Tesla

Tesla is a leading manufacturer of electric vehicles, energy storage solutions, and solar products. Founded in 2003, the company's mission is to accelerate the world's transition to sustainable energy. Elon Musk is Tesla's CEO. The company has several divisions, including Automotive, Energy Generation and Storage, and Solar. Tesla's competitors include traditional automakers like Ford and General Motors, as well as other electric vehicle companies like Rivian and Lucid Motors.

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A Base Power home battery. Photo: Courtesy Base.
The Electric

The Electric: Zach Dell Joins a Group of Tech Scions Seeking to Shake Up Big Industries

By Steve LeVine · Nov 24, 2025 4:30am PST
Zach Dell’s father, Michael Dell, is one of his era’s most disruptive entrepreneurs—a visionary who shook up the personal computer business four decades ago. But that’s not who Zach speaks of emulating with Base Power, a Texas startup he co-founded to lease home backup batteries to consumers. Zach Dell’s father, Michael Dell, is one of his era’s most disruptive entrepreneurs—a visionary...
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The Big Read

Zach Dell Thinks He Can Solve America’s Energy Crisis

By Steve LeVine · Nov 22, 2025 4:59am PST · 1 comment
To get inside why Zach Dell believes he will shake up the half-trillion-dollar U.S. power industry and then go global, it helps to take account of who’s inspiring the moves. That would be his father, Michael Dell, who sold computer parts out of his college dorm at 19, took Dell Computer public four years later and by age 26 had entirely... To get inside why Zach Dell believes he will shake up the half-trillion-dollar U.S. power...
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Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk’s Lawsuit Could Cost OpenAI More Than $1 Billion

By Rocket Drew · Nov 19, 2025 9:30am PST · 1 comment
When OpenAI announced that it had completed its corporate restructuring last month, it became less likely that Elon Musk’s federal lawsuit against the company would foil OpenAI’s plans. Musk hasn’t given up, but even if he wins the case, he is unlikely to inflict any meaningful damage on OpenAI. There’s a decent chance that the case will go to... When OpenAI announced that it had completed its corporate restructuring last month, it became...
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Exclusive

How Musk Could Tie Together Tesla and xAI

By Theo Wayt · Nov 17, 2025 6:00am PST
At Tesla’s annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a proposal that the electric vehicle maker invest in one of CEO Elon Musk’s other companies, xAI. But Musk’s revelation at the meeting that Tesla is considering building its own chip fabrication plant signaled another way his two companies could work... At Tesla’s annual meeting earlier this month, shareholders showed little enthusiasm for a...
He Xiaopeng, cofounder and chairman Xpeng, speaks during AI Day. Photo by Getty Images
Applied AI

The Tesla of China Follows Musk in AI Hardware—with More Pragmatism

By Juro Osawa · Nov 11, 2025 10:26am PST · 1 comment
A billionaire CEO of an electric car maker took the stage last week with a humanoid robot prototype and shared ambitious plans to also develop robotaxis and flying cars. It wasn’t Elon Musk, though. A billionaire CEO of an electric car maker took the stage last week with a humanoid robot...
Heron CEO Drew Baglino, left, with Elon Musk. Photo: Courtesy Tesla
The Electric

The Electric: Tesla Veteran Seeks to Tackle the Problem of Powering Data Centers

By Steve LeVine · Nov 6, 2025 4:30am PST
Drew Baglino spent 18 years as a key engineer at Tesla, most recently as Elon Musk’s right-hand man. Now chief executive of his own company, Baglino is trying to upend the business of powering data centers, much the way Tesla brought new technology to the auto industry. Drew Baglino spent 18 years as a key engineer at Tesla, most recently as Elon Musk’s right-hand...