Tesla Model III Confirmed, Coming in 2016
16 Jul 2014, 07:13 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In a recent post on the automaker's official Twitter account, Tesla Motors reveals that it has been "confirmed: our Gen III car," which is due to be launched after the Model X crossov...
Tesla Owner Talking You Through Model S Battery Degradation
15 Jul 2014, 09:20 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If conventional car owners fear their engines won’t make the same amount of horsepower after some 100 thousand kilometers, electric vehicle owners are concerned about their car’s battery...
First Tesla Model S Crash in China is Painful to Watch
14 Jul 2014, 09:31 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The past 30 days or so have been laden with crummy incidents related to the Tesla Model S - at the end of June, a Chinese customer smashed the windscreen of its showroom fresh Model S, a different c...
Tesla Model S Crashed Before Leaving Fremont Store & Delivery Center
14 Jul 2014, 08:10 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Time and again, everybody scrapes his or her vehicle's alloy wheels because of distraction and negligence, but we rarely heard of somebody to crash a brand new car without even leaving the deal...
Oatmeal Receives $1 Million From Elon Musk for the Nikola Tesla Museum
13 Jul 2014, 16:37 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As some of you may remember, The Oatmeal published his wacky impressions of what it's like to own a Tesla Model S back in May. Matthew Inman isn't just an enthusiastic owner of the electri...
Tesla Delivered Over 1 GWh of Zap In June
13 Jul 2014, 15:03 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Even though Tesla Motors was founded some 11 years ago, the Palo Alto-based startup is celebrating a big milestone after years of relentless research and marketing work in the still undeveloped worl...
Stolen Tesla Model S Driver Allegedly Dies After High-Speed Crash
11 Jul 2014, 16:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you were sitting at home watching TV on the 4th of July, then you might have heard that a stolen Tesla Model S kicked off a high-speed police pursuit that ultimately ended with a fiery crash that...
Tesla Model S Asking To Be Hacked for $10000
10 Jul 2014, 10:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You might think that having a huge touchscreen system that controls everything inside a Tesla Model S, the car can be an easy target for hacking. Well, there were some successful attempts in the pas...
Tesla Will Open New Stores in China
7 Jul 2014, 08:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you want to buy a Tesla Model S in China, good luck with that. At the present moment, availability is limited to Beijing and Shanghai customers, the waiting list is demotivational and the Chinese...
Electric Mazda MX-5 Humiliates Tesla Model S in Drag Race
7 Jul 2014, 07:53 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Taking a sportscar and turning it into an electric vehicle sounds like the perfect way to take all the joy out of life. And yet there are some cases in which the exact opposite is true. Take this...
Police Chase Ends With Tesla Model S Split in Two
6 Jul 2014, 11:38 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / While most of us celebrated the 4th of July by eating barbecue with our family, watching the fireworks show in Washington DC and celebrating everything that's great about the United States of A...
Tesla Aims to Become Leading Employer of US Veterans
4 Jul 2014, 14:22 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The Palo Alto-based manufacturer is on a bit of a roll these days. After Tesla patents went open source and the Model X pure-electric drive crossover has been confirmed to be ready in early 2015, th...
Tesla Model E to Be Priced Against BMW 3 Series, Insider Says
1 Jul 2014, 09:53 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The green automotive scene is heavily anticipating Tesla Motors' upcoming Model X crossover, which has been confirmed to come in the first months of 2015 with trick Falcon wing doors, two elect...
Tesla Model S Customer Smashes Windshield of New Car With a Wrench
27 Jun 2014, 18:00 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Have you ever been so mad with Tesla Motors that you smashed the windshield of your brand spanking new Tesla Model S with a wrench? We didn't and maybe you didn't either, but Yu Xinquan di...
Cadillac Targeting Tesla Motors and BMW According to Marketing Chief
27 Jun 2014, 09:44 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After taking the marketing reins of the American luxury manufacturer last November, Uwe Ellinghaus has been hard at work trying to put Cadillac back on its former glory's tracks. According to t...
Saleen Tesla Model S Spied while Track Testing
25 Jun 2014, 12:37 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Here’s a riddle for you - what do the electric whine of a Tesla Model S and the whine of a supercharged Mustang have in common? The answer is, apparently, Saleen. If there’s an aftermark...
Tesla Is the World's Most Important Carmaker According to Morgan Stanley
23 Jun 2014, 09:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In case you didn't know, the current top players in the automotive industry are Toyota (the world's largest manufacturer), Volkswagen (Europe's best selling car brand) and General Mot...
Tesla Model S Coupe Rendering by X-Tomi
22 Jun 2014, 19:16 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Since it was introduced two years ago, the Tesla Model S has pushed the eco-friendly motoring game to new standards. Despite moving more and more units of the luxury liftback sedan from one month to...
Cadillac ELR Sales Disappoint: 52 Sold in May
20 Jun 2014, 18:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / If you think that the Cadillac ELR is just a Chevrolet Volt in drags at double the price, you're absolutely right! The $75,995 luxury plug-in hybrid is such a commercial flop that Caddy managed...
New York Allows Tesla Direct Sales, New Jersey to Follow
18 Jun 2014, 19:12 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / NY Governor Andrew Cuomo put his signature on a document that permits the EV manufacturer to sell its eco-friendly cars directly to consumers located here. Further more, the Assembly recently passed...