Tag: Tesla Motors
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Judge Reject's Tesla's Top Gear Lawsuit
Tesla Motors has been suing the BBC over a review they said was deceptive. The judge disagrees.
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Formula One Designer Wins Future Car Challenge Race for Most Efficient Car
The winners represent new names and growing forces, as well as some old standards. Guess who was on the podium?
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German Firm e-WOLF Will Produce the Alpha-2 Electric Sportscar
It looks like a Lamborghini Gallardo, and sounds like a Ferrari. Of course, the engine roars from a speaker box, because this car is all electric. With two electric motors offering 187
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Looking for an Affordable Mercedes? Try the Hybrid
OK, affordable might be a bit of an overstatement, unless you're one of the richer tree huggers out there. We've told you before about Mercedes-Benz's hybrid S400,
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A Jewish Response to the Energy Challenge?
Jewish leaders met at the beginning of this month in San Francisco for the first conference dedicated to
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The Green Future of Mercedes-Benz: The New Electric Smart Fortwo
(Image: Jacob Gordon) Fully-electric Smart cars have been zipping around roads in various forms for some time. But now, Daimler AG, Smart's German daddy company, is ramping up to roll out the second-generation of its battery-powered Smart fortwo--this
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The Green Future of Mercedes-Benz
(Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of Daimler AG. And yes, there are people in those bubbles. Image: Jacob Gordon) Here in the US, Daimer AG (umbrella company to Mercedes-Benz and Smart) hasn't done much to sell itself as a green brand. But after spending the
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Slideshow: Green Wheels of the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show
This year's Frankfurt Auto Show was an explosion of new green vehicles. With extravagant displays and more than 80 world-premiers, this year's show lived up to its reputation as the auto event to watch. It was also the year of green transportation: we
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2009 Frankfurt Auto Show
The 2009 International Motor Show (IAA), also known as the Frankfurt Auto Show, is a juggernaut; a juicy feast for the senses and the imagination. Despite auto-industry gloom, this year's show was bursting with world premiers, flashy theatrics, and slowly
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How Can An Electric Car Travel 100 Miles For $1?
Dear Pablo: I have read time and again that an all-electric vehicle can use as little as one dollar's worth of electricity to travel 100 miles. How can this be? Electric Power Plants are burning oill to create electricity, and oil is expensive. How
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Green Vehicles Get Greenlight on Prime-Time Network
Curious how Jay Leno, with his auto collection of muscle cars, sports coupes and hot rods, could bring "green vehicles" to prime time network TV. With his
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Peter Diamandis on the Race to 100 Miles per Gallon (Part Two)
"Radical breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity," that's the X Prize Foundation's stock in trade. In the second part of our conversation with Peter Diamandis, the Foundation's founder and CEO, we hear about other avenues for creating big
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Peter Diamandis on the Race to 100 Miles per Gallon (Part One)
This race will draw "a line in the sand," says Peter Diamandis, the CEO and chairman of the X-Prize Foundation. After the Progressive Automotive X-Prize is won, "there is no reason you should not be driving a car that gets over 100 miles per
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Rumor: Tesla May Be Strapped for Cash
According to a tipster, who told another Tipster, who heard it from their cousin, who overheard it from their dentist, who has a patient who talked to the ghost of Elvis... Okay, truth be
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$1 Million, 8 Cities, Thousands of Trees: Root for NYC (or your own city if you must !-)
Please pardon my tribalism, but we hope you'll help bring trees to New York City's streets. Alternately, if you must integrate your own inner tribesperson while taking action as a change agent, please help bring some trees to your own city's urban
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Wizard's Gil Arena's Pool Is A Monument To Excess
We aren’t even going to pretend that there is anything green about this picture – isn’t it amazing what human ingenuity can come up with these days! Gilbert Arenas, point guard for the Washington Wizards, just built a
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Here's What Happens to a Tesla Electric Car Battery at the End of its Life
August 2009 Update: Tesla Motors is Now Profitable, Shipped 109 Electric Roadsters in July Electric Car Batteries Three years ago, we were already trying to reassure people about hybrid car batteries. There seems to be a lot of myths surrounding them,
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Tesla Motors May Go Public in 2008 or 2009
Can't afford a Tesla Roadster? Maybe you can afford a piece of the electric car company. Yesterday, Tesla chairman Elon Musk said: "I would say within end of this year or next year there is a good chance we would go public". He even let the door open
