Porsche AG has unveiled a 1 billion euro (US$1.09 billion) project to produce its first all-electric vehicle in a challenge Tesla Motors Inc. The battery-powered sports car will accelerate faster than ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-07
Tesla Motors chief executive Elon Musk will invest US$20 million in the company's US$500 million stock offering in a show of confidence at a time when the electric carmaker is burning through cash, Re ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-14
Personally, I find Silicon Valley's new darling Elon Musk, the founder of Tesla Motors Inc., a real showoff, but he is not a snake oil salesman. He is Henry Ford (cars), Wernher von Braun (rockets) an ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-11
An unmanned SpaceX rocket blasted off from Florida on Tuesday to deliver a payload to the the International Space Station, then turned around and landed on a platform in the ocean. The launch was year ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-15
Tesla Motors Inc. plans to reduce its staff in China amid slow sales in the country. Gary Tao, a spokesman for the US electric car company, declined to confirm a local media report that 180 employees ...More
EJ Insight2015-03-09
Tesla Motors Inc. founder and chief executive Elon Musk is threatening to fire overseas executives after weak Chinese sales of the company's luxury electric cars. Tesla sold about 120 cars in China la ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-11
Japan's Panasonic Corp. has stopped making televisions in China because of severe price competition and slowing market growth. The decision to shut production in the mainland is part of efforts to sho ...More
EJ Insight2015-02-02
Online video operator LeTV unveiled this week its latest product line-up and technology initiatives. Among the more significant announcements was LeUIAuto interface, a custom operating system for smar ...More
EJ Insight2015-01-23
Google has stunned the world with its driverless car, but it is not the only one that sees the potential of the technology. China’s search titan Baidu is working on a self-driving bike and German auto ...More
EJ Insight2014-07-11
For four long years, Apple and Samsung have waged patent war against each other in courts around the world. Billions of dollars are at stake and countless hours have been spent defending their intelle ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-24
Has Elon Musk just changed the world? With apologies to Steve Jobs and Earl Woods, we see the Tesla founder transforming the auto industry in a way no one has since Henry Ford rolled the Model T off h ...More
EJ Insight2014-06-16
Maybe it’s all because the US e-car maker is too popular in China. Tesla chief Elon Musk was on the ground in China overseeing deliveries of the company's sleek Models S sedans and unveiling superchar ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-25
Tesla Motors Inc. founder and CEO Elon Musk has apologized in Beijing to a dozen mainland buyers of the company's premium electric cars over shipping waits, promising to deliver the vehicles within th ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-23
US-based carmaker Tesla Motors Inc. aims to ramp up its mainland expansion plans and sales of its electric cars by sending chief executive Elon Musk to China for face-to-face talks this month with the ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-15
Chinese buyers are expected to get their hands on the first batch of Tesla Motors' Model S electric vehicles on April 22, China Securities Journal reported Wednesday. Tesla has agreed with State Grid ...More
EJ Insight2014-04-02
Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. Ltd., the parent company of FIH Mobile Ltd. (02038.HK), will supply car panels to US electric car maker Tesla Motors Inc., Economic Daily News reported Thursday ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-13
At first glance it was just an exotic, sleek sedan, but many Chinese who stopped by at a recent Tesla road show in Zhongguancun {中關村} -- known as Beijing's silicon valley -- couldn't help gasp in amaz ...More
EJ Insight2014-02-07
Electric car manufacturer Tesla will price its flagship Model S at 734,000 yuan (US$121,259) in China, Shanghai Securities News reported Friday. The car has an US$81,070 base price and nearly half tha ...More
EJ Insight2014-01-24
No set price and time of delivery plus an advance deposit of at least 250,000 yuan (US$41,035). Most vendors would be hard-pressed to sell anything on such demanding terms. But not Tesla Motors (TSLA. ...More
EJ Insight2013-11-29