Fast Company recently visited Tesla Motors headquarters in Palo Alto for a look at the automaker's progress on its first mass-market vehicle, the Model S electric sedan. Here's what we learned.READ»
A startup touts its entirely homemade, lightning-fast, lithium-ion-powered luxury two-seater. Watch out, Elon Musk, it's gunning for your Tesla Roadster. Or is it?READ»
Last Sunday, an article I was reading covered Elon Musk, who made his riches helping to build PayPal and is now CEO of Space X and Tesla Motors. A few years ago, while doing research for my third book, I interviewed Musk. I was struck by the same thing the article covered: does Musk twist reality? READ»
Tesla Motors may gain a bit more legitimacy now that it has signed an agreement with Toyota to develop an electric version of the RAV4. The startup has always had hype to spare, but up until now Tesla has only been able to show off ...READ»
For all its ambitions to revolutionize the electric car industry, Tesla Motors has only posted a profit once, back in July 2009. It has released just one car (the Roadster), and sells 10 vehicles per week. And yet Tesla's first day ...READ»
Tesla Motors' well-publicized struggle with growing pains is something of a soap opera. There's divorce, bankruptcy, plane crashes, sports cars, and lots of uncertainty--and the longer we watch, the more complicated things seem to ...READ»
Tesla Motors, apparently unaffected by rumors of CEO Elon Musk's money woes, has announced it's set terms for its IPO at $185 million--through a public share deal and private purchase by Toyota. Tesla's predicted to make losses until ...READ»
Last week I wrote about reverse innovation. We often witness this in other countries where the local conditions--whether due to political uncertainty, low local income levels, or unfavorable geography-- seem like a hindrance to ...READ»
Panasonic scored the jackpot this week with Tesla Motors' announcement that the electronics giant will be the automaker's sole supplier of electric vehicle battery packs. As part of the partnership, Tesla and Panasonic will also ...READ»
Tesla Motors--they made that cute all-electric Roadster no one actually owns--wants you to know the money they received from the government is NOT the same money that bailed out Detroit, but rather a loan from the DOE to accelerate ...READ»
After months of squabbling, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and founder Martin Eberhard have finally made up.Tesla is known as much for its high-profile electric cars as for its dramatic internal bickering. Recently, departed company ...READ»
Fisker Automotive is best known for pissing off Tesla Motors and introducing the Karma, an $80,000 luxury plug-in hybrid set to debut later this year. Turns out the startup company has another trick up its sleeve: a $39,000 ...READ»
Finally, some good news for beleaguered electric vehicle startup Tesla Motors. Only a day after CEO Elon Musk wrote a long blog post defending himself and his company against rumors and accusations, Tesla has been awarded approval ...READ»
While designs are often the result of great inspiration, I'm even more interested in designs that themselves inspire. I'm a great believer in design's power to effect positive change in the world. Understandably, the first job ...READ»
Yesterday, Tesla Motors fulfilled its stereotype as a Silicon Valley startup by botching the unveiling of its second major product launch, the four-door Model S sedan. The feverish response to the news--from Digg co-founder Kevin ...READ»
Tesla, the electric vehicle (EV) maker best known for its outlandishly-priced roadster EV, unveiled its newest, the Model S Sedan, this afternoon at the offices of CEO Elon Musk's other startup, SpaceX.READ»
When we last checked in with innovation expert Dev Patnaik, CEO of growth-strategy firm Jump Associates, he was chiding us for heralding company innovations--as opposed to innovative companies--on last year’s Fast Company 50. ...READ»
