After years of rejecting the idea of a sale of TikTok’s US assets to an American buyer in order to avert a ban, China and ByteDance may have found an owner they could live with: Elon Musk.
The appointment, announced shortly after Trump’s election victory in November, comes after years of Musk building successful business operations in China, including a significant April 2024 visit to Beijing, where he met with Chinese Premier Li Qiang to discuss Tesla’s autonomous driving technology and data transfer permissions.
The better-looking Model Y will probably be coming to the U.S. soon, but Tesla doesn't really confirm these things anymore.
Chinese officials reportedly want ByteDance Ltd. to remain the owners of TikTok but is in discussion on how to work with the Trump Administration.
Tesla has been at the top of the electric vehicle segment for a while now, but its influence could be waning as a result of politics and competition.
Several sources claim that Tesla has already built the first new Model Y at its Gigafactory in Berlin, Germany. According to German media outlet Handelsblatt, the company was scheduled to start producing the new car, also known by its codename "Juniper", on Tuesday.
Tesla plans to suspend part of the lines manufacturing its recently refreshed Model Y sport utility vehicles in Shanghai for around three weeks over Chinese New Year, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday,
“Tesla is willing to further deepen cooperation with China and achieve more win-win results,” Musk told Li during the meeting. Although Musk has portrayed himself as a crusader for free speech ...
The Florida senator’s criticism of Chinese “genocide” led the country to forbid his entry, and his attack on Elon Musk’s company could rile Trump’s key adviser.
The outgoing Model Y was the best-selling new car in China last year, but globally, Tesla barely edged out BYD as the number one EV brand
A new report says more people reserved a Tesla Model Y refresh in the first day than the company sells in China in a month.