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On Wednesday, electric automaker Tesla Motors reported a deep second-quarter loss as spending on research and development for upcoming vehicles, including the Model S and Model X, more than offset the automaker's gains in revenue. Tesla reported a net loss of $58.9 million compared to a loss of ...

As the U.S. market finally makes the inexorable shift to more rationally-sized cars, Ford's President for the Americas, Mark Fields, will explain how his company plans to make money with smaller cars. Ford will apparently focus on doing what might seem intuitively obvious to some, but has not ...

OK, we finally have a post that offers a critical look at the mushrooming ethanol production plant trend. Jon Chavez, writing in the Toledo Blade, talks to a lot of industry folks and finds the general consensus to be that ethanol plant profits will be pretty good for the next few years, but after ...

Kimberley Strassel is on the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal, and she went on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last week to talk about oil prices, oil companies and ethanol. Her basic argument was that high oil prices at the pump are not the fault of oil companies and their ...