Most people don’t talk about Tesla as a largely character-driven stock in the same way they do, for example, GameStop. The leading American electric car company is a slightly easier pitch ...

The people who would buy Tesla’s electric cars are, figuratively and now very literally, not buying what Musk is selling. The “narrative” about Tesla, as an investment banker might call it ...

We do not know how much of the electric car company’s recent tanking owes to opposition to Musk personally and how much stems from Tesla’s wider business challenges, or how much those two ...

The Money crew discusses Tesla’s big shareholder vote ... Please contact us at [email protected] for help. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members ...

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The knock on electric cars has always been the same: They’re great for the environment, but they’re pokey and impractical, and nobody wants to buy one. The stunning success story of the Tesla ...

There’s a whole genre of YouTube videos of people showing how their Teslas can drive themselves around. These users are testing out Tesla’s Full Self-Driving capabilities—which sometimes ...

The FSD package, which currently costs Tesla owners an additional $15,000 when they buy their cars, requires the driver to be watching the road at all times (although Tesla enthusiasts have ...

In an attempt to answer these questions, I talked with Patrick George, a contributing writer at the Verge and an auto journalist who has covered Musk and Tesla for around a decade at Jalopnik ...

Please contact us at [email protected] for help. Last week, a Tesla Model S crashed into a tree in a neighborhood north of Houston. Both men inside the car were killed. But according to police ...

Normally, if a Tesla doesn’t sense any pressure being exerted on the steering wheel, the car’s display will start ... I’ve been writing about technology at Slate for almost four years ...

In 2009, as the financial crisis raged and General Motors and Chrysler plunged toward bankruptcy, Tesla Motors faced a seemingly impossible task: raising half a billion dollars to build an ...