Tesla
Xi speech warrior: Elon Musk’s love affair with China
Elon Musk revels in the role of ‘free speech absolutist’. Last week, for instance, he jumped to the defence of…
What Elon Musk doesn't get about peace
The power one person can hold should never be underestimated. They can take people’s lives, as Vladimir Putin does, or…
The ups and downs of driving a Tesla
I began the week in Miami, looking forward to what a friend of mine describes as ‘the finest sight in…
Why Elon Musk should forget Twitter and stick to Tesla
I spent Easter agonising over whether to throw the considerable weight of this column behind Elon Musk’s maverick $43 billion…
The hypocrisy of Elon Musk
Tesla’s sleek, if expensive, electric cars are leading the battle against climate change. Its batteries are moving renewable energy into the…
How we did the locomotion: A Brief History of Motion, by Tom Standage, reviewed
Audi will make no more fuel engines after 2035. So that’s the end of the Age of Combustion, signalled by…
Why I won’t buy a Tesla
I loved the Ford Mustang Mach-E which I had on loan for four days. It was gorgeous to drive, and…
Charging ahead: how to get the best out of an electric car
Where do you want to go? China or India? I have always found India infinitely more fascinating — for a…
Up Crash: why are markets soaring as the economy tanks?
The economy is tanking but stock markets are soaring. Why?
Sell bitcoin, buy Tesla
Which is madder, bitcoin at $41,500 — oops, make that $31,000 on Monday — or Tesla shares at $880 apiece?…
The surprising brilliance of meal kits
Ford’s Kumar Galhotra once remarked that carmaking is 100,000 rational decisions in search of one emotional decision. You spend five…
The stock market isn’t the success story Trump thinks it is
COVID-19 is still raging, with little sign of coming under control. The economy is already a tenth smaller than it…
Cars weren’t invented for transportation, but conversation
When I first heard Abba’s magnificent 1982 swansong ‘The Day Before You Came’, I’d never come across the Americanised use…
Is there anywhere visitors will be welcome this summer?
Do stock markets foretell the future while politicians fudge and economists mumble? No: share prices collectively have a life of…
It’s mavericks like Elon Musk who’ll get us through this crisis
This month’s most significant corporate deal attracted less attention than it might have done in normal times, crowded out by…
Portrait of the week: Europe’s lockdowns ease, England stays alert and Broadway stays shut
Home The government changed its slogan from ‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’ to ‘Stay alert, control the virus,…
Elon Musk slays California’s anti-business beast
After a lengthy battle with public health officials in Alameda County, California, Elon Musk has emerged victorious. Tesla — the…
The dream of driverless cars is dying
I was worried that going to the autonomous vehicle exhibition in Stuttgart would be tantamount to an atheist walking into…
My £30k alternative to HS2
Someone in New York told me this story. I admit that I didn’t believe it when I first heard it.…
