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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
We learned earlier this week that Tesla Motors is suing our favorite TV show Top Gear for “libel and malicious falsehood” regarding the show’s review of the company’s Tesla Roadster. Tesla claims that during the episode, the Tesla Roadster is shown suffering some critical ‘breakdowns’ during track driving – saying that it was all staged. Well, Top [...]
Here some good news for Tesla Motors and its stock holders. The electric-car makers stock increased the most in more than four months after a Morgan Stanley analyst said that the unprofitable electric-car maker will benefit from a shift away from internal-combustion engines. Tesla’s shares surged $4.04, or 17 percent, to $27.75 at 4 p.m. [...]
