Sources: AP
Tesla recalls more than 1.8 million vehicles due to a hood issue that could increase the risk of a crash. An over-the-air software update for the issue was made available in June. 2024-07-30
El Salvador becomes the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender, after the Legislative Assembly votes 62–22 to pass a bill submitted by President Nayib Bukele classifying the cryptocurrency as such. 2021-06-9
American manufacturer Tesla files a lawsuit against one of its former software engineers for allegedly copying confidential computer scripts onto a personal file hosting service. The former employee denies the company's allegation, claiming he transferred the files by mistake. 2021-01-24
Fake bomb threats are sent to dozens of businesses around Canada and the U.S., demanding ransoms in bitcoin. Some of the threats forced evacuations. 2018-12-13
Tesla stock drops 9% the day after CEO Elon Musk was seen drinking whiskey and smoking cannabis in California while discussing space colonization, life after the technological singularity and whether reality is a simulation on "The Joe Rogan Experience", and two executives resign. 2018-09-7
Two weeks after Elon Musk expressed his intentions of making Tesla, Inc. private, he and the company's board announce that the company will remain publicly listed. 2018-08-24
Tesla announces that it intends to cut 3000 jobs in an attempt to improve profitability. Many of those workers will be offered alternative jobs under the same employer. 2018-06-12
In a landmark bankruptcy case the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal in Moscow rules cryptocurrencies are property and demands access to a party's Bitcoin reserves. 2018-05-7
South Australia finalizes a deal with Tesla, spearheaded by tweets originating from CEO of Tesla Elon Musk, to install a battery system in the state. Tesla said in a statement that upon completion by December 2017, the system would be the largest lithium-ion battery storage project in the world, overtaking an 80 megawatt-hour power station at Mira Loma in California also built using Tesla batteries. 2017-07-7
For the first time in the history of digital currency, two Las Vegas casinos begin to accept Bitcoin. 2014-01-21