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Elon Musk announced Juneteenth is a holiday for Tesla and SpaceX employees in the middle of their shift, without allowing them paid time off
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images Elon Musk tweeted that Juneteenth are a business vacation at Tesla and SpaceX on Twitter on Friday, June 19. Musk afterwards tweeted that employees would have to use their personal paid time off to commemorate the vacation . An email about off the day was sent to employees before 8% PST…
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A $26 billion truck company with zero revenue just surged 103%
From Ed Ludlow and Craig TrudellTesla Inc. shares are at an all-time high. Hertz Global Holdings Inc.’s are well above where they had been before the company went bankrupt. But no stock in the automotive industry is a better sign of equity-market exuberance compared to Nikola Corp.The aspiring battery-electric and hydrogen fuel-cell truck manufacturer debuted…
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SpaceX rocket ship blasts off on historic flight
CAPE CANAVERAL: A rocket ship built by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company thundered from Earth with two Americans on Saturday, ushering in a brand new era in commercial space travel and putting the United States back into the company of launching astronauts into orbit out of U.S. land for the very first time in almost a…
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Electric cars will roll out of the Arizona desert soon
From Edward LudlowOn the outskirts of a town of Phoenix, a 720,000 square foot electric vehicle factory is currently arising in town. If all goes as intended, a luxury new battery-electric sedan will probably roll off its production line annually ’s end.Lucid Motors, a U.S. startup supported by Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, is constructing…
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Trump to attend Elon Musk’s SpaceX launch in Florida next week
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — President Donald Trump plans to travel to Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday to witness the launch of the first Americans into space in almost a decade, a former White House official said Friday. 2 NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, will travel aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on…
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NASA’s Human Spaceflight Chief Resigns Ahead Of Upcoming Launch
Douglas Loverro, mind of human spaceflight at NASAresigned on Monday, seven months a week until the bureau intends to send astronauts to distance from United States land for the first time in almost a decade. In a farewell email to NASA workers, Loverro declined to explicitly describe why he was resigning, however cited an undercover…
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Joe Rogan Signs Exclusive Deal With Spotify, Moving Show Off YouTube
Joe Rogan, host and the stand-up comedian of The Joe Rogan Experience, has partnered with Spotify at a documented nine-figure bargain that will make his show a distinctive to the firm. “Bringing the JRE into Spotify will signify that the system ’s over 286 million active consumers are going to have access to one of…
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Tesla sues over shutdown, Musk threatens to leave California
Tesla Inc sued local authorities in California on Saturday as the electric carmaker pushed to re-open its factory there and Chief Executive Elon Musk threatened to move Tesla’s headquarters and future programs from the state to Texas or Nevada.Musk has been pushing to re-open Tesla’s Fremont, California, factory after Alameda County’s health department said the…
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Clean energy is now a hot investment
Welcome to POLITICO’s new Sustainable Finance Spotlight — an extension of the Global Translations newsletter. Each week we track major issues facing the globe. Sign up here. Green economists have combined forces in an Oxford University paper to identify environmentally friendly public investments with quick positive economic effects. The authors, including Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz,…
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‘GIVE PEOPLE BACK THEIR GODDAMN FREEDOM’: Elon Musk bashes US shelter-in-place orders as ‘fascist,’ says they’re ‘forcibly imprisoning’ people in their homes (TSLA)
AP Photo/Susan Walsh Elon Musk is miserable with the United States’ shutdown of most non-essential businesses. The billionaire on Wednesday said Tesla’s shuttered car factories remain a”serious threat” to its business. “Give people back his goddamn liberty,” he said on a conference call. Visit Business Insider’s homepage for more stories. In a short rant complete…