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Cars on the manufacturing floor at the &quot;Cyber Rodeo&quot; grand opening celebration for the new $1.1 billion Tesla Giga Texas manufacturing facility in Austin, Texas, on Thursday April 7, 2022. Musk described the electric automaker's factories in Austin and Berlin as “money furnaces” that were losing billions of dollars because supply chain breakdowns were limiting the number of cars they can produce. In an interview on May 30, 2022, that was just released this week. (Jay Janner /Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)

Chinese competitor outselling Tesla not as impressive when examining numbers

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Musk will participate in a meeting with employees of Twitter on Thursday, June 16, 2022, as the billionaire and social media platform continue to try to push forward on their agreed-to $44 billion acquisition. Twitter confirmed on Tuesday that the meeting will take place, but did not provide any other details about it. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Musk meets pope, uses Twitter to announce the audience

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Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition March 9, 2020, in Washington. Elon Musk is threatening to end his $44 billion agreement to buy Twitter, accusing the company of refusing to give him information about its spam bot accounts. Lawyers for the Tesla and SpaceX CEO made the threat in a letter to Twitter dated Monday, June 6, 2022 that the social platform included in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Tesla turns up heat on remote workers to return to office

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Elon Musk attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the &quot;In America: An Anthology of Fashion&quot; exhibition on May 2, 2022, in New York. Musk is expected to meet with Twitter employees Thursday, June 16, 2022 in an apparent effort to assuage concerns about his $44 billion deal to acquire the social platform. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Elon Musk’s child granted legal name, gender change

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Former Tesla worker rejects $15 million award in racism case

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is seen here at a media event held in MIami on June 16, 2022, to promote the upcoming 2022 Florida Python Challenge. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**

Musk effect? DeSantis’ presidential odds strengthen after praise from the world’s richest man

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Musk appealed a federal court ruling Wednesday, June 15, 2022, that upheld a securities fraud settlement over Musks tweets claiming that he had the funding to take Tesla private in 2018. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Elon Musk’s child files to change name and gender

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Musk appealed a federal court ruling Wednesday, June 15, 2022, that upheld a securities fraud settlement over Musks tweets claiming that he had the funding to take Tesla private in 2018. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Musk appeals ruling that upheld securities fraud settlement

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A Tesla owner charges his vehicle at a charging station in Topeka, Kan., Monday, April 5, 2021. Tesla reported 273 crashes involving partially automated driving systems, according to statistics released by U.S. safety regulators on Wednesday, June 15, 2022. But the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration cautioned against using the numbers to compare automakers, saying it didn’t weigh them by the number of vehicles from each manufacturer that use the systems, or how many miles those vehicles traveled. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner, File)

U.S. report: nearly 400 crashes of automated tech vehicles

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

A 2021 Model 3 sedan is connected to a charger at a Tesla dealership on June 27, 2021, in Littleton, Colo. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Thursday, June 9, 2022, that it's upgrading the probe into an engineering analysis, another sign of increased scrutiny of the electric vehicle maker and automated systems that perform at least some driving tasks. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

U.S. advances probe of Teslas running into emergency vehicles

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

U.S. has over 750 complaints of Teslas braking for no reason

By Tom Krisher - Associated Press

Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington, Monday, March 9, 2020. Twitter's regularly scheduled shareholder meeting Wednesday, May 25, 2022, won't include a vote on Musk’s $44 billion bid for the social platform. That vote will take place at a yet-undetermined date in the future. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Musk pausing hiring at Tesla over ‘super bad’ feeling on economy: report

By Ryan Lovelace - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit accusing Musk of engaged in “unlawful conduct” aimed at sowing doubt about his bid to buy the social media company. The lawsuit filed late Wednesday, May 25, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California claims the billionaire Tesla CEO has sought to drive down Twitter’s stock price because he wants to walk away from the deal or negotiate a substantially lower purchase price. (Patrick Pleul/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Tesla CEO Elon Musk tells employees to return to office full time or be let go

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, March 22, 2022. Twitter shareholders have filed a lawsuit accusing Musk of engaged in “unlawful conduct” aimed at sowing doubt about his bid to buy the social media company. The lawsuit filed late Wednesday, May 25, in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California claims the billionaire Tesla CEO has sought to drive down Twitter’s stock price because he wants to walk away from the deal or negotiate a substantially lower purchase price. (Patrick Pleul/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Twitter shareholders sue Elon Musk, say he ‘deflated’ stock price

By Barbara Ortutay - Associated Press

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arrives on the red carpet for the Axel Springer media award in Berlin on Dec. 1, 2020. (Hannibal Hanschke/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Elon Musk is the left’s newest target

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Tesla CEO Elon Musk attends the opening of the Tesla factory Berlin Brandenburg in Gruenheide, Germany, Tuesday, March 22, 2022. (Patrick Pleul/Pool via AP, File)

Elon Musk slams Biden for causing inflation, says government ‘can’t just issue checks’

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

CEO Elon Musk departs from the justice center in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday, July 13, 2021. Musk says his planned $44 billion purchase of Twitter is "temporarily on hold" pending details on spam and fake accounts on the social media platform. The announcement that the Tesla billionaire tweeted Friday, May 13, 2022 is another twist amid signs of internal turmoil over his planned buyout of Twitter. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Elon Musk: Less divisive candidate preferable to Trump in 2024, Biden misreading his mandate

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - Elon Musk attends The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala celebrating the opening of the &quot;In America: An Anthology of Fashion&quot; exhibition on Monday, May 2, 2022, in New York. Elon Musk, who’s offering to buy Twitter, has given his support to a new European Union law aimed at protecting social media users from harmful content after he met with the bloc’s single market chief. In a video tweeted late Monday, May 9 by EU Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton, Musk said the two had a “great discussion” and he agrees with the bloc’s online regulations. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, file)

Musk says he would reverse Twitter’s ban of Donald Trump

By Matt O'Brien, Kelvin Chan and Tom Krisher

The Twitter application is seen on a digital device, Monday, April 25, 2022, in San Diego. Elon Musk reached an agreement to buy Twitter for roughly $44 billion on Monday, promising a more lenient touch to policing content on the platform where he promotes his interests, attacks critics and opines on social and economic issues to more than 83 million followers. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

Elon Musk asked to testify on Twitter by UK Parliament

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A Waymo minivan moves along a city street as an empty driver's seat and a moving steering wheel drive passengers during an autonomous vehicle ride, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Chandler, Ariz. Waymo, a unit of Google parent Alphabet Inc., is one of several companies testing driverless vehicles in the U.S. But it's the first offering lifts to the public with no humans at the wheel who can take over in sticky situations. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

Almost ready to roll: Self-driving cars face patchwork of regulatory roadblocks

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times