Today Tesla Motors held a press conference to announce a reshuffling of Model S features. This includes a new top-end battery pack, new fastest 0-60 time (ludicrous mode), a new low end price, and the promise of even faster top speed when the Roadster 3.0 arrives in about 4 years. Battery…
A couple weeks ago Tesla Motors held their yearly shareholders meeting. As always it was chock full of good information, and in general a big love-fest between shareholders and Tesla Motors. Aside from the people requesting that Tesla Motors offer an interior which doesn’t involve the deaths of animals…
On Sunday, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk did one of his famous cryptic tweets claiming to have solved a big issue for electric cars — range anxiety. Tesla press conf at 9am on Thurs. About to end range anxiety … via OTA software update. Affects entire Model S fleet. —…
The P85D settings include an acceleration button clearly marked “INSANE”, but it still catches people unaware that electric drive can be so powerful.
As a newly minted zillionaire founder of Paypal etc in 1999, Elon Musk bought a $1 million McLaren F1 supercar and promptly wrecked it. At the P85D reveal event, Musk bragged it was faster than a McLaren F1. Coincidence?
Tonight, Tesla Motors unveiled the “D” (and something else) before a crowd at their facility in Hawthorne – the same facility where the phallic Supercharger pylon is located. Last week Elon Musk slyly hinted it was time to unveil the D, but didn’t say much else. I’m glad to say…
Doubling down on Tesla’s high performance appeal, the new dual drive Model S is blowing peoples minds.
Last night a Tesla Model S was STOLEN, and after a 100+ miles/hr police chase it crashed in Hollywood, impacting several other cars, the Model S tore in half from the impact, multiple cars caught fire, and several people went to the hospital in critical condition. There’s a glaring…
Another Tesla Model S – on fire Source: NBC Los Angeles Remember last year when we had three Tesla Model S car fires within a month? Two were from road debris skewering the battery pack, with the short circuit causing a car fire, while the third was a high speed…
Last year the thing we all feared occurred – Electric cars, catching fire, blowing up even, the battery packs clearly on fire, spread all over international news. This was something to be feared because it might spook the buying public into thinking electric cars are dangerous. Tesla Motors, fortunately, were…
Yesterday another Tesla Model S fire occurred on the heels of Tesla Motors’ Q3 2013 financial results which had disappointed Wall Street who sent the stock down 14% on Wednesday. News of the Model S fire came too late in the day to affect the stock on Wednesday, so it’s…
A couple weeks ago another Tesla Model S burned, this time following a wreck in Mexico. Some jumped to the conclusion that this proves electric cars are dangerous after all. Instead, the accident actually demonstrates how safe the Model S is, and that the driver of that car put it…
Another Tesla Model S has crashed and burned. Tesla’s stock price fell today when the news broke, closing at $162/share when in September (before the first fire) the price had reached almost to $195/share. The incident occurred in the Northern Yucatan Peninsula (Mexico) at 3 AM, to a car driven…
By rapidly building out the Supercharger network, service centers, and increasing the Model S top speed for the Autobahn, Tesla Motors hopes to wow Germans that are known for appreciating automotive engineering prowess. Tesla Motors is expanding its sales network into Europe, and one of the targets is Germany. Describing…
At first blush it seems ludicrous to think GM would be afraid of Tesla Motors. GM manufactures a zillion vehicles a year, has operations in dozens of countries, and a long history of automobile and truck manufacturing. But, in an interview with the Detroit News last week, it seems that…
