The vacant auto factory next to Interstate 880 in Fremont started to show faint stirrings of life Friday when Tesla Motors took occupancy of the plant, which had once built cars for General Motors and ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger Thursday morning gave reporters a sneak peak of a big announcement to come. The governor was at the Google campus in Mountain View to announce the formation of the Green ...

Fremont's newest employer is in the shell of a familiar old plant. Tesla has grand plans to employ as many as 5,000 people in the future -- about the same as the head count when NUMMI was here. Where ...

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Thousands of unemployed autoworkers in Northern California are hoping for a future building electric cars. Their hopes center around a new deal between the giant carmaker Toyota and Tesla Motors, an ...

Toyota's decision to invest $50 million in Tesla, which plans to make electric cars at the Northern California NUMMI plant that the Japanese automaker and General Motors previously announced they were ...

A Fremont auto plant that began operating nearly 50 years ago will enter a new phase in its existence on Friday when it is taken over by Tesla Motors. Tesla announced in May that it was buying the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Fremont Mayor Bob Wasserman was there when it opened in ...