Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | tesla, automotive
Quoted: Shortly after Tesla held a press conference Wednesday morning touting its $250 million planned plant in San Jose, Calif., Tesla chairman Elon Musk presented his vision of Tesla’s leadership role in the auto industry at the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference. Musk said that Tesla has the ability to accelerate the auto industry’s progress toward the adoption of electric vehicles by 5 to 10 years. Lighting even that small fire could be very important if you consider what a decade of delay can do for climate change, he said.
- Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 18 2008 | tesla, automotive
Quoted: TThe brawl between Telsa and Fisker Automotive, the two electric-car startups backed by Silicon Valley’s most well-known cleantech VCs, is heading to arbitration, according to San Mateo court records (hat tip CNET). The court records say that Fisker’s request to take the issue to arbitration has been granted, and CNET quotes a statement from Fisker founder Henrik Fisker that says his company is “extremely pleased” with the court’s decision.
- Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 27 2008 | tesla, automotive
Quoted: A SILICON VALLEY start-up company is to begin UK production of its £92,000 electric sports car.
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In order to legally be sold as a production vehicle in all 50 of these United States, a new car has to meet hundreds of requirements, some silly and some serious. Malcolm Powell, Tesla Motors VP of Vehicle Integration, reported on the company's blog recently that the Tesla Roadster has finished taking and passed every test of the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
- Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 21 2007 | automotive, tesla
Quoted: Helping the Earth with Technology
- Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 19 2007 | automotive, tesla
Quoted: Who says alternative-fuel cars have to be wimpy? Here's where mph and mpg collide -- these speedsters lose the bark of gasoline engines and sharpen the bite.
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Quoted: Choosing the best car from among the scores of new models introduced each year is invariably dicey because there are always people who say you got it wrong. But that
- Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 07 2007 | tesla, automotive
Former Tesla CEO and co-founder Martin Eberhard got a vague demotion to "President of Technology" in August, so perhaps we should've seen it coming, but it looks like he's now been phased out entirely -- which doesn't really point to happy fun times in Tesla land.
- Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 07 2007 | tesla, automotive
Tesla Motors co-founder Martin Eberhard has been ousted from the company.
After being replaced as chief executive officer and named president of technology in August as the delivery of the first Tesla - a nearly $100,000, two-seat electric roadster - continued to be delayed, Eberhard has now left the San Carlos company. - Sigalon | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 16 2007 | tesla, automotive, blogs
Quoted: The official site for Tesla Motors, makers of the Tesla Roadster, the high-performance electric sports car. Electric cars from Tesla Motors are developed with an emphasis on design, performance, and efficiency.
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