Elon Musk

If you happen to be at a party with Elon Musk, first, congratulations on whatever made you your first couple of million, and second, you might want to steer clear because these days, the guy has to have an ego that would fill the room. And let’s be honest. If any of us had a year like he has,...

Few U.S. chief executive officers are as hot as Elon Musk these days. Musk is the CEO of not one, but two of the highest flying publicly traded companies in the U.S. SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), the maker of solar energy systems for business and residential customers, has seen its shares more than...

On Monday, Senate passed a bill allowing North Carolina to ban the direct sales of Tesla (NYSE: TSLA) vehicles to consumers. Specifically, the bill would make it illegal for any automaker to bypass dealerships and sell directly in the state. The bill is sponsored by the North Carolina...

According to Elon Musk's Wikipedia page, he first conceived of the idea for SolarCity (NASDAQ: SCTY), a company founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive, at the annual Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. Like many of Musk's various inspirations, today SolarCity is a thriving company...

Rumors of a share offering from Tesla Motors  (NYSE: TSLA) have been circulating throughout the investor community after the stock's recent tear over the past few trading days. With Tesla's stock seeing a 96 percent increase in price over the last month and a 50 percent increase in just the...

It is fair to say electric car maker Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has defied the skeptics. Elon Musk's company, as he promised it would be, was profitable in the first quarter. In the past month, the shares have surged over 75 percent and that does NOT include Monday's 11 percent pop on volume that is...

Earlier this week, electric car maker Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) had analysts and investors on the edges of their seats in anticipation of a Steve Jobs-esque announcement from the automaker's CEO Elon Musk. Musk unveiled a partnership between Tesla, US Bancorp (NYSE: USB) and Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC)...

Shares of electric car maker Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) are trading slightly lower in Tuesday's after-hours session following the company's much ballyhooed announcement, which has proven to be something of financing hybrid between a lease and actual ownership of the Tesla Model S. In partnership...

Tesla Motors(NASDAQ: TSLA) says it expected to show a profit in the first quarter. Wait. An electric carmaker showing a profit? What’s next? 30-minute speed charging? Actually, yes. According to USA Today, Tesla says it made 4,750 cars in the first quarter and all went to customers who had...

Last October, Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) founder Elon Musk said that his other firm, SpaceX (a space transport company), does not have any interest in holding patents. "We have essentially no patents in SpaceX," Musk told Wired. "Our primary long-term competition is in China—if we published...