Yesterday we posted Top Gear’s segment of Clarkson’s Tesla Roadster test drive. From what started out as Clarkson falling in love with not only an electric-car – but an American made electric-car (yes, at that point we felt like hell froze over), fell apart later on in the segment when Clarkson claimed that his Tesla’s [...]
Jeremy Clarkson has finally gotten his hands on the new Tesla Roadster and puts it up against something that we’ve all been wanting to here at eGMCarTech. The Tesla Roadster is based on the Lotus Elise so it’s only right if you compare the 100% electric car to the gasoline powered Elise. We’re not going to [...]
The 2009 World Green Car of the Year candidates have been announced prior to the 2009 New York Auto Show which is still about 5 months away. Previous years winners include the BMW 118d in 2008, the Mercedes-Benz E320 Bluetec in 2007 and the Honda Civic Hybrid in 2006. The 2009 candidates must be on [...]
The Tesla Model S Sedan was supposed to make its world debut at the 2009 Detroit Auto Show (we had no idea actually) – but according to Inside Line the second Tesla model won’t make its debut until February or March of next year. “The plan is to unveil that in late February or March,” [...]
How would you like to be known as the man that gave Oprah Winfrey a shoulder to cry on during President-elect Barack Obama’s victory speech? Well that’s how Sam Perry, an honored businessman in Menlo Park, California is known as of recently. Hoping to change all that, Sam Perry purchased Tesla 100th Roaster which was [...]
As announced last month, Tesla Motors had submitted an application for about $400 million in financial aid for two projects including the upcoming Model S Sedan. Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk said today that it will have to further delay the introduction of its $57,499 Model S Sedan if the company doesn’t receive at least $350 million [...]
By: Chris Harris It sounds like the build-up to some terrible joke. That’s right you take a Lotus Elise chassis, replace the engine and fuel tank with an electric motor and a battery and add around 450kg to the overall curb weight. Despite the company’s current difficulties, for any car enthusiast this Roadster is one [...]
Remember the electric-powered Ruf Porsche Cayman we saw last month? Well, the executives at Porsche weren’t to happy with the car and are rumored to be working on their own lithium-ion-powered prototype. And that’s where the American made Tesla Roadster comes in. According to a Tesla spokes person who spoke with Inside Line, “A Porsche [...]
Guess what? The Big 3 aren’t the only American automakers looking for a piece of $25 billion from Congress. Start-up automotive company Tesla Motors, who not to mention just secured $40 million in funding, has also applied for some financial aid. Tesla Motors said that it has submitted its application for about $400 million in loans for [...]
BRABUS has produced the world’s very first tuned electric-car based on the popular Tesla Roadster. Built by BRABUS’s new division called Zero Emission, the BRABUS Tesla Roadster focuses more on styling rather than performance enhancements. However, to give the Tesla Roadster a more aggressive first-impression, BRABUS added what it calls a ‘space sound generator.’ Drivers [...]
