Lawyers representing two former Tesla employees who were terminated in mid-June have filed an emergency motion asking a judge to prohibit the EV automaker from forcing workers to sign releases in exchange for less severance than federal law provides. The plaintiffs, who allege that the company did...
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Tesla delivered 254,695 electric vehicles globally in the second quarter, a nearly 18% drop from the previous period as supply chain constraints, China’s extended COVID-19 lockdown and challenges around opening factories in Berlin and Austin took their toll on the company. This is the first time...
Elon Musk hasn’t tweeted in 10 days, but his Twitter account is once again news because time is a flat circle. This is why we must now scrunch our faces, cock our heads to one side, and strain to recall a weed joke shared by the chief executive on August 7, 2018. Otherwise, we’ll never...
A group of Black Tesla employees have filed suit against the company, claiming that they were subjected to racial discrimination at its factories in California. Tesla is facing at least 10 suits alleging sexual or racial harassment, including one recently filed by a Tesla shareholder accusing the...
June brought another wave of layoffs in tech, with cuts impacting roughly the same number of employees as May: 16,000 employees, according to tracker layoffs.fyi. Another layoff aggregator from TrueUp paints a more dire picture, counting 26,000 impacted employees this month, up from about 20,000...
Big tech is going through a hard time. Meta, the parent of Facebook and Instagram, has become the canary in the coal mine after its stock plummeted in February, months before other tech giants. Now, in an ominous turn, the company is slashing its hiring of engineers by 30%, from about 10,000 to...
Chinese automakers have moved quickly in the first five months of 2022, securing a lion’s share of the country’s electric vehicle market. The country’s EV makers are likely to keep that momentum going for the rest of the year, according to management consultant firm AlixPartners. Domestic...
Startup EV manufacturer Drako Motors previewed today the follow-up to its $1.25 million Drako GTE: the 2,000-horsepower Drako Dragon Super-SUV. The San Jose, California-based automaker said the Dragon zips from 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds using the company’s in-house DriveOS Quad Motor Powertrain,...
Daily Crunch: Indian edtech giant Byju’s delays $1B acquisition payment, lays off hundreds of workers
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Tesla’s Autopilot driver assistance technology may have just hit a major speed bump.Read...
Tesla has gutted the data annotation team working on Autopilot, laying off nearly 200 employees and shutting down the San Mateo, California office where they worked. The layoffs, first reported by Bloomberg, have been confirmed by sources who talked to TechCrunch on condition of anonymity. The cuts...
Battery-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids have more problems than the average car, according to the annual J.D. Power U.S. Initial Quality Study (IQS) released Wednesday. The 2022 survey found that EV owners cited 39% more problems with their new vehicles than did owners of new...
Elon Musk is unabashed about his obsession with manufacturing. Over the years, Tesla has gradually gained recognition in the manufacturing world through improving its production quality. Now two Tesla veterans want to share their smart factory know-how to other automakers through a nascent...
Owen Diaz, a former elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont factory who accused the company of racial discrimination, will once again face off against the automaker in court. After Diaz and his lawyers rejected a $15 million payout last week, which had been slashed from a jury-awarded $137 million,...
The Cadillac Celestiq, the brand’s halo EV set to debut during Monterey Car Week in August, will reportedly start around $300,000, pushing it well above the top variants from other luxury EVs, including the Lucid Air Dream Edition, Porsche Taycan Turbo S and Tesla Model X Plaid. While Cadillac...
The Station: Cruise turns on the meter, Bird fails to take flight, layoffs come for micromobility
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An older, cheaper and safer battery technology already dominating China’s electric vehicle industry is now poised to reshape battery manufacturing worldwide and boost EV sales in the United States — if the global lithium supply remains stable. A slew of patents for lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP)...
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Rimac Group made headlines in June after it raised €500 million ($537 million) in a Series D round led by Goldman Sachs and SoftBank Vision Fund 2. The deal valued the Croatian startup at $2.2 billion, prompting the question: How has this company succeeded where so many other EV makers have...
It takes massive amounts of data to train AI models. But sometimes, that data simply isn’t available from real-world sources, so data scientists use synthetic data to make up for that. In machine vision applications, that means creating different environments and objects to train robots or...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has shown he does not take criticism very well. So when employees of his rocket company called their boss’ behavior a “distraction and embarrassment”… well you can see where this is going. Read...
As Elon Musk addressed Twitter employees for the first time in an all-hands Q&A meeting, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO provided some more details about his plans for the social platform. When Musk first announced his bid to buy Twitter for $44 billion, he proposed the idea of “authenticating all...
Daily Crunch: SpaceX employees blast Musk’s tweets as a ‘source of distraction and embarrassment’
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In a company-wide Twitter call today, presumptive buyer Elon Musk answered questions from “tweeps” for the first time. Will the Tesla and SpaceX CEO’s $44 billion offer to buy Twitter actually go through? Your guess is as good as mine — but the market downturn means that his offer is a bit...
Elon Musk’s Boring Company—which has been living up to its name—has received approval to expand its Las Vegas tunnels. The expansion will bring the company’s Las Vegas loop all the way to city limits. Read...
Twitter Employees Aren’t Going to Disney, But They Will Get a Visit From a Clown Called ‘Musk’
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Twitter employees singing “when you wish upon a star” seem to have accidentally performed an eldritch rite, and instead of summoning a magical cricket to whisk them away to a land of fun and wonder, employees have summoned the world’s richest billionaire to their door. Read...
Tesla vehicles just got a bit more expensive to get into, with price increases ranging from $2,500 for the Model 3 Long Range, to $6,000 for the Dual Motor AWD Model X, as first reported by Electrek. Some of the already more expensive trim levels remained the same price as before, but ever vehicle...
Tesla has upped its prices again, with some models increasing in price by up to $6,000. The automaker has increased prices of its luxury electric vehicles multiple times this year, including a major price hike twice in the same week in March and a smaller increase on certain Model 3s in...