Posts Tagged ‘Tesla’

Tesla To Become Profitable Using Cheap Batteries

Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:57 by 3 Comments
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The silicon valley-based start-up electric car maker Tesla has been in financial trouble since day one. Even their IPO didn’t help much, you certainly remember the recent drop in their stock price. But that brought in Daimler and Toyota as investors, and they are going to help Tesla make batteries at lower cost. And that [...]

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Tesla Roadster Art Car

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 13:54 by No Comments
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Tesla realized a good way of getting more public attention is to get involved with art and culture. So at the Miami Art Basel festival – where Maybach came up with an sculpture – they revealed an art car based on the Tesla Roadster. The artist responsible for this is Laurence Gartel. He’s used digital [...]

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Brabus Green Package For Tesla Roadster

Tuesday, December 7, 2010 13:36 by No Comments
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While making 700+ hp cars, Brabus also has to do some environmentally friendly activities to balance things out. But this being Brabus, even their green efforts are ambitious!  They have a new customization program for the Tesla Roadster, titled the Green Package, and it comes with a high-tech quick charging station for the customer’s garage [...]

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Toyota RAV4 EV Concept

Thursday, November 18, 2010 9:00 by No Comments
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Toyota revealed the much anticipated electric SUV, RAV4 EV Concept developed jointly with Tesla at the Los Angeles Auto Show. This car reminds us why we don’t like green cars much! It looks awful, it is literally a refrigerator with some wheels on it. And it’s not that groundbreaking either, it only has a range [...]

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Panasonic Invests In Tesla

Thursday, November 4, 2010 10:19 by No Comments
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The Japanese maker of electric appliances announced that they are expanding business relationship with the American maker of electric cars.Tesla currently uses Panasonic battery cells in its advanced battery packs.  Panasonic has invested $30 million in Tesla, through the purchase of Tesla common stock in a private placement at a price of $21.15 per share. [...]

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Tesla Recalling 439 Roadsters

Monday, October 4, 2010 12:29 by No Comments
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Another day, and another recall announcement! This time its the American electric sportscar maker, Tesla who is recalling 439 units of its Roadster 2.0 and 2.5 models to fix an issue with the 12-volt cable behind the front headlamps which apparently is improperly placed. This cable can cause a short, which eventually can result in [...]

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Toyota Developing Electric SUVs

Saturday, July 17, 2010 17:47 by No Comments
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Instead of making their SUVs more efficient, Toyota is taking a shortcut and developing all-electric 4x4s to solve the problem of high fuel consumption altogether! Currently there are two models in the works based on Lexus RX and Toyota RAV4. These cars are being built upon the prototypes provided by Tesla Motors. Read More… Press [...]

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2010 Tesla Roadster 2.5

Thursday, July 1, 2010 15:25 by No Comments
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Tesla Motors is loaded again and decided to release an update for the Roadster. It’s not a completely new model, so they simply call it the Tesla Roadster 2.5 and they say its been thoroughly improved based on customers’ feedbacks. The new model which features some new hardwares, will debut simultaneously in Tesla’s new showrooms [...]

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Tesla announces new models based on the Model S

Thursday, June 24, 2010 11:22 by No Comments

Tesla unveiled its production plans for the future during a presentation in Wall Street, where it became clear the intention of the U.S. manufacturer to develop, on the same platform as the Model S, a cabriolet, a minivan and a crossover. All the new models will have the battery installed below the bottom of the [...]

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Toyota Partners Up With Tesla For EV Development

Friday, May 21, 2010 16:17 by No Comments
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Toyota Motors Company and Tesla Motors signed a new agreement in which the Japanese company buys $50 million of the Sillicon Valley-based firm’s stocks and in return they will help them with developing future electric vehicles, parts, and production system and engineering support. Now this sounds like an odd pairing, because Tesla’s idea of an [...]

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Right-Hand-Drive Tesla Roadster Starts at £86,950

Wednesday, February 3, 2010 18:23 by No Comments
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Sillicon Valley based electric sportscar maker Tesla Motors is bringing the right-hand-drive version of their Roadster model to the British market. The UK model apparently comes with some tweaks here and there and new equipments. But it also comes with a hefty price tag of £86,950 which, despite the fact that you pay much less [...]

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Aabar acquires 40% of Daimler’s interest in Tesla

Monday, July 13, 2009 16:21 by 1 Comment
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Abu Dhabi based Aabar investment group is extending its partnership with Daimler AG as they acquire 40 percent of the German firm’s shares in Tesla Motors Company. It all started by Aabar becoming a major shareholder of Daimler back in March, and then Daimler bought 10 percent of Tesla, and now they are selling 40 [...]

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Videos: Tesla S Sedan in motion

Monday, March 30, 2009 13:58 by 1 Comment

Well looks like finally vegetarian celebrities can have a green electric car which does not look horrible! The new Tesla Sedan might be a mix of some of the European designs, but on the surface it looks brilliant and technically it is advanced as hell! Hit the jump for more videos… Read More…

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Jeremy Clarkson on Tesla again – Rippin’ it off!

Sunday, January 11, 2009 10:29 by No Comments
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If you live in planet Earth you’ve probably seen last Top Gear season and the episode they reviewed battery powered car Tesla Roadster. They broke two of this car on the track and also mocked the car alot, then guys of Tesla respond on the Internet that it was all fake and blah blah blah! [...]

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