This latest timeline stretches out an already lengthy series of delays. After the original reveal in 2017, the new Roadster was supposed to arrive in 2020. Preorders opened (and are still open) and customers paid deposits for the electric sports car. That deadline slipped repeatedly, to 2021, then 2022, and more or less every subsequent year.

Plus, Panasonic has started producing batteries in Kansas en masse and the Nexperia chip shortage is about to hit Japanese automakers hard.

The vote comes after senior Tesla’s board members publicly warned that without the deal, Musk might shift his focus elsewhere. This is a man, after all, with plenty of other gigs on the go, including SpaceX, Neuralink, and xAI, an OpenAI rival some Tesla shareholders want the automaker to invest in.

Where, then, does that leave the 2025 Tesla Model Y Premium RWD, formerly known as the RWD Long Range? No longer the cheapest option in the automaker’s SUV lineup (that honor go

Charging speeds are identical at up to 225 kW, and Tesla claims up to 170 miles of range can be added in 15 minutes. It weighs 3,759 pounds and has 24 cubic feet of cargo space. This trim offers the same three paint choices as the more expensive options.

Benz, GM, VW, Audi, and Porsche all use the same company to provide EV charger adapters for Tesla plugs. Here's how that came about.

That could help him eventually top what is now considered America’s all-time richest man, John D. Rockefeller. The oil titan is estimated by Guinness World Records to have been worth $630 billion, in current dollars, at his peak wealth more than 110 years ago. Musk is worth $493 billion, as estimated by Forbes magazine.

The U.S. auto safety regulator investigating whether certain Tesla Inc. door handles are defective received more complaints within days of initiating its probe from consumers who were unable to enter or exit their vehicles after battery failures.

Tesla's sales volume in Germany more than halved in October from the same month last year, the German road traffic agency KBA said on Wednesday, although sales of battery electric vehicles rose overall.