Tesla Motors says it will start production of the Model S sedan in 2012. That’s just over 18 months from now, and the automaker has not yet selected an assembly location. However, in an investigative story over on Green Car Advisor, Scott Doggett interviewed experts in automotive production and they all said, yes, Tesla could indeed get it done. Earlier this week, [...]
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By Scott Doggett, Contributing Editor Joseph Stalin might be turning over in his grave right now. If the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee were standing in Red Square today – which besides being the official address of the Soviet government, was renowned as a showcase for military [...]
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Here’s another progress report on the Tesla Model S. Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk was in Detroit today, and he told Automotive News that the company will announce a production plant for the Model S within the next few weeks. It will be on the West Coast, he said, and it will be an existing [...]
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Poor Rhett, a college student from Utah. He played the “Green Road,” aka the “Golden Road,” today with Drew Carey, but didn’t win the big prize. Notably, said Carey, “it’s the most expensive prize we’ve ever offered in the history of the show. It’s a prize worth over $112,000.” It’s rather odd, then, that the electric roadster wasn’t [...]
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There are a lot of cool cars that rotate through our test lot here at Edmunds. For the most part, I get to get at least a little seat time in them before we have to give them back. There are a few that I haven’t seen parked in our garage, nor have I had [...]
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In fuel economy rules issued Thursday, U.S. EPA and Department of Transportation agreed to temporarily treat electric cars as causing no carbon-dioxide emissions. The rule acknowledged that this is not true, because electric vehicles, or EVs, get their power from the grid. But the agencies decided that calling the cars “zero emissions” until 2016 would [...]
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Tesla is reported to have said that some of his ideas came to him in a flash of insperation that he found disturbing and unexplainable. Yet most are of the opinion that this is not how genius is supposed to manifests why not? Can we simply not admit that both the mind and universe is [...]
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The Roadster’s battery can hold about 55 kwh of energy, and has a range of 220 miles in between charge. How can I find how much energy the Tesla will use to travel one mile?
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I dont want to know how the levitation works but how does his tesla coil or apparatus works with just under 75 watts.All the tesla coils i seen work with mush more power than just 75 watts.
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A Tesla Roadster has become the first electric vehicle to win the Monte Carlo Alternative Energy Rally and the first EV to win any FIA-sanctioned championship. Driven by Formula One driver Erik Comas, the Arctic White Roadster beat 96 competitors in range, efficiency and performance. The Roadster’s victory in the three-day, nearly 1,000-kilometer challenge also [...]
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Monte Carlo this weekend is hosting its fourth annual Alternative Energy Rally, featuring more than 100 alternative-fuel driving teams competing over three days. The course covers highways and two-lane roads as well as Monaco’s Formula One track. The race began today and concludes Sunday to coincide with the Ever Monaco exposition, an event focusing on [...]
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