The lawsuit, lodged at a California court, came after a report that Tesla employees shared videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras between 2019 and 2022

Tesla will build a second factory in Shanghai to make its Megapack battery storage units, aiming to initially produce 10,000 a year, for sale around the world

Customer images from Tesla's self-driving software are assessed by data labellers, who identify objects and 'teach' the AI system in its EVs how to respond, but sometimes the images are revealing

Analysts say an ageing product line, yet-to-be-upgraded navigation systems and an absence of luxury interior touches have also taken a toll on Tesla

EV maker will open 3,500 new and existing superchargers on highways, and 4,000 slower chargers at places like hotels and restaurants, to non-Tesla customers by the end of 2024 in federal deal

The US carmaker's aggressive price cuts earlier this year helped it to stoke demand amid rising inventories

The US auto firm plans to ramp up output at its Shanghai plant over the next two months to meet demand sparked by price cuts early last month

Chief executive Elon Musk said the EV-maker's 2023 deliveries could hit 2 million vehicles, so long as there were no external disruptions

Asked about rival companies in China, Musk said he respected Chinese carmakers and called it the most competitive market in the world

For most of 2022, Tesla joined rivals in aggressively raising EV prices but its decision to reverse course now challenges automakers’ established strategy of pursuing profit-over-volume

The Vietnamese EV-maker hopes to compete with existing automakers in the US by offering two models, the VF8 and VF9, with starting prices of $59,000 and $83,000

Tesla’s Autopilot team set out to engineer and record a “demonstration of the system’s capabilities” at the request of Musk, a senior engineer said