Four years after startling the car world with designs for the Cybertruck, Elon Musk is set Thursday to mark the arrival of Tesla s iconoclastic take on the American pickup. Musk has scheduled an event at Tesla s Austin headquarters to mark the first deliveries to customers of the Cybertruck, whose design to some has evoked a futuristic, sometimes dystopian future akin to "Blade Runner" or "Mad Max."
Workers United claimed that within days of announcing a union campaign earlier this year, Tesla fired dozens of workers from its Autopilot department. Tesla has said the firings were based on performance reviews and not tied to union activity.
Japanese auto giant Nissan will commit Friday to building electric models of two best-selling cars in Sunderland, northeastern England, in an investment of more than £1.0 billion, the Financial Times reported. Finance minister Jeremy Hunt pledged Wednesday to invest £4.5 billion in strategic sectors including the auto industry.
Electric Vehicles: Senior government officials in the know told ET that Tesla has sought provisional tariff concessions as a prerequisite for setting up a manufacturing facility in India, but New Delhi is not in favour of any company-specific exemptions.
Fisker expects to produce between 13,000 and 17,000 electric vehicles in 2023, down from its prior projection of 20,000 to 23,000 vehicles, the company said after the closing bell on Monday as it released its third quarter results. Fisker s shares fell to as low as USD 3.11, on track for the biggest daily percentage decline since the company went public in 2020.