Full Coverage: Elon Musk’s Tesla

It wasn’t long ago when the German car industry was still laughing out loud about Elon Musk and his Tesla Motors electric car company.

The recent hoopla around Tesla’s planned Model 3 might lead one to think electric-car sales are surging.

Only months after delivering the first units of its Model X, Tesla Motors has issued a voluntary safety recall for its heralded “falcon wing” SUV.

Pre-orders for the Tesla Model 3 have topped 276,000, with buyers lured by the electric vehicle’s coolness factor, sleek and low profile, $35,000 starting price — and the promise of thousands of dollars in government incentives.

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An admiring fan base cheered when Tesla Motors Inc. took the wraps off the Model 3, the electric-car company’s product aimed at the mass market.

A day after its glitzy Model 3 unveiling in front of hundreds of fans, Tesla Motors Inc. will now have to turn its attention to its most pressing concern: how to deliver these cars to customers on time.

U.S. stocks were mostly lower in morning trading Friday, led by energy companies as the price of oil drops.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk, speaking to an adoring crowd of Tesla fans, pronounced the Model 3 a success upon its birth Thursday night in Hawthorne.

On Thursday night, at an invitation-only, Hollywood-style premiere on his SpaceX campus in Hawthorne, Elon Musk and his Tesla team will unveil their latest creation: the Model 3, Musk’s long-awaited electric car for the masses.

When it comes to batteries, homeowners apparently don’t need as much energy storage as Tesla Motors thought they did.

Tesla Motors Inc. reported an unexpectedly large fourth-quarter loss of $320 million on Wednesday as the maker of luxury electric cars incurred heavy costs related to developing two new models.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk has converted 532,000 stock options into stock, the company said late Friday.

Tesla Motors Inc. said it delivered 17,400 vehicles in the fourth quarter, setting a new company record by putting out a flurry of Model S sedans and some Model X sport utility vehicles, but the stock market wasn’t impressed.

Tesla Motors Inc. said Friday it will voluntarily recall all Model S sedans to check a potential issue with the front seat belts.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk gave a shout-out to Jeffrey Katzenberg after the Hollywood mogul credited Tesla for saving his life in a serious car accident in Beverly Hills last week.

Consumer Reports withdrew its recommendation for the Tesla Model S — a car the magazine previously raved about — because of poor reliability for the $100,000 electric sport sedan.

Elon Musk and Tesla Motors, masterful at mining state and federal tax incentives, may have lucked into a tax loophole.

Tesla Motors said it delivered a record 11,580 cars to its customers during the third quarter of this year but remains off the pace needed to hit its annual target.

Tesla Motors’ new all-electric Model X sport utility vehicle gets to 60 mph in 3.2 seconds.

Buying a Tesla comes with some unusual perks. Like falcon doors. And “ludicrous mode.”

A crowd rushed the entrance of the exhibition hall before Tesla unveiled its long-delayed Model X sport utility, its third vehicle in the quest to make electric cars mainstream.

Two Los Angeles start-ups are racing to develop tubes to zip people hundreds of miles an hour between cities — the so-called Hyperloop.

Tesla Motors plans to deliver the first Model X electric crossovers to customers near the end of this month at its auto factory in Fremont, Calif.

Tesla Motors Inc. said Thursday it plans to sell an additional $500 million worth of stock to help fund its current projects, including new-car development and a battery plant being built in Nevada.

Los Angeles entrepreneur Elon Musk has built a multibillion-dollar fortune running companies that make electric cars, sell solar panels and launch rockets into space.

Tesla Motors Inc. is offering a slew of new options for its Model S electric sports sedan, including a “ludicrous” driving mode that will rocket the car from zero to 60 mph in just 2.8 seconds.

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors has won a fresh $15-million tax break from the state of California.

A small number of Tesla Model S owners will have their cars updated for a test of hands-free driving by the end of the month, Elon Musk, chief executive of the electric car company, said at Tesla’s annual shareholders meeting Tuesday.

Elon Musk says his companies don’t need the estimated $4.9 billion they enjoy in government support, but the money will help them move faster to transform the dirty business of energy.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk says he plans to address “range anxiety” for the entire Model S electric car fleet in a news conference Thursday, but there may be more concern about his predictions for the future of human drivers.

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, past master of the Twitter tease, has issued an alert that his company will unveil a new “product line” late next month.

Entrepreneur Elon Musk pushed back Tuesday on Twitter against some claims made about him in a forthcoming book, Ashlee Vance’s “Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future.”

Apple cars, Tesla Motors’ fledgling energy business, Model X delays --- here are five takeaways from Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s conversation with financial analysts Wednesday.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors Inc. unveiled a line of inexpensive residential and commercial energy storage systems at a rock concert-like gala Thursday night at the company’s design studio in Hawthorne.

Tesla Motors Chief Executive Elon Musk plans to launch the electric car market into a new product line -- batteries for home and business energy storage.

In a move that demonstrates how the mechanical and electronic worlds are converging, Tesla Motors plans to update many of its Model S sedans with functions that include automatic braking when the vehicle senses a pending collision, a partial autopilot system, and even a robotic parking program that will tuck a car into its garage while its owner watches from the porch.

Hyperloop isn’t all hype.