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Largest Auto-Industry Employer In California: Electric-Car Maker Tesla Motors

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years.

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How Elon Musk Controls Tesla Motors While Owning Only 27 Percent

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors commands outsize attention within the world of electric cars--and the auto industry in general. Its CEO, Elon Musk, has a huge personal following that eagerly hangs on his every word.

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Tesla delivered 76,000 cars in 2016, missing its goal

Green Car Reports

While the auto industry will start to report December and year-end sales totals today, Tesla Motors issued its year-end delivery and production results yesterday. The Silicon Valley car maker, now completing its ninth year of production, delivered 22,230 electric cars during the fourth quarter of 2016.

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Tesla 'Will Prevail In All States' Against Dealer Lawsuits: Dealership Commentator

Green Car Reports

Have we just seen the first crack in the facade of auto-dealer opposition to Tesla Motors selling cars directly to retail buyers? An opinion piece in auto-industry trade journal Ward''s Auto concludes with the following remarkable sentences: We can keep Tesla busy defending what are basically nuisance suits.

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How Many Tesla Model S Electric Cars Have Been Built So Far?

Green Car Reports

Car production data may cause some eyes to glaze over, but the numbers are closely followed in the auto industry. Electric-car maker Tesla Motors doesn''t report its exact sales, nor its precise production, so a cottage industry has sprung up to track its alleged production.

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Tesla Motors reaches corporate profitability

Green Cars News

Big guns in the US auto industry like General Motors and Chrysler may still be reeling from the credit crunch, but upstart electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors has achieved overall corporate profitability in July.

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2012 Tesla Model S: Most Important New Car Since Ford Model T?

Green Car Reports

It jump-started the auto industry as we now know it. But Tesla is looking to change the automotive industry, and the new 2012 Model S just might be the most important new car since the Model T. Let's start with the obvious: Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] is a U.S.

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