Out comes Tesla CEO Musk from the factory floor to one of more glitzy conferences of the year.
The UAW also notched up a historic victory when workers at the Volkswagen Chattanooga, Tennessee plant voted to join the union, as President Shawn Fain tries to organize non-union U.S. auto factories, most of them built by Asian and European automakers in southern U.S. states. Meanwhile, focus is on voting between May 13 and May 17 at a Mercedes assembly plant in Alabama on whether to join the UAW.
At the start of a new week, investors will be weighing the impact of a new Model Y version on Tesla’s sales and earnings.