Of course, even before Musk revealed the Model 3 at the event in Hawthorne, rumors were already swirling of a high-performance variant. Musk even confirmed that there will be a Model 3 with Ludicrous Mode, Tesla’s all-wheel-drive, big-battery performance pack that lets the automaker call the Model S P90D the fastest-accelerating sedan in the world. At […]
Better hope you have a hybrid or electric car. iSeeCars.com took at look at 2.2 million used cars that were one to three years old sold between January and May of 2016, and found that five out of the top ten were alternative fuel cars, whether that’s plug-in hybrids, electric cars, or hybrid models. Want to unload a […]
As part of the deal, VW will pay $2 billion over 10 years to promote clean cars such as those powered by hydrogen and electricity. To mitigate pollution created by the cheating cars, the company also will pay $2.7 billion over three years that will, in part, be used to give incentives to replace polluting […]
That doesn’t always mean a combustion engine is going to win. (See: Tesla beats Charger Hellcat in a drag race.) Electric power’s advantage over combustion is instant, maximum torque from a standstill, providing incredible acceleration. And where that kind of technology and performance is gaining real momentum is actually on two wheels, not four. Electric […]
In order to be the fastest-accelerating electric car in the world, it would have to cut that time nearly in half. With the Model S, Tesla proved that electric cars could be quick. The P90D equipped with Ludicrous Mode, for example, is capable of hitting 60 mph in just 2.8 seconds. That’s because the Academic Motorsports Club Zurich […]
In February, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said “we are not gonna show everything about the Model 3 until a lot closer to production time,” and just this month, he said it still needed six more weeks of design tweaks. When Tesla introduced the Model 3 back in March, the company was up front about the fact that the […]
Elon Musk says your Tesla can float and drive through the water, at least briefly, but warns against trying this at home. If you drive a Tesla Model S, then maybe you also drive a submarine. We *def* don’t recommended this, but Model S floats well enough to turn it into a boat for short periods […]
The sliding door that covers our 2016 Tesla Model X‘s main center console bin is broken. You can slide it forward all you want but it just slides closed again as it was when I took the above photo. Want to use the clever cupholders below? Too bad. The aft bin, which does stay open, […]
As Reuters reports, Atieva is headed by Bernard Tse, an ex-Tesla Vice President and board member, as well as Peter Rawlinson, the former chief engineer of the Tesla Model S. They don’t have a factory yet, but they do have a van nicknamed Edna. Chinese-funded startups and companies claiming to be building the next great electric car […]
Pricing is unchanged from the 2016 model. WOODCLIFF LAKE, New Jersey — The 2017 BMW i8 is priced at $141,695, including a $995 destination charge, BMW announced. The plug-in hybrid coupe arrives soon at BMW dealerships. The major change for the new model year is the addition of the BMW i8 Protonic Red Edition, an […]
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