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  • #feuds

    Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars

    Elon Musk and Hendrik Fisker are mortal enemies in the green car business. Yet the feds just split a billion dollars between the two companies. If that sounds like a bad idea, blame Al Gore. More »
  • #feuds

    Legalizing Electric-Car Kingpin's 'Founder' Fetish

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk likes to call himself "founder" of companies he didn't actually start. This weird fetish has never been fully safe and legal, until now: The real founder of Tesla Motors is dropping his lawsuit and granting permission. More »
  • #spacecadet

    Elon Musk Wants Another Obama Bailout

    Elon Musk is becoming a welfare case. Federal auto-industry loans helped save his electric-car company, Tesla. Now Musk wants another federal bailout for his embarrassing space startup. And he may well get it. More »
  • #comebacks

    Tesla's Precarious Reprieve

    Huge infusions of money would seem to have helped Tesla Motors: the electric-car startup has escaped a bitter lawsuit from founder Martin Eberhard and finally sited a power-train factory — and that's just this week. But other fights loom. More »
  • #nerdfight

    This Man Founded Everything (And So Did You)

    Elon Musk has a very loose definition of the word "founder." The Tesla CEO calls himself a PayPal founder; he isn't. He calls himself a Tesla founder; today a court begins hearings over whether he should stop saying that. More »
  • #teslamotors

    Tesla Gets $465 Million from Feds

    The Department of Energy has made it official: Tesla Motors will, in fact, get $465 million in government loans to fund its Model S sedan. Chalk another one up for founder Elon Musk's improbable dream of a mass-market electric car. More »
  • #feuds

    Tesla CEO: Daimler Won't Let You Fire Me

    Elon Musk posted a lengthy blog entry slamming his CEO predecessor, Martin Eberhard. Ostensibly, Musk is just defending himself against Eberhard's recently-filed lawsuit. But enemies of Musk take note: If Tesla wants to keep Daimler's money, it must keep Musk. More »
  • #teslamotors

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk Wants $10 Gas, To Build A Kabillion Cars

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk is speaking right now at Wired Live. What's he saying? For starters, he wants to buy a car factory from a Detroit automaker so he can produce 100,000 cars per year. More craziness below. [Jalopnik]
  • #nerdfight

    Tesla Executives Squabbled Over Their Cars Like Customers

    California's liberal millionaires have turned the Tesla Motors waiting list into a thing of wonder. It's thousands of dollars just to sign up. But company bigwigs fetishize their electric vehicle just as irrationally, a lawsuit reveals. Heartening. More »
  • #teslamotors

    Tesla Co-Founder Eberhard Sues Elon Musk, Tesla

    Tesla Motors co-founder Martin Eberhard, ousted from the company in November 2007 by then-chairman Elon Musk, has now filed suit in Califonria Superior Court against both Musk and Tesla Motors alleging slander, libel and breach of contract. [Jalopnik]
  • #electriccars

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  • #electriccars

    Tesla Now Worth Less Than Twitter

    Daimler's 10% stake in Tesla for "double digit millions" pegs Tesla's value at less than a billion dollars and probably closer to $100 million. That means Tesla's likely worth less than Twitter! [Jalopnik]
  • #leaks

    Tesla Motors Moneyman Revs His Mouth on Camera

    A mysterious video of a Tesla investor talking about a rumored investment in the company has popped up on YouTube. Valleywag has identified the blabbermouth: Victor Morgenstern, chairman of a Chicago private-equity fund. More »
  • #spacecadet

    Elon Musk Adds Mars to His Improbable Dreams

    The Red Planet beckons electric-car entrepreneur Elon Musk. He's hoping to put a man on Mars by 2020. Space fanboys are placing their dreams of getting off this rock on a slender reed. More »
  • #elonmusk

    Tesla Fanboy David Letterman Lets Motormouth CEO Off Easy

    David Letterman loves his Tesla Roadster so much that he invited Tesla CEO Elon Musk onto the Late Show last night. The question he should have asked: How long will Musk keep his job? More »
  • #journalismism

    Sarah Lacy Is the Interviewer Elon Musk Was Looking For

    Uh oh! Silicon Valley journalist Sarah Lacy laughed when Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk called a New York Times writer a "douchebag." Now the Times is in a snit and she's calling the newspaper sexist! More »
  • #tesla

    Tesla's Elon Musk Continues War Of Aggression Against Volt, REVs

    We thought Tesla's Elon Musk decided to give up anti-Detroit not-so-Big-Three rhetoric, but he's gone on the attack again against GM's Chevy Volt and Range-Extended Vehicles. Oh, that rapscallion! [Jalopnik]
  • #deathwatch

    Tesla CEO Says GE's an Investor, but GE Says No

    Yesterday, we noted an upcoming Car & Driver interview with Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk in which he claims GE Capital is investing in the electric-car maker. Today, GE told us nuh-uh. More »
  • #deathwatch

    Is Elon Musk Guaranteeing Tesla Buyers' Deposits? Yes and No

    Tesla Motors, the cash-poor electric-car startup which just unveiled a new sedan prototype, may have gotten money from General Electric. But it's really hoping to trick car buyers into investing on the sly. More »
  • #flackery

    Tesla Praises Leaked Car Photos It Wants Erased from the Internet

    Is Tesla Motors mad that Digg founder Kevin Rose spoiled the launch of its Model S sedan by leaking photos on Flickr? Yes and no, depending on who you ask at the ailing electric-car startup. More »
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