The parents of two college students who died in a Cybertruck crash last fall are suing Tesla, alleging the truck’s door design trapped the victims inside. Separate lawsuits filed Thursday by the families of 20-year-old Jack Nelson and 19-year-old Krysta Tsukahara claim that the Cybertruck’s design, including electric-powered doors with hidden manual releases, made it nearly impossible for the...

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is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. Tesla’s long-rumored more affordable electric vehicle won’t be out until next year, but it was recently spotted uncamouflaged on a highway in Texas. And no, your eyes are not fooling you; it’s just a cheaper version of...

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During a rough week for electric-vehicle makers in the U.S., Tesla investors got at least one piece of good news on Thursday. The EV maker reported a pronounced increase in sales—better numbers than Wall Street had predicted, and a respite from the lagging deliveries Tesla has been reporting over the past two quarters. While analysts had expected Tesla to sell around 450,000 EVs over the...

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Tesla finally arrived in India — fashionably late to its own party. After almost a decade of broken promises and dashed hopes, Tesla opened its first showroom in Mumbai on July 15, marking the electric-vehicle pioneer’s entry into the world’s third-largest automobile market. The 4,000-square-foot store in financial capital Mumbai represents a significant milestone for Tesla, which began...

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As Tesla’s existing markets give it the cold shoulder, it is turning to India after a decade of false starts. Days after Elon Musk met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Washington, Tesla reportedly leased a sprawling showroom in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, for five years, forking out $446,000 in rent for the first year. Plans for a second showroom in Delhi are in the works. The...

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