Tag: lawsuit
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Tesla should say something
Last weekend, a reader wrote to this editor, politely asking why tech companies should speak up about the abortion law that Texas passed last week. “What does American Airlines have to do with abortion?” said the reader, suggesting that companies can’t possibly cater to both pro-abortion and anti-abortion advocates and that asking them to take…
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Tesla Is Fined $16,000 Per Owner By Norway Court For Throttling Battery Capacity And Charging Speed
PA Images A court in Norway has fined Tesla $16,000 per owner in the country for using a software update to throttle battery capacity and charging speed. The electric car maker was found guilty of causing slower charging sessions for a number of owners who updated their vehicles with Tesla’s 2019.16.1 and .2 software updates.…
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‘Not Messing Around’: Tesla CEO Files Lawsuit Against County, Local Mayor Issues Statement
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has recently filed a lawsuit against Alameda County, Californiaand after the neighborhood public health division blocked him from resuming business at the company’s production plant in Fremont this past Friday. The lawsuit claims that Alameda County, in which Tesla’s headquarters have been based, empowered itself to shut companies, under the threat…
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Several tech companies named in underage labor lawsuit over Cobalt mining
Microsoft and Dell are said to be included. What you will need to know Apple, Google, and Tesla have been named in a lawsuit over alleged child labor in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The lawsuit alleged that tech companies have exploited underage labor. Cobalt is used in Lithium-ion batteries. Apple, Google, and Tesla have…
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LISTEN: The future of Elon Musk’s empire was in peril in 2016. New documents reveal more about the desperate plan to save it.
Kyle Grillot/Reuters Tesla shareholders registered a lawsuit against the company in 2016, alleging that CEO Elon Musk pushed the company to get SolarCity to enrich himself. They said it was a violation of fiduciary obligation. On Thursday, several depositions (including among Musk) and documents included in the suit were printed on the website PlainSite, an…
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Profit before safety? Walmart sues Tesla, claims solar panels caused fires at several stores
Retail giant Walmart is fueling Elon Musk’s electric vehicle manufacturer and energy company Tesla, accusing it of “gross negligence” and penalizes Tesla’s rooftop solar panels to get fires at seven of its stores. In a lawsuit filed at the New York State Supreme Court, Walmart explained that it confronted massive losses after the panels supplied…
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Tesla Alleges Ex-Employees Working For Competitors Stole Trade Secrets
Tesla sued former employees last week, alleging that they stole trade secrets and induce them to benefit rival start up firms Zoox and Chinese EV automaker Xiaopeng, as stated by the International Business Times. Astonishingly, Huawei was not mentioned in the suits. The lawsuits seek compensation for the theft, together using one alleging that four former…
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Elon Musk’s ‘pedo guy’ defamation case is going to trial
A defamation case filed last year against Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk after he called a British cave diver “pedo man ” will go to trial on October 22, a U.S. district judge determined Friday. Vernon Unsworth, the British cave diver, filed a defamation lawsuit in September 2018 at the U.S. District Court for…
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Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
The family of Walter Huang, an Apple engineer who died after his Tesla Model X with Autopilot engaged crashed into a highway median, is suing Tesla. The State of California Department of Transportation is also named in the lawsuit. The wrongful death lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court, County of Santa Clara, alleges that mistakes…
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Grimes, Azealia Banks to be subpoenaed in class action lawsuit against Elon Musk
Tesla creator Elon Musk got himself into a lot of difficulty with investors and the SEC straight back at the summer of ’18 when he tweeted plans to take his electric car company confidential. Both parties resisted the billionaire entrepreneur of fraud, with the prior filing a class action lawsuit against him to making “untrue and misleading…