This marks the first time that a vehicle not powered by an internal combustion engine has received Motor Trend’s COTY award. Tesla CEO Elon Musk may need to make some more room on his trophy case, because the Tesla Model S has just won another prestigious “Car of the Year”…
While Tesla Motors is revolutionizing the automobile, the company itself is transforming a from visionary role to that of a mass production automobile manufacturer. As Tesla Motors transitions from electric vehicle visionary to a mass production automobile manufacturer, many are wondering whether the company will make it financially. It has…
Start-up automaker Tesla Motors has won a prestigious award for the company’s first self-designed self-manufactured electric car, the Tesla Model S. One of America’s top automobile magazines, er Automobile Magazine, has awarded it’s top honor, Automobile of the Year 2013, to a brand new electric car, the Tesla Model S.…
The success of Tesla Motors hinges in a big way on how quickly and how big the company can scale up its manufacturing rate, and a tweet proclaiming the 1000th Model S body should bring a sigh of relief to the lips of Model S reservation holders. By the end…
The comedian car nut brought the Model S into his Garage for a complete look. Includes a long discussion with chief designer Franz von Holzhausen
The long-hinted Tesla SuperCharger for the Model S and Model X, will be unveiled on Sept 24 according to an Elon Musk tweet promising it will be like “alien spaceships landed at highway rest stops.” Back in June, at the Tesla Motors shareholders meeting, Elon Musk gave the expected business…
The Tesla Model S is already an amazing electric car, but it became extremely more valuable with today’s unveiling of the Supercharger network which will allow coast-to-coast trips with an electric car, powered for free from sunlight. Calling it a historic moment, Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors,…
The 60 kWh Tesla Model S now comes standard with support for the high power SuperCharger, and with it’s lower cost it’s a better value proposition than the 85 kWh Model S. The Tesla Model S electric car has an EPA certified driving range of 265 miles, when outfitted with…
While the Tesla Model S has all the appearances of a luxury sedan, under the covers is the power plant of a sports car, as was proved last weekend when four Model S’s took the top positions in a large electric car time trial race. Under the sleek luxury sedan facade of the Tesla Model…
At a ceremony attended by Gov. Jerry Brown and other dignitaries, Tesla Motors made first customer deliveries of the Model S electric car, calling it the best car, period. Before a packed crowd that included Gov. Jerry Brown, NHTSA Administrator Strickland, and other dignitaries, Tesla Motors made the first deliveries,…
With the Model S launch around the corner, the EPA released the official ratings today, confirming the numbers Tesla published last month, unless ones mind remembered the other, much higher, range rating claimed by Tesla. With the impending official launch of the Tesla Model S, the EPA released its official…
Following the controversy over whether a Tesla Roadster battery pack can be destroyed, Tesla Motors speaks saying the fears are “irrational”, based on limited information, and oh by the way it’s nigh-on impossible to brick a Model S. Two days ago news broke from a single blogger, Michael DeGusta, claiming…
