Elon Musk articles

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  Tesla repays $465 million government green energy loan ahead of schedule

  By Adi Robertson on May 22, 2013 06:00 pm + 17 comments

  Tesla Motors has repaid a $465 million loan to the Department of Energy nine years ahead of Continue reading…

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  Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk leaves Mark Zuckerberg's immigration reform group

  By Nathan Ingraham on May 11, 2013 02:34 pm + 77 comments

  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg officially launched FWD.us, his immigration reform group made up of Continue reading…

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  Tesla turns first profit in its 10-year history

  By Nathan Olivarez-Giles on May 8, 2013 08:24 pm + 59 comments

  Tesla Motors, for the first time in its 10-year history, has turned a quarterly profit. Sales at Continue reading…

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  Elon Musk in talks with Google to bring driverless tech to Tesla cars (update)

  By Matt Brian on May 7, 2013 11:07 am + 62 comments

  Tesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed he has been in talks with Google to bring driverless technology to Continue reading…

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  Tesla's Elon Musk apologizes over Model S financing calculator: 'we didn’t get it quite right'

  By Dante D'Orazio on May 3, 2013 04:30 pm + 50 comments

  Tesla used some very shaky math last month to come up with what it called a $500-per-month sales Continue reading…

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  Will big utilities kill the distributed grid?

  By Russell Brandom on May 3, 2013 12:05 pm + 42 comments

  Entrepreneurs often dream of a power grid fueled by small-scale power sources like rooftop solar Continue reading…

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  Tesla addresses 'bricked battery' concerns with nigh-unconditional warranty

  By Sean Hollister on April 26, 2013 02:04 pm + 38 comments

  Range anxiety isn't the only worry of some prospective Tesla Model S buyers. There's also a slim Continue reading…

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  SpaceX's prototype rocket Grasshopper hovers at 820 feet in highest flight yet

  By Carl Franzen on April 23, 2013 12:45 pm + 62 comments

  Last night SpaceX released a video of the latest successful test flight of its Grasshopper prototype Continue reading…

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  New Tesla sales plan offers the Model S for $500 a month, but only after some extremely creative math (update)

  By Adi Robertson on April 2, 2013 06:01 pm + 125 comments

  Tesla has seen strong sales of its Model S electric car, but Elon Musk is now hoping to bring in Continue reading…

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  Elon Musk and Rainn Wilson discuss colonizing Mars, global warming, and the fear of failure

  By Aaron Souppouris on March 19, 2013 07:26 am + 11 comments

  PayPal, Tesla, and SpaceX founder Elon Musk recently appeared on Metaphysical Milkshake, the Continue reading…