Electric cars & transport

Elon Musk has called working from home morally wrong and referred to workers in Silicon Valley’s technology industry as the “laptop classes living in La-La land”. The chief executive of Tesla, the

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With Tesla’s first European plant up and running on the outskirts of Berlin, Elon Musk has now turned his attention to France. The billionaire flew to Paris this week to be the star guest at President

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A tough year ahead for the global economy risks disrupting Tesla, Elon Musk warned last night, urging shareholders to ignore the stock market. “This is going to be a challenging 12 months,” the Tesla

Elon Musk joked to President Macron that he had slept in his car after the dishevelled technology billionaire met the French leader following an overnight flight from Mexico, where he was seen dancing

The idea for Bolivia’s answer to Tesla came to José Carlos Marquez when he was building a wheelbarrow for miners. “This is practically a car, isn’t it?” he recalled telling his engineers. If he could

TRANSPORT

The cost of insuring electric cars has jumped by 20 per cent over the past year as Teslas and other models are scrapped when their battery packs have the slightest damage. Average annual premiums have

Tesla defended its pricing strategy after posting a sharp decline in margins in the wake of half a dozen price cuts in the United States this year. Last night the electric carmaker, led by Elon Musk

the week ahead

Inflation is expected to have fallen back into single digits in March after a surprise jump to 10.4 per cent the month before. The consensus among City economists is that the headline consumer prices

Tesla is close to signing a deal to rent a new warehouse in Milton Keynes to boost sales of its electric cars in Britain. The electric-vehicle maker, headed by Elon Musk and founded in Silicon Valley’s

A senior executive at Vertical Aerospace has likened the flying taxi start-up’s stuttering stock market debut to Tesla’s early days as a public company. Michael Cervenka, the Bristol-based group’s