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Rumormill: Fisker designed Tesla's upcoming Whitestar sedan

Apr 14th 2008 8:44AM - 4 Comments

Click above for high-res live gallery of the Fisker Karma For more than year, fans of Tesla Motors hoping for a more practical and affordable (relatively speaking) electric vehicle have been waiting for details on project WhiteStar. Rumors have run ...

Tesla's WhiteStar Albuquerque plant grows bigger (on paper)

Oct 18th 2007 10:20AM - 4 Comments

Tesla Motors is working on a assembly plant for its upcoming WhiteStar sedan in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The Albuquerque Tribune is now reporting that the plans for that plant are getting larger. The Tribune's Erik Siemers writes that Tesla ...

Tesla WhiteStar plant coming to ... somewhere in America

Jan 30th 2007 8:17AM - 2 Comments

Michigan may have received the nod for Tesla's new Technical Center, but the location of the factory where future Tesla models will be built remains unknown. According to the Greensboro News-Record in North Carolina, the town of Alamance has been ...

California Gov. Schwarzenegger to make WhiteStar announcement at Tesla today

Jun 30th 2008 11:05AM - 4 Comments

We received a heads up overnight that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will be making an appearance later today at Tesla Motors headquarters in San Carlos, CA. According to the notice from Tesla, Schwarzenegger will make an announcement ...

Will Daimler supply engines to Tesla for WhiteStar?

Jun 12th 2008 11:58AM - 5 Comments

Tesla Motors has apparently reached some kind of technology deal with German automaker Daimler. Tesla Chairman Elon Musk reportedly told Fox Business news that, "We have a small deal that could potentially lead to a very big deal." While no real ...

Tesla's WhiteStar will be called the Model S - more info soon

Jun 30th 2008 2:54PM - 4 Comments

Ok, ok, we previewed most of what we knew/know about Tesla's announcement regarding the future plans of the WhiteStar sedan this morning. Our friend Damon is at the ceremony and will be providing us with as many details as he can in very short ...

Tesla officially declares Albuquerque to be WhiteStar, USA

Feb 19th 2007 6:08PM - 6 Comments

The bidding war is over, and Albuquerque, New Mexico is now officially the location of the new WhiteStar electric sedan factory. This location is not a complete surprise, as we reported two days ago, but I'm sure folks in North Carolina and elsewhere ...

Tesla to show final design, working prototype of Whitestar this year

Feb 15th 2008 3:48PM - 17 Comments

Click image for photo gallery Ready for the Whitestar? CNET is, and recently interviewed Tesla's co-founder, Elon Musk, about the eagerly-anticipated next vehicle from Tesla Motors. Elon says some things we know - the electrically-powered sedan will ...

Albuquerque paper wary about Tesla's Whitestar plant promises

Aug 23rd 2007 6:44PM - 4 Comments

There was much excitement in Albuquerque when Tesla Motors announced in February that its upcoming WhiteStar electric sedan would be built in the New Mexican city. Six months on, a local newspaper, the Albuquerque Tribune, is saying "Don't hold your ...

Will the Tesla WhiteStar be a battery powered Ford Fusion?

Feb 20th 2007 9:47AM - 6 Comments

Our friends over at that august automotive journal known as Jalopnik have come up with an interesting bit of speculation about the Tesla WhiteStar. According to their tortured logic, the new electric sedan - to be built in New Mexico - may be based ...

Top 20 green cars we wish we could buy today, Number 3: Tesla WhiteStar

Apr 22nd 2008 1:07PM - 1 Comment

Click image for photo gallery While we've been hearing about the Tesla WhiteStar sedan for a long, long time, the idea of combining a Tesla Roadster with a BMW 5 Series is too good to pass on. With the kind of backing that Tesla has and the sheer ...

Tesla will make a gas-electric hybrid version of the WhiteStar

Feb 2nd 2008 10:50AM - 20 Comments

Even though Tesla founder Martin Eberhard is no longer with the company, he and his ex-team have come to a similar realization: electric cars with range extenders (aka hybrids, really) are a good idea. Martin realized this with the Volt; Tesla's new ...

Actually, that Tesla WhiteStar might cost you $70,000...

May 10th 2007 12:18PM - 11 Comments

Up until now, we've had the price breakdown of Tesla Motors' products as follows: 2007-2008 Roadster - $92,000-$100,000 2010 WhiteStar - $50,000 2013 (?) sedan compact - $30,00 Obviously, with the WhiteStar and the later sedan compact not ...

Can't wait for the Tesla WhiteStar? You might be able to get an Acura TL EV, or not

Mar 2nd 2008 8:31PM - 8 Comments

The Tesla WhiteStar sedan is still at least a couple of years away from production (if not more). However a reader sent in a link to a site that purports to offer a Luxury Electric sedan. The car in question is an Acura TL shorn of its ...

Tesla customer conference call 2: reaffirms WhiteStar, talks DriveTrain 1.5

Feb 1st 2008 9:39AM - 1 Comment

Click the Roadster for a high-res gallery Tesla Motors had another customer conference call the other day where some of the management team took questions from those who have put up cash and are waiting patiently for their new electric cars. The ...

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