Tesla Model S News
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Generally, when Tesla Motors makes an announcement about a new product or a future plan, its fans and advocates cheer lustily. The rest of the industry grunts, takes quiet notice, and carries on. Yesterday's announcement that Tesla's two current models will be offered in new, longer-range 100D versions, met with more mixed responses. DON'T MISS: Tesla Model S P100D really, seriously goes over 300 miles this time Even some usually supportive analysts and outlets questioned the importance, relevance, and focus of the new 100D versions—which had been teased and rumored as far back as...
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The Tesla Model S P100D really, seriously goes over 300 miles this time
The first time may have been a Pyrrhic victory. In April, an updated 90D emerged with a kinda, sorta 300-mile range and a new face. Tuesday, Tesla announced that a new 100-kilowatt-hour battery would deliver 315 miles on the EPA cycle and accelerate up to 60 mph faster than falling off the roof...
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Tesla P100D battery coming for Model S, Model X, EU site shows
The Tesla Model S electric luxury sedan has had a dizzying array of battery offerings over its four-year life, and the Model X has had quite a few over less than a year. Now it appears that we may be getting closer to the rumored 100-kilowatt-hour battery option for the top-of-the-line Teslas. If a...
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Cheaper leases on Tesla electric cars to run through Sept 30
Tesla Motors has made an indelible mark on the global auto industry, launching the first volume electric cars with few if any compromises in design, performance, or features. Both the Model S in 2012 and the Model X in 2015 remain the sole such cars with more than 200 miles of range. But they're...
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Tesla cancels guaranteed-price buyback program for electric cars
Tesla cancelled its guaranteed buyback program effective July 1.
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NHTSA to investigate Tesla Model S Autopilot crash that killed driver: UPDATED
The NHTSA said it would open an investigation into a fatal May 7 crash in which a Tesla Model S running under Autopilot control hit a semi and passed under its trailer. The driver, later identified as 40-year-old Joshua Brown of Ohio, died at the scene of the Florida crash, which occurred after a...
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I’ve owned my 2013 Tesla Model S for more than three years, and put 66,000 miles on it now. It still runs great, and it makes me happy every time I drive it. I plan to keep it for at least a few more years. But I can’t help occasionally peeking at the Tesla Motors online Model S configurator to check out the prices and features on the newest versions. DON'T MISS: Tesla adds two Model S 60 versions starting at $66K, still 200 miles or more Tesla just recently revamped its lineup, bringing back an entry-level 60-kwh model and bumping the 70-kwh car up to 75 kwh. At first glance...
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Want a solar panel with your electric car? Tesla bets you do in SolarCity bid
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is betting that electric car buyers want home solar panels in addition to batteries. In fact, he’s betting nearly $3 billion on the idea. On Tuesday, Musk announced that Tesla [NYSE: TSLA] would acquire SolarCity, one of the nation’s largest residential and...
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The 12 most influential green cars in history
The automobile has been with us since 1885, but only over the last 50 years have governments started to face up to its ill effects on the environment. The world's major car markets have mostly now legislated increasing levels of fuel economy and reduced tailpipe emissions not only of gases directly...
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Tesla Model S body upgrade kit makes older cars look like new 2016s
Unplugged Performance now offers a body kit that updates the look of older Tesla Model S electric cars.
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Tesla Model S can float, for short periods: Musk (video)
It's a grainy, jittery 44-second mobile-phone video, with the Blue Danube Waltz in the background. And it's suddenly relevant because that master of publicity, Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk, tweeted that the Model S "floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods of time." It shows a...
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Tesla now building 2,000 electric cars a week, it says
As with any auto manufacturer, the vehicle production rate at Tesla Motors is intensely scrutinized by shareholders, fans, financial analysts, and competitors. Almost two years ago, CEO Elon Musk had said that the electric-car maker expected to be operating at a "run rate" of 100,000 cars a year by...
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A post on a small auto-industry blog that accused startup carmaker Tesla Motors of concealing potentially hazardous suspension breakages blew up into a major media story—and has taken some unexpected twists and turns as it's played out so far. That's par for the course for much of the news, big and small, that involves the decade-old electric-car maker, which has now sold close to 150,000 electric cars over eight years. The story brings to light Tesla's requirement that some owners sign Non-Disclosure Agreements that they not discuss repairs the company makes on cars whose warranties...
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Tesla adds two Model S 60 versions starting at $66K, still 200 miles or more
The Tesla Model S electric car has been offered in several versions over its five model years to date, with faster and longer-range variants getting the most attention. Today the Silicon Valley carmaker announced two new, less expensive versions of the Model S that start at $66,000. Both will offer...
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Tesla pursuing police cruiser market with Model S: report
Would the Tesla Model S make a good police car?
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Updated 2016 Tesla Model S also gets new 75-kWh battery option
The Tesla Model S will get the 75-kWh battery option introduced on the Model X.
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Tesla fan commercial: electric car rescue from post-apocalyptic landscape
When fans of a particular electric car start creating their own unofficial commercials for the car, it usually means one of two things. Either the existing ads are inconsistent, irritating, and miss the point (first-generation Chevy Volt marketing, ahem), or the auteur is so enamored of the car...
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Updated 2016 Tesla Model S 90D now rated at 303 miles highway range
If 200-mile electric cars are the new black, then what does that make 300-mile electric cars? With the launch of the Chevy Bolt EV less than a year away, and 400,000 reservations for Tesla Model 3 cars to be delivered sometime in 2018 or later, clearly 200 miles is the new benchmark for range below...
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Tesla owners can try out Autopilot for a month for free.
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Which electric cars offer different battery options, ranges?
Only Nissan and Tesla currently offer electric cars with different battery-pack options.
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All-wheel-drive Tesla electric cars rated more efficient, but how?
One of the myriad advantages of electric propulsion, we’re told, is the efficiency of all-wheel drive. The AWD versions of the Tesla Model S, for example, are rated as more efficient than the rear-wheel-drive versions of the car. This flies in the face of 100 years of automotive history...
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2016 Tesla Model S gets styling update, 48-amp charger, new interior options, $1,500 price increase (updated)
The Tesla Model S electric car, which went into production in June 2012, is getting its first styling updates in almost four years. The Silicon Valley carmaker said that Model S luxury sedans produced starting today in its Fremont, California, assembly plant will have a new front-end design...
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Tesla Model S: better electric stretch limo than Nissan Leaf?
A California company is building a Tesla Model S stretch limousine.
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Watch the Tesla Model S P90D race a Boeing
We already know Tesla Motors’ [NSDQ:TSLA] Model S P90D is a quick car. In fact with a 0-60 mph time of 2.8 seconds it’s currently the quickest four-door car in production. But how does it compare with a Boeing 737 which produces as much as 52,000 pounds of thrust at takeoff? Well...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran