Tag: Tesla electric car

• Wednesday, March 1st 2023 - 08:05 UTC

  Tesla to build carmaking plant in Mexico

  

  Elon Musk's Tesla will install a factory to build electric cars in Mexico, which will be the company's first in Latin America, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) confirmed Tuesday.

• Thursday, January 6th 2022 - 07:27 UTC

  GM no longer King of the Hill; Toyota tops car sales in US market for the first time

  

  General Motors is no longer King of the Hill. Japanese carmaker Toyota led United States automobile sales for the first time in 2021 indicated Automotive News. The shift at the top of the rankings came after a year in which assembly lines were plagued by a scarcity of crucial computer chips, resulting in steep fourth-quarter sales declines for both companies.

• Saturday, February 22nd 2020 - 10:02 UTC

  Bolsonaro wants electric carmaker Telsa to open a factory in Brazil

  

  President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday he would try to convince electric carmaker Tesla to open a factory in Brazil when he heads to the United States next month. Bolsonaro, who will visit Miami and Dallas on March 9 and 10, said on Twitter that “our extensive agenda will include the possibility of bringing Tesla to Brazil.”

• Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 08:34 UTC

  Facebook forced to shut down AI system after they communicated in language unknown to humans

  

  Facebook was forced to shut down one of its artificial intelligence systems after researchers discovered that it had started communicating in a language that they could not understand. The incident evokes images of the rise of Skynet in the iconic Terminator series. Perhaps Tesla CEO Elon Musk is right about AI being the “biggest risk we face.”

• Wednesday, April 5th 2017 - 20:59 UTC

  Tesla electric car maker market value overtakes Ford; 2016 sales reached 76.000

  

  Tesla's market value has overtaken that of Ford after shares in the electric car maker added more than 7%. At the close of trading Tesla had a market value of US$49bn, compared with Ford's value of US$46bn.