Tesla's enduring power is even clearer after the EV competition in Detroit falls flat

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk stands in a factory alongside Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Armin Laschet, Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, talk during a tour of a future Tesla Gigafactory on August 13, 2021 in Grünheide near Berlin, Germany.

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The UAW's blockbuster deal will see Ford workers' pay jump more in 4 years than all pay rises in the past 2 decades combined, the union says

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Factory workers and UAW union members form a picket line outside the Ford Motor Co. Kentucky Truck Plant in the early morning hours on October 14, 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky
UAW union members on the picket line outside a Ford plant.

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Elon Musk says the UAW's strike demands will drive America's big 3 automakers 'bankrupt'

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Elon Musk is CEO of Tesla.

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'Just shut your mouth:' Populist Republicans back UAW workers' demands while slamming union leadership

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From left: Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, UAW President Shawn Fain, and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.
From left: Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, UAW President Shawn Fain, and Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri.

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GM dismissed Tesla in 2009 as a 'bunch of engineers playing with laptop batteries,' Nikola's CEO says

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The boss of the United Auto Workers union said Tesla workers are 'scraping to get by' so that 'greedy people like Elon Musk can build more rocket ships'

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UAW President Shawn Fain marches with UAW members through downtown Detroit on September 15, 2023.

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The UAW strike and the inexorable math of electric vehicles

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Robots during the production of the Tesla Model Y in the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, October 2021.
Robots during the production of the Tesla Model Y in the Tesla Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany, October 2021.

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The average monthly payment for a new car was $733 in the second quarter of 2023. That could rise if auto workers strike long enough.

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Auto workers went on strike against Ford, GM, and Stellantis after a contract agreement could not be reached Thursday night.

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The real winner from the big strike in Detroit? Tesla

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