In it, he said it was the company’s goal to use money it made building the Roadster to make a luxury sedan, the Model S, and use the money from that to make an even more affordable car, the Model 3. Musk has teased a new “Master Plan” over the last few weeks, and after […]
We had our doubts about Atieva’s claims, until we saw a video of the Atieva test mule beating out a Ferrari California T and a Tesla Model S at a drag race. Neither of these cars are slow—the Ferrari has 553 horsepower, while the Tesla, in its highest spec, creates 762 horsepower from its combined […]
Electric current running through power lines above the freeway delivers energy to specially-modified Scania trucks. A 2-kilometer stretch of the E16 freeway near Gävle, Sweden, nicknamed the e-way might be the world’s most advanced stretch of pavement. When the big rigs are connected to the power lines, their internal combustion engines shut off and, as a […]
The SEC is investigating the fact that Tesla Motors did not disclose the May 7th fatal accident to investors (or the public) until the end of June. The crash, which occurred in Florida, is believed to be the first fatal incident involving Tesla’s semi-autonomous technology. The U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission is reportedly investigating Tesla […]
Thankfully, no injuries have been reported. Just one day after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration launched an investigation into a fatal Tesla crash that occurred while Autopilot was engaged, the semi-autonomous software is being implicated in a second high-speed crash. The Detroit Free Press reports that art dealer Albert Scaglione, 77, was driving with […]
2015 Volkswagen e-Golf Enlarge Tag Heuer Replica WatchesPhoto Volkswagen Group CEO Matthias Müller last week announced an all-encompassing strategy that will see the automaker through the next 10 years and hopefully leave behind any lingering thoughts of the recent emissions cheating scandal, which incidentally VW is close to settling in the United States. The new […]
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 […]
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 […]
The solution to this admittedly minor problem is wireless inductive charging, where to start the charging process one need only position the car over a special base plate on the garage floor. Anyone that’s owned a plug-in car of some sort will know the pain of coming home late, fiddling around with a cable and […]
Sooner or later, most battery-electric car owners will want a 240-volt Level 2 charging station that can recharge the car as much as four times faster. Electric cars all come with a 120-volt charging cable that can charge the battery from a household socket if there are no other options. Owners of plug-in hybrids with […]
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