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☆ China-Mexico freight traffic surges in Trump, Biden tariff era, as companies find ways to evade U.S. trade war
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-20 | by ( Lori Ann Larocco | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +16 min

Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty ImagesNew data shows a surge in trade between China and Mexico at a time of tough tariff talk during the presidential campaign. This nearshoring of manufacturing enables companies to change a product's origin of goods, also referred to as the "economic nationality" of a product. Data from freight analytics firm Xeneta shows China to Mexico container trade up by 26.2% from January to July 2024, after growing by 33% in 2023. Mexico is also a member of the Pacific Alliance, a trade bloc formed by Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru. "Bilateral tariffs should be expected to lead to trade diversion, and that's exactly what happened in the aftermath of the trade war.

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☆ SoftBank-backed Indian EV startup Ola Electric pops 20% on debut valuing firm at $4.8 billion
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-09 | by ( Arjun Kharpal | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Bhavish Aggarwal, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Ola Cabs and founder of Ola Electric speaks during a press conference ahead of the Initial Public Offer (IPO). Shares of Ola Electric surged 20% in their market debut Friday, valuing the Indian electric vehicle startup at around $4.8 billion. Ola Electric makes electric scooters and only shipped its first product 2½ years ago. This is the trend Ola Electric is trying to tap into as it prepares to deliver its first electric motorbike product in the second half of 2025. Ola Electric has some high-profile investors including SoftBank and Singapore's investment fund Temasek.

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☆ Why Trump shouldn't be president, according to Elon Musk's old tweets
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

But the mercurial billionaire was once a skeptic — and very vocal about why he thought Trump shouldn't govern the US. Back in July 2022, Musk criticized Trump after the former president called him a "bullshit artist" during a rally in Alaska. Musk later said in a follow-up post the same day that having Trump as president would result in "too much drama." Musk would go on to host DeSantis' campaign launch on X in May 2023, which was riddled with technical glitches and delays. The pair got closer this year, eventually culminating in a full-throated endorsement of Trump from Musk after Trump survived a failed assassination attempt on July 13.

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☆ A funny AI video tweeted by Elon Musk risks Xi Jinping's wrath as Tesla rakes in China revenues
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-23 | by ( Matthew Loh | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk tweeted a parody video of an AI fashion show that featured him, Bill Gates, and other prominent figures. And Xi Jinping was featured in a robe designed with a cartoon bear suspiciously like Winnie the Pooh. Xi was featured for only two seconds, but the video is a risky post given Tesla's operations in China. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementOn Monday, Elon Musk tweeted an AI-generated video of the world's biggest figures sashaying down the aisle of a fashion show.

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☆ City Council member says Elon Musk's supercomputer factory is causing local 'hysteria': report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-18 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewThe Greater Memphis Chamber publicly announced last month that Elon Musk would build xAI's "gigafactory of compute" in the Tennessee city. The planned facility is set to house what Musk intends to be the world's most powerful supercomputer, set to power xAI's chatbot, Grok. AdvertisementOne council member, Pearl Walker, told Forbes that the development caused "hysteria" among Memphis locals. In an open letter shared on X, a group of three Memphis environmental groups also expressed concerns about the factory's impact on the local power supply. Memphis Light, Gas, and Water is trying to prevent the factory from affecting the local power grid, the outlet added.

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Newly produced electric vehicles are being seen at Tesla's Shanghai Gigafactory in Shanghai, China, on December 31, 2023. Costfoto | Nurphoto | Getty ImagesBEIJING — New tariffs on Chinese electric cars aren't enough to help foreign automakers stay competitive, especially in the lucrative China market, according to consulting firm AlixPartners. While collaborations are "rational" to attain market share, Dyer said it is difficult to stay in the China market long-term if foreign carmakers don't switch things up. Last month, an analyst from the Bank of America said U.S. automakers based in Detroit should exit China "as soon as they possibly can" because they were at the losing end against China EV giants. Electric cars are less complex than internal combustion engine-powered vehicles.

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☆ Elon Musk seems to have built a 'mega rave cave' at Tesla's Berlin gigafactory
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-13 | by ( Beatrice Nolan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla appears to have opened a nightclub at its Berlin Gigafactory. Elon Musk first floated the idea of a "mega rave cave" at the factory in a 2020 social media poll. Berliners have been mocking the club on social media. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . The company's Berlin Gigafactory appears to have opened its very own nightclub, according to social media posts.

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☆ Beware, Elon Musk — BYD just took its next step toward world domination
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-09 | by ( Tom Carter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Business Insider contacted BYD for comment but didn't immediately hear back. Turkey is part of the EU's Customs Union, and any BYD cars manufactured there could avoid the 17.4% additional tariff the EU slapped on BYD vehicles imported from China. Plans by Chinese EV giants BYD, MG, and Chery to build factories in Mexico have sparked concern among US officials over fears they could be used as a "backdoor" into the US market.

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☆ A key part of America’s economy has shifted into reverse
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-07 | by ( Bryan Mena | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Washington CNN —A vast swath of the US economy is showing signs of weakness as unemployment rises to its highest point in more than two years. “When you think of services, a lot of it is driven by the consumer, and consumers are key to where the US economy goes,” James Knightley, chief international economist at ING, told CNN. Consumer spending, which makes up about 70% of the US economy, has already moderated over the past few months, government statistics show, and retailers themselves have said they’ve noticed shoppers across the income spectrum change their purchasing behavior. The bottom 60% of households by income accounted for a larger proportion of spending on health care services. These firms have added 168,000 jobs a month, on average, from April through June, according to fresh Labor Department data released Friday.

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☆ Tesla cars included in Chinese government’s purchase catalog for the first time
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-05 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Hong Kong CNN —For the first time ever, Tesla cars have been placed on a local Chinese government’s purchase list, according to state-owned media outlet Paper.cn. Tesla is the only foreign-owned EV car brand on the purchase catalog published by the government of Jiangsu province in eastern China. On the government’s purchase catalog, Tesla’s Shanghai-made Model Y was listed at 249,900 yuan ($34,377). Tesla cars had previously been barred from entering some government and military complexes in China due to spying and data security concerns. Those restrictions were lifted in April, when a top auto association announced that Tesla’s cars had passed China’s data security requirements.

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☆ Tesla short sellers lost $3.5 billion in two days of trading after deliveries report
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-04 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

With the shares rallying 17% in the two trading days since the second-quarter report, short sellers have lost an estimated $3.5 billion on a mark-to-market basis, according to data from S3 Partners. It's been a painful few months for short sellers, as Tesla shares have soared 73% since bottoming for the year in April. Short interest in Tesla currently stands at 3.5% of float, or 97 million shares shorted, with a $22.4 billion notional value. While the deliveries report suggested demand for Tesla vehicles remains stronger than feared, it offered a limited view into company performance. In the U.S., Tesla offered a three-year, 2% APR financing deal for buyers of its rear-wheel drive Model 3.

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☆ 911 call logs for Tesla's HQ reveal reports of 'terroristic' threats and attempted extortion
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-26 | by ( Natalie Musumeci | Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +14 min

"Wire $300,000 dollars to bitcoin account within 12 hours," the email to Kirkhorn added, according to the incident report. The case was ultimately suspended and no arrest was ever made, according to the incident report and Dark. AdvertisementSome Tesla workers told BI that tight production deadlines and the intensity of the work could sometimes create a high-pressure environment. We were just standing outside the building waiting to go back to work," one worker, who was there during the ordeal, told BI. The sheriff's office told local news at the time that the building was cleared and there was "nothing to substantiate the presence of a shooter at all."

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk claimed on Thursday that his company's Optimus humanoid robots could eventually make the automaker worth more than half of that. As for shareholder value, Musk said Optimus could be the catalyst for lifting Tesla's market cap to $25 trillion someday. The company, he predicted, will have "over 1,000, or a few thousand, Optimus robots working at Tesla" in 2025. Getting to a $25 trillion market cap would mean that Tesla would be worth about eight times Apple's value today. He did say that autonomous vehicles could get the company to a market cap of $5 trillion to $7 trillion.

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☆ Longtime Tesla investor says Elon Musk's proposed $56 billion pay package is 'outrageous' amid poor stock performance
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-12 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package is "outrageous," according to longtime Tesla investor Ross Gerber. Investors are voting on Musk's pay package for the second time on Thursday, after previously approving it in 2018. "The reason the pay package was voted down is because the board of directors at Tesla is an absent board. I just think that they're just creating more problems, and Elon and his board should work on a fair pay package," Gerber said. I'd love to go to my own company and negotiate my own pay package with myself."

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Employees work on the assembly line of new energy vehicles at a factory of Chinese EV startup Leapmotor on April 1, 2024 in Jinhua, Zhejiang Province of China. The additional tariffs are the result of an EU probe that began in October. Main Chinese BEV producer BYD was struck with a 17.4% tariff, with Geely slapped with a 20% duty. "We strongly oppose the use of increased tariffs as a strategy to obstruct the normal global trade of electric vehicles. watch nowGlobal EV trade tensions

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☆ Elon Musk is pitching a daring idea to Tesla shareholders: A vote for Musk is a ticket to the 'Muskonomy'
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla shareholders might have another reason to vote for Elon Musk's pay package this Thursday. Musk has been touting the benefits of having Tesla be a part of his business empire. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementTesla CEO Elon Musk has been pulling out all stops to woo shareholders ahead of Thursday's vote for his massive $56 billion pay package. But those seem just to be appetizers because Musk has now brought out the big guns — promising shareholders that a Musk-led Tesla will have access to his sprawling business empire.

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☆ Elon Musk diverting Nvidia chips from Tesla to X shows the EV maker is not his priority, longtime Tesla investor Ross Gerber says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Jennifer Sor | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

CNBC reported that Elon Musk diverted Nvidia chips bound for Tesla to X and xAI. Longtime Tesla investor Ross Gerber said the move shows the EV maker is not Musk's priority. AdvertisementTesla isn't at the top of Elon Musk's list of priorities, according to longtime investor Ross Gerber. Musk confirmed the decision in a recent post on X, adding that Tesla "had no place to send the Nvidia chips to turn them on." As an investor, I've done what I've needed to do and I've had to sell a lot of my Tesla stock.

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☆ Elon Musk may build a multibillion-dollar supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-05 | by ( Ana Altchek | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Elon Musk's xAI may build the world's largest supercomputer in Memphis, pending approval. The Musk-founded AI business is working with Memphis to make the Tennessee city the lead location of the world's largest supercomputer, referred to as the Gigafactory of Compute, according to a statement from the Greater Memphis Chamber on Wednesday. The multibillion-dollar supercomputer would reportedly be powered by Nvidia's H100 GPUs, some of the most sought-after chips that power AI. The project could create hundreds of jobs, according to a report from the Memphis Business Journal. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Elon Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips reserved for Tesla to X and xAI
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Lora Kolodny | In Lorakolodny | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

Correspondence from Nvidia staffers also indicates that Musk diverted a sizable shipment of AI processors that had been reserved for Tesla to his social media company X, formerly known as Twitter. "Elon prioritizing X H100 GPU cluster deployment at X versus Tesla by redirecting 12k of shipped H100 GPUs originally slated for Tesla to X instead," an Nvidia memo from December said. In a post on X in November, Musk wrote, "X Corp investors will own 25% of xAI." At Tesla, Musk has promised to build a $500 million "Dojo" supercomputer in Buffalo, New York, and a "super dense, water-cooled supercomputer cluster" at the company's factory in Austin, Texas. WATCH: Musk ordered Nvidia to ship thousands of AI chips to X

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☆ The battle over Elon Musk's pay package is a showdown between his army of supporters and institutional investors
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-02 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewTesla is setting the stage for a battle between some vocal institutional investors and some of Elon Musk's biggest supporters. The executive pay plan, which was first approved in 2018, is centered on a series of goalposts around Tesla's financial growth. AdvertisementMeanwhile, Tesla has argued that the pay package is both fair and necessary to maintain Musk's focus on the car company. AdvertisementThe Tesla CEO has also promoted the proposal and criticized institutional investors who have spoken out against the pay plan. Ahead of the June 13 shareholder meeting, shareholders will be asked to vote on several other proposals in addition to Musk's pay package.

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☆ Top proxy advisor ISS recommends against Elon Musk's $56 billion Tesla pay package
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-31 | by ( Rohan Goswami | In Rohangoswamicnbc | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Taylor Hill | Getty ImagesTop proxy advisor Institutional Shareholder Services on Friday recommended Tesla shareholders vote against the re-approval of CEO Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package and withhold their support from the re-election of News Corp . Tesla's shareholder meeting is on June 13. Tesla's board is seeking shareholder approval to reinstate Musk's pay after a Delaware court voided the package earlier this year. The proxy advisor recommended support for some shareholder proposals that Tesla management opposes, including one that would declassify Tesla's board. Pay package pushTesla has been courting shareholder support in both time-tested and novel ways.

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☆ Tesla dangles the chance of a factory tour with Elon Musk as an incentive to get people to vote on his $55 billion pay package
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Tesla is offering a potential Gigafactory tour with Elon Musk to shareholders who vote in its annual meeting. 15 investors will be chosen at random for the tour, Tesla said. The vote will address proposals regarding Musk's pay plan and moving Tesla's incorporation to Texas. AdvertisementTesla is offering shareholders the opportunity to tour its Texas Gigafactory alongside Elon Musk and the designer of the Cybertruck Franz von Holzhausen — there's just one catch. To qualify for a possible invite to the tour, investors must cast their vote on Musk's pay package.

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☆ Elon Musk's $55 billion Tesla pay package seems to be getting mounting pushback
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-29 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Read previewTesla is facing increasing pushback from investors regarding its bid to reinstate Elon Musk's $55 billion pay package. The fund initially voted for Musk's pay package when it was taken to a shareholder vote in 2018. Separately, proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said in a report on Saturday that the pay plan was "excessive" and presented investors with "uncertain benefits and additional risk." Tesla has also argued the compensation plan is "critical to the future success of Tesla" and has even paid for a handful of advertisements promoting the pay plan. Shareholders will be asked to vote on several proposals in addition to the proposal to reinstate Musk's pay package, which was struck down by a Delaware judge earlier this year.

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☆ Tesla is building a huge battery factory in Shanghai even as US-China trade tensions rise
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-24 | by ( Laura He | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The factory, which was announced in April last year, aims to begin production in the first quarter of 2025. The battery facility will be close to Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory, which is the company’s largest plant outside the United States, producing almost one million cars a year. Rising tensionsWhile most Western companies are face rising barriers to doing business in China, things have been smoother for Tesla. “Tesla competes quite well in the market in China with no tariffs and no deferential support. I’m in favor of no tariffs,” Musk said.

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☆ Tesla executive who led Cybertruck manufacturing leaves carmaker
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-13 | by ( Grace Kay | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Read previewThe director who helped launch Tesla's latest project is leaving the company. Renjie Zhu, the director of manufacturing engineering at Tesla's Austin Gigafactory, announced he'd left the company on Sunday. The executive wrote on LinkedIn that "after triumphing the epic launch of Cybertruck program," his "adventure with this great company has come to an end." Related storiesIt's unclear whether Zhu was part of a recent series of layoffs at Tesla or resigned on his own. The executive and a spokesperson for Tesla did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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