Tesla Motors certainly hasn’t been sitting around watching the paint dry after a New York Times reporter took the company’s Tesla Model S EV for an ill-fated spin earlier this year. Since then, company co-founder and CEO Elon Musk has cut loose with a flurry of press releases and tweets, … [continued]
Tesla’s lauded electric sedan, the Model S, has won yet another award, the 2013 World Green Car of the Year Award. The Model S was also recently selected as the “Car of the Year” by Automobile Magazine and the 2012 Motor Trend Car of the Year, and was named as … [continued]
Tesla is busy as ever, as it continues to gain further share of the global EV market while moving past the New York Times controversy from this winter. In its most recent blog post, Tesla noted that within the past three weeks it has pushed out an average of more than 500 … [continued]
Why do I have the feeling such an infographic wouldn’t be cool if it were about any other car company? But it’s Tesla, so it’s awesome. Also, as Chris DeMorro of Gas2 notes, if you look carefully, it really is another sign that Tesla rocks it (skip below the infographic … [continued]
Tesla Motors is on track to repay its loan from the Department of Energy (DOE) a full five years early, according to an announcement made by Elon Musk at a recent event. That’ll mean that the loan has so far been repayed twice as fast as it needed to be. … [continued]
Tesla Motors has pushed back the release date for its next electric SUV, the Model X. Originally slated for release in early 2014, the vehicle is now scheduled for release in late 2014. According to Tesla, the reason for pushing back the date is so that it can continue focusing … [continued]
Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Motors, hit the ground running this past week in Switzerland, laying out some very ambitious plans to get a slice of the European electric vehicle car market. While attending the Geneva Auto Show, Musk said Europeans will see the Model S, which won the 2013 … [continued]
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The Department of Energy (DOE) has been on a tear over workplace electric vehicle charging, and it seems that corporate America is falling all over itself to keep up. Barely six weeks ago, the agency launched the Workplace Charging Challenge with the goal of nudging the private sector into a … [continued]
Ovidiu Sandru of The Green Optimistic recently conducted an email interview with Tesla Motors Founder and CEO Elon Musk regarding the Tesla Model S and how it performs in cold weather. Reposted from The Green Optimistic, here’s a compiled summary of the interview: Ovidiu: How does the Model S manage … [continued]
