Commenting last Friday on Facebook about Fisker’s expected bankruptcy, Sarah Palin lumped in other projects that have been smiled upon by the Obama administration, and called the Chevy Volt and Tesla “losers.” On Monday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk answered via Twitter that he was “deeply wounded.” The exchange via social media outlets has been seen
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We’ve heard before that Tesla wants to revive a range-topping sports car that will have no excuses against the world’s supercars, and recently company VP George Blankenship reiterated the company’s aspirations. Tesla is still rolling out the Model S sedan in the U.S. and soon it will be in Europe as well. It has a
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Not for nothing, Tesla Motors engineered its Model S – and Roadster before it – to be so quick as to gain respect among conventional car enthusiasts and now it’s been declared the quickest production electric car in the world. As the video shows, the Model S gets the hole shot on a 2005 Dodge
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Nissan’s Leaf was never intended as a race car or even sporty car, is deliberately “green” looking, but that hasn’t stopped Nissan’s performance arm in Japan from developing a sportified version. The Nismo version, for now slated only for the Japanese market, will be not one iota more powerful, but will look it, and ought
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It’s been several years since the Tesla Roadster was introduced, and two years since the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf were launched. Other electric vehicles have come along as well, but as of last month, the U.S. market had purchased fewer than 46,000 electrified plug-in cars this year out of 13 million total vehicles. In
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As Tesla grows, so does its need for a proper business infrastructure. With this in mind, the American EV company is opening a European Distribution Center in Tilburg, Netherlands. Qualified by Tesla as a key step toward beginning worldwide distribution of Model S, Tesla Motors announced that it will begin operations this month at this new European
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Today IBM announced it has taken on two major Japanese research partners to help with its Battery 500 lithium-air project intended to make internal combustion powered vehicles obsolete in around a decade or so from now. Begun in 2009, the project has the none-too-bashful goal of developing an electric passenger vehicle battery technology capable of
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As its initial vehicle, the Roadster has been gradually rolled out into a growing number of international markets; investor confidence in Tesla Motors has steadily increased. With deliveries of its second car, the Model S luxury sedan set to begin this summer and plans on the horizon for introducing further vehicles, such as the Model
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We could take this story in a number of different directions, but the fact that more than 70 cars sold in the U.S. today are available with over 500 horsepower is being viewed as at least ironic. The HybridCars.com dashboard currently lists around 30 hybrids sold in America, and while this number is increasing, another
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As Tesla Motors continues to build excitement for its all-electric Model S sedan and Model X CUV, an enthusiasm-quelling story about its Roadster’s battery pack turning into a proverbial “brick” has been circulating and prompting a predictable backlash of re-reporting and commentary. The anti-excitement got started by a report that cited “at least” five owners
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