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Audi Toyota Ford Mercedes Porsche Fiat Renault SeatPublished: August 19, 2010
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors Who remembers Webvan? Go ahead and raise your hands.
Published: July 13, 2010
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Toyota , Tesla Motors Toyota has several fingers in a few electric pies. There’s the electric car it’s working on in-house , in conjunction with Panasonic, using proprietary technology. Then there are two mash-up prototypes that Tesla is building for Toyota , which according to Bloomberg include an electric RAV4 and Lexus RX .
Published: July 7, 2010
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors After rising 41 percent on the first day of trading, stock in Tesla Motors has been in an alarming freefall. Today, shares of Tesla Motors fell another 16 percent, landing below their initial offering price of $17 each.
Published: May 13, 2010
Filed under: Tesla Motors Regular AutoblogGreen readers who went to see Iron Man 2 this past weekend probably noticed an unexpected little cameo from one of the most flamboyant automotive CEOs around: Elon Musk. Why would Musk show up in a superhero movie? Because this is really a movie about fictional genius billionaire Tony Stark, played by Robert Downey Jr., with a few tons of digital special effects thrown in
Published: February 18, 2010
Filed under: Etc. , Tesla Motors A small, twin-engined Cessna crashed this morning in an East Palo Alto neighborhood, killing all three passengers on board. According to reports, the plane was owned by Doug Bourn, a senior electrical engineer for Tesla Motors , and all three occupants were high-ranking officials employees at the electric car company.
Published: February 16, 2010
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors When the CEOs of the three Detroit based automakers used corporate jets to fly to Washington in late 2008, they were eviscerated by the national media and grandstanding politicians. Within weeks, all three companies had canceled the leases on those aircraft and all future travel by Detroit executives would be happening on commercial aircraft
Published: February 4, 2010
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors With the news that Tesla Motors will soon go public , there’s been a lot of scrutiny of and discussion about the company’s future plans. On the corporate side, that involves things like former Toyota production engineering general manager Gilbert Passin joining the company as leader of Tesla’s vehicle manufacturing operations. On the media side , that means digging into the SEC filing and reporting that the current-gen Roadster is not long for this world and that: The Roadster wait list is down to 220 people and that a “significant number” of people who had reserved cars have canceled their orders.
Published: January 30, 2010
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Tesla Motors , Legislation and Policy , USA Tesla Model S - click above for high-res image gallery For the first time in more than fifty years, a U.S. automaker is holding a public offering.
Published: November 8, 2009
Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Hybrid , Tesla Motors , Green Daily , Fisker In some ways, the all-electric Tesla Roadster and the plug-in hybrid Fisker Karma don’t compete. The difference in powertrains, which will filter down to the two compaies’ lower-cost models, the Tesla Model S and Fisker’s Project Nina vehicle, means that slightly different consumers are going to be interested in these cars. In other ways, though, Fisker and Tesla go head-to-head for the luxury green car market, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk isn’t afraid to fan the competition flames a bit
Published: September 21, 2009
Filed under: Tesla Motors About a month ago we heard that Martin Eberhard had decided to drop his defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against Elon Musk and Tesla Motors. Now comes word that Eberhard and the defendants have actually reached a settlement. Given the ruling of the judge in the case that the suit could proceed, apart from the claim that Musk was falsely claiming a role as co-founder, the settlement should not come as a surprise.