Normally on The Long Tail Pipe our focus is on education about the long ranging effects of the transportation system. Get it? Long Tail Pipe? Anyway, there’s one company we cover a lot, Tesla Motors, where the story really is becoming the stock price and when/if TSLA shares will ever…
DoubleLine Capital’s Jeffrey Gundlach said it wasn’t a good idea to short-sell TSLA even though the gains look irrationally excessive. On Friday, shares of Tesla Motors (TSLA) had a last minute surge to close at $169/share, nearly breaking through the $170/share level. The stock has more than quadrupled in value…
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) could diversify its supply chain by signing up a new battery cell maker. Tesla Motors is talking with Samsung SDI to supply battery cells, according to a report in the Korean Herald. This would diversify a critical component in Tesla’s supply chain, and potentially give the company a much-needed boost…
Tesla Motors’ (TSLA) ever-increasing stock price is either a hype bubble or a serious prediction by the stock market of Tesla’s future as a major car maker ranking with the likes of Daimler or BMW. Tesla Motors’ stock price (TSLA) continues to rise, where last week it was nearing $160…
Tesla Motors’ stock (TSLA) is caught in a wave of hype, leaving Tesla CEO Elon Musk grasping for the best way to describe the company’s sky high valuation. The last time we reported on Tesla Motors (TSLA) stock price, last April, it had just broken above $40 a share thanks to good news…
Just how afraid of Tesla is GM? I’m asking this because of a pair of events, one where Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk laid out the company’s roadmap making it clear they can and will bring a 200+ mile range electric car to market in a couple years, and another…
Tesla continued to increase Model S sales, significantly beating their estimates, while accounting rules meant the company is showing a slight loss. Tesla Motors is continuing its streak of sales growth, selling 5,150 Model S’s during Q2 2013 up from 4,900 in Q1 2013. The company announced Q2 2013 financial…
There’d been a rumor recently that Tesla Motors is interested in self-driving cars, or what’s more formally known as Autonomous Vehicles. It’s kind of the cool thing, because Google has gotten all this attention developing self-driving cars, as have other organizations. Additionally the automakers are coming out with these amazing…
Is the fate of Napster connected to the eventual fate of Tesla Motors? Even though Tesla Motors is flying pretty high, there is legal action underway that could derail the whole Tesla Motors story, and doom their project to bring a new kind of automobile to the public. Napster, of…
The long-awaited update to the Tesla Supercharger network includes adding many new stations and decreasing the time required for a full recharge. Thursday gave us the latest in a series of announcements by Tesla Motors, giving updates on the Supercharger network for the Model S. The Supercharger network rollout so…
A new offering from Tesla Motors of a $850 million package of common stock and convertible senior notes will be used to completely prefund payoff of the Dept. of Energy loans, as well as general corporate purposes. On Wednesday, Tesla Motors (TSLA) announced a stock offering of 2,703,027 shares of…
After garnering criticism from the first version of the Model S financing program, Tesla Motors has tweaked the offering, giving even more guaranteed value. Moving to correct a few, uh, mistakes in the Tesla Financing plan, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk announced on Friday some refinements to the Tesla Model…
Is Tesla’s announcement of profitability for Q1 2013 an elaborate April Fools Joke? Their release did not come out on April 1, but March 31, but a poster on Seeking Alpha makes an interesting case for this. Tesla Motors announced that day that the companies streak of posting massive losses…
Elon Musk may be a smart guy, but that doesn’t mean he can’t do dumb-ass things. Over on InsideEV’s it’s reported that Musk said that “getting rockets into space is easier than navigating the I-405 freeway” and is calling for a widening of the highway. The LA Times quotes him…
Why is Fisker Automotive on the brink of collapse? (reportedly) The news is full of stories today saying that Fisker Automotive is unable to pay its bills, has laid off 75% of its workforce, is being sued by the landlord and the webmaster for lack of payment, that the negotiations…
