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Elon’s Surprising TSLA Comments Over Time, Elon’s Back-To-Work Email To Employees — CleanTechnica Top 20

The most popular CleanTechnica articles of the first half of the month were somehow led by 3 articles about things Elon Musk said. Not things Tesla did, just things Elon said.

Zachary Shahan

Published

May 19, 2020

The most popular CleanTechnica articles of the first half of the month were somehow led by 3 articles about things Elon Musk said. Not things Tesla did, just things Elon said. These comments concerned the Tesla [TSLA] stock price (7 years ago and this past month), a pep speech (er, email) for Tesla employees going back to work this month, and Starlink (he agreed to make one of our writers an early beta tester).

Solar power and Covid-19 also had a pretty good month … in terms of top 20 articles, that is. Of course, beyond those top 3 articles, Tesla also landed several other stories in the top 20. Scroll down the list and click on any enticing ones you missed. (Beware of heated comment threads on Covid-19 pieces.)

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Written By Zachary Shahan

Zach is tryin' to help society help itself one word at a time. He spends most of his time here on CleanTechnica as its director, chief editor, and CEO. Zach is recognized globally as an electric vehicle, solar energy, and energy storage expert. He has presented about cleantech at conferences in India, the UAE, Ukraine, Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, the USA, Canada, and Curaçao. Zach has long-term investments in Tesla [TSLA], NIO [NIO], Xpeng [XPEV], Ford [F], ChargePoint [CHPT], Amazon [AMZN], Piedmont Lithium [PLL], Lithium Americas [LAC], Albemarle Corporation [ALB], Nouveau Monde Graphite [NMGRF], Talon Metals [TLOFF], Arclight Clean Transition Corp [ACTC], and Starbucks [SBUX]. But he does not offer (explicitly or implicitly) investment advice of any sort.