Joey Klender
Joey Klender is a journalist at Teslarati who covers electric mobility with a tight focus on Tesla and the wider Elon Musk ecosystem. He tracks how vehicle technology, regulation, corporate decisions, and space infrastructure intersect, turning company moves into clear stories about impact on drivers, investors, and the industry.
Tesla, Elon Musk, and corporate flashpoints
Klender’s core run of work follows Tesla and Elon Musk through their most contested moments, rather than routine product news. He covers anti-Musk protests and their spillover into owner risk, including Tesla’s consideration of new vehicle features aimed at deterring vandals targeting cars and facilities.
His reporting on Musk’s business disputes, such as plans to countersue Twitter over the terminated acquisition, spells out the financial stakes and legal posture without leaning on opinion. In covering the “funding secured” trial over Musk’s 420-per-share tweet, he concentrates on courtroom testimony, regulatory scrutiny, and what the case means for Tesla’s governance. Across these pieces, he is consistently interested in flashpoints where Musk’s decisions collide with markets, regulators, and public sentiment.
Regulation, safety, and Full Self-Driving
Self-driving technology and its boundaries are a recurring thread in Klender’s coverage.
He reports on Tesla’s Full Self-Driving subscription rollout, framing it around timing, pricing, and how the subscription model changes access to advanced driver-assistance features. In covering major pushback against Full Self-Driving in Europe, he focuses on regulatory objections, safety concerns, and the gap between Tesla’s software ambitions and the rules governing road use. His work in this area tends to draw out concrete regulatory actions and their implications for Tesla’s roadmap rather than treating autonomy as a purely technical story.
Production, markets, and global operations
Klender follows Tesla’s factories, production plans, and market signals in detail.
His reporting on Tesla China’s denial of rumored output cuts at Gigafactory Shanghai concentrates on official statements, local demand conditions, and what sustained production means for Tesla’s global supply. When he covers investor moves such as ARK offloading more than 139,000 Tesla shares, he links large trades to sentiment around the company’s performance and prospects. He also writes about emerging products like the Tesla Cybercab, treating sightings at sites such as Giga Texas as indicators of development progress and timing rather than mere hype.
Taken together, his work on production and markets presents Tesla as a global industrial and financial actor, with particular attention to how factory decisions and investor behavior reflect on the company’s trajectory.
Vehicle technology, owner experience, and Starlink
On the vehicle side, Klender writes closely about how Tesla’s features behave in real use.
His analysis of a Tesla Model 3 relying on regenerative braking to avoid being stranded breaks down how the system works, what distinguishes it from conventional setups, and how these technical details matter in practical scenarios. He frequently revisits software features, updates, and the way they change daily ownership, aligning technical explanations with concrete outcomes for drivers. Beyond cars, he extends his beat to SpaceX and Starlink, chronicling launches such as the Falcon 9 mission that carried the 7,000th Starlink satellite and quantifying Starlink’s share of active satellites in orbit.
In these pieces he treats Starlink as infrastructure, focusing on scale, deployment, and the implications for global connectivity rather than only the spectacle of launches.
Klender has been reporting on electric mobility for Teslarati since August 2019, building a steady archive that blends breaking news with follow-through on legal cases, regulatory debates, and major product initiatives. His work is grounded in company filings, court proceedings, factory developments, and on-the-ground incidents, and he consistently frames Tesla and related Musk ventures through the lens of technology’s real-world impact on users and markets.
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