Tesla Motors recently reached a $100 million deal with Toyota where the electric-car maker will supply the powertrain equipment for the RAV4 EV. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk announced earlier today that the company is now negotiating a potential $1 billion deal with Toyota. During a conference call earlier today, Musk said that the second quarter [...]
If this is your first time hearing about this, here’s a little update for you on this Tesla Motors vs Top Gear matter. On March 30, 2011 Tesla launched a section on its http://www.teslamotors.com/teslavstopgear, which states that Tesla has sued the BBC television program Top Gear for ‘libel and malicious falsehood.’ Tesla said that during Top [...]
Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk announced at a conference today in San Francisco that the new Model S electric sedan will support third-party apps and text-to-voice capabilities. “We want people to develop car-specific applications [for the Model S],” Musk said, “And text-to-speech technology can address some of the issues with driver distraction.” Featuring a 17-inch [...]
Around the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, Tesla confirmed production of the Model S electric sedan is scheduled to begin in mid-2012 at the Tesla Factory in Fremont, CA. Tesla said it already has 3,500 reservations for the Model S. However, the electric automaker has no plans to stop there. At the Cleantech Investor Summit in [...]
We’ve known for sometime now that Tesla Motors plans on building a crossover SUV based on the same ‘Adaptable Common Platform’ that will underpin the Model S sedan. The platform will also be used to produce a Tesla convertible and commercial van. Speaking at the opening of its factory in California earlier this week, Tesla [...]
When Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk speaks about the future of electric-vehicles, everyone listens. In an interview with Automotive News, Musk recently said that the next-generation of electric-vehicles will be lighter, stiffer and safer. “I don’t think any manufacturer, Tesla included, has really designed a car to optimize the electric powertrain,” Musk said. “It’s a [...]
Elon Musk is one happy man. His company just went public, he’s going through a divorce and is living with English actress girlfriend Talulah Riley – not to mention he’s the inspiration for Tony Stark’s character in the blockbuster Iron Man movie. To make things a little better, Musk now has some extra cash to [...]
Elon Musk, co-founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, has periodically taunted U.S. automakers saying that Detroit wants to be everything Tesla is if it could start over – a cooler, greener automaker who is headquartered in a better neighborhood. “We’re a Silicon Valley company,” Musk, who is the inspiration of Tony Stark’s character in Iron [...]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has made recent news, having run out of cash and living off of friends’ assistance for the past four months. In a filing with U.S. securities regulators, the California start-up tried to put a bit of room between itself and the divorce between Musk and his wife, which has undoubtedly cast [...]
According to court documents filed as a part of Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk’s divorce trial, the electric-car company co-founder’s bank account has run dry and he is currently living off his friends’ money. “About four months ago, I ran out of cash,” Musk wrote in a court filing with the Superior Court of LA. [...]
