Tesla News

Electric car upstart Tesla Motors is at a crossroads as it readies to deliver its first Model S midsize luxury sedans. The automaker had planned to start delivering the $50,000 to $90,000 cars to customers by July but has since announced plans to jettison the schedule by a month and ...    Read more

Not even a week ago, automakers from all over the globe agreed to a new standard for electric vehicle charging, called the Combined Charging System, or CCS. Ford, General Motors, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW, Daimler AG, and Porsche have been lobbying for the use of single-pug system (a.k.a. CCS) ...    Read more

The electric car has gotten a bad rap recently. Witness the furor over the Chevrolet Volt, which was evidently slated to be the next Ford Pinto. (Admittingly, the jokes were cheap and fun.) The Fisker Karma, the super-slinky, salacious supercar, is the new standard in ultra-luxury unreliability! And ...    Read more

It's either the most dramatic story from a fledgling upstart, ammunition in the arguments of the anti-electric brigade, or the ultimate First World Problem. Are Tesla's batteries failing, rendering the electric Roadster a four-wheeled space hogger? Owner Max Drucker certainly thinks so. Drucker took his Tesla Roadster for a spin and ...    Read more

This week marked the start of the Chicago Auto Show, showing us new Hyundais, Kias, a family crossover from GMC, and more, sustaining its reputation as the "consumers' auto show." Oh yeah, and there was a 650-horsepower Mustang GT500 convertible, surely an outlier. Regardless, it was a week of news, ...    Read more

Early this afternoon, Tesla invited us to its Los Angeles headquarters where CEO Elon Musk unveiled a 7-passenger EV SUV called the Model X. Based on an extended platform of the 5+2 passenger sedan, the Model S, the newest creation is shaped like a high-performance SUV, yet offers third row ...    Read more

The past few years has seen major shakeups in the automotive industry, and it shows in a recent survey on brand perception conducted by Consumer Reports. Once dominant players Toyota, Honda, Ford, and Chevrolet remain on top, but each automaker has seen its points gap decrease compared to last year. ...    Read more

While the world’s automakers assemble in Chicago to show off their new cars and trucks, America’s finest maker of cars no has even driven yet will be sticking back at its Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters to unveil its Model X crossover. We don’t know anything more about it than it will ...    Read more

Over the past few days, we've covered touchscreens, voice commands, head-up displays, applications, smartphone integration, and various other technologies featured at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. But what does much of it come down to? The cloud. Technology in cars is finally at a point where it needs ...    Read more

Ford, being the only company that didn’t get the much-publicized bailout back in 2008, had the envious position of bragging about its financial stability to its Detroit rivals. But this time it’s Ford, not GM or Chrysler, that has been receiving loans from the US government in order to upgrade ...    Read more

This year, plenty of automakers pulled their full weight into the Consumer Electronics Show. But there were plenty of little guys out there, too, that made us ask "Why didn't someone else think of that sooner?" Whether big or small, there were a lot of announcements at the show—some bigger than ...    Read more

It’s been common knowledge for quite some time that Tesla had ambitiously targeted selling its 2013 Model S electric sports sedan for $57,400 before a $7500 federal tax credit. What we didn’t know, however, was just how high it would go.  With official prices for models and options packages released ...    Read more

For the first time in about 100 years, hybrid and electric-powered vehicles appear to be gaining traction in the new car market. They’re selling so quickly that one research company says they will make up five percent of the U.S. market by 2017. The data comes from Pike Research, a technology ...    Read more

Tesla, the electric car startup, has sold out of its entire 6500-unit model run for the first year of its Tesla Model S sedan and looks to reach profitability by the end of 2013. Or so company founder and ...    Read more

Last week, Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk opened his doors to the media, allowing the outside world to see his company’s proposed Model S sedan. Founded in 2003, Tesla has come on the scene as a company looking to revolutionize the way cars move—with electric power. After the company’s first model, ...    Read more

Purveyor of all things electric, automaker Tesla has asked the federal government for yet another loan to get its Model S electric sports sedan off the ground and into production. Tesla secured a $465 million loan in 2009 from the U.S. Department of Energy to build its Palo Alto, Calif. headquarters ...    Read more

Not every dad can rock the Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0 as the family whip. Even with a disposable income, it’s occasionally necessary to haul groceries, store Little League equipment, and yes, take over the neighborhood carpool duties. Thus, for dads, the word "practical" and "car" are sometimes lumped into the ...    Read more

Imagine having the ability to clean up the environment and create something you love at the same time. This is a reality for English artist Moose Curtis as he washes walls covered in dirt, moss, and other grime with a pressure washer. However, Curtis doesn't restore walls to their original ...    Read more

With electric cars, the fear of running out of battery power before you can recharge — known as "range anxiety" — looms on the minds of potential shoppers for these plug-in vehicles. But in a recent study, it turns out ...    Read more

So, you want a Tesla-powered Toyota RAV4 EV, eh? Stand in line, but you'll have to wait aboot a year for the electric RAV's 2012 on sale date. Toyota announced today that its joint-RAV4 effort with Tesla Motors will be manufactured at the company's Woodstock plant in Ontario, Canada, where it ...    Read more

In a blitz of new offerings coming, Toyota is aiming to retain its top sales spot after facing the worst two-year stint in its recent history, littered with recalls, runaways, earthquakes, and financial disasters. By the end of next year, Toyota will have 10 new products rolling into showrooms, from ...    Read more

Electric sports vehicle maker Tesla Motors looks like its planning to expand its lineup. Various sources have uploaded images what appears to be a convertible (“cabriolet” for our cousins across the pond); a minivan; and an SUV. Our take? Telsa Motors has had a tumultuous history ...    Read more

Tesla Motors, a California company that is manufacturing pure, 100 percent electric cars, has received a $465 million low cost loan from the U.S. Department of Energy.According to the Detroit News , the money will be used to construct a factory in Southern California for the manufacturing of the ...    Read more

Tesla, manufacturer of electric cars, has decided to drop its participation in the mainstream category of the Progressive Insurance Automotive X Prize.Tesla had entered its Model S Saloon plug-in electric car, which is supposed to go into production in 2011. The car was considered to be a front runner for ...    Read more

Reuters news service is reporting that Tesla Motors, the Silicon Valley electric sports car manufacturer, will be offering stock to the public. It is said that the offerings will occur “any day.”The company was started six years ago with the help of investors that included Google founders ...    Read more