Tesla News Updates

Business, Technology

Tesla Makes It Tougher to Buy Standard $35,000 Model 3

Tesla Inc. announced a series of changes to its vehicle lineup and pricing, including making it tougher to buy its newly available entry-level $35,000 car.

April 12, 2019
Business, Technology

Tesla Plunges as Delivery Drop Deepens Demand Concerns

Tesla Inc. shares plummeted as a record decline in deliveries during the first quarter stoked concern of slackening demand for the Model 3 sedan that started selling less than two years ago.

April 4, 2019
Business, Technology, Logistics

Tesla Quarterly Sales Announcement Could Come With a Surprise

Tesla Inc. will announce this week how many cars it built and sold for the quarter. It’s always a day of suspense for investors, especially after a tumultuous 2018 in which production tripled while managing to fall short of dramatic targets set by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. This time around, there could be another surprise.

April 1, 2019
Business, Technology, Logistics

Tesla’s Model 3 Shatters Record in Electric Car-Crazy Norway

Just weeks after Tesla Inc. started rolling out its Model 3 in Europe, the electric-car manufacturer has beaten the monthly sales record in its key Norwegian market by a wide margin.

March 26, 2019
Business, Technology

Soft Demand Expected for Tesla Model 3 Until Price Drops

Demand for Tesla Inc.’s Model 3 sedan is expected to remain soft in the United States until the release of the lower-priced $35,000 model next quarter, Cowen analyst Jeffrey Osborne said.

March 22, 2019
Government, Business, Safety

Tesla Factory Injuries Idled Workers Three Times as Much in 2018

Tesla Inc. factory employees spent almost three times as many days off the job because of work-related injuries and illness in 2018 as the year before, an indication of just how much strain they were under as they manufactured electric cars at scale for the first time.

March 19, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment

Tesla Unveils Model Y Crossover, but Delivery Time Reignites Cash Concerns

The Model Y crossover that Elon Musk debuted late March 14 in Hawthorne, Calif., will start being delivered to customers in the fall of next year, later than some analysts anticipated. The company immediately began taking $2,500 pre-orders, a bigger ask than the $1,000 it has charged to reserve a Model 3 sedan.

March 15, 2019
Business, Technology

Sizable Shipment of Tesla Model 3s Set for Norway

Tesla Inc. is set to make one of the largest deliveries yet of its new Model 3 car to Norway, one of the electric vehicle producer’s biggest markets.

March 13, 2019
Business, Technology, Logistics

Tesla to Raise Prices, Close Fewer Stores Than Announced

Tesla Inc. plans to raise average vehicle prices by about 3% globally after it decided to shut down fewer stores than it previously announced.

March 11, 2019
Government, Business, Technology, Safety, Autonomous

First Responders Work With Developers to ‘Teach’ Self-Driving Cars to Pull Over

What happens when police need to stop a driverless car?

March 8, 2019