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Tesla reportedly halts China production, bringing its number of total operational factories to zero
A local tech news site said the stoppage was due to parts shortages. Tesla said it was performing n…
Graham Rapier
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China just reported a record high day of coronavirus cases after loosening its zero-COVID policy
A record high of daily COVID-19 infections is sweeping China as of Thursday, following a slight loo…
JP Mangalindan
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Workers at Tesla's Shanghai factory allowed to leave for the first time in weeks, report says
Elon Musk's electric car company had created a "closed-loop" system at its Chinese factory to avoid…
Beatrice Nolan
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Apple is accelerating plans to move production out of China as protests and riots intensify in response to zero-Covid policies, report says
The company is ramping up efforts to shift manufacturing to other Asian countries like India and Vi…
Bethany Biron
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Electric car shipments likely to grow 50% in 2022, says a new Gartner report
The number of global public EV chargers will rise to 2.1 million units in 2022, up from 1.6 mill…
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A pair of iPhone factory workers in China walked 25 miles to escape severe COVID restrictions at Foxconn's giant compound
Foxconn's Zhengzhou facility is under a closed loop COVID lockdown after an outbreak of the virus, …
Pete Syme
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A Chinese town appears to be enlisting 10-year-old kids to police their neighbors and make them follow zero-COVID rules
The tweens are being asked to show up for three-hour shifts in red scarves, reminiscent of the Comm…
Cheryl Teh
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Apple stock must navigate 'brutal' iPhone supply shortages as China factory protests may cut production by up to 10%, Wedbush says
"In many Apple stores we are seeing major iPhone 14 Pro shortages of up to 35%/40% of typical inven…
Carla Mozée
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Elon Musk 'didn't even tell his team' he was moving Tesla's HQ from the Bay Area to Texas, a top California official reportedly said
Tesla's California leadership didn't know about the HQ move until Musk announced it to shareholders…
Grace Dean
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India is trying to become the new factory of the world, but it could take more than a global pandemic to unseat China from its 40-year reign
China has managed to build up a value chain so extensive that almost everything required to make a …
Huileng Tan
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Sanitation company pays $1.5 million penalty for hiring children for 'hazardous' factory work like cleaning beef bone saws, officials say
The Labor Department says multiple children suffered injuries, including chemical burns, while cont…
Jordan Hart
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US manufacturing output beats November estimates as car factories continue to shine through the pandemic
Motor vehicle and part production leaped 5.3% and counted for roughly half of all overall factory o…
Ben Winck
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Locked-down factory workers at an Apple supplier in Shanghai stormed a dormitory housing company management, reports say
Some managers grasped umbrellas to use in self-defense should the protesters breach their dorm, one…
Rosie Bradbury
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Workers are fleeing from Foxconn, China's biggest iPhone factory, by climbing over fences and walking down highways on foot amid COVID fears, photos and videos show
The facility located in the central Chinese province of Henan employs over 200,000 workers who make…
Huileng Tan
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Chinese employees are being urged to live at their workplaces as the country pursues a zero-COVID policy, reports say
In the battle against rising COVID-19 cases, workers are ordered to avoid unnecessary trips and in …
Sam Tabahriti
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Public-health experts agree with protestors that China's zero-COVID strategy must end. Leaders could have used lockdowns to vaccinate older people with Western vaccines, but didn't.
China's lockdowns are unnecessarily strict, public-health experts say. They can delay a catastrophi…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Paola R…
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After Elon Musk opened Tesla's Bay Area factory against local rules, around 450 workers got COVID-19
Tesla kept its 10,000-person Fremont factory open despite hundreds of cases, according to The Washi…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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A major hedge fund in China that cut its domestic stock exposure to zero expects returns to be worse than in 2008
Shanghai Banxia said COVID, Ukraine, and Federal Reserve rate hikes would make this year harder for…
Hamza Fareed Malik
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China's Covid flare-ups and lockdowns are disrupting port and chip factory operations, hitting the supply chain — again
Partial lockdowns have hit the Port of Ningbo, as well as Samsung and Micron's chip factories in Xi…
Huileng Tan
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Elon Musk says Tesla's new factories are 'gigantic money furnaces' that are losing billions of dollars from EV-battery shortages and supply-chain snags
The richest man said that one of his biggest concerns was how to keep Tesla factories running witho…