FREMONT, CA — Multiple Tesla employees working here have tested positive for COVID-19.

FREMONT, CA — Tesla Inc. is calling some workers back to its lone U.S. vehicle-assembly plant here starting this week, before San Francisco Bay area stay-home orders are scheduled to expire.

IRVINE, CA — BIOLASE Inc. announced that it expects to partner with MEKICS Co. Ltd, an intensive care unit (ICU) equipment manufacturer, to supply ICU-grade portable ventilator through BIOLASE's FDA-registered manufacturing facility in California.

LANCASTER, CA—Construction has begun on a solar energy project at BYD’s Coach & Bus assembly plant here. When fully operational, the project is expected to save the factory more than $100,000 per year in electricity costs.

PALMDALE, CA—The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman an $80 billion contract to build the new Long Range Strike Bomber.

CITY OF INDUSTRY, CA—The California Energy Commission awarded a $3 million grant to Proterra to develop and manufacture the next-generation of battery-powered buses here.

LONG BEACH, CA—Virgin Galactic has leased a new facility here to design and manufacture its small satellite launcher, LauncherOne.

ALAMEDA, CA—Wrightspeed, a manufacturer of electric hybrid power trains for trucks, has relocated to a new assembly plant here. The factory is expected to employ more than 300 people by 2018.