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Tesla Roadster

Report: Tesla offering to take Roadster trade-ins for Model S sedan

So you’re one of the elite few that had the $100,000 plus thousand to purchase a Tesla Roadster. While the tiny electric Roadster does turn heads when you drive, it still has plenty of limitation including and not limited to – no cargo room, no backseat and no power steering. Check out more news on [...]

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George Clooney to auction off his Tesla Roadster for charity

Famed actor George Clooney is doing his part for charity at the upcoming Pebble Beach auction on August 18th- – 19th , offering up his 2008 Tesla ‘Signature 100′ roader to one lucky bidder. The model is the first high-performance electric sports car, produced in 2008, and Clooney’s only has 1,700 miles on the odometer. It [...]

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Report: Tesla working on Roadster successor, maybe even a pickup

Earlier this week, we learned some new details on Tesla’s upcoming electric sedan that will be comparable in size to the BMW 3-Series. New reports now suggest that the company is also working on a successor to the Tesla Roadster, but this time it won’t be based on a Lotus architecture. Word on the street [...]

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Tesla vs. Top Gear

High court decides Clarkson’s Top Gear review of Tesla Roadster was not defamatory

BBC’s ever-popular Top Gear was facing legal action from automaker Tesla because of a review done on the model back in 2008, which the company perceived as malicious faslehood. The Top Gear team’s December 2008 shows they took the Tesla model out on the track where the car’s battery died, and was then pushed to a garage to recharge. [...]

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Report: Tesla planning new Roadster, Model S Convertible, 3 Series sized EV

The Tesla Model S sedan will finally hit showrooms early next year. According to new reports, the Cali-based electric automaker is also working on a successor to the Roadster and a rival to the BMW 3 Series. The Tesla Model S is likely to be followed by convertible variant and will also spawn a crossover [...]

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Report: Tesla loses major part of claim against BBC’s Top Gear

Remember the debacle between BBC’s Top Gear and Tesla Motors? No? Well, check out these articles to update yourself: Tesla Motors sues Top Gear over staged Roadster review Top Gear’s Executive Producer Andy Wilman speaks on Tesla Roadster case Elon Musk: Top Gear’s Tesla Roadster review was ‘completely phony’ and f*cked up A new report states that [...]

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Report: Tesla requesting another loan from DOE

House Republicans want to cut another of Obama’s green-jobs program – one that provides many new start-up electric car makers some finance to get things going. It’s the same program under which Tesla received up to $465 million. That loan has helped Palo Alto electric-car maker open an electric powertrain factory at its headquarters and [...]

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Video: Tesla Model S, Tesla Roadster go for a spin together

Tesla Motors continues to test the new Model S electric-sedan before the vehicle begins deliveries next year. In a recent attempt to keep the buzz around the Tesla Model S, the company released a video of its new model driving with the legendary Tesla Roadster. Click here for more news on the Tesla Model S. Check [...]

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Tesla will stop taking orders for the Roadster in 2 months

The Tesla Roadster has become known for changing the perception of electric cars from being little more than golf carts with doors. With a 0 to 60 mph time of 3.9 seconds and a driving range of 250 miles on a single charge, the Tesla Roadster offers far more than other electric-cars on the roads. [...]

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Tesla prices secondary public stock offering at $28.76 a share

Tesla has announced the starting prices of its public stock offerings not too long ago. Starting at $28.76 per share, the maker of the full-electric sports car, the Tesla Roadster, said that it has fully allocated the 5.3 million shares in a secondary public stock offering. Tesla is also selling about 1.4 million shares to [...]

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