Tesla and SpaceX: Elon Musk's industrial empire

For a company that makes silent cars, Tesla Motors is causing quite a ruckus. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based electric-car manufacturer built a direct-to-consumer sales model in New York that darted around a state law protecting dealerships. Car dealers

For a company that makes silent cars, Tesla Motors is causing quite a ruckus. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based electric-car manufacturer built a direct-to-consumer sales model in New York that darted around a state law protecting dealerships. Car dealers

Tesla's Model S may have a good safety record, but even two accident-related battery fires are too many for the perfection-obsessed (and image-conscious)

Elon Musk: Well, I didn't really think Tesla would be successful. I thought we would most likely fail. But I thought that we at least could address the false perception that people have that an electric car had to be ugly and slow