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Largest Auto-Industry Employer In California: Electric-Car Maker Tesla Motors

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years. It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota.

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Tesla Motors To Be Profitable Selling Electric Cars By April, It Says

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors announced its fourth-quarter and full-year results late yesterday, and offered some good news to the company's shareholders. That would be the projection that Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will operate at a profit in the current quarter, which ends March 31. "We

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Is Tesla Motors A Carmaker.Or Really A Grid-Storage Company?

Green Car Reports

Many among the Detroit auto media were skeptical of Tesla Motors for years, correctly noting just how hard it is to start a car company and build a genuinely appealing product--electric car or not.

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Desperate coal company CEO slammed Tesla electric cars as 'fraud'

Green Car Reports

energy policy took a dramatic turn last month when Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk squared off against the CEO top privately-owned U.S. In an interview for the CNBC show "Squawk Box," Robert Murray called Tesla and its electric cars a "fraud." The debate over U.S. coal producer Murray Energy.

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The Day My Tesla Motor Fell Down …

CleanTechnica EVs

Before you start thinking I’m writing this piece to make Tesla short sellers happy, let me give you some background to the story. We are a group of three Tesla lovers — in fact, EV aficionados in general. In 2017, we bought a second-hand Tesla Model […]. I mean, literally fell down, damaging the steering gear.

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The History Of Tesla Motors And Its Electric Cars, In Only 2 Minutes Of Video

Green Car Reports

Electric-car startup Tesla Motors attracts huge interest, lots of controversy, and truly passionate customers and followers. DON'T MISS: Tesla Not. For a company that's been around only a little more than 10 years, it's got a lot of history.

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Will 100,000 Sign Petition For Tesla Motors Sales By Friday?

Green Car Reports

On June 5, a Tesla Motors fan mounted what seemed like another quixotic effort to support Tesla in selling its electric cars directly to buyers. The petition at WhiteHouse.gov that he or she launched required 100,000 people to sign it within a month, by Friday, July 5.