Bloomberg Tesla Motors Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk took his skeptics to task, giving more detail on potential benefits of the automaker’s pending SolarCity Corp. acquisition and saying the deal’s doubters have a history of making bad predictions. While people once questioned the company’s ability to make electric cars, the surge of interest in the forthcoming Model 3 …

  Bloomberg Royal Dutch Shell Plc, the world’s second-biggest oil company by market value, thinks demand for oil could peak in as little as five years. “Oil, we’ve long been of the opinion that demand will peak before supply,” Chief Financial Officer Simon Henry said on a conference call on Tuesday. “And that peak may be somewhere between 5 and …

  Bloomberg Automakers reported lower US sales for October, reinforcing the idea the market may have plateaued at a healthy level that still supports the US economy. The companies faced a difficult comparison to the year-earlier month, which was the best of 2015 and had two more sales days. Sales fell 4.4 percent to 1.39 million vehicles in October, Autodata …