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Microsoft uses silent Tesla Roadster to capture tire screeching sounds

When most of us play video games, we never really think about how much work goes into producing one that is as close to reality as possible. Take car racing games for example – capturing sounds of tire screeches and engine noise seems like a tedious task since its difficult to isolate one from the [...]

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Tesla Roadster goes 313 miles at Global Green Challenge in Australia

If you’re one of the 900 Tesla Roadster owners out there you have to live with a very hard choice – you can either drive efficiently and show off how many miles you traveled on a single charge or you can throw the efficiency part out of the window and show off how you can [...]

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Tesla Roadster, Toyota Prius and VW Touareg involved in horrible collision

An Autopia reader spotted this accident involving a Tesla Roadster, Volkswagen Touareg and the Toyota Prius. The accident took place earlier this week and as the story goes the Tesla was stopped behind the Touareg at a red light when a Prius rear-ended it and pushed it under the SUV.
According Tesla’s spokeswoman Rachel Konrad:
This was [...]

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Get $42,083 off a Tesla Roadster… in Colorado

If you’re looking to purchase a sporty electric-car and live in the state Colorado, you’re in luck. With a special state tax credit, those looking to purchase a 2009 Tesla Roadster will receive a $42,083 tax credit bringing the base price of $109,900 to $67,800.
The tax credit ends on December 31 and offers Colorado residents [...]

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Tesla launches Mobile Service Rangers to service your Tesla at your house

Tesla has announced a new mobile service program featuring house calls for customers in the United States and Canada. Known as the Tesla Mobile Service Rangers, mobile service squad will visit a Tesla owners’ homes, offices or parking garages to perform an range of procedures, including annual inspections and firmware upgrades.
“Customers pay $1 per roundtrip mile [...]

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SolarCity installs four charging station on highway 101 for Tesla Roadster owners

If you live in California and drive a Tesla Roadster, than you’re in luck. SolarCity has announced that it has installed four charging stations along highway 101 between San Francisco and Los Angeles that will charge your Tesla to a full capacity in 3.5 hours.
Taking it a step further, one of the four charging stations [...]

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Tesla to move into mainstream U.S. auto sales in 2016, plans $30,000 EV

Currently, Tesla Motors sells just one car – the $109,000 Roadster. The company has sold just 700 units of the electric sports car and hit profits for the first time in July; No biggie, the Big 3 and other automakers have nothing to worry about… right? Wrong, according to a report by AutoWeek, Tesla has plans [...]

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Brand Spankin’ New Images: Tesla Roadster Sport… why pay the extra $19,500?

The 248-hp Tesla Roadster is an already expensive vehicle with pricing starting at $101,500. However, it allows you to go from 0 to 60 in 3.9 seconds, is 100 percent electric and allows you to travel 244 miles before you need to plug it in.
What’s better than a Tesla Roadster? A Tesla Roadster Sport. The [...]

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2010 Tesla Roadster to get Wi-Fi and other upgrades

One thing that angers most car buyers are the additional features that automakers add in the mid-life-cycle update of a vehicle that they end up missing out on. So while you Tesla Roadster owners are driving around thinking you’re so special for helping out the environment, Tesla Motors is about to burst your bubble.
According to [...]

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Tesla Motors has confirmed that they will be launching a right-hand-drive version of the electric Roadster in Europe in 2010. CEO Elon Musk said that the re-engineered right-hand drive version would arrive early next year. He said that the cost of re-engineering to a right-hand drive was “not prohibitive.”
Musk said that the right-hand drive Roadster would be [...]

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