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Jury Awards $3.2M to Ex-Tesla Worker in California for Racial Abuse Suit
Apr 6 2023 // A federal jury has awarded nearly $3.2 million in damages to a Black former worker at a Tesla factory in California that has been at the epicenter of racial discrimination allegations hanging over the automaker run by...
Jury Orders Tesla to Pay $3.2M to Ex-Worker in Race Bias Case
Apr 4 2023 // A federal jury in San Francisco on Monday ordered Tesla Inc. to pay about $3.2 million to a Black former employee after the electric-vehicle maker was found to have failed to prevent severe racial harassment at its...
Ex-Tesla Worker Testifies That Race Bias Made Him ‘Feel Less Than a Man’
Mar 30 2023 // A Black former elevator operator at Tesla Inc’s TSLA.O flagship California assembly plant became emotional testifying at a trial on Wednesday about the psychological toll exacted on him by a torrent of racial slurs,...
NHTSA Opens Investigation Into Tesla Seat Belts Coming Loose
Mar 29 2023 // U.S. highway safety regulators have opened yet another investigation into problems with Teslas, this time tied to complaints that the seat belts may not hold people in a crash. The investigation by the National Highway...
Tesla Faces New Race Bias Trial From Employee Who Had $137M Verdict Cut
Mar 27 2023 // A trial kicks off in San Francisco federal court on Monday to determine how much money Tesla Inc. must pay to a Black elevator operator who a jury determined was subjected to severe racial harassment while working at the...
NC Authorities Trying to See if Tesla was in Autopilot When Teen Hit at School Bus
Mar 20 2023 // A North Carolina teenager who was struck by a car this week while departing a school bus in Halifax County is now in good condition, a hospital spokesperson said Friday. Tillman Mitchell, a 17-year-old student at the...
Tesla Not Entitled to More Info About Race Bias Probe
Mar 17 2023 // A California civil rights agency suing Tesla Inc. over alleged widespread race bias at its flagship assembly plant on Tuesday asked a judge to narrow the scope of his tentative ruling requiring the agency to provide more...
NHTSA Opens Tesla Probe Into Reports Steering Wheels Fell Off
Mar 8 2023 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Wednesday it is opening a preliminary investigation into 120,000 2023 Tesla Model Y vehicles after two reports of steering wheels falling off while...
Tesla Recalls 3,470 Model Y Vehicles Over Loose Bolts
Mar 6 2023 // Tesla Inc TSLA.O said it is recalling 3,470 2022 through 2023 Model Y vehicles in the United States because bolts securing the second-row seatback frames may not have been securely tightened, according to a filing made...
Nevada Board Voting on $330M in Additional Tesla Tax Breaks
Mar 1 2023 // Tesla may receive over $300 million in tax abatements over the next two decades for a massive new expansion of its northern Nevada facility, the product of a 2014 deal for when the company first came to the area on the...
Tesla, Musk Sued by Shareholders Over Self-Driving Safety Claims
Feb 28 2023 // Tesla Inc. and its Chief Executive Elon Musk were sued on Monday by shareholders who accused them of overstating the effectiveness and safety of their electric vehicles’ Autopilot and Full Self-Driving...
Tesla Fatal Crash With Fire Truck Draws Regulator Inquiry
Feb 21 2023 // The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration asked Tesla Inc. for more information about one of its vehicles colliding with a fire truck in a fatal crash in the San Francisco Bay area. The agency reached out to...
Tesla Recalls 362,000 Vehicles Over Full Self-Driving Software
Feb 17 2023 // Tesla Inc. said it would recall 362,000 U.S. vehicles to update its Full Self-Driving (FSD) Beta software after U.S. regulators said on Thursday the driver assistance system did not adequately adhere to traffic safety laws...
Driver in Suspicious Texas Tesla Crash Apparently Moved to Rear Seat
Feb 14 2023 // Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board apparently have solved the mystery of why no one was found behind the steering wheel of a Tesla that crashed in a Texas two years ago, killing two men. The agency...
Tesla’s Elon Musk Found Not Liable in Trial Over 2018 ‘Funding Secured’ Tweets
Feb 6 2023 // A U.S. jury on Friday found Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk and his company were not liable for misleading investors when Musk tweeted in 2018 that he had “funding secured” to take the electric car company...
U.S. Justice Department Seeks Tesla Driver-Assist Documents
Feb 2 2023 // Tesla Inc. disclosed on Tuesday the U.S. Justice Department has sought documents related to its Full Self-Driving (FSD) and Autopilot driver-assistance systems as regulatory scrutiny intensifies. The automaker said in a...
Tesla Competing With ‘GEICOs of the World’ to Lower Insurance Prices
Jan 31 2023 // While executives of Tesla said the car maker’s insurance business isn’t yet big enough to warrant separate financial disclosure of its results, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk reiterated a benefit for Tesla...
Musk Faces SEC Probe for Role in Tesla Self-Driving Claims
Jan 30 2023 // US regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla Inc.’s self-driving car claims, the latest effort by watchdogs to scrutinize the actions of the world’s second-richest person. The review...
Tesla, Insurers Address Expensive Repairs in Sharply Different Ways
Jan 27 2023 // Tesla Inc.’s electric vehicles are expensive to repair – so much so that the automaker and insurers are addressing the issue in sharply different ways. Chief Executive Elon Musk says Tesla is making design and...
Tesla Confirms Nevada Expansion to Make More Electric Trucks
Jan 27 2023 // Tesla confirmed it intends to invest $3.6 billion to expand its manufacturing capabilities in Nevada for “high-volume” production of electric semi-trucks and make enough cell batteries for 2 million light-duty...
