Tesla was ordered Thursday to pay $1.5 million in fines after undercover investigators found it was illegally dumping hazardous waste into trash containers at its Fremont, California, electric car factory and auto service centers around the state. District Attorneys for eight Bay Area counties, along with 17 other California DAs, sued Tesla on Tuesday, alleging it was breaking health and safety laws by disposing of oils, cleaners, lead-acid batteries, solvents and electronic waste in trash containers at its service centers, and by treating potentially toxic welding splatter, paint mixing cups …