"With the acquisition of Perbix, Tesla further advances its efforts to turn the factory itself into a product – to build the machine that makes the machine," Tesla said on its website.

Tesla coils are awesome. But if you’ve ever built one, you know how tedious winding the secondary coil is. So [Krux] decided to build a machine to do it for him. He’s currently working on his ...

But a more intriguing — and familiar, to longtime Tesla followers — subplot was Musk's ongoing preoccupation with manufacturing. He calls it "the machine that builds the machine," and he ...

Tesla surprisingly survived production-hell periods with the Model S and Model 3, but it didn't become successful until the ...

Tesla coils are one of those builds that capture the interest of almost anybody passing by. For the naïve constructor, they look simple enough, but they can be finicky beasts—beasts that can ...

"There's no rev-limiter to contend with," notes Cammisa, and that means "you'll be spinning tire up to the car's 132-mph top speed." That makes the Model S capable of blowing tires very ...