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New Tesla Roadster to Feature Cold Air Thrusters, Could Even Fly

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 18:08:33 +0000

Tesla’s new Roadster has been postponed more than once in recent history, but as we know him, Elon Musk let the cat out of the bag and tweeted about a “hover test” that Tesla will be doing late next year. A hovering Tesla, maybe? Or just a joke? Now, when he’s saying that the new […]

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The new Tesla Roadster – will it beat down gasoline cars?

Jose Aguilar — Sat, 25 Nov 2017 18:50:04 +0000

Tesla`s story is not such a long one, as it is a perplexing one, with a motto at its beginnings in 2003 to “accelerate the advent of electric vehicles“. In spite the fact it all started with the Roadster, the brand`s portfolio has after 14 years expanded, not only to include electric cars and semi […]

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Conference Call Confirms New Tesla Roadster

Annika Tostengard — Sat, 18 Jul 2015 14:33:05 +0000

Elon Musk announced during a Friday phone-in conference call that Tesla will be releasing a new model in just four years, called “The Roadster”. The car will not merely be an upgrade of the 2008 Roadster, but will be based on a brand-new design. The car will be able to accelerate to sixty miles in […]

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Do Electric Cars Have Gears? No. Here’s Why

Benji Jerew — Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:43:14 +0000

Here’s a conversation that piqued my interest today: “Are electric vehicle transmissions necessary?”, or “Do electric cars have gears?”. Really, could multispeed gearing do anything for electric vehicle performance, acceleration, speed, efficiency, or otherwise? (For the purposes of this discussion, we’re leaving out heavy-duty applications, such as delivery trucks or tractor-trailers.) After decades of driving […]

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Three Updates from Tesla Motors

Benji Jerew — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 15:01:54 +0000

Perhaps one of the most progressive and successful automakers in the world, Tesla Motors has really set things in motion with its well-endowed battery electric vehicles. Tesla Motors’ motion, of course, was set by the original Tesla Roadster, a Lotus Elise electric vehicle conversion with 245 miles of range per charge. Some electric vehicles today, […]

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Is a Profitable Tesla Model E Just a Dream?

Benji Jerew — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 14:49:14 +0000

Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk’s master plan for the company seems to be on track, with full production of the Tesla Model S, expansion of the Tesla Supercharger network, and the upcoming Tesla Model X and Tesla Model E. The idea was simple, start with low-volume high-profit vehicles, the Tesla Roadster and Tesla Model S, […]

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Future Electric Vehicle Transmissions May Have Multi-Speed Gearboxes

Benji Jerew — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 16:27:18 +0000

For the most part, electric vehicle manufacturers have eschewed the multi-speed transmission in favor of a simpler and lighter single speed transmission. The reason for this is that electric vehicles do not really need a transmission, at least that is what electric-vehicle manufacturers thought. Because an electric motor is more easily balanced than a standard […]

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Famous Person Dumps on Tesla Roadster, Should Tesla Motors Be Concerned? [Video]

Benji Jerew — Mon, 18 Nov 2013 18:36:53 +0000

If there’s anything I love *ahem* to hear more about Tesla Motors than how great they are, it has to be when (insert famous person here) talks about how much they don’t like it. Part of the problem is that the media tends to blow things way out of proportion. Consequently, investors go crazy, driving […]

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Will Tesla Motors Have to Build Its Own Lithium-Ion Battery Plant?

Benji Jerew — Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:53:54 +0000

The Tesla Roadster and Tesla Model S have always been part of a much bigger Tesla Motors plan, one that has seemingly been executed flawlessly. The idea was simple: Start with a high-price low-volume electric vehicle to build interest in the product and fast profits. Then, pour those profits back into the company, along with […]

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Enthusiasts Flock Together for One Hundred Tesla Motors Tour de Tesla

Benji Jerew — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 19:14:07 +0000

Yesterday marked a momentous occasion, the gathering of one hundred Tesla Model S and Roadsters on a fifty-mile tour in Southern California. Tesla Motors in an electric parade? Bring it on! Set for Sunday, September 8, 2013, in an event put on by TeslaRun.com put together one hundred Tesla Motors owners/lovers/enthusiasts for a unique run […]

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EV Batteries Last More Than You’d Expect, Survey Finds

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 17 Jul 2013 17:02:51 +0000

A recent survey by Plug In America suggests that electric car batteries last much longer even than what the manufacturers predicted in the first place. For instance, the battery in a Tesla Roadster only drops to 80 – 85% after 100,000 miles of driving. Tesla, on the other hand, had originally estimated that the battery […]

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Plug-In America’s New EV Survey Targets the Tesla Roadster

Benji Jerew — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 07:32:36 +0000

Peruse forums and you’re likely to find any number of comments both for and against electric vehicle [EV] technology. Really though, these anecdotal responses don’t add up to a whole lot more than hot air. The reality is, that happy people are pretty quiet, but unhappy people, well, let’s just say that misery loves company. […]

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Tesla Motors Sends “Rangers” to Fix Electric Cars

Benji Jerew — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 17:58:14 +0000

Years ago, perhaps decades, doctors stopped making house calls. Now, even if you have an emergency, perhaps your only option is to head to the emergency room, which could be miles away. Automotive companies haven’t made house calls, perhaps ever? Lexus, back in 1989, made house calls when a fault was found in their first […]

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Tesla Roadster Could Be Revived as Model R

Benji Jerew — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 19:51:29 +0000

Tesla Motors first came onto the automotive scene with a modified Lotus Elise chassis and a Tesla all-electric power-train, the Tesla Roadster. Making waves in the market isn’t an easy thing to do, especially for a start-up company, but Tesla pulled it off, and has since perfected its electric power-train technology and has ditched the […]

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Is Tesla Upsetting the Franchise Status Quo?

Benji Jerew — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 20:11:14 +0000

As a start-up company and the first solely electric vehicle [EV] manufacturer, Tesla Motors has all rights to be seen as a bit different, so why would the selling process be the same as all others automobile manufacturers? To that end, Tesla Motors as done exactly what Apple has done, to manufacture and sell their […]

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K1 Evelio Could Become a Real Competitor For Tesla Roadster

Mike Sandru — Thu, 03 May 2012 15:37:50 +0000

Of course, before you’ll have read this article, your eyes will instinctively have looked at the picture first and what you’ll have seen will most probably seem to you as come off from a movie about the future. I mean, isn’t the K1 Evelio a sight? However, besides being a sight, it’s a fuel efficient […]

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Arcspeed Roadster, Australia's Latest Electric Supercar

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 10:28:37 +0000

A car that will compete with the Tesla Roadster and will do the 0 to 60 in less than 3.8 seconds has been announced by Arcspeed, a car manufacturing company from Australia. They’ll use an AC electric motor from Ultramotive, an Australian company, which has 521 Nm (385 lb-ft) of torque, and will make their […]

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Nissan Sold More Leaves Than Chevrolet Sold Volts in First Half of 2011

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:47:23 +0000

Although I don't quite see how one can truly compare any gasoline or hybrid car with a pure electric one in terms of market and customer targeting, it looks like the Nissan Leaf and the Chevy Volt have something in common. Nissan's recent sales reports nevertheless say that the Leaf has outperformed the Volt in the first half of 2011.

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Tesla Motors Orders 100 More Roadster Gliders From Lotus, Extends Production

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:43:52 +0000

You may remember that about a week ago or so I've been writing an article about how Tesla Motors will end its Roadster production soon - in as little as a few months - and will concentrate more on building the company's future models. It looks like they won't stop production so soon, after all. GigaOM says that Musk has ordered another 100 gliders from Lotus for another 100 Roadsters.

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Farewell, Tesla Roadster! Musk Concentrating on Making The New Model S & Model X

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:46:19 +0000

Tesla Roadster was for many the car that brought back the electric car dream that set with the crushing of GM's EV1 back in 2003. Now, the production of Roadsters is seemingly coming to an end, as Tesla Motors announced they'll be focusing more on the future Model S sedan and Model X crossover they've been bragging with for the past few months.

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Tesla Roadster Equipped With a Wireless Charging System Shown at CES 2011

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 19:04:59 +0000

The CES 2011 (Consumer Electronics Show) was the perfect scene for another stunning presentation: the first wirelessly powered Tesla car. Fulton Innovation, a company dedicated to ÃƒÂ¢€Ã…â€œcreating technologies that not only affect the way devices interact with each other, but how cultures interact with their environmentÃƒÂ¢€ is behind the wireless technologies which made this possible. They are also the ones responsible for projects like Splashpower, eCoupled and Alkemi-Insights.

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Tesla Motors Official Discloses Interesting Information About Their EV Battery

Ovidiu Sandru — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:30:02 +0000

In an interview given to TechOn!, Kurt Kelty, Director of battery technologies at Tesla Motors, explained a few historic facts which led to the Roadster's success. One of them was the adoption of laptop lithium ion batteries, and building a safe and robust energy storage out of them.

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German Tesla Roadster Driver Reports 40,000 Miles In One Year, Without Any Problems

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:48:05 +0000

When you purchase a car, you probably take a look at it first. If it looks good, then you think about its performance. If it suits, then you look for reviews of people who drove one and how it did on testing. So far there have been no extensive high-mileage reviews of the Tesla Roadster, but there's one German dude who actually managed to squeeze 40,000 miles (65,000 km) in the electric roadster in one year.

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772 Miles In a Tesla Roadster, Across the UK

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:40:29 +0000

High mileage electric cars are considered to be a thing of the future, because, with today's average driving style, no electric car is able to run for more than two hundred miles on a single charge. That is the Tesla Roadster, the first EV that broke the ice, launched in the age of performance-driven gasoline engines.

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Oman-Based Company to Develop All-Electric Vehicle Capable of 2,236 Miles / Charge

Mike Sandru — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:24:41 +0000

The chief executive officer of Noor Majan, sultan bin Hamad al-Amri, offered no explanation when we might see this wonder vehicle or how the unnamed car will achieve such stupendous range. The only thing he said is the car would be equipped with an 800-horsepower electric motor.

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Panasonic to Equip Tesla Motors' Future EVs With Their Batteries

Cristi — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:14:33 +0000

Just few days ago, Tesla Motors announced that they will start the collaboration with Panasonic for the development of the next generation battery cells for the EV.

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Tesla Roadster Hypermiling: 501km/charge in Australia

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:01:00 +0000

They went 501km with one battery charge, from Alice Springs, in the Australian Northern Territory, to the finish marker at a point 183 km north of Coober Pedy, in South Australia.

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New Nickel-Lithium Batteries: Chance for 800 Miles Electric Car Autonomy

Cristi — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:41:09 +0000

The electric cars' problem of a low mileage may have found its solution. Recently discovered Nickel-Lithium batteries have 3.5 times more energy than the standard Lithium-Ion batteries and besides this, they are much safer to use.

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New Oregon Based Electric Three-Wheeler Getting 190 MPG

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:11:19 +0000

An Oregon-based company, Arcimoto of Eugene, designed their fully electric vehicle capable of reaching no less than 190 mpg, if we take mpg as an energy reference.

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Arab Oil Company Acquires 4% of Tesla Motors

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:54:05 +0000

I don't want to cross the decent border of believing in a conspiracy theory, but when the oil business is threatened these days, it's normal that oil magnates wouldn't sit back and watch electric cars and alternative energy providers take their piece of meat from right in front of them.

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EV Innovations Brings Liv Inizio Electric Super Car to Market

Cristi — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:54:12 +0000

With similar specifications as the Tesla Roadster, Liv Inizio is an electric sports car made by EV Innovations formerly known as Hybrid Technologies.

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Tesla Roadster Sport: The Fastest Road Runner Available from June

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:03:03 +0000

Like the 3.9 seconds 0-60 acceleration wasn't enough, Tesla has unveiled on Sunday the faster "Tesla Roadster Sport" at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

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Top Gear Review on Another Electric Car: The Tesla Roadster

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:38:32 +0000

Of course, maybe you've watched Top Gear's Prius evaluation a few years ago. It was about the 2001 generation of the hybrid, and they've been a little harsh to it (Jeremy Clarkson showed us how fun it is to rifle a high tech car). Now, the all-famous Jeremy Clarkson didn't rifle anything (yet), but what he was trying to prove with this Tesla Roadster video just isn't fair.

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Lightning GT: Britain's Competitor to Tesla's Roadster

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 06 May 2008 07:30:24 +0000

Just a few months ago I was presenting the Tesla Roadster as a pioneer in electric vehicles. And it surely is. It does 60mph in just 3.7 seconds, is extremely light and not so comfortable. This time, the British have projected a brand-new electric car that would ultimately compete with Tesla’s famous Roadster. The car […]

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