new Tesla on Christmas Eve. He has partnered up once again with SeatGeek, a ticket-buying app, and announced the giveaway in an Instagram post and explained […]

Elon Musk’s broken car window turned out to be very costly. The Tesla chief took a major hit this week at a demonstration of the company’s new Cybertruck, which the billionaire had billed as indestructible. After describing how the truck’s windows were bullet-proof, a designer tossed some metal balls at the windows, damaging what was […]

Tesla‘s new Cybertruck debuted today. The angular, futuristic vehicle that looks nothing like a truck is getting compared to the DeLorean, the ill-fated ’80s sports car that was prominently featured in the Back to the Future franchise. As previously reported by The Inquisitr, the Tesla Cybertruck, the electric vehicle manufacturer’s entry into the pickup truck […]

Tesla’s new Cybertruck, unveiled Thursday, looks like something out of a Ridley Scott sci-fi dystopia and is finally available for pre-order after years of secrecy and development. According to Forbes, Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla, debuted the vehicle on Thursday to a packed house at the Tesla Design Center in Los Angeles. […]

Tesla is offering a new way for people to get their hands on its rooftop solar panels. The company is making solar power more affordable for the average homeowner with rental plans starting at $50 per month. According to The Verge, Tesla is hoping to save its floundering solar division with panel packages that have […]

Tech entrepreneur and Telsa CEO and founder Elon Musk threw his support for Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang on Saturday, as The Inquisitr reported. In a Twitter video post the same day, Yang revealed the one particular piece of advice Musk provided that at least partly pushed his presidential run. “One thing he said that […]

Technology billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday that he hoped to implant internet-connected devices into human brains as early as next year, The Verge reports. Musk claimed the technology would help treat a host of neurological diseases that affect brain function, including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, per The Hill. Musk said the company hoped to shift from […]

A Los Angeles judge declared that billionaire Elon Musk must defend himself in court for a 2018 tweet, in which he insulted a diver working to save Thai schoolboys trapped in an underwater cave, the BBC reports. The trial date is set for October 22. Vern Unsworth, the diver in question who helped rescue the […]

Tesla Inc. founder Elon Musk predicts that robotaxis, or autonomous driverless cars, will be available on U.S. streets next year. Musk, who admitted he can be overly optimistic about some of his predictions, said at an Autonomy Investor Day on Monday that he was confident that Tesla would have over 1 million robotaxis on the […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk just dropped a surprise rap single honoring the gorilla known as Harambe. Musk tweeted out a link to the song, titled “RIP Harambe,” on Saturday eulogizing the tragically slain primate with a heavily auto-tuned vocal track featuring the Space X executive. Musk released the song under the non-existent rap label Emo […]

Tesla has been renowned as a pioneer in its field, creating incredible, more environmentally friendly cars that run without petroleum gas and working on technology that will one day mean cars will be able to completely drive themselves. That technology has been improving drastically under the Tesla banner, but the brand has recently had some […]

No one ever accuses Tesla of not having a sense of humor. The company knows it has the attention of alternative vehicle enthusiasts and their own enthusiastic fanbase in the ongoing run-up to the launch of their much-anticipated Tesla Model Y and they used the buzz to sneak in an amusing Easter egg that was […]

While Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been working hard since 2016 to push out the company’s Model 3 sedan at a super low mass market price tag, after suggesting just last month that this car would finally be here before 2019 was through, Tesla made the surprise announcement on Thursday that the Standard Range Model […]

Despite thousands of warnings that repeatedly make the rounds year after year, for some reason, people still insist upon leaving their pets inside of cars in parking lots. In summer, this is particularly dangerous, with soaring temperatures putting the dogs’ lives in danger. Even in cooler weather, dogs can easily succumb to heat stroke. Tesla […]

One year ago today on February 6, 2018, Elon Musk and SpaceX successfully launched their Falcon Heavy rocket and propelled a Tesla Roadster and its sole occupant, the daring mannequin affectionately known as the Spaceman, into space where the duo has remained to this day on their wild orbit around the sun. As Space reports, […]

Electric car owners learned the hard way during the recent polar vortex that their batteries cannot hang onto a charge when temperatures dip that low. Tesla owners, in particular, discovered that they cannot open their doors very well after a winter storm either. Tesla’s Model 3 owners are filling social media and online forums with […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that the company will be cutting 7 percent of its full-time employees this year. In the company-wide email, Musk also announced that Tesla would end up keeping “only the most critical temps and contractors.” The layoffs are expected to impact roughly 3,000 Tesla employees, according to the Verge. Musk […]

Elon Musk has made the news once again after tweeting a photograph of the DeLorean from the hit film Back to the Future, boasting that one day, the $200,000 Tesla Roadster may be able to fly as well, if customers make sure that they opt for the “SpaceX add-on package.” As the Daily Mail has […]

Azealia Banks is not happy about a recent court filing from Elon Musk’s lawyers that paints the rap star as an unstable liar. The Guardian reports that Musk is currently embroiled in a shareholder lawsuit, that claims Twitter comments on taking automotive company Tesla private constituted market manipulation, costing the plaintiffs hundreds of millions of […]

Tesla Inc. is reportedly carrying out preparations for the construction of their first Chinese factory in Shanghai, reported Business Insider. According to sources and documents divulged by Reuters, bidding has already begun on the Shanghai Gigafactory and preparations are nearly complete. The company made the decision to open a factory in China after foreign sales […]

If 2018 is any indication, 2019 will see AI play an even bigger role in our lives than we imagined. It will be deployed in ways we don’t realize and to do things we didn’t expect. We won’t even be aware of when it is being used for or against us. And there may not […]

Rumors have been circulating for the past several years about a secret car project that Apple is working on. The project is called Project Titan. Apple hopes this could launch the company into the autonomous vehicle market, reports The Motley Fool. Reports show that the company has pivoted from developing its own Apple branded cars […]

Elon Musk’s brother, Kimbal, had an interview segment on Fox Business cut short on Thursday after he insisted on talking about an initiative called “Plant A Seed Today.” Kimbal Musk is a Tesla board member and interviewers tried to steer him into talking about Elon stepping down as chairman. But his younger brother could not […]

Russia to Musk, “Challenge accepted!” That is the message one gets when parsing the trash-talk from Russia as reported by BGR. “Elon Musk and SpaceX won’t be leading the reusable rocket space race long, at least not if Russia has anything to say about it. Russia’s Keldysh Research Center has been working on a reusable […]

Yesterday, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting published an exposé about work conditions at the Tesla auto factory. In the piece, “Inside Tesla’s factory, a medical clinic designed to ignore injured workers,” many accounts of fraudulent reporting and blatant mishandling of medical injuries are detailed. “The on-site medical clinic serving some 10,000 employees at […]

Elon Musk had a two-word response for those asking him how it felt to lose $20 million because of a tweet he made back in August: “worth it.” The technology investor and entrepreneur, who founded SpaceX and Tesla, was fined $20 million by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for misleading investors. Apart from a […]

All it takes is dozing off for a few seconds behind the wheel to find yourself in a very dangerous situation. According to People, Tyler the Creator is considering himself lucky after making it out of a near-fatal car crash alive. The accident occurred when the exhausted rapper briefly fell asleep while driving Wednesday night. […]

Elon Musk has just revealed that his highly anticipated Boring Company tunnel will be officially open on December 10. The Tesla CEO took to Twitter on Sunday to tell the world that the high-speed subway concept is “almost done.” According to the Los Angeles Times, Musk’s Boring Co. tunnel beneath the city of Hawthorne will […]

For most car buyers, the average Tesla may be more than a bit too pricey for comfort. But that could be changing, as the company’s CEO and co-founder, Elon Musk, announced Thursday that it is now taking orders for a more affordable version of the Model 3 sedan. According to Business Insider, the “lower cost, […]

On Wednesday night Elon Musk posted a rather cryptic tweet, declaring that “Tomorrow brings a lemur,” which has fueled a huge amount of speculation as to what the SpaceX CEO was referring to. Hopefully the engineering magnate makes good on his word, and the meaning of the mysterious post is revealed soon! While it is […]

Never one to shy away from a public outburst and dramatic meltdown, Kanye West has been at it again, but this time he is ranting in defense of fellow eccentric Elon Musk. The Mirror reports that the Yeezy rapper was holding court and laying down the gospel according to Kanye at an art college in […]

Electric car company Tesla’s stock has taken a dive after the Securities and Exchange Commission announced a civil suit against company CEO Elon Musk on Thursday according to CNBC. Tesla’s stock closed at $307.52 Thursday. Shares of the popular car company plummetted 11 percent Friday after it was reported that Musk was being accused of […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a lawsuit against Tesla CEO Elon Musk for a series of posts on Twitter where he suggested taking his company private at a stock price of $420 per share. Court documents filed on Thursday show that SEC charged Musk for securities fraud due to misleading tweets. According to […]

After brutal crash tests were conducted on the Tesla Model 3, the U.S. government decided to award the fully electric car with its highest honor and gave it a five-star rating in every safety category that has been set so far by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). As the Daily Mail reported, […]

Actor Ashton Kutcher was involved in a car accident on Tuesday when he accidentally hit a 19-year-old teen riding a children’s scooter with his car, reports E! News. The teenager, Leo Marenghi, was reportedly on his way to a school in Los Angeles where he was supposed to pick up the children he was babysitting […]

Tesla is facing a criminal probe by the Department of Justice over public statements made by the company’s CEO Elon Musk last month. Citing two people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said that federal prosecutors opened a fraud investigation following a tweet that Musk posted on Aug. 7. The criminal probe is being conducted along […]

As Tesla heads for what could very well be a turning point in its history and its journey towards becoming a mainstream American carmaker, the company opted to adjust the price of the Red Multi-coat color option for the Model 3. With the most recent price adjustment, the Model 3’s Red Multi-coat option now costs […]

Smartphones can do amazing things, but who knew that they could also help you hack into expensive, luxury electric cars and drive away with them. Electrek reports that a car thief most likely used a smartphone to unlock a Tesla Model 3, that was on display at the Mall of America in Minnesota. According to […]

Tesla took another hit on Tuesday, after Nomura Instinet lowered its rating on Tesla (TSLA) shares from buy to neutral. CNBC reports that analyst Romit Shah has changed his views of Tesla due to Elon Musk’s unpredictable behavior. As previously reported by Inquisitr, Musk appeared last week on a live podcast with host Joe Rogan. […]