Tesla, Asteroid and SpaceX
Elon Musk, the billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, recently posted on X (formerly Twitter) about his love for Diet Coke. He shared that he tried drinking less of it for a month but didn’t see any benefits.
Elon Musk said Tesla will begin launching unsupervised self-driving models in Austin, Texas by June and several other U.S. cities by the end of 2025.
Despite the statement from President Trump, NASA had already scheduled the astronauts' return for late March or April.
Tesla posted a rare earnings miss for the last quarter of 2024, coupled with disappointing results amid weak sales and revenue leading to thinning profit margins.
After Trump’s presidential victory in November 2024, Tesla stock surged as Musk’s status as head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) helped generate positive momentum. But since Trump’s inauguration on January 20, shares have been trending downward, even as the company nears a key earnings report.
The final earnings release of 2024 finalized another difficult year for Tesla’s bottom line, as its full-year net income came in at $8.4 billion, a 23% decrease from 2023 and a 40% decline from 2022’s record $14.1 billion profit, though its full-year revenue rose $97.7 billion, a 1% improvement from 2023’s record.
Tesla will introduce a paid autonomous ride-hailing service in Austin, Elon Musk said during an earnings call discussing the automaker's financial results for 2024. As TechCrunch reports, he said the company will use cars with no human driver behind the wheel and with the unsupervised version of its Full Self-Driving software,
The Federal Aviation Administration’s leader stepped down on Jan. 20, months after Elon Musk demanded that he quit. The move by Michael Whitaker means the FAA has no Senate-confirmed leader for one of the biggest crises in its history because he quit before Donald Trump took office.
Tesla will launch an “unsupervised, no one in the car” robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, Elon Musk said in an earnings call Wednesday. “We just want to put a toe in the water, make sure everything’s okay, put a few more toes in the water, with safety of the general public and those in the car as a top priority,” Musk said.
Elon Musk has reportedly told people he’s been sleeping in his Washington, D.C., government office, where he’s working to build Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE. The DOGE office is housed inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building,