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During Tesla's Battery Day event on Tuesday, CEO Elon Musk revealed how batteries could be integrated into the structural elements of the car.

Elon Musk: In Future Teslas, “Structural Battery” Will Be Part of the Car’s Frame

By Victor Tangermann

During an event, Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that his company is planning to get a $25,000 electric car into production within the next three years.

Elon Musk Promises $25,000 Tesla by 2023

By Victor Tangermann

To anticipate the massive amounts of hype surrounding Tesla's Battery Day, Elon Musk clarified something "important:" the tech is still two years away.

Elon Musk: Tesla’s Next Gen Battery Tech Still Two Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

During a media briefing, a Ford VP claimed that the company's upcoming F-150 EV pickup will be a "real" work truck" — not a "lifestyle" truck.

Advanced Transport

Ford VP Disses Cybertruck, Calling Electric F-150 a “Real” Work Truck

By Victor Tangermann

According to raw video footage uploaded to YouTube on Thursday, Lucid completed a lap of Laguna Seca in a blistering 1:33 using a tri-motor Air prototype.

Tesla Competitor Lucid Beats Model S Prototype Record on Racetrack

By Victor Tangermann

Canadian cops say they pulled over a Tesla that was traveling at 93 miles per hour — while the driver was completely asleep.

Tesla Driver Pulled Over Going 93 MPH While Completely Asleep

By Jon Christian

According to a short-seller report, Nikola Motors lied about its One electric semi truck, claiming it was capable of propelling itself in 2018. It couldn't.

Tesla Competitor Admits It Rolled Semi Truck Prototype Down a Hill in 2018 Promo Because It Couldn’t Drive

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn't mince words in response to a blog post criticizing electric long-haul trucking penned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Elon Musk Shreds Bill Gates For Insulting Electric Semi Trucks

By Victor Tangermann

According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the space company's latest full-scale Starship prototype dubbed SN8 will ultimately attempt to fly to 60,000 feet.

Elon Musk: Next Starship Launch Will Fly 12 Miles High

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla's Gigafactory in Berlin, currently under construction, is facing yet another big hurdle in winning over the hearts of local citizens and regulators.

Tesla’s Gigafactory Berlin Faces 406 Objections from Locals

By Victor Tangermann

But not everybody was impressed with Neuralink's recent demo. To many experts, the demo seems to have raised far more questions than it was able to answer.

Prosthetics and Devices

Neuroscientist: There Was a Huge Problem With Neuralink’s Demo

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla competitor Lucid Motors claims to have beaten a Tesla Model S in a quarter mile race, covering the distance in a blistering 9.9 seconds.

Lucid Motors Claims to Have Beaten Tesla Model S on Drag Strip

By Victor Tangermann

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is outraged that Neuralink has been testing its experimental brain hardware on pigs.

PETA Is Really Upset With Elon Musk For Testing Neuralink on Pigs

By Jon Christian

During a virtual summit on Monday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk elaborated on his ambitions of building a self-sustaining city on Mars — and the dangers involved.

Elon Musk: “Good Chance You’ll Die” On Mars

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is planning to start assembling a prototype of the massive Super Heavy rocket booster for Starship as soon as "this week" according to Elon Musk.

Elon Musk: SpaceX Is Starting Work on Starship Super Heavy Booster

By Victor Tangermann

On Friday, Elon Musk held a prototype product demo for Neuralink. But experts in the crowd remain unimpressed by his bold, unsubstantiated claims

Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink’s Demo Didn’t Impress Experts

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk just compared his secretive brain-computer interface startup Neuralink to the dystopian science fiction show "Black Mirror."

Elon Musk Compares Neuralink to “a ‘Black Mirror’ Episode”

By Jon Christian

On Friday evening, SpaceX and Tesla CEO used a live event to release a number of rare updates about his secretive other startup, Neuralink.

Prosthetics and Devices

Elon Musk: We’ve Already Implanted Neuralink in Live Pigs

By Jon Christian

After its first successful flight test of a Starship prototype earlier this month, SpaceX is planning to try again on Sunday.

SpaceX Is Planning to Fly Its Starship Prototype This Weekend

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has issued a mea culpa in the case of a drone photographer who was told to stop filming at the company's Giga Texas construction site.

Elon Musk: Tesla Security Was “Overzealous” In Kicking Out Drone Photographer

By Jon Christian

The FBI helped foil a plot by Russian hackers to target Tesla's Nevada Gigafactory with a massive insider ransomware hack.

FBI Reportedly Foils Russian Hack at Tesla Factory

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk just cranked expectations for his brain interface startup even higher, tweeting plans to show off a "working Neuralink device" this Friday.

Elon Musk Says He’ll Show Off Functional Neuralink Device This Week

By Jon Christian

This week, Elon Musk plans to show off progress by Neuralink, his startup that's working on an interface between human brains and computers.

Elon Musk Is Planning to Show Off Neuralink Progress This Week

By Jon Christian

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that his space company's Raptor engine just aced an important pressure test "without exploding."

SpaceX Tests Highest Pressure Rocket Engine In History

By Victor Tangermann

Despite SpaceX just having won a massive US Air Force launch contract, the company's CEO Elon Musk is pissed about ULA scoring 60 percent of the launches.

Elon Musk: SpaceX Competitor “A Complete Waste of Taxpayer Money”

By Victor Tangermann

You Can Now Waste $6,000 on an Elon Musk-Themed iPhone

You Can Now Waste $6,000 on an Elon Musk-Themed iPhone

By Dan Robitzski

CEO of Tesla competitor and truck maker Nikola Mark Russell recently took aim at Elon Musk's passion project, the Cybertruck — and he didn't mince words.

Tesla Competitor Slams Cybertruck For Looking “Like a Doorstep”

By Victor Tangermann

A new video uploaded by SpaceX shows off the company's impressive first full-scale Starship hop in glorious HD. We even got an inside view.

Watch SpaceX’s Epic Starship Test Flight From Inside the Giant Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

Incredible: Watch SpaceX Fly Full-Scale Starship Prototype to 500 Feet

Incredible: Watch SpaceX Fly Full-Scale Starship Prototype to 500 Feet

By Victor Tangermann

According Elon Musk, Tesla is "highly likely" to produce a smaller version of it's long-awaited Cybertruck for the European market.

Elon Musk: “Highly Likely” Europe Will Get a Smaller Tesla Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

Photos have emerged of large tents and heavy tunneling machinery belonging to Elon Musk's Boring Company in the California desert north east of LA.

There’s a Theory That Elon Musk Is Digging a Tunnel Between LA and Vegas

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk defended the name of Tesla's oft-criticized "Autopilot" mode, saying confusion over its capabilities is "idiotic."

Elon Musk Defends Tesla’s Misleading “Autopilot” Mode

By Dan Robitzski

Details are starting to emerge about how hackers accessed the Twitter acounts of Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kanye West and a rash of other public figures.

This Is How Hackers Accessed Elon Musk’s Twitter Account

By Jon Christian

Bill Gates urged Elon Musk to stay in his lane and stop spreading "outrageous" misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.

Bill Gates Slams Elon Musk For Spouting COVID Misinformation

By Dan Robitzski

According to Musk's enthusiasm on Twitter, the exterior of Tesla's long-awaited Cybertruck could be heated and tempered to get a variety of colors.

Advanced Transport

Cybertruck Metal Can Be Etched, Heated Into a Rainbow

By Victor Tangermann

Recent images taken of the spectacular NEOWISE comet by astrophotographer Daniel Lopez were "completely photobombed by Elon Musk's Starlink satellites."

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Ruined This Photo of the NEOWISE Comet

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk is once again warning about the perils of unregulated AI, saying that people who think AI couldn't fool them are fooling themselves.

Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: If You Don’t Think AI Could Outsmart You, You’re an Idiot

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk announced that Tesla is about to try and enter the auto insurance business — and hopefully fare better than its dismal attempt last year.

Elon Musk Says Tesla Is Launching an Insurance Company

By Dan Robitzski

A full-scale SpaceX Starship prototype called SN5 is about to finally make its first-ever attempt at getting off the ground.

SpaceX to Attempt First Full-Scale Starship Test Flight This Week

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk’s New Tunnel Render Makes No Sense

By Victor Tangermann

According to Musk, brain computer interfaces in the future will allow us to ditch the headphones and beam music straight to our brains.

Elon Musk Says Neuralink Will Stream Music Straight Into Your Brain

By Victor Tangermann

Someone appears to have hacked the Twitter accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, and Kanye West.

Someone Apparently Just Hacked Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and Kanye West

By Jon Christian

Tesla's Berlin factory might have a secret killer feature: a possible "indoor/outdoor rave space on the roof," according to CEO Elon Musk.

Elon Musk Teases “Indoor/Outdoor Rave Space” on Berlin Tesla Factory Roof

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk has announced that the mysterious computer-brain interface startup Neuralink he co-founded is about to update us on its progress on August 28.

Elon Musk Teases Major Neuralink Reveal

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is planning the first test flight of its Starship prototype as soon as next week if a Raptor rocket engine test goes according to plan.

SpaceX Is Planning Starship’s First Test Flight for Next Week

By Victor Tangermann

In a video message recorded for the Shanghai World AI Conference (WAIC), Musk stated that Tesla will reach (basic) Level 5 autonomy this year.

Elon Musk Brags That Tesla Is “Very Close” to Full, Level 5 Self Driving

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk's The Boring Company has decided to put on a fun competition, challenging the general public to dig a tunnel faster than a snail.

Elon Musk’s Boring Company Announces Tunnel-Digging Contest

By Victor Tangermann

Rocket Lab's 13th launch ended in disaster when the rocket blew up and destroyed seven satellites. Elon Musk felt bad and provided some moral support.

Elon Musk Tweets Support For Startup That Exploded Rocket Launch

By Victor Tangermann

Electric carmaker Tesla has officially started selling "limited edition" red satin short shorts. "Run like the wind or entertain like Liberace."

Here’s Why Tesla Is Selling Naughty Short-Shorts

By Victor Tangermann

The market valuation of electric automaker Tesla now exceeds that of ExxonMobil, one of the planet's largest fossil fuel megacorporations.

Tesla Is Now Worth More Than ExxonMobil

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk is once again posting misleading claims about the coronavirus pandemic in an attempt to downplay the danger it poses.

Elon Musk Is Still Sharing Coronavirus Misinformation

By Dan Robitzski

Acclaimed musician Kanye West has been hanging out with SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk, according to a photo the "Jesus Walks" singer posted on Twitter.

Kanye West Is Hanging Out With Elon Musk, For Some Reason

By Jon Christian

Earlier this month, Tesla competitor Nikola Motors rose to a valuation of over $20 billion, eclipsing Ford and Chrysler. It's secret weapon: hydrogen.

A Brief History of Elon Musk’s Festering Feud With Rival Automaker Nikola

By Victor Tangermann

A new image uploaded by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shows two Starship prototype tanks being assembled "in the midbay." And they're absolutely gigantic.

Damn, This Photo Shows How Huge SpaceX’s Starship Really Is

By Victor Tangermann

According to a damning investigation, Tesla, knowingly sold Model S cars with batteries that could spontaneously combust.

Tesla Reportedly Sold Batteries It Knew Could Catch Fire

By Dan Robitzski

A new simulation shows what a Tesla Roadster accelerating from 0 to 60 mph in 1.1 seconds could look like — thanks to the addition of SpaceX thrusters.

Simulation Shows Tesla Roadster Accelerating With SpaceX Thrusters

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just put a tank serving as its seventh Starship prototype called SN7 through its spaces at its testing site in Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX Blows Up Another Starship Tank, This Time on Purpose

By Victor Tangermann

Elon Musk: SpaceX Building Floating Spaceports for Moon, Mars Launches

Elon Musk: SpaceX Building Floating Spaceports for Moon, Mars Launches

By Victor Tangermann

With over 500 Starlink broadband-beaming satellites already in orbit, SpaceX is looking to move swiftly ahead with rolling out its internet service.

SpaceX Is Now Taking Requests for Starlink Beta Testers

By Victor Tangermann

On Twitter, Elon Musk elaborated on the design tweaks SpaceX will have to make to its Starship to allow it to land on the Moon.

SpaceX Trying to Figure Out How to Land Starship on the Moon

By Victor Tangermann

According to a leaked email obtained by Reuters, Elon Musk has said that it's time to bring Telsa's commercial semi truck into "volume production."

Elon Musk: Tesla’s Semi Truck is Officially Going Into Production

By Victor Tangermann

A fake livestream on YouTube with 10,000 viewers is playing SpaceX footage, accompanied by a QR code that sends users to a fake Bitcoin giveaway.

A Fake SpaceX Stream That’s Scamming Bitcoins Has 16,000 Viewers

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took a jab at Roscosmos. Fuming, the head of Russia's space agency aired his frustration in a lengthy column for Forbes Russia.

Russia Is Furious, Saying the US is Mocking Its Space Program

By Victor Tangermann

Several employees were instructed to stay at home after testing positive for the coronavirus after Tesla defied lockdown orders in California.

After Tesla Defied Lockdown, Workers Started Catching Coronavirus

By Victor Tangermann