March 13, 2025
NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A man burned three Tesla chargers in a South Carolina parking lot and also apparently inadvertently set his clothes on fire, police said. The man spray-painted “long live the Ukraine” and a crude reference to …
March 5, 2025
Drug use and excessive speed were to blame for last year’s fiery crash of a Tesla Cybertruck that killed three college students near San Francisco, the California Highway Patrol said in a preliminary report. Four people were in the Cybertruck …
February 21, 2025
Tesla said on Friday it was recalling nearly 380,000 vehicles in the United States due to a power steering assist failure that could increase steering effort, particularly at low speeds, potentially raising the risk of a crash. The recall follows …
February 20, 2025
Federal regulators have cited Tesla TSLA.O for violating workplace safety rules in connection with the electrocution of a worker last summer at its Austin, Texas, auto-manufacturing plant. The U.S. Department of Labor confirmed the findings in a statement to Reuters. …
January 7, 2025
Twenty miles outside Corpus Christi, Texas — an area so dry the local water company distributes shower timers at high school football games — the world’s richest man is nearly done building a lithium refinery that could require as much …
January 7, 2025
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said on Tuesday it has opened a probe into 2.6 million Tesla vehicles in the United States over reports of crashes involving a feature that allows users to move their cars remotely. The new …
January 3, 2025
Investigators say they haven’t found evidence linking separate deadly attacks in New Orleans and Las Vegas, as the FBI continues to probe two incidents that rattled Americans as they rang in 2025. The tragedies, which occurred just hours apart early …
December 20, 2024
Tesla said on Friday it was recalling 694,304 vehicles in the United States over an issue with the tire pressure monitoring system (TPMS). The TPMS warning light may not remain illuminated between drive cycles, failing to warn the driver of …
December 18, 2024
The Trump transition team wants the incoming administration to drop a car-crash reporting requirement opposed by Elon Musk’s Tesla, according to a document seen by Reuters, a move that could cripple the government’s ability to investigate and regulate the safety …
November 19, 2024
Members of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team have told advisers they plan to make a federal framework for self-driving vehicles one of the Transportation Department’s priorities, according to people familiar with the matter. If new rules enable wider deployment of …