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New for fall, Tesla revamps stores and adds apparel, gear

Tesla Motors Inc. has launched a wholesale revamp of its stores worldwide as the electric-car company prepares to debut the Model X, its first sport-utility vehicle. The effort is largely devoted to telling the Tesla story, critical for a young company selling a product that remains mysterious — and intimidating — to most drivers. During an exclusive tour of a newly refreshed store at the upscale, outdoor Santana Row shopping

Deere shares fall 8 percent following weak third-quarter results

Lower commodity prices and falling farm incomes continued to pressure demand for agricultural machinery, with the declines most pronounced in higher-horsepower models, the company said on Friday. It also cited lower demand for construction equipment. Farm and turf equipment sales, which account for more than two-thirds of total revenue, fell 24 percent to $5.31 billion in the third quarter ended July 31.

Daimler CEO mulls JVs with Apple, Google: magazine

Daimler’s (DAIGn.DE) chief executive said “different types” of cooperation with Apple (AAPL.O) and Google (GOOGL.O) are possible as carmakers realize next-generation autos cannot be built without greater input from telecoms and software experts. “Many things are conceivable,” Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche said in an interview with quarterly magazine Deutsche Unternehmerboerse published on Friday. The emergence of self-driving and connected cars has made software a key component in future cars, opening

U.S. oil fall longest in 29 years after China data

U.S. oil prices headed for their eighth consecutive week of falls on Friday, the longest losing streak since 1986, after a sharp drop in Chinese manufacturing increased worries over the health of the world’s biggest energy consumer. Activity in China’s factory sector shrank at its fastest pace in almost 6-1/2 years in August as domestic and export demand dwindled, adding to worries about lower consumption of crude in the second-biggest