3 h. ago Elon Musk's Tesla fined in Welsh court after repeated failure to cooperate with UK police

The latest conviction saw fines handed out at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court

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3 h. ago Elon Musk's Tesla firm fined in Welsh court after repeated failure to cooperate with UK police

The latest conviction saw fines handed out at Merthyr Tydfil Magistrates' Court

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30 h. ago Elon Musk floats idea of buying Ryanair after calling CEO ‘an idiot’

Tesla boss clashed with Michael O’Leary when airline boss rejected installing Starlink technology on aircraftBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk has floated the idea of buying theh budget airline Ryanair, escalating his public spat with the Irish carrier’s boss, Michael O’Leary.The two outspoken businessmen have locked horns since last week, when O’Leary was asked whether he would follow Lufthansa and British Airways in installing Musk’s Starlink satellite internet technology on his fleet of 650 aircraft. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Elon Musk suggests he could buy Ryanair amid spat with boss Michael O’Leary

Mr O’Leary called the Tesla founder an idiot in a row over WiFi on the airline’s planes.

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5 d. ago Extraditing TikToker on private jet for £16,000 ‘only viable option’ – police

Harrison Sullivan, known as HSTikkyTokky on TikTok, had to be repatriated to the UK last summer after he avoided police custody for almost 12 months.

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2 w. ago How BYD just overtook Tesla to become the world’s most popular EV seller

Elon Musk’s firm has seen its sales drop for the second straight year. Anthony Cuthbertson charts the company’s recent decline, as well as the meteoric rise of China’s BYD

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2 w. ago British schoolgirl Charlotte Niddam named as victim of horror New Year's Swiss ski resort fire

Hertfordshire teen Charlotte Niddam was one of the final victims to have her identity confimed by police - Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper has called the news 'devastating'

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2 w. ago The electric vehicle revolution is still on course – don’t let your loathing of Elon Musk stop you joining up | Zoe Williams

Other firms are taking advantage of Tesla’s sales slump, while technological advances mean that glitches are being left in the rear-view mirrorIn another era, before Elon Musk bought Twitter, changed its name to X to mark the spot of its descent into barbarism, honed Grok, a generator of far-right propaganda, swung behind Donald Trump and made what appeared to be a Nazi salute, I already knew he was a wrong ’un. The year was 2019, and I was test-driving a Tesla; while I was ambling off the forecourt, the PR told me jauntily that the windscreen was made of a material that would protect the driver from biohazards. I hit the brakes. “You what? What kind of biohazard? Like, a war?” She misconstrued me, thinking I intended to go and find some toxic waste site to see if it worked, and said: “I’m not sure it’s operational in the press fleet.”That wasn’t my question: rather, what kind of a world was Tesla preparing for? One so unstable that an average (though affluent) private citizen would...

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2 w. ago China’s BYD overtakes Tesla as world’s biggest electric car seller

Sales at Elon Musk’s company slump after Donald Trump’s withdrawal of EV subsidiesChina’s BYD overtook Tesla as the world’s largest electric carmaker in 2025, after the US company run by Elon Musk reported a slump in deliveries at the end of the year.BYD sold 2.26m battery electric cars during the year, easily outstripping the 1.63m deliveries reported on Friday by Tesla for the same period. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Tesla loses title as world's biggest electric vehicle maker as sales fall for second year in a row

Tesla lost its crown as the world’s bestselling electric vehicle maker on Friday as a customer revolt over Elon Musk’s right-wing politics and stiff overseas competition pushed sales down for a second year in a row

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3 w. ago Elon Musk’s 2025 recap: how the world’s richest person became its most chaotic

How the tech CEO and ‘Dogefather’ made a mess of the year – from an apparent Nazi salute during his White House tenure to Tesla sales slumps and Starship explosionsThe year of 2025 was dizzying for Elon Musk. The tech titan began the year holding court with Donald Trump in Washington DC. As the months ticked by, one public appearance after another baffled the US and the world. Musk appeared to give a Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration, staunchly championed a 19-year-old staffer nicknamed “Big Balls,” denied reports of being a drug addict while advising the president, and showed up at a White House press conference with a black eye – all in the first half of the year alone.“Elon’s attitude is you have to get it done fast. If you’re an incrementalist, you just won’t get your rocket to the moon,” Susie Wiles, Trump’s chief of staff, told Vanity Fair in an expansive interview earlier this month. “And so with that attitude, you’re going to break some china.” Continue reading...

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