BREAKING: Three Tesla employees die in Palo Alto plane crash *UPDATE

Filed under: Etc. , Tesla Motors A small, twin-engined Cessna crashed this morning in an East Palo Alto neighborhood, killing all three passengers on board. According to reports, the plane was owned by Doug Bourn, a senior electrical engineer for Tesla Motors , and all three occupants were high-ranking officials employees at the electric car company.

Tesla CEO Musk used private jet 12 times to lobby Washington for DOE loans

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors When the CEOs of the three Detroit based automakers used corporate jets to fly to Washington in late 2008, they were eviscerated by the national media and grandstanding politicians. Within weeks, all three companies had canceled the leases on those aircraft and all future travel by Detroit executives would be happening on commercial aircraft

Tesla hires new manufacturing lead, but there’s more

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors With the news that Tesla Motors will soon go public , there’s been a lot of scrutiny of and discussion about the company’s future plans. On the corporate side, that involves things like former Toyota production engineering general manager Gilbert Passin joining the company as leader of Tesla’s vehicle manufacturing operations. On the media side , that means digging into the SEC filing and reporting that the current-gen Roadster is not long for this world and that: The Roadster wait list is down to 220 people and that a “significant number” of people who had reserved cars have canceled their orders.

Tesla files with the feds for IPO

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Legislation and Policy , USA Tesla Model S - click above for high-res image gallery For the first time in more than fifty years, a U.S. automaker is holding a public offering.

REPORT: Elon Musk says Fisker is "very far" from overcoming EV hurdles

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Tesla Motors , Green Daily , Fisker In some ways, the all-electric Tesla Roadster and the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma don’t compete. The difference in powertrains, which will filter down to the two compaies’ lower-cost models, the Tesla Model S and Fisker’s Project Nina vehicle, means that slightly different consumers are going to be interested in these cars. In other ways, though, Fisker and Tesla go head-to-head for the luxury green car market, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t afraid to fan the competition flames a bit

Martin Eberhard and Elon Musk reach settlement in lawsuit

Filed under: Tesla Motors About a month ago we heard that Martin Eberhard had decided to drop his defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla Motors. Now comes word that Eberhard and the defendants have actually reached a settlement. Given the ruling of the judge in the case that the suit could proceed, apart from the claim that Musk was falsely claiming a role as co-founder, the settlement should not come as a surprise.

Tesla lawsuit update: Eberhard not declared one of two founders, case not dismissed

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Green Daily There aren’t yet any news reports posted about the events in court today surrounding the Tesla Motors lawsuit filed by ex-CEO Martin Eberhard, but we know from a new statement put out by Tesla that the judge struck down Eberhard’s request to be declared one of just two founders of the company.

Tesla Motors’ lawsuit update: Martin Eberhard, Elon Musk have a court date tomorrow

Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Green Daily The legal battle between Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk and ex-CEO Martin Eberhard continues tomorrow in San Mateo County Superior Court when Musk and Tesla’s lawyers will ask a judge to toss out Eberhard’s original lawsuit . Earlier this year, Eberhard filed a lawsuit that alleges that Musk, among other things, “committed a series of actions that not only resulted in the delay of the release of the Roadster to the consumer market, but also compromised Tesla Motors’ financial health.” Eberhard is also asking that Musk stop referring to himself as a founder of Tesla Motors (read more on the lawsuit here and here ). The AP spoke to legal experts about the case who said that Eberhard’s request on the founder issue could be seen as a “prior restraint” request “that is only granted by judges in extremely rare instances such as when publication threatens national security.” It could backfire

Elon Musk: Daimler’s "golden handcuffs" mean I’ll stay with Tesla through Model S launch

For a guy who allegedly wants a lot of the credit for creating Tesla Motors, Elon Musk certainly doesn’t seem to like the job of being its CEO. As part of Daimler’s investment deal with Tesla , Musk needed to commit to staying on as Tesla’s CEO at least until the Model S launches in 2011.

Tesla files motion for dismissal of Eberhard lawsuit

And the battle goes on .

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