The French real-estate market isn’t at its all-time high (well it’s pretty much like that for the rest of the world facing the global economic downturn). Nonetheless, just like when auto manufacturers offer incentives when car sales are down – so do real-estate developers. A French developer is reportedly throwing in a free Tesla Roadster with a [...]
The Tesla Roadster and the company’s upcoming Model S are both pure electric-vehicles. That’s because Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk doesn’t like E-REVs like the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. When asked by GM-Volt why Tesla hasn’t considered the range-extender concept of the Chevrolet Volt, Musk said: We looked closely at a range extender architecture for Model [...]
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Elon Musk seem to be best friends – or at least we thought since the two are spotted hanging out in a lot of press photos. Schwarzenegger, a big supporter of fuel-efficient vehicles, has frequently flaunted Tesla Motors as being a leader of California’s environmentally-friendly industry. We thought the Governor would make a special-appearance at [...]
Prior to its March 26th debut, Tesla has dropped a teaser image of the upcoming Model S Sedan. We’re guessing designer Franz von Holzhausen, former Mazda design head, didn’t want us seeing too much of his work before the launch date. So far we know that the Tesla Model S Sedan will be powered by [...]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk today sent out a newsletter updating those interested in Tesla financial situation, its Daimler partnership to create battery packs for an electric version of the Smart car, new Tesla Sales & Service Centers that will open by the end of this year, updates on the battery replacement program and additional updates [...]
Some 400 Tesla Roadster customers are really mad. In an e-mail to Tesla Roadster customers, Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk said that the electric-car company is losing substantial profit on each vehicle it makes and to makeup for the loss it will start charging additional dollars for some features. Musk said that when Tesla first [...]
Tesla Motors’ CEO Elon Musk told reporters at a Society of Automotive Analysts meeting that his company is working with Daimler AG to create an electric Smart ForTwo. Musk said that Tesla has a contract with Daimler to produce electric powertrains for 1,000 Smarts, which could later result in tens of thousands of additional vehicles. [...]
Tesla announced today that it has started taking orders for the Roadster Sport, a high-performance version of the all-electric Tesla Roadster. What does the ‘Sport’ badge signify? The Roadster Sport comes with an hand-wound stator and increased winding density for lower resistance and higher peak torque. Performance upgrades include an improved suspension, adjustable dampers, anti-roll [...]
About two weeks ago after Jeremy Clarkson offered his review of the Tesla Roadster, Tesla Motors spoke out about some of the “mischaracterizations” of Top Gear’s review on the electric-car. Overall, Clarkson was pretty impressed by the Tesla until he claimed the onboard battery ran out of power and had to be pushed into the [...]
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 [...]
