July 09, 2026
A California federal judge has backed part of an arbitration award blocking a Tesla supplier from selling certain electric vehicle battery equipment to anyone other than Tesla, but said the arbitrator needs to take another look at other parts of the injunction.
June 17, 2024
Tesla is accusing one of its suppliers of corporate espionage in a $1 billion California federal lawsuit, saying that Matthews International has even tried to claim it invented the stolen trade secrets for manufacturing electric vehicle batteries by incorporating the confidential information into patent filings.