Tesla News

The hits keep coming for Chicago. First Kanye West goes triple platinum, then Barack Obama trades his Hyde Park digs for the White House and finally, Tesla Motors is making its way to the Windy City. The makers of the Tesla Roadster electric supercar, have signed a lease in the River West...

Wired's Holl Liou shows us what the Tesla sedan may look like

I had the chance to take a Tesla Roadster in and around Manhattan for the day.  The car is a remarkable phenomenon. Fast as imaginable yet runs on pure electricity.  Built by Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors, there have only been 200 models delivered since the first one shipped in 2008, and...

Tesla Motors is the Silicon Valley start-up that has begun series production of its all-electric Roadster in 2008.  Over 200 cars have been delivered and 1000 are on back ordered for the year. CEO Elon Musk, founder of PayPal, has advised us that a new Model S sedan will be unveiled on March 23. ...

  Inside Line is reporting that several big-name Hollywood stars are expected to drive their Tesla Roadsters to this Sunday's Academy Awards. Among the names mentioned are George Clooney, Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon and Brad Pitt, who is up for best actor in a leading role in The Curious Case...

Automaker will also be profitable mid-year

What happens when a Tesla Motors castoff and an award winning industrial designer join for a brainpower tryst? A freaking fast electric motorcycle is born. Mission Motors unveiled the world's fastest production all-electric motor cycle at TED2009 yesterday to googly eyes and slackened jaws. The...

The Aptera 2e, is a unique electric vehicle. It is a 3-wheeled 2 seat airplane-shaped vehicle that is a cross between a motorcycle and a commuter car. The first one has rolled off the production line, and they are expected to go into low volume series production in the fall of this year. At the...

If you've followed the Tesla Motors story from the beginning, you know that there have been trials and tribulations along the way. How many speeds would the transmission have? When would the cars be delivered? How fast would they actually be? Today, Tesla Chairman, Elon Musk gave some insight as to...

Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, has confirmed the rumors that have been lighting up the blogosphere for months. The start-up electric car company will supply its lithium ion battery packs and charging systems to the Daimler Group for use in the upcoming Smart ED. The agreement was announced at the Society of...

Tesla's new Senior Vice President of Global Sales, Marketing and Service, Michael van der Sande, left his first post on the company's "Think" blog yesterday. The self-proclaimed car nut replaces Darryl Siry, who announced his resignation on Monday. Van der Sande came to Tesla after spending his...

Darryl Siry, Senior Vice President of Sales, Marketing and Service for Tesla Motors has resigned. On his blog yesterday, Siry cited, "disagreements in strategy," as his reason. Though he has no immediate plans for future employment, he intends to continue blogging about the alternative fuel vehicle...

Sam's Club has expanded their repertoire beyond seven pound cans of Nacho cheese to electric super cars; and why not? It might be the only store where you can get a vending machine and fifteen dozen eggs in one stop. There's just one problem with the electric super car bit: it doesn't exist yet...

Auto enthusiasts have plenty of questions about electric sports cars, not the least of which is how to replace the satisfying rumble of an internal combustion engine. Thankfully the German auto tuners at Brabus have that covered. They've incorporated a "space sound generator" into a modified Tesla...