• Elon Musk donates ventilators to California after calling coronavirus panic ‘dumb’

    Elon Musk donates ventilators to California after calling coronavirus panic ‘dumb’

    Elon Musk purchased 1,000 ventilators and donated them to California hospitals to help treat coronavirus patients, the state’s governor said Monday. “They’ve arrived in Los Angeles… It was a heroic effort,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said at a press conference. The Tesla boss mentioned the effort on Twitter Monday night, saying he bought the breathing machines …
  • Elon Musk Pledges Ventilators to Help NYC as Cuomo Warns Chinese virus Projection ‘Vastly Overwhelms Our Healthcare Capacity’

    Elon Musk Pledges Ventilators to Help NYC as Cuomo Warns Chinese virus Projection ‘Vastly Overwhelms Our Healthcare Capacity’

    Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he would help with New York City mayor Bill de Blasio’s plea for ventilators to deal with the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, as New York governor Andrew Cuomo warned that the state could hit “a peak in about five or six weeks” with over 100,000 hospitalizations. Musk, who has …
  • Tesla still building cars despite California’s Chinese virus lockdown

    Tesla still building cars despite California’s Chinese virus lockdown

    Tesla is still building cars at its factory in Fremont, California, despite the Bay Area’s shelter-in-place order — a defiant stance that may result in a head-on collision with the law. The electric automaker headed by billionaire Elon Musk — which earlier this week told workers it would continue manufacturing operations despite local officials ordering …
  • Elon Musk offers to make ventilators for Chinese virus patients

    Elon Musk offers to make ventilators for Chinese virus patients

    Tesla founder Elon Musk has offered to make ventilators during the coronavirus crisis. “We will make ventilators if there is a shortage,” the 48-year-old tech pioneer tweeted late Wednesday. His ventilator tweet had more than 10,000 likes within hours, and quickly received a rush of excited praise — as well as ridicule for saying the …