In Tesla Motors’ blog, CEO Elon Musk took some time to set the record straight over the much talked about lawsuit filed by co-founder Martin Eberhard. As “twisted and wrong” as it may be, Musk felt he needed to set the record straight. However, the whole blog post wasn’t about Eberhard’s allegations in the lawsuit; [...]
Speaking at Wired Business Conference, Tesla Motors founder and CEO Elon Musk said that he is “anti-tax” but “pro-carbon tax.” Gasoline “should probably be $10″ per gallon Musk said. “I’m not paying for the true cost of gasoline at the pump…since nobody’s explicitly paying for the CO2 capacity of the oceans and atmospheres, it’s getting consumed. [...]
After being unsuccessful in suing Fisker last year, Tesla’s lawyers are now keeping busy by defending the company from a lawsuit from Tesla’s co-founder Martin Eberhard. That’s right – Eberhard, who left Tesla Motors in Jan. 2008, wasn’t too happy about the things current CEO Elon Musk had to say about him when he was [...]
Alright, so to change the pace a little with our ‘Miscellaneous Thoughts’ posts, we thought we’d put together a full video edition. So here you go… Ferrari F430 catches fire after accident: A Ferrari F430 went up in flames after an accident in Sibiu, Romania. No one was seriously injured but the car was a [...]
Martin Eberhard, co-founder of Tesla Motors, is now one of the aftermarket entrepreneurs of Tesla electric-cars. When Eberhard left Tesla in January of 2008, he said that he planned to start another company entirely in the green tech field. Eberhard now writes over at his blog at http://www.teslafounders.com. In a recent entry, Eberhard said that he is busy building [...]
Tesla announced yesterday that it will open a total of seven regional sales and service centers this summer. In the United States, Tesla plans on opening a store in New York, Seattle and Chicago in June. Following those three stores Tesla will open up shop in Miami. Later this month, Tesla will open a store [...]
Tesla Motors announced today that a New Jersey (our home-base) philanthropist has taken delivery of the 500th Tesla Roadster. Martin Tuchman, former chairman and CEO of Interpool, plans on charging his Roadster partly with solar energy with photovoltaic panels he helped install throughout his hometown of Kingston, NJ. “My Roadster drives like a dream — it’s amazing,” [...]
While Tesla’s new Model S sedan will be built on the company’s own platform, the Tesla Roadster shares its underpinnings with the Lotus Elise. However, now it’s time to work on the next Roadster, and like all future Teslas, the next-generation roadster will ride on a variation of the Model S platform. While that will [...]
Will we stop talking about Chrysler any-time-soon? I highly doubt it. With so much going on ever since the company decided to file for bankruptcy and approved its alliance with Fiat, there is no shortage of news on the Auburn Hills automaker. Will Chrysler be renamed following its partnership with Fiat: ”There hasn’t been any thoughts [...]
In case you were so tired from watching Obama’s press conference last night and went to bed early, we’re posting a piece from last night’s Late Show with David Letterman where Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk paid a visit. Musk also brought the Tesla Model S sedan to show Letterman who seems to have lost [...]
