Tim Higgins
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@wsj columnist & @cnbc contributor | author of POWER PLAY: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century. Order:
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“Higgins’s book amounts to an exceptional work of business journalism,” via The Washington Post review of POWER PLAY
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@elonmusk
agrees that Tesla is relying on too many robots to make the Model 3 & needs more workers
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Tesla Model 3 gets Consumer Reports' recommendation after auto maker updated brakes through wireless software change
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South Jordan, Utah, police say the female driver of the Model S that rear ended a stationary truck on Friday claimed Autopilot was engaged:
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Musk was given plenty of opportunities to comment on this. He didn’t. This anecdote comes from Musk’s own account of the conversation, according to people who heard the retelling at the time.
@JamesClayton5
@markgurman
@tim_cook
Cook & I have never spoken or written to each other ever.
There was a point where I requested to meet with Cook to talk about Apple buying Tesla. There were no conditions of acquisition proposed whatsoever.
He refused to meet. Tesla was worth about 6% of today’s value.
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Don Lemon got to see both sides of Elon Musk.
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Elon Musk was going to take Tesla private. The money was there. Then he walked away. via
@WSJ
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Waymo gets its first Jaguar I-Pace. Company says it's begun capturing the vehicle's performance on roads to get data as it prepares to add to driverless fleet in 2020. 👇
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Going forward, I'll be reporting on
@Apple
for
@WSJ
. DMs are open; please send tips & ideas. Interests continue to include batteries & cars. My book on
@Tesla
is slated to be published next year by
@doubledaybooks
. Look here for details soon on where to buy.
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What JB Straubel has been up to since leaving Tesla
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Elon Musk is sleeping under a desk on Tesla’s factory floor. ‘We’ve made a lot of mistakes. That’s why we’re here.’ via
@WSJ
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The lawyer for the family of the man who died in the Tesla Model X in March issued a statement today following the NTSB's preliminary report:
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With all due respect, it’s the really big type edition
Newspapers are art. We prefer one normal size book to display-hopefully a hardback. Unless it’s being made into a movie. 7/10
@timkhiggins
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Some personal news via Publishers Marketplace: I’m doing a book about Tesla for
@doubleday
. My DMs are open if you’ve got any tips.
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My book arrives this summer. POWER PLAY: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century. Preorder now
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POWER PLAY is out today. Lots of great debate already. Some have said Tesla fans will love it while some of Tesla’s biggest critics have praised it as well. Elon Musk calls it both false & boring. Today you can decide.
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Excited to join
@wsj
covering tech & autos. Will be based in San Francisco focusing on cars, AI & big data. Starting in a few weeks.
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General Motors’ electric-car plans for China have been delayed by subpar Chinese batteries via
@WSJ
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Startup Zoox names veteran Intel executive Aicha Evans its new CEO, recruiting a seasoned manager to replace its ousted founder via
@WSJ
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Consumer Reports issues a statement following
@elonmusk
's tweets last night that Tesla would rollout a software update to address concerns raised in CR review about Model 3s' braking 👇
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Schwall had been Tesla's "primary technical contact" w/ NTSB & NHTSA, according to his LinkedIn bio.
Waymo confirms that Tesla's Matt Schwall has begun working for the self-driving car unit.
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Dude overheard at coffee shop bemoaning the challenges of getting tier 1s & OEMs interested in his lidar. -- San Francisco 2017
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My book about Tesla arrives Aug. 3. It’s called POWER PLAY and tells the story of the rise and fall and rise of Tesla. Please join me on my virtual book tour. Sign up for events here:
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Some Tesla suppliers are concerned about the electric-car maker’s financial footing via
@WSJ
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NHTSA issues a "cease and desist" order for the aftermarket Autopilot Buddy, which marketed itself as a way to reduce nagging by the Tesla driver assistance system. NHTSA statement: 👇
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Mexico-built cars accounted for 17% of Detroit auto makers’ overall U.S. sales in 2018 via
@MikeColias
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For years, the biggest cohort of Tesla buyers, politically speaking, has been Democrats. But when Elon Musk took a hard turn last fall, they didn’t follow him.
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A phone call from billionaire Mark Cuban helped break an impasse between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and regulators on charges he misled investors in a tweet via
@WSJ
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Elon Musk tells employees this morning that Tesla will undergo a management restructuring, according to memo.
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Looks like Tesla Autopilot has lost manager Sameer Qureshi to Lyft's autonomous car effort, per a recent change in LinkedIn 👇
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Doug Field isn't returning to Tesla, source tells me. The senior vice president of engineering had been on leave that began in early May.
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Tomorrow is Tesla’s AI Day, when Elon Musk is expected to discuss “what’s next for AI at Tesla.” In POWER PLAY, I write about the tension within the company surrounding Autopilot, dating as far back as 2016, when Musk made bold public claims about its autonomous capabilities. 1/4
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Gran Turismo video game producer Kazunori Yamauchi tonight at Stanford details plans to create machine learning API for AI drivers league; he imagines races to see which AI system is the fastest, most impressive.
#opengaragetalk
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Tesla faces a deepening FBI criminal probe into whether it misstated production figures and misled investors going back to early 2017. via
@WSJ
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Take a look at
@russ1mitchell
's review of Power Play: "A deep new history of Tesla takes the shine off Elon Musk"
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Things between Tesla and the NTSB have escalated as the government probes fatal Model X crash. Tesla says in a statement:
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.
@comma_ai
's George Hotz at his garage, saying he wants to work w/ aftermarket manufacturers on self-driving car tech
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Waymo confirms that Tesla's Matt Schwall has begun working for the self-driving car unit.
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Tesla sees another high-profile executive leave the company: its top lawyer after two months. His successor is a company insider. via
@WSJ
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The $35,000 version of Tesla’s Model 3 is now only available for order by phone or in store via
@WSJ
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.
@johnkrafcik
says Waymo's new Lidar can detect a football helmet two-football fields away, bringing the cost down more than 90% from 2009
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On Instagram this morning from the Tesla factory in Fremont, Calif. 👇
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No column from me today, but I did have an interesting podcast conversation with
@karaswisher
. Please listen. My column resumes next weekend.
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Volkswagen will invest $1.7 billion in a self-driving car venture with Ford as auto makers seek to share the huge costs of developing self-driving cars. via
@WSJ
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Billionaire entrepreneur
@elonmusk
, unhappy with press coverage of Tesla, vows to begin a rating-website of journalists. Wants to name it after what once was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 👇
Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …
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The Chevy Volt was heralded as an engineering marvel when it was introduced in 2010. But it was a big money loser for GM. via
@WSJ
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Updated: Tesla’s Engineering Chief Doug Field Takes Leave of Absence at Pivotal Moment via
@WSJ
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Huge win for
@Automotive_News
. And a big congrats to
@MittenHawk
, who has already helped shape coverage of the biggest automotive stories of this generation through his thoughtful editing & mentoring.
Yes, it's true, I'll be taking my talents to Eastern Market: I'm going to
@Automotive_News
as chief content officer. I get to join a great team full of old friends and new colleagues.
Special thanks to
@goblue_nussel
and
@jasonstein
for making it happen.
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GM weighs in 👇
@timkhiggins
In the interim, we’ve offered to loan
@marycmccormack
a
@chevrolet
Bolt EV so she has a more dependable electric vehicle to drive.
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“We are seeing some pockets of softness here and there,” Apple Chief Exectuvive Tim Cook said in an interview. “But in the aggregate, we expect revenue to accelerate in the September quarter as compared to the June year-over-year performance.” via
@WSJ
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Tesla tells California it didn't test any autonomous vehicles on public roads in the state last year. Says it conducts testing via simulation, labs and test tracks as well as public roads "in various locations around the world." Also has "shadow-mode."
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That time Mercedes revealed a new SUV in a Detroit ruin with Arnold Schwarzenegger, who gave CEO Dieter Zetsche a cowboy hat, and they celebrated with trays of schnapps for the crowd.
#NAIAS18
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Tesla's statement on Chief People Officer Gabrielle Toledano's leave of absence:
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South Jordan, Utah, police say Tesla recovered data from Model S that crashed last Friday that shows Autopilot was engaged. Police say:
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Congrats my friends
@lizrhoffman
,
@trippmickle
,
@RolfeWinkler
& Susan Pulliam &
@ScottMAustin
,
@jasonrdean
,
@JamieHeller
& everybody
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Elon Musk’s statement on a Tesla buyout describes funding that looks less certain than first described via
@WSJ
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Amazon is in advanced talks to buy Zoox, a move that would expand its reach in autonomous-vehicle technology, people familiar with the matter say
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Tesla names Dave Morton as chief accounting officer. He had been CFO at Seagate Technology.
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From last night: Elon Musk said his tweets will be reviewed by Tesla only if they have potential to move stock prices. “Otherwise, it’s ‘Hello, First Amendment.’” via
@WSJ
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Intel CEO says company's fleet of test self-driving cars begin rolling out next year
#AutoMobilityLA
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.
@RebelCarChick
on asking for her Tesla Model 3 deposit back: "I think I'm going to pay off my 30 year mortgage faster than they'll produce those 400,000 cars."
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Recode: Google’s former car guru Chris Urmson working on own self-driving company via
@karaswisher
+
@JMBooyah
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A look inside the personal finances of Elon Musk, who sometimes appears a cash-poor billionaire, and his plans to sell off houses and most possessions.
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The automotive beat, Silicon Valley, 2018, in three pictures. Thanks
@questCNN
&
@biannagolodryga
for the appearance today.
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Waymo posts video of its self-driving van crash online, showing other vehicle veering into its lane
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Ford says the Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into how the auto maker certifies vehicles to meet U.S. emissions standard via
@WSJ
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Robots may someday drive our cars, but they will likely rely on humans miles away to back them up via
@WSJ
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Lyft to form autonomous-car development division and open new office in Silicon Valley via
@WSJ
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Ford’s investment in the startup comes as auto makers look to EVs and hybrids to help them meet tougher global regulations on tailpipe emissions. via
@WSJ
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NTSB says it's sending a technical specialist to observe Tesla's examination of
@marycmccormack
's husband's Model S following last week's fire. Statement 👇
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