The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/eeoc">EEOC</a>) issued a reasonable cause finding to automaker <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> over <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/systemic-racism">systemic racism</a> allegations, according to a recent filing from the company.
In February, California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) <a href="https://www.dfeh.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2022/02/TeslaPR2.10.22.pdf">said</a> that it had received hundreds of complaints from African-American workers who claimed they had been segregated “to the lowest levels of the workforce” at the company and lacked representation “in the ranks of executives, senior officials, and managers.” Tesla’s most recent <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000095017022012936/tsla-20220630.htm">filing</a> with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) indicated that the EEOC had issued a finding that “closely parallels” allegations from the state of California.
Tesla will begin the “mandatory pre-filing conciliation process” with the EEOC, according to the document, by which the company will potentially <a href="https://www.eeoc.gov/laws/guidance/what-you-should-know-eeoc-conciliation-and-litigation">engage</a> in a mutual resolution with the alleged victims of discrimination.
Yet Tesla had formerly called the DFEH investigation “misguided” and an attempt to “generate publicity,” noting that every one of the more than 50 discrimination accusations faced by Tesla over the past five years had been debunked by the DFEH.
“It therefore strains credibility for the agency to now allege, after a three-year investigation, that systematic racial discrimination and harassment somehow existed at Tesla,” the company said in a <a href="https://www.tesla.com/blog/dfehs-misguided-lawsuit">blog post</a>. “A narrative spun by the DFEH and a handful of plaintiff firms to generate publicity is not factual proof … Attacking a company like Tesla that has done so much good for California should not be the overriding aim of a state agency with prosecutorial authority.”
The news of the federal inquiry follows the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/feds-confirm-investigation-into-elon-musk">announcing</a> in May that it would investigate Musk’s disclosure that he failed to disclose on time that he held more than 5% of Twitter shares. Musk has since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-misses-earnings-forecast-blames-elon-musk">argued</a> that Twitter’s disclosed number of false or spam accounts is inaccurate and claimed that the company has neglected to provide him with precise information about its number of users.
The Biden administration’s Department of Energy said on Monday that it would provide General Motors (GM) with a $2.5 billion loan to finance construction of new electric battery facilities in Ohio, Tennessee, and Michigan, according to a report from <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/exclusive-us-energy-department-set-loan-gm-battery-joint-venture-25-bln-2022-07-25/">Reuters</a>. President Joe Biden has frequently lauded GM and Ford amid their efforts to expand electric vehicle offerings — yet has consistently decided to turn a blind eye to Tesla, the world’s largest electric vehicle automaker.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki hinted at Tesla’s lack of unionization last year when she was asked why the company did not receive an invitation to an electric vehicle <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-bidens-electric-vehicle-summit-excludes-tesla">summit</a> in which Ford and GM participated.
“Well, we, of course, welcome the efforts of all automakers who recognize the potential of an electric vehicle future and support efforts that will help reach the president’s goal. And certainly, Tesla is one of those companies,” Psaki said. “Today, it’s the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers, and the UAW president who will stand with President Biden as he announces his ambitious new target, but I would not expect this is the last time we talk about clean cars, the move toward electric vehicles, and we look forward to having a range of partners in that effort.”
Nevertheless, GM recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-praised-gm-over-tesla-now-gm-is-moving-jobs-to-mexico">announced</a> that it plans to manufacture the battery-powered 2024 Chevrolet Blazer in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, where the gas-powered version of the car is presently assembled.

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Federal Government Launches Systemic Racism Probe Into Tesla

Federal Government Takes Cue From California, Launches Systemic Racism Probe Into Tesla

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Elon Musk had an affair with the wife of one of the world’s top 10 richest men late last year which caused the couple to get divorced and ended the “longtime” friendship between the two men, according to a new report. Musk has since forcefully denied the accusation.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musk-affair-sergey-brin-wife-divorce-11658674840">reported</a> that Musk “engaged in a brief affair last fall with the wife of Sergey Brin” in early December 2021 at the Art Basel event in Miami, according to &#8220;people familiar with the matter.&#8221;
Brin, co-founder of Alphabet, the parent company of Google, is the world&#8217;s <a href="https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DexuBik1kPoJ:https://www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/profiles/sergey-brin/+&amp;cd=18&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us">eighth</a> richest man, worth nearly $95 billion. The company also owns Android and YouTube.
The affair prompted Brin to file for divorce from wife Nicole Shanahan earlier this year and has ended the friendship between the two men, the sources claim.
The report noted that Musk and Brin were so close at one point that Musk had regularly slept at Brin’s home and Brin had loaned Musk money at one point when Tesla was struggling during its early days.
The report claimed that Musk “dropped to one knee in front of Brin and apologized profusely for the transgression” during a party earlier this year and was “begging for forgiveness.” The report said that Brin acknowledged the apology but he is not speaking with Musk and he has ordered his team to sell his personal investments in Musk’s companies.
Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-responds-to-accusations-that-he-slept-with-wife-of-google-co-founder">responded</a> to the report in a series of social media posts Sunday. “This is total bs. Sergey and I are friends and were at a party together last night!” Musk wrote on Twitter. “I’ve only seen Nicole twice in three years, both times with many other people around. Nothing romantic.”
“WSJ has run so many bs hit pieces on me and Tesla I’ve lost count! It’s embarrassing for them, frankly,” Musk continued. “They once wrote an article saying FBI was about to arrest me, so I called FBI to ask what’s up and they said WSJ article was total bs. Just more shortseller fud.”
Musk’s personal life has come under fire this year after a female flight attendant at one of his companies <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-makes-sexual-misconduct-claim-against-elon-musk">accused</a> him of exposing himself to her, which he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-responds-to-sexual-misconduct-allegations-from-flight-attendant-issues-a-challenge-to-her">denies</a>; his alleged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-fathered-twins-with-top-executive-just-weeks-before-having-child-with-another-woman">fathering</a> of two children with an executive at his company Neuralink, his dad <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-father-has-second-child-with-his-stepsister-report">fathering</a> a second child with his stepsister, and one of his children publicly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-trans-son-files-to-change-name-disses-dad">disowning</a> him.
The issues in Musk’s personal life come as he is facing litigation surrounding his attempt to back out of buying Twitter, which he purchased earlier this year for $44 billion.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-blows-up-twitter-deal">reported</a> earlier this month that a letter sent by Musk’s attorneys to Twitter’s Chief Legal Officer Vijaya Gadde stated that he wanted to call off the deal because officials had not been able to give him the information he needed with regard to the percentage of fake “bot” accounts present on the platform.
“As further described below, Mr. Musk is terminating the Merger Agreement because Twitter is in material breach of multiple provisions of that Agreement, appears to have made false and misleading representations upon which Mr. Musk relied when entering into the Merger Agreement, and is likely to suffer a Company Material Adverse Effect (as that term is defined in the Merger Agreement),” the letter said.
Virginia Kruta contributed to this report. 
This article has been updated to include Musk&#8217;s response to the Journal&#8217;s report.

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Musk Had Affair With Wife Of World’s Top 10 Richest Man, Report Claims; Musk Responds

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michigan">Michigan</a> auto giant <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ford-motor-co">Ford</a> is planning on laying off up to 8,000 workers to help the company fund its electric vehicle (EV) projects, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/ford-plans-up-to-8-000-job-cuts-to-help-fund-investments-in-evs?srnd=premium#xj4y7vzkg">according</a> to a Wednesday report from Bloomberg.
The cuts, though still pending, are expected to be implemented in the coming weeks and will affect salaried workers, as well as the automaker’s new Ford Blue unit that was created in March to oversee internal combustion engine operations, Bloomberg reported.
“To deliver our Ford+ transformation and lead this exciting and disruptive new era of electric and connected vehicles, we remain focused on reshaping our work and modernizing our organization across all automotive business units and across the company,” Ford spokesman T.R. Reid <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/ford-cut-8000-jobs-bloomberg-news-2022-07-20/">said</a>, adding, “As part of this, we have laid out clear targets to lower our cost structure to ensure we are lean and fully competitive with the best in the industry.”
While Ford did not comment on the reported upcoming layoffs, the company has a meeting scheduled for Thursday where it’s expected to update shareholders on the future of its EV production. The company wants to reach 600,000 EVs produced by next year and two million EVs by 2026.
The Bloomberg report flies in the face of a June <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2022/06/02/ford-to-invest-two-billion-to-create-new-manufacturing-jobs-in-michigan#:~:text=%E2%80%9CWe%20are%20thrilled%20that%20Ford,our%20economy%20grow%20even%20stronger.">announcement</a> from Michigan Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer that celebrated Ford’s $2 billion investment to create over 3,000 jobs in the state related to its EV production.
“We are thrilled that Ford is advancing its long legacy in Michigan by investing $2 billion to create 3,200 good-paying UAW jobs. Today’s announcement marks another historic economic win for the state in recent months and will help our economy grow even stronger,” the governor said on June 2.
“I am proud that we came together to deliver economic development legislation that has helped us land huge projects, creating thousands of jobs,” Whitmer added. “With this announcement, Michigan has added nearly 25,000 auto jobs since I took office and we continue to lead the future of mobility and electrification.”
According to the governor’s office, Ford’s multi-billion dollar investment “ensures future opportunity for EV manufacturing growth, while securing internal combustion engine portfolio in Michigan.” That promise appears to be at odds with Ford’s reported plan to cut jobs, but it remains unclear how many Michigan jobs will be affected by Ford&#8217;s reported upcoming layoffs.
In March, Ford admitted that its EV project would not be profitable until at least 2025 when its next generation models come out. Ford CEO Jim Farley also said at a conference in February that EV portfolios were “under-earning,” and that the company had &#8220;too many people.&#8221;

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Ford Plans To Cut 8,000 Jobs So It Can Fund EV Push: Report

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> only bore 1% of the blame for the death of a teen in a fiery car crash, but is still on the hook for $10.5 million, a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a> jury determined Monday.
Barrett Riley, who was just 18 when he crashed his Model S sedan into a concrete wall at 116 mph in 2018, died at the scene. One teen passenger also died, while the third survived. His parents sued the electric carmaker when they learned it had deactivated a governor they had installed to prevent their son from speeding.
“Well, I guess we shouldn’t have taken the limiter off,” Tesla owner Elon Musk <a href="https://fortune.com/2022/07/08/musk-admitted-tesla-made-mistake-removing-speed-limiter-before-crash-that-killed-teenager-father-tells-court/">allegedly</a> told James Riley in a phone call, according to Riley’s testimony.
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Barrett Riley had been cited months earlier for driving 112 mph and his parents were concerned about his driving enough to have the device installed, according to trial testimony. But at trial, it emerged that the limiter, which made it impossible to exceed 85 miles per hour, was disabled by a Tesla technician, who the company said Barrett Riley “tricked” into performing the task, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/jury-finds-tesla-just-1-liable-owes-105-mln-over-fatal-crash-2022-07-19/">according to Reuters</a>.
The Rileys also claimed that the lithium-ion <a href="https://www.autoblotg.com/tag/battery/">battery</a>, which ignited in the crash, was defective and contributed to their son’s death.
The Fort Lauderdale jury found Barrett Riley 90% responsible, his father 9% to blame and the automaker just 1%, yet awarded James Riley $4.5 million and Jenny Riley $6 million.
Tesla&#8217;s lawyers did not immediately respond on Tuesday to requests for comment.
Riley&#8217;s parents said the crash occurred after Tesla, without their knowledge, disabled a device capping the Model S&#8217;s speed at 85 mph and that the crash would likely have been fatal even if the limiter was working.
“A speed limiter is not a safety device,” Tesla attorney Vince Galvin said during the opening arguments. “Is it all right if they crash at 85mph instead of 116mph?”
In a statement, the Rileys&#8217; attorney Curtis Miner said they were pleased with the negligence finding, and hoped the case would help prevent other accidents and save lives.
Although it was not at issue in Barrett Riley’s fatal crash, the Tesla autopilot feature has prompted other lawsuits stemming from crashes.
Most recently, a California family retained a prominent personal injury law firm to represent them in the wake of a crash that left two dead after their 2015 Tesla slammed into the back of a freight truck near Gainesville, Florida.

Jury Finds Tesla 1% To Blame For Fatal Crash Of Teen Who ‘Tricked’ Technician, But Owes Parents $10.5M

Jury Finds Tesla 1% To Blame For Teen's Fatal Crash, But Owes Parents $10.5M

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A judge on Tuesday granted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter">Twitter</a> a five-day trial set for October in the platform&#8217;s case against <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>.
Twitter is trying to force the tech billionaire to buy the platform after Musk announced he wanted to terminate the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-purge-is-coming-twitter-explodes-after-elon-musk-tanks-44-billion-deal">$44 billion deal</a> based on Twitter’s alleged failure to disclose accurate information on the number of spam accounts on the platform.
&#8220;The reality is that delay threatens irreparable harm to the seller, Twitter, for the reasons I described earlier: The longer the delay, the greater the risk,&#8221; Delaware Chancery Court Judge Kathaleen McCormick ruled Tuesday, <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/twitter-elon-musk-hearing-152545679.html">according</a> to Yahoo! Finance.
&#8220;Given this reality I think a schedule closer to the norm is in order. For this reason, I think we should go to trial in October of this year,&#8221; the judge added.
Musk inquired early on about data regarding fake and &#8220;bot” accounts on the social media site, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-purge-is-coming-twitter-explodes-after-elon-musk-tanks-44-billion-deal">The Daily Wire</a> reported. In a <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922078413/tm2220599d1_ex99-p.htm">letter</a> sent through his attorneys, dated July 8, Musk claimed the information had not been provided and demanded the termination of the agreement to buy the platform.
“Mr. Musk and his financial advisors at Morgan Stanley have been requesting critical information from Twitter as far back as May 9, 2022 — and repeatedly since then — on the relationship between Twitter’s disclosed mDAU figures and the prevalence of false or spam accounts on the platform,” the letter said, adding, “Notwithstanding these repeated requests over the past two months, Twitter has still failed to provide much of the data and information responsive to Mr. Musk’s repeated requests.”
Days later, on July 12, Twitter <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-twitter-files-lawsuit-against-elon-musk-for-refusing-to-honor-his-obligations">sued</a> Musk in an attempt to compel him to go through with the deal.
“Musk refuses to honor his obligations to Twitter and its stockholders because the deal he signed no longer serves his personal interests,” the lawsuit <a href="https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:0ef7d871-947c-3ed5-8b88-b3b582ee8d08#pageNum=3">said</a>. “Musk apparently believes that he — unlike every other party subject to Delaware contract law — is free to change his mind, trash the company, disrupt its operations, destroy stockholder value, and walk away.”
Musk initially said he wanted to buy the platform for reasons outside of financial gain.
“It’s important to the function of democracy, it’s important to the function of the United States as a free country and many other countries, and to help freedom in the world more broadly than in the U.S.,” the billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-twitter-files-lawsuit-against-elon-musk-for-refusing-to-honor-his-obligations">said</a>. “Civilizational risk is decreased the more we can increase the trust of Twitter as a public platform, and so I do think this will be somewhat painful.”
Twitter has been accused of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-bias">repeated bias</a> against the Right.

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It’s Happening: Five-Day Trial Date Set For Elon Musk-Twitter Dispute

Five-Day Trial Date Set For Elon Musk-Twitter Dispute

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Twitter

General Motors (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/general-motors">GM</a>) is planning to build its newest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/electric-cars">electric vehicle</a> in Mexico, the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">company</a> said on Monday.
Slated to arrive in the American marketplace next summer, the 2024 Chevrolet Blazer will be manufactured in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico, where the gas-powered version of the car is presently assembled, according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/18/gm-reveals-chevrolet-blazer-ev-with-pricing-up-from-45000.html">CNBC</a>. Versions of the electric vehicle will sell for between $45,000 and $66,000 and have a range of up to 320 miles.
In response to the news of GM’s expansion in Mexico, Tesla CEO Elon Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1549440612021243906">commented</a> on social media that “Teslas are the most made-in-USA vehicles.”
Indeed, President Joe Biden has frequently lauded GM and Ford amid their efforts to expand electric vehicle offerings — yet has consistently decided to omit the world’s largest electric vehicle automaker.
“Ford is investing $11B to build electric vehicles — creating 11,000 jobs across the country,” a post from Biden’s social media <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-hits-joe-biden-hard-after-state-of-the-union">said</a> as his most recent State of the Union speech concluded. “GM is making the largest investment in its history — $7B to build electric vehicles, creating 4,000 jobs in Michigan.”
Musk, who has since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/take-the-red-pill-how-elon-musk-came-to-embrace-the-republican-party">expressed support</a> for Republican candidates, then <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1498858611241635843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">noted</a> that his company has created more than 50,000 jobs in the United States, as well as invested “more than double” GM and Ford combined. Months ago, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-dons-cowboy-hat-to-launch-new-tesla-factory-in-texas">unveiled</a> his company’s new manufacturing facility near Austin, Texas.
The snubbing from the Biden administration may lie in the fact that Tesla is not unionized. On the <a href="https://joebiden.com/empowerworkers/#">campaign trail</a>, Biden had pledged to “encourage and incentivize unionization and collective bargaining” while supporting legislation such as the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, which <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-democrats-pro-act-three-things-you-need-to-know">threatens</a> to eliminate states’ right to work laws and erode the legal status of independent contractors.
Former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki hinted at Tesla’s lack of unionization last year when she was asked why the company was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joe-bidens-electric-vehicle-summit-excludes-tesla">not invited</a> to an electric vehicle summit in which Ford and GM participated.
“Well, we, of course, welcome the efforts of all automakers who recognize the potential of an electric vehicle future and support efforts that will help reach the president’s goal. And certainly, Tesla is one of those companies,” Psaki said. “Today, it’s the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers, and the UAW president who will stand with President Biden as he announces his ambitious new target, but I would not expect this is the last time we talk about clean cars, the move toward electric vehicles, and we look forward to having a range of partners in that effort.”
When pressed on whether Tesla was omitted because it is not unionized, Psaki repeated that attendees included “the three largest employers of the United Auto Workers.”
“I’ll let you draw your own conclusions,” she added.
At the time, one electric vehicle YouTuber <a href="https://twitter.com/arctechinc/status/1423315146378649600">noted</a> on Twitter that Musk could have a seat at the table if he had “moved Tesla manufacturing to Mexico like Ford did.”
“Apparently good paying American jobs, making 100% Electric vehicles isn’t enough to be shown as an example of how other manufacturers should behave?” he observed.
Musk replied: “Irony indeed.”

Biden Praised GM Over Tesla. Now, GM Is Moving Jobs To Mexico

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Tesla is asking all Texas-based customers to avoid charging their electric vehicles during certain times of the day as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/texas">the Lone Star State</a> is currently experiencing a massive heatwave that is straining its electrical power grid.
On Wednesday, The Verge <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/13/23207428/tesla-texas-ev-charging-heatwave-off-peak-grid">reported</a> that Tesla recently sent a notice to the screens inside Tesla vehicles in Texas saying, &#8220;A heat wave is expected to impact the grid in Texas over the next few days.&#8221;
&#8220;The grid operator recommends to avoid charging during peak hours between 3pm and 8pm, if possible, to help statewide efforts to manage demand,&#8221; the alert added.
On Monday, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) — which operates the state&#8217;s power grid — asked residents to conserve energy between the hours of 2:00 pm and 8:00 pm local time by not using heavy appliances during that timeframe.
Texas uses a mix of fossil fuels and renewables to keep its electrical grid running. When major heat waves move through the state, wind power is often decreased due to a change in pressure in the atmosphere. Thus, the state&#8217;s wind turbines are failing to produce the necessary amount of energy to keep the grid operating without significant problems.
Texas has experienced similar issues in recent years due to extreme weather — including winter storms. The state so far has been able to avoid rolling blackouts during the latest weather calamity — which some say is because of voluntary cutbacks on energy. While others argue that the problem is overly relying on wind power or insufficient investment in the energy infrastructure.
Daniel Turner, the founder of Power the Future, told The Daily Wire that the recurring energy problems illustrate one of the major drawbacks of transferring to green energy. In recent years, Texas has<a href="https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2021/04/26/after_the_texas_blackouts_follow_the_wind_and_solar_money__all_66_billion_of_it_774468.html"> spent billions</a> increasing the capacity of its wind farms.
&#8220;Texas has spent $66 billion of taxpayer money on renewable energy with the promise of 30,000 MW of capacity,&#8221; he said in an emailed statement. &#8220;According to ERCOT for the last few days it has generated far less than that.&#8221;
On Monday, ERCOT <a href="https://www.ercot.com/news/release?id=90030206-5cf5-db8e-13d1-f8fe2bd0128f">announced</a>, &#8220;While solar power is generally reaching near full generation capacity, wind generation is currently generating significantly less than what it historically generated in this time period. Current projections show wind generation coming in less than 10 percent of its capacity.&#8221;
&#8220;This is the ongoing lie about green energy,&#8221; Turner continued. &#8220;Capacity is not a valid metric since it is dependent on unknowable wind and sun. The electric grid requires constancy yet it is being sourced with a persistent variable. This is the application of the social sciences, political philosophy, and equity studies to the hard science — not engineering and physics.&#8221;
Turner explained further, saying that despite rhetoric emphasizing that green energy is beneficial — it can severely impact your day-to-day habits.
&#8220;Texans are sent warnings to raise their air condition temperature and not use appliances like washing machines,&#8221; Turner clarified. &#8220;These are the messages sent to the developing world, yet in the name of &#8216;progress&#8217; Texans are taking steps backward in their quality of life.&#8221;
Turner also pointed out that the state is currently being assisted by fossil fuels — the kind demonized by leftists — to keep the grid afloat.
Others, like the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), argue that the state&#8217;s ongoing problems point to the fact that more investment is needed in the grid to ensure it can run smoothly.
Texas&#8217; grid largely relies on its own power structure  — meaning that it is essentially incapable of using energy from neighboring states during times of need.
&#8220;Texas suffered the worst outcomes in large part because most of the state is an electrical island with very limited connections to neighboring states,&#8221; NRDC <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/christy-walsh/texas-storm-proved-need-grid-investments">said</a> in a February 2022 press release while discussing a 2020 winter storm that caused several days of blackouts in Texas. &#8220;With no transmission crossing state lines, it could not lean on its neighbors for power.&#8221;
NRDC says the solution is to have a diverse power grid capable of maximizing its energy potential in conjunction with other energy providers.
&#8220;No single power source is infallible, but a nimble and resilient grid can deliver electricity across the country from the producers that have it to the areas that need it,&#8221; NRDC <a href="https://www.nrdc.org/experts/christy-walsh/texas-storm-proved-need-grid-investments">added</a>.
Tesla, led by the world&#8217;s richest man Elon Musk, moved its headquarters to Texas from California in late 2021.

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Tesla Asks Texans To Limit Charging Cars During Heat Wave As Wind Power Slows

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After taking a short Twitter hiatus, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> is back and making jokes at his own expense, it would appear. 
The billionaire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> CEO shared a familiar take on the crisis of declining <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/population">birth rates</a>, an issue that he’s raised before. What made this time significant is that his tweet came one day after reports surfaced that Musk had secretly fathered twins with a top executive at his neurotechnology firm, Neuralink.
While the richest man in the world didn’t reference the report directly, his message seemed to confirm it was true.
“Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis,” Musk tweeted Thursday. “A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.”
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Doing my best to help the underpopulation crisis.
A collapsing birth rate is the biggest danger civilization faces by far.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1545046146548019201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 7, 2022</a></blockquote>
“Mark my words, they are sadly true,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1545047278976524294">wrote</a> in a follow-up.
The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-fathered-twins-with-top-executive-just-weeks-before-having-child-with-another-woman">reported</a> on Wednesday that Musk, 51, had welcomed twins late last year, just weeks before he had his second child with then-girlfriend Claire Boucher, who is a musician known as Grimes. 
The twin babies were born to Shivon Zilis, 36, who serves as the youngest member of OpenAI’s board of directors. A petition was filed to have Musk’s last name and Zilis’s last name as part of their middle name, per reports from <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shivon-zilis-secret-twins-neuralink-tesla">Business Insider</a>.
The twins would bring the grand total to nine children that the billionaire claims as his own. Musk has fathered children with several women over the years and boasts offspring including Nevada Musk, Griffin Musk, Xavier Musk, Kai Musk, Saxon Musk, Damian Musk, X AE A-Xii Musk, and Exa Dark Sideræl Musk.
It’s clear that the SpaceX CEO is worried about population collapse while most celebrities warn about overpopulation.
“I can’t emphasize this enough, there are not enough people,” Musk <a href="https://www.wsj.com/podcasts/the-journal/elon-musk-on-why-he-wants-more-robots-and-less-government/2504773d-8111-494c-a4e6-1f708d2526f8">told</a> The Wall Street Journal during an interview. “And I think one of the biggest risks to civilization is the low birth rate and the rapidly declining birth rate.”
“And yet, so many people, including smart people, think that there are too many people in the world and think that the population is growing out of control,” the billionaire continued.
“It’s completely the opposite,” Musk concluded. “Please look at the numbers. If people don’t have more children, civilization is going to crumble. Mark my words.”

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'Doing My Best To Help The Underpopulation Crisis': Elon Musk Tweets Just After Secret Twin Birth Revealed

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> closed down an office in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/california">California</a> and will <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/unemployment">lay off</a> some employees while relocating others, according to a Tuesday report from <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-lays-off-some-staff-in-closing-san-mateo-calif-office-11656462461">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
The report is one of several that follow Tesla CEO <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-has-a-super-bad-feeling-about-the-economy-wants-a-massive-layoff-at-tesla">announcing</a> that he has a “super bad feeling” about the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">economy</a> — a sentiment that led him to instruct Tesla executives to “pause all hiring worldwide” and say that the company needs to cut 10% of its labor force.
Tesla closed down an office in San Mateo, California, that had been focused on the electric automaker’s driver-assistance system. Roughly 200 people — more than half of staff at the facility — were laid off, according to the Journal, while some will be permitted to relocate elsewhere within the company.
&#8220;Tesla clearly is in a major cost-cutting mode,&#8221; Carnegie Mellon University engineering professor Raj Rajkumar explained to <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-closes-an-office-layoff-hits-autopilot-jobs-including-hourly-ones-2022-06-29/">Reuters</a>, adding that “raw material costs and supply chain problems” are troubling the company.
Indeed, Musk recently lamented that Tesla’s factories have become “gigantic money furnaces” thanks to the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/supply-chain">supply chain</a> issues.
“Just been trying to keep the factories operating the last couple years has been a very difficult thing, like supply chain interruptions have been severe, like extremely severe,” Musk said in an interview published earlier this month. “The past two years have been an absolute nightmare of supply chain disruptions, one thing after another, and we are not out of it yet.”
In another bout of layoffs, two employees who volunteered in LGBTQ and diversity roles <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbtq-diversity-officials-heads-roll-at-elon-musks-tesla">lost their jobs</a>. Both had received multiple promotions in their relatively short tenures, seemingly indicating that their performance was not a cause for concern and that the layoffs could be related to Musk’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-elon-musk-says-woke-mind-virus-makes-netflix-unwatchable-as-shares-plummet-20">campaign</a> against the “woke mind virus.”
Last week, former Tesla employees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/employees-sue-elon-musks-tesla-over-mass-layoffs">sued the automaker</a> for allegedly violating federal law through its execution of widespread dismissals. According to the class action complaint from John Lynch and Daxton Hartsfield — who worked at Tesla’s Gigafactory 2 plant in Sparks, Nevada — the company violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act by failing to provide 60 days of advance written notice regarding the mass layoff.
“Plaintiffs and all similarly situated employees have been damaged by Tesla’s conduct constituting violations of the WARN Act,” the lawsuit argues, “and are entitled to damages for their back pay and associated benefits for each day of the violation because Tesla has not acted in good faith nor with reasonable grounds to believe their acts and omissions were not a violation of the WARN Act.”
The closure of the San Mateo facility could also reflect Tesla’s broader transition out of California. Last year, Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-says-tesla-moving-headquarters-from-california-to-texas">revealed</a> that Tesla would be moving its headquarters from the Democrat-run state to a new facility near Austin, Texas. Musk had previously threatened to move Tesla’s headquarters in 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns shuttered the company’s manufacturing facility in Fremont, California.
“It’s tough for people to afford houses, and people have to come in from far away,” Musk said at the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-dons-cowboy-hat-to-launch-new-tesla-factory-in-texas">launch</a> of the new facility. “There’s a limit to how big you can scale in the Bay Area. In Austin, our factory is like five minutes from the airport, 15 minutes from Downtown.”

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> CEO <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> said that the electric automaker’s factories are now “gigantic money furnaces” thanks to persistent <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/supply-chain">supply chain</a> issues.
Logistics bottlenecks have plagued American businesses since COVID-19 and the lockdown-induced economic issues, especially due to key Asian manufacturing <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">economies</a> shuttering production.
“Just been trying to keep the factories operating the last couple years has been a very difficult thing, like supply chain interruptions have been severe, like extremely severe,” Musk said in a Tesla Owners Silicon Valley interview published Wednesday, per <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/23/musk-says-tesla-berlin-and-austin-factories-losing-billions-of-dollars.html">CNBC</a>. “The past two years have been an absolute nightmare of supply chain disruptions, one thing after another, and we are not out of it yet.”
In one recent National Association of Manufacturers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/majority-of-manufacturers-predict-recession-within-the-next-year">survey</a>, almost 60% of business leaders said that inflationary pressures “make a recession more likely in the next 12 months,” while more than 90% pointed to higher raw material costs as one of their “primary business challenges” in the second quarter of 2022. The Producer Price Index (PPI) rose <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inflation-for-businesses-continues-at-double-digit-pace">10.8%</a> from May 2021 to May 2022, according to a report released earlier this month by the U.S. <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ppi.nr0.htm">Bureau of Labor Statistics</a>.
Indeed, Musk said that the shortages are causing Tesla’s facilities around the world to hemorrhage cash.
“Both Berlin and Austin factories are gigantic money furnaces right now… It should be like a giant roaring sound which is the sound of money on fire,” Musk said in the interview. “Berlin and Austin are losing billions of dollars right now because there’s a ton of expense and hardly any output. Getting Berlin and Austin functional and getting Shanghai back in the saddle fully are overwhelmingly our concerns. Everything else is a very small thing basically.”
Though the worldwide supply chain bottlenecks began overseas, economic phenomena in the United States also delayed consumer goods from reaching shelves. Trucking companies — which were already battling to hire more drivers before the economic downturn — faced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/at-the-edge-of-a-cliff-trucking-industry-leader-says-rewarding-people-not-to-work-vaccine-mandates-are-worsening-supply-chain">labor shortage</a> exacerbated by government stimulus money and the return of consumer demand.
President Joe Biden’s attempted COVID-19 vaccine mandate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trucking-groups-could-lose-37-of-drivers-over-biden-vaccine-mandate-worsening-supply-chain-crisis">threatened</a> to shutter nearly 40% of truckers from the job market. The policy, however, was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-said-do-not-comply-we-won">overturned</a> by the Supreme Court thanks in part due to a lawsuit from The Daily Wire.
Tesla and other automakers have been particularly threatened by a global shortage of semiconductors. Between May 2021 and May 2022, the price of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-products-gutting-your-bank-account-as-inflation-soars">new and used vehicles</a> soared 13% and 16%, respectively.
Companies are therefore racing to increase semiconductor production in the United States. Last year, for example, Samsung <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hyundai-to-build-5-5-billion-electric-vehicle-plant-in-georgia-marking-the-states-largest-ever-economic-development-project">announced</a> that it would build a $17 billion semiconductor factory in Texas, representing the largest foreign direct investment in the state’s history.
Meanwhile, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/desantis-ill-invest-in-microchip-semiconductor-manufacturing-so-chinese-cannot-hold-our-supply-chain-hostage">said</a> earlier this year that he would invest the state’s funds to increase microchip manufacturing so that the Chinese Communist Party cannot “hold our supply chain hostage.”
“We have to start standing up as Floridians and Americans,” DeSantis said at a press conference. “We cannot be captive. Key sectors of our economy should not be captive to some of these foreign nations, particularly outfits like the Communist Party of China.”

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Elon Musk: Tesla Factories Are Now 'Gigantic Money Furnaces'

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Two former <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/tesla">Tesla</a> employees filed suit against the automaker on Sunday for allegedly violating federal law through its decision to <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/unemployment">lay off</a> much of its staff.
Earlier this month, Tesla CEO <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-has-a-super-bad-feeling-about-the-economy-wants-a-massive-layoff-at-tesla">told executives</a> that he had a “super bad feeling” about the <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/economy">economy</a> and asked them to begin dismissing 10% of employees. According to a <a href="https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/lynch-tesla-complaint-usdc-texas.pdf">class action complaint</a> filed by John Lynch and Daxton Hartsfield — who worked at Tesla’s Gigafactory 2 plant in Sparks, Nevada — the company violated the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act by failing to provide 60 days of advance written notice regarding the mass layoff.
“Plaintiffs and all similarly situated employees have been damaged by Tesla’s conduct constituting violations of the WARN Act,” the lawsuit argues, “and are entitled to damages for their back pay and associated benefits for each day of the violation because Tesla has not acted in good faith nor with reasonable grounds to believe their acts and omissions were not a violation of the WARN Act.&#8221;
Lynch and Hartsfield were allegedly informed of their dismissals on June 10 and 15, respectively, and laid off on the same days. They believe that “more than 500” coworkers were placed in the same situation.
“It&#8217;s pretty shocking that Tesla would just blatantly violate federal labor law by laying off so many workers without providing the required notice,” Shannon Liss-Riordan, a lawyer representing the workers, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/tesla-sued-by-former-employees-over-mass-layoff-2022-06-20/">told</a> Reuters.
The Nevada employees are not the only ones affected by the layoffs. A Monday <a href="https://electrek.co/2022/06/20/tesla-lay-off-head-lgbtq-diversity-elon-musk-woke-mind-virus/">report</a> from electric vehicle news outlet Electrek showed that two employees involved in volunteer LGBTQ and diversity roles at the automaker also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbtq-diversity-officials-heads-roll-at-elon-musks-tesla">lost their jobs</a>. Electrek made clear that both separations were part of the “broader wave of layoffs,” but repeated that both employees had received multiple promotions in their relatively short tenures, seemingly indicating that their performance was not a cause for concern.
Regarding Tesla’s overall layoff plans, Musk has since clarified that he intends to decrease salaried headcount by 10% while increasing hourly staffing — ultimately affecting 3.5% of the overall workforce. “A year from now, I think our head count will be higher in both salaried and obviously in hourly,” Musk <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/21/elon-musk-clarifies-tesla-layoffs-after-ex-employees-sue-company.html">said</a> at a Bloomberg conference on Tuesday, per CNBC.
According to CNBC, Musk, the world’s richest man, also said that Lynch and Hartsfield’s lawsuit has “no standing.”
“That is a small lawsuit of minor consequence,” he commented. “Anything that relates to Tesla gets big headlines, whether it is a bicycle accident or something much more serious.”
Meanwhile, at SpaceX — which Musk also leads — multiple <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/get-woke-go-broke-spacex-fires-employees-who-wrote-a-letter-blasting-elon-musks-behavior-and-values">employees were fired</a> for drafting and circulating a letter blasting the billionaire for his “behavior” and “values.”
“Elon’s behavior in the public sphere is a frequent source of distraction and embarrassment for us, particularly in recent weeks,” the letter asserted. “As our CEO and most prominent spokesperson, Elon is seen as the face of SpaceX — every tweet that Elon sends is a de facto public statement by the company.”
SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell said in an email that the employees had been fired. “We have too much critical work to accomplish and no need for this kind of overreaching activism,” she wrote.

Elon Musk visits construction site of the Tesla Giga Factory

Employees Sue Elon Musk’s Tesla Over Mass Layoffs

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The 18-year-old biological son of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>, who identifies as female, has filed court papers renouncing the billionaire and seeking a name change.
Xavier Musk wants to be known as Vivian Jenna Wilson, according to a petition filed in April in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica, California, and first reported by the <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10935873/Elon-Musks-transgender-child-18-files-court-docs-change-distance-him.html">Daily Mail</a>. In requesting a new birth certificate to reflect the name and gender changes, the younger Musk, whose mother is Canadian author Justine Wilson, dissed the Tesla boss.
“Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” the younger Musk <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-transgender-comments-resurface-child-changes-gender-1717486">gave</a> as the reason for wanting a name change.
Wilson and Musk were married from 2000 until 2008 and had six children. Xavier has a twin brother named Griffin and triplet brothers, Damian, Kai, and Saxon. Another son, Nevada, died of sudden infant death syndrome.
Musk has two other children with singer Grimes, X Æ A-Xii and Exa Dark Sideræl, who goes by Y. Grimes and Musk broke up earlier this year, and now she is reportedly dating transgender ex-Army soldier Chelsea Manning, who served time for giving confidential documents to WikiLeaks, before the sentence was commuted by then-President Obama.
Xavier Musk did not give a reason for rejecting the elder Musk, but it came just as Musk has been increasingly seen as opposing radical gender theory. On Monday, it was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/lgbtq-diversity-officials-heads-roll-at-elon-musks-tesla">reported</a> that the Tesla chief had sacked the automaker’s volunteer “President of LGBTQ+,” although the move may have simply been part of a previously announced plan to reduce the company’s staff by 10%.
Musk has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-partner-grimes-publicly-scolds-him-after-he-tweets-pronouns-suck">complained</a> about people specifying their pronouns, <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/news/ricky-gervais-elon-musk-netflix-b2090144.html">expressed</a> support for comic Ricky Gervais after he was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ricky-gervais-unloads-on-transgender-mania-in-nsfw-rant">accused</a> of being a transphobe, and even responded to a review of The Daily Wire’s documentary on radical gender theory, “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/subscribe-today-two">What Is A Woman?</a>”
“We are simultaneously being told that gender differences do not exist and that genders are so profoundly different that irreversible surgery is the only option,” Musk <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1535733409083011073?s=20&amp;t=V5o6uGoozqwNvyn69HVG5g">tweeted</a> earlier this month in response to a review of the documentary. “Perhaps someone wiser than me can explain this dichotomy.”
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I wonder if we’re institutionalizing stereotypes about gender in the same way academics have tried to institutionalize stereotypes about how “hard work,” “being polite,” “punctuality” and the “written word” are “white culture.” <a href="https://t.co/zFb0QsQvE2">https://t.co/zFb0QsQvE2</a>
— Matt Taibbi (@mtaibbi) <a href="https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1535354948279492611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 10, 2022</a></blockquote>
Musk has insisted he supports the rights of the LGBT community.
“I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1339253909546823682?lang=en">tweeted</a> in 2020.
On Sunday, the world’s richest man tweeted a message for all of his children.
“Happy Father’s Day,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1538397546510426112">tweeted</a>. “I love all my kids so much.”
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I love all my kids so much
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1538399223317676035?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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