This article is an excerpt from the new book, Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries, by Charles Morris. The five co-founders of Tesla—Marc Tarpenning, Martin Eberhard, Elon Musk, JB Straubel and Ian Wright—were certainly greenies, and the environmental value of EVs was one of their prime…
Just a day after the release of Tesla Tequila, the sustainable energy company’s premium liquor beverage, first looks at the bottle’s packaging have surfaced. Photos of the packaging containing the $250 lightning bolt-shaped bottle were seen by Twitter user @Edgar707KiDS. It appears that a commemorative box and item description will protect the liquor and stand.…
Tesla is not a game-changing automotive company, according to Elon Musk, it’s a series of game-changing startups. On the recent Q3 earnings call from the electric car maker, Musk said, “There’s probably in excess of a dozen startups effectively in Tesla.” The Tesla CEO pointed to the fact that every product line and new factory…
The first venture by Elon Musk into the liquor business, Tesla Tequila, is now out of stock. The Tesla Tequila was selling out very fast, similar to his previous eccentric products such as The Boring Company Not-a-Flamethrower and the Tesla Short Shorts. Elon Musk has not announced the amount of available bottles of Tesla Tequila…
Tesla officially unveiled Tesla Tequila: 100 percent de agave tequila, an exclusive, small-batch premium. For over two years, Tesla Tequila has been an idea in the making in what began as a joke on April Fools 2018. A photograph of CEO Elon Musk jokingly declaring “Chapter 14 and a half” bankruptcy, Tesla joked that it…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk indicated during the Q3 2020 Earnings Call that he thinks Tesla Insurance will take over a large portion of the auto business of the company. “Obviously, insurance is substantial. So, insurance could very well be, I don’t know, 30-40% of the value of the car business, frankly.” Steven from Solving The…
Twelve years ago, in order to help prevent bankruptcy, American electric vehicle (EV) maker Tesla received $40 million in additional funding. After Tweeting out the news recounting the incident, Tesla’s CEO chimed in and gave some additional texture to a certified do-or-die situation that seems to have forever changed the company’s trajectory. Founded in 2003,…
Tesla’s beta version of their Full Self Driving (FSD) software has been released to a small number of people and it’s mind-blowing! This release gives us a glimpse at the (FSD) rewrite that Tesla has been working on in the last year or so. The aim of this limited beta is to prove the FSD…
Some of the most prestigious cars currently available are built by Tesla. They have a lot of innovative, sophisticated, and even creative features, such as Sentry Mode. Nevertheless, they lack certain elements conventional vehicles have. One of those facets? A spare tire. That’s right — Tesla lacks a decades-old feature that cars have had. Practicality,…
nWho said 2020 has been a disaster? Certainly not Elon Musk. He is storming his way up the Bloomberg Billionaire Index rankings, breathing down the neck of regulars like Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates. Tesla’s shares and stock value are climbing, its market value surging past the $100 billion mark. And, to add to his…