Tesla Autopilot Crash Victim’s Family Has Hired a Personal Injury Lawyer

Joshua Brown’s family has not ruled out the possibility of suing Tesla. The family of Joshua Brown, the Tesla enthusiast who was killed in a car crash last month, has hired a prominent personal injury law firm. Jack Landskroner, who has been hired by the family, says it hasn’t been determined whether Brown’s family may […]

Disproving Elon Musk’s “Vertical Integration Theory” for Tesla-SolarCity Deal

Summary Tesla’s explanation of vertical integration benefits from a SolarCity acquisition belies a lack of understanding of what vertical integration means and its associated benefits and costs. The Tesla identified forward and backward integration benefits created from a SolarCity acquisition are murky at best and do not necessarily correspond to traditional vertical integration value levers. […]

Tesla MasterPlan 2 - A Reminder of the Past

Summary Elon Musk about to reveal Tesla Master Plan 2. A large part of the first plan was not successful. Analysts are starting to lose hope for the stock. Someday there will be a book written on how just a few words on Twitter can dramatically move a stock. The lead example will most likely […]

For Tesla, the Forecast Is Partly Cloudy

For Tesla, the Forecast Is Partly Cloudy - WSJ SunEdison’s Icarus-like fall offers a cautionary tale for Elon Musk’s proposed SolarCity hookup. Tesla has been in the news lately following a fatal accident in Florida involving one of its Model S electric cars running on autonomous cruise control, called Autopilot. Discussions about the future of […]

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SpaceX Attempted Monopoly

The most bitterly contested issue in Senate floor debate of the National Defense Authorization Act this year was whether the Department of Defense would be allowed to continue using Russian rocket engines to lift national-security satellites into orbit. The engines, called RD-180s, provide first-stage thrust for Atlas launch vehicles built by United Launch Alliance, a […]

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