Tesla stock rose early Wednesday. The move comes after Reuters reported that South Korea’s LG Energy Solution or LGES, signed a $4.3 billion deal with Tesla to supply lithium iron phosphate, or LFP, batteries. LFP batteries don’t use more expensive, and controversial, elements such as cobalt...

Tesla Inc.’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) second-quarter report didn’t sit well with longtime Tesla shareholder Ross Gerber, who pulled no punches in an interview following the release. “Yeah, I mean, it’s garbage,” the CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, told Yahoo Finance, just after the report was released. “It’s sad and depressing to me that this is a business in decline when it should be... a growing business, and it’s not.” "It's garbage, it's sad and depressing to me that this is a...