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Crossover, Alternative Car Sales Helped Boost May Auto Industry Figures
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 4:02pm | 485More signs appeared this week of the auto industry's bounce-back from the depths of the recession: the industry reported better-than-expected new car sales in the U.S. last month. The sale of 1.6 million vehicles, as well as strong sales figures for the growing alternative car market were...
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Is Tesla's Elon Musk Channeling Henry Ford?
Thursday, May 15, 2014 - 12:17pm | 624Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) CEO Elon Musk wants to build an environmentally friendly $35,000 electric car for the masses at the astonishing rate of 500,000 per year. To accomplish that, it appears Musk might “pull a Henry Ford.” Musk’s highly-publicized Gigafactory, according to Slate, is designed to...