Tesla Model X News
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Tesla Model X deliveries in China will apparently start before Europe.
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Tesla Model X 'Falcon Door': Lawsuit Against German Supplier Over Failed Development
Even Tesla CEO Elon Musk has conceded that the company's electric Model X crossover utility vehicle ended up a more complicated vehicle than may have been necessary. Now, a lawsuit by Tesla Motors against German supplier Hoerbiger Automotive Comfort Systems describes the difficulties of developing...
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Tesla Model X Now Offers Synthetic Leather, For Vegan Appeal
The Tesla Model X is now available with a full synthetic-leather interior.
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Tesla Model S Redesign Coming To Commonize With Model X: Rumor
Will Tesla update the Model S electric car's styling?
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Here's What The Tesla Model X Assembly Line Looks Like
See the Tesla Model X assembly line in a new video.
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Custom Tesla Model X Thanks Company's Veterans, Model S Too
Seeing a Tesla Model X electric SUV on the roads at all is still a rare occurrence; seeing one in flat black is even rarer. That's because there's only one that looks like the Model X in these photos, snapped at a Supercharger site 10 days ago by our Tesla-owning author George Parrott. After...
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The Tesla Model X will start at $81,200, including destination.
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Will Nissan Leaf Offer Autonomous Driving Just Like A Tesla?
With the IDS Concept that Nissan showed at the recent Tokyo Motor Show, the automaker hinted that Nissan may be readying a suite of autonomous technologies—and a language through which the car will communicate with the driver and with its surroundings. And while it might be tempting to see...
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Fourth Tesla Model X Said To Go To Google Founder Sergey Brin
The fourth Tesla Model X electric crossover went to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, a new report says.
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Tesla Model X Sun Visor Design: Genius 'Delight' Or Overkill?
Elon Musk said the Tesla Model X is more complicated than it needs to be. Is he right?
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Tesla Model X SUV Qualifies For $25K 'HUMMER Tax Break'
Remember the gas-guzzler tax allowance, nicknamed the "HUMMER deduction" because it allowed small-business owners to buy massive, heavy, fuel-sucking SUVs and deduct a large piece of the cost from their taxes? The HUMMER brand went away as a result of the 2009 GM bankruptcy and government-backed...
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Should The Tesla Model X Be Called An SUV? Crossover? Wagon? Hatchback?
The Tesla Model X electric luxury vehicle has widely been referred to as an SUV or a crossover utility vehicle by the media, the company, and buyers. And indeed, it's taller and somewhat boxier than the sleek Model S "sedan," which is actually a hatchback. But we've had some energetic discussions...
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The Tesla Motors [NSDQ: TSLA] Model X SUV has been revealed in production form; and while the packaging and performance of this new electric SUV are mostly as expected, there were plenty of surprises. One of the surprises was how well the trick double-hinged falcon doors are designed—with a very narrow spread as they open, plus sensors that adjust the arc of the doors to available height. Another was that the Model X can tow 5,000 pounds, while carrying seven people and luggage. ALSO SEE: Tesla Model X Spreads Its (Falcon) Wings: Production Details Revealed But the one that CEO Elon...
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Tesla Model X, Model 3, Gigafactory: What We Learned On Q1 Results Call
The quarterly earnings call held Wednesday afternoon by Tesla Motors is always a chance to hear how CEO Elon Musk views the operations of his carmaking company. But the call following release of the first-quarter 2015 results was a little different. Roughly two-thirds of the allotted time was spent...
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Will Tesla Model 3 Electric Car Hit 2017 Production Date?
Electric-car maker Tesla Motors has done many remarkable things in its short decade of existence--including a few the auto industry viewed as impossible. But the company has never managed to get a car into volume production on the date it first announced. That applied to its Roadster, the Model S...
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Will Tesla Model X Success Depend On Women Buying The Electric SUV?
There's no denying that SUVs and crossover utility vehicles are popular--and getting more so, if 2014 sales charts are any indication. So the upcoming Tesla Model X all-electric seven-seat SUV should do very well when it finally hits the market this year after numerous delays. Tesla Motors CEO Elon...
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Tesla Model X Delayed Again, Model S Sales Highest Ever: Third Quarter Report
The Tesla Model X electric SUV will be further delayed for additional quality and validation testing, according to the latest earnings report from Tesla Motors. Deliveries of the luxury electric crossover utility vehicle are now scheduled to start in the third quarter of next year. DON'T MISS...
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2015 Tesla Model X Will Have All-Wheel Drive Only, Company Confirms
With less than a year to go before the first production Tesla Model X all-electric crossover utility vehicles are scheduled to roll off the assembly line, the company has confirmed that every Model X will come standard with all-wheel drive. Previously, four driven wheels were listed as an option...
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Electric-car fans have waited eagerly for more details—or even a picture—of the third vehicle from EV maker Tesla [NSDQ: TSLA]. Aand now the time has arrived. Tonight, at 8 p.m. PST, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is expected to pull the wraps off the Model X, the company’s upcoming all-electric luxury crossover, at an event that also formally marks the opening of the company’s southern California design studio. Smooth, rounded exterior; luxurious and vanlike inside? The Model X, which is expected to be a sporty utility vehicle, with an almost van-like interior—thanks to...
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2013 Tesla Model X Crossover: What We Know Before Jan Reveal
Tesla would like all eyes to focus on its 2012 Model S electric sport sedan this week. But there's a second model lurking in the background: the 2013 or 2014 Tesla Model X crossover, the next vehicle to use the platform that underlies the Model S. A lot of information has emerged in bits and pieces...
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Report: Tesla Model X Electric SUV Coming In 2014
Electric car start-up Tesla Motors currently only sells one model, the high-performance--and high-pricetag--Roadster, but the company is currently working on a new sedan model dubbed the Model S that’s due to hit the streets in mid-2012 with a base price around the $57,400 mark. However, to...
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