Kreisel Electric says it's fielding 20 inquiries a day from automotive icons including BMW AG, Mclaren Automotive and Volkswagen
A Chinese security team has hacked a Tesla Model S and revealed several vulnerabilities in the luxury electric car
The supplier expressed safety concerns regarding Tesla's plans to allow drivers to remove hands from the wheel while driving
Tesla Motors faces questions about safety of its technology after the fatal crash in China
It is also under federal investigation in the United States for another fatal crash in May
The Tesla driver crashed earlier this month while on a Beijing commuter highway after the car failed to avoid a vehicle parked on the left side, partially in the roadway, damaging both cars but causing no injuries
The crash, Tesla's first known such incident in China, comes months after a fatal accident in Florida
Tesla anticipates $150 million in costs savings in the first full year after closing of any tie-up with SolarCity
The two firms are in the final stages of due diligence on each other, and could agree on the terms of a deal soon
Tesla's experiments with cars under watch
In cities where demand exceeds the supply of customer-owned cars, Tesla will operate its own fleet: Elon Musk
Nitin Gadkari who visited the company's San Francisco factory on Friday, offered land near major Indian ports to facilitate exports
Last month, Tesla cut the base price of its Model S sedan to $66,000
Tesla has said Autopilot should be used as a backup and not as a replacement for the driver
The traffic safety agency is trying to determine whether the car's Autopilot system was at fault
While Tesla is already selling cars with some basic self-driving functions, Google is still in experimental mode
Even after increasing its production, the carmaker has had trouble getting its vehicles to customers fast enough to meet its targets
Mixed messages by the company said to be creating a false sense of security among drivers
It is the first known fatal accident involving a vehicle being driven by itself by means of sophisticated computer software, sensors, cameras and radar
Elon Musk on Tuesday sought to build a clean energy powerhouse as his electric car maker, Tesla Motors, made an offer to buy his solar installation firm SolarCity Corp in a stock deal worth as much as $2.8 billion.Tesla shares plunged more than 13 per cent to $189.99 in extended trading - amounting to a loss in value of about $4.3 billion, or more than the value of the offer for the other company. Shares of SolarCity rose about 18 per cent to $25.02.Musk, who is the chairman of SolarCity, CEO of Tesla and the largest shareholder of both companies, described the deal as a "no brainer" in a call with reporters. The company could sell customers an electric car, a home battery and a solar system all at once, he said."Instead of making three trips to a house to put in a car charger and solar panels and battery pack, you can integrate that into a single visit," Musk told reporters. "It's an obvious thing to do."Tesla investors punished the company's shares, however."Ideally you want to see T