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Tesla Model S and X to Get More Efficient Electric Motors

Matias Prieto — Wed, 10 Apr 2019 09:32:32 +0000

Tesla is upgrading the Model S/X electric motor with a more efficient permanent magnet reluctance system. This idea is based on the motor Tesla developed for Model 3. A “sales speed bump” for Tesla Financial report of the company Tesla for the first quarter of 2019 showed that the cars started to sell worse. In […]

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MobilEye Software “Auto”-matically Ruptured Relationship with Tesla

Courtney Lepping — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 19:51:30 +0000

Looks like the relationship between business partners MobilEye and Tesla just… crashed. MobilEye, the Israeli company that has supplied Tesla with the technology used in self-driving vehicles, has decided to no longer make those services available. The Tesla vehicle crash must be weighing heavily upon those involved, even if involved in the slightest. The MobilEye EyeQ3 […]

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Elon Musk Reveals How Difficult It Is to Build Tesla Model X

Annika Tostengard — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 05:25:18 +0000

The Model X launched in the San Francisco Bay Area and was a huge success. Although the event celebrated the green tech company’s accomplishments, CEO Elon Musk also took the opportunity to explain just how much of a pain the Model X was to build. The vehicle is complicated and insanely high-tech, to the point that Musk […]

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Even Porsche Cayenne Can’t Beat Tesla’s 0-60 Accleration

Annika Tostengard — Thu, 08 Oct 2015 20:09:49 +0000

Even though Porsche is synonymous with sports cars, Tesla’s Model X outperforms the Cayenne Turbo in nearly every way. The Model X is cheaper, too. In Ludicrous Mode, 0-60 takes just 3.2 seconds, while in a Cayenne Turbo that same acceleration will take 3.8 seconds. It’s easy to forget just well great Tesla’s vehicles perform when […]

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Elon Musk Interview on Tesla Model X’s Electric Doors

Ovidiu Sandru — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:56:27 +0000

Among several other concerns, an electric car presents itself as a new field with a lot of variables that remain to be seen only in real life situations. However, if you give that electric car two innovative electric doors, like the Falcon Wings in the Tesla Model X, the situation is even more unclear in […]

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