Свежие новости и отзывы о Tesla

Самые популярные и обсуждаемые тексты уходящей недели на vc.ru — в традиционном воскресном дайджесте.... →

Бывший журналист, а ныне инвестор Стюарт Олсоп в октябре 2015 года рассказал о том, как прошла презентация нового автомобиля Tesla Model X. В открытом письме к генеральному директору компании Элону Маску Олсоп объяснил, что большинство посетителей презентации ушли с мероприятия недовольными, а компания и не подумала перед ними извиниться.1 февраля 2016 года инвестор опубликовал ещё одну заметку — в ней он рассказал, как отреагировал на письмо сам генеральный директор Tesla Элон Маск. По словам Олсопа, предп... →

Earlier today, longtime Bay Area venture capitalist Stewart Alsop posted something fairly surprising to Medium. In a letter to Tesla CEO Elon Musk titled “Banned by Tesla,” Alsop wrote of his surprise that Tesla would cancel the Model X he’d ordered and that Alsop has been eagerly awaiting. (Alsop says in the post it was to be red, with black leather seats and… Read More... →

Elon Musk has been banging on about a so-called “fifth mode of transport” for some time. The futuristic high-speed Hyperloop train doesn’t yet exist, but it would get you from San Francisco to Los Angeles in 30 minutes if it did. The conceptual Hyperloop was first proposed by SpaceX and Tesla Motors co-founder Musk in […]... →

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk thinks shares of his motor company are headed upward. That’s the apparent message reporters received this afternoon from Tesla’s PR machine, which sent out an alert that Musk exercised 532,000 options of the company, or about $100 million worth of options, earlier today. According to an SEC filing, the options were exercised at $6.63 a piece, which would have… Read More... →

Про венчуры. Смотрю народ в ленте переживает, про более низкие раунды, изменение требований к стартапам и все такое. Смешно. Ничего не поменялось. Жизнь циклична. В период роста фондового рынка все хотят только роста и кажется, что так будет вечно. В период высокой волатильности, падения рынка акций, рисков ухудшения экономической ситуации, хочется не роста, а выживаемости проектов, а в перспективе – дивидендов. Поэтому, временно, подчеркиваю, временно, приоритеты большинства инвесторов меняются. Оценки ста... →

Основатель и генеральный директор американской хостинговой компании Atlantic Марти Пураник опубликовал в блоге организации заметку, в которой рассказал об своём неудачном опыте приобретения электрокара Tesla. В материале Пураник объяснил, что ему не доставили заказанный автомобиль, потому что основатель Tesla Элон Маск тестировал на этой машине функции автопилота.На ситуацию обратило внимание издание Business Insider.... →

Looks like Luxe, the on-demand valet parking app, is adding a new partner to expand the services it offers alongside parking, potentially picking up more high-worth customers in the process. The company appears to be working with Tesla to offer car charging and other services for Tesla vehicles when drivers book parking through the app. From what we understand, this is just stage. Later… Read More... →

Five years after the Nissan Leaf and Chevy Volt first went on sale, plug-in vehicles represent slightly less than 1 percent of U.S. new-car deliveries. With about 200,000 sold, the Leaf is the world’s most popular electric car. But which carmaker sold the most cars with plugs last year, worldwide? The answer may surprise you. […]... →

Издание Business Insider изучило биографию и интервью генерального директора Tesla и SpaceX Элона Маска и собрало список из семи автомобилей, которыми владел известный предприниматель. Редакция vc.ru публикует фотогалерею по мотивам материала.... →

Leslie Miley, the engineering manager who left Twitter over the way senior executives at the company were talking about diversity, is now the director of engineering at a recruiting software startup called Entelo. Entelo, which has over 350 customers, including tech companies like Box, Facebook, Uber, Tesla, Zenefits, Pinterest and Yelp, is a software platform that helps businesses recruit… Read More... →

GUEST: Google and Tesla may be pushing full-speed ahead in their self-driving car development and testing, but auto manufacturers aren’t sitting idly by. Judging from the outputs of this week’s North American Auto Show in Detroit, as well as CES in Las Vegas last week, it’s clear that incumbent car companies are rising to the challenges […]... →

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk claims that Apple is indeed working on an electric car, saying in an interview: “It’s pretty hard to hide something if you hire over a thousand engineers to do it.” However, as his company starts to face more competition, he’s not worried and believes that it will ultimately help the industry. […]... →

Yesterday, Tesla Motors released software update 7.1 for the Model S and Model X, allowing the electric cars to park themselves while you stand by and watch in awe. Today, CEO Elon Musk made a bold prediction: In 2018, this feature will work from anywhere that cars can drive. Called Summon, the functionality is part […]... →

Well, authorities in Hong Kong aren’t going to like this one bit. Back in November, they told Tesla to remotely disable its semiautonomous driving technology until they can confirm that the features, released last fall, are safe. They were concerned (sort of understandably) by widely reported hijinks by drivers who were using Tesla’s Autopilot feature to shave and sit in the… Read More... →

Electric vehicles may be the future of transportation, but they can travel only as far as there are places to charge them. Often called the “Tesla of scooters,” Taiwanese startup Gogoro is known for making sleek, battery-operated scooters. Gogoro has launched in Taipei City and Amsterdam so far and in both cities it has received government backing to build charging stations. The… Read More... →

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Амбициозные планы Илона Маска на 2020-й... →

Things weren’t looking good for Tesla in China in early 2015. The luxury automaker faced tax breaks that favor domestic manufacturers, complex local license-plate laws and an army of sophisticated domestic copycats. Such hurdles are to be expected when any U.S. tech startup expands into China, but they seemed to hit Elon Musk’s Silicon Valley darling particularly hard. Read More... →