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Tesla Roadster runs 313 miles on a charge in Global Green Challenge

It's no secret that how you drive has as much – or more – influence on a vehicle's efficiency than any technology. Case in point is this week's Global Green Challenge in Australia. Simon Hackett shipped his 2008 Tesla Roadster down under for the event and proceeded to set a new world record for a production battery-powered vehicle. Hackett and co-driver Emilis Prelgauskas managed to squeeze 313 miles out of the lithium ion battery pack of the Roadster. As the drivers crossed the finish, approximately three miles was left on ... Read more →

Are Tesla Roadster sales dead? Order online now for Christmas delivery! Sam Abuelsamid

We just received the October edition of the Tesla Motors newsletter and a careful read indicated a very troubling statement near the end: If you custom-order your car online, in showrooms or ...

Tesla to unveil Model S on March 26, hopes for DOE money by summer Sam Abuelsamid

In a newsletter distributed today by Tesla Motors, CEO Elon Musk provides an update on the business including an announcement that a driveable prototype of the Model S would be unveiled on March 26. ...

Tesla holds customer town hall to explain price increases Sam Abuelsamid

Tesla Motors held the first of a series of customer town hall meetings at its Menlo Park store on Tuesday to try and assuage anger over recently announced price increases. A couple of attendees ...

Clarkson finally comments on Tesla review Jeremy Korzeniewski

The internet has been abuzz ever since Top Gear aired an episode where the electric Tesla Roadster was put through its paces. At this point, it's prbably redundant of us to recap the whole story, ...

Tesla takes on oil-soaked Henry Ford 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

We don't speak Swedish, but that's not getting in the way of our understanding a new commercial (watch it after the break) for Fortum, a Nordic energy company that highlights the Tesla Roadster. The imagery is pretty telling as it highlights the switch from the old horse and buggy days to the ...

Tesla clarifies some of Top Gear's "mischaracterizations" 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Now that we've all had some time to digest the review that Jeremy Clarkson gave the Tesla Roadster, perhaps some of the points made therein should be analyzed a bit further. One memorable scene had Clarkson and the Top Gear crew pushing their first Roadster (they had two for testing) into the ...

VIDEO: Top Gear finally tests the Tesla Roadster 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

"Say goodbye to dial-up and say hello to broad band motoring!" That's the assessment of of Top Gear's chief wordsmith, Jeremy Clarkson, after testing the Tesla Roadster last night on Top Gear. Clarkson pitted the electric Roadster against the car which provided its chassis DNA on the TG test ...

Brabus tunes the Tesla Roadster - yes, you can get neon with that 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Brabus is a German tuning company best known for its work on cars from Mercedes-Benz and Smart. At the Essen Motor Show later this month, the company will show off its latest handiwork for none other than the Tesla Roadster. Those who get bored with the near silent hum of the electric motor ...

Driven: 2009 Tesla Roadster v1.5 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Last January we landed an exclusive first drive of the Tesla Roadster. We were impressed, but well aware that the particular two-gear model we drove that wet afternoon wasn't identical to the version set to land in customers' hands later in the year. Last week, we were invited back to briefly ...

Tesla scouts Seattle for new store, 80 people get a test drive 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The Tesla Roadster validation prototype No. 11 made a trip up the coast from California to Seattle recently for a bit of publicity before the company opens its Seattle-area store sometime next year. VP 11 has version 1.5 of the powertrain and made a splash in the Pacific Northwest, including on ...

This is why Tesla brought the Roadsters to Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the Tesla Roadster for a high-res gallery OK, so if you were wondering what could be gained by schlepping a batch of Tesla Roadsters across the pond, I have your answer: convincing European automotive journalists that EVs are wicked cool. Take, for example, the feelings of Guido Reinking, ...

Jeremy Clarkson to tackle Tesla Roadster on Top Gear, eventually 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The lead mouth-piece at Top Gear, the incomparable Jeremy Clarkson, has a mixed record when it comes to greener vehicles. He did great with a round trip from London to Edinburgh in an diesel Audi A8, averaging over 33 mpg. However, his more recent encounter with the electric G-Wiz ended less ...

Tesla talking about future product plans with Brit magazines, no SUV coming 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tesla's SVP of marketing Darryl Siry has been on another sales tour of Europe filling in the magazines over there on the company's future product plans. For the most part there was nothing new that we haven't already reported on here over the past year. The upcoming Model S (formerly known as ...

Future Tesla owner blogs about visiting the Lotus factory 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Over at the Tesla Motors blog, future Roadster owner Ken Jacobs has written a guest post about his recent visit to England. While he and his wife were in the UK, they hopped over to Hethel, the home of Lotus and primary assembly site of the Roadster. They were given a tour of the factory and the ...

Martin Eberhard's Tesla Roadster repaired and ready for delivery? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Well, after at least one false alarm last week, it now appears that Martin's Roadster has been repaired. Of course, it is still impossible to say for sure, at least until we get an official update from either Tesla Motors or Martin himself, but a picture of what certainly appears to be Martin's ...

Elon Musk on PHEV's, battery technology and solar cells 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Newsweek's Fareed Zakaria recently got some face-to-face time with Elon Musk, who, as you surely know by now, is one of the "product architects" at Tesla Motors. There were plenty of interesting quotes to come from the interview, but a few truly stood out from the rest. For instance, Musk slams ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Tesla Motors Chairman Elon Musk Pt. 1 - In the beginning 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Among the readers of this site, one of the cars that elicits a lot of passion is the Tesla Roadster. The battery-powered Roadster and its provenance have elicited a great deal of discussion over the past nine months, in particular since the demotion and ultimately the departure of co-founder Martin ...

So, where is Martin Eberhard's Tesla Roadster anyway? Here's the story so far 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

For the last couple of months there has been an ongoing discussion on various sites (including our own) about the status of Martin Eberhard's Tesla Roadster. For those just now tuning in to this little saga, Eberhard was the co-Founder of Tesla Motors, and was supposed to get production car #2 but ...

Another Tesla spotted on its way to its new home 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Over at the Tesla Motors Club, one of the posters put a couple of photos of a silver Tesla Roadster on the back of a flatbed truck in the Windy City. I checked with Tesla and they confirmed that this car is in fact P4, the fourth production model. This is the same car that had been temporarily used ...

Matt Damon drops by coffee shop in a Tesla Roadster 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When you hang out at coffee shops in sunny Southern California, you never know who's going to swing by for a morning caffeine jolt. This past Sunday morning, a scribe for the new site AutoFiends.com was waiting on a friend when a pale blue two seater silently pulled in and grabbed his attention. ...

Tesla CTO provides update on Roadster Drivetrain 1.5 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

JB Straubel, Chief Technical Officer at Tesla Motors has just put up a new post at the Tesla Blog with an extensive update on the Roadster drivetrain updates that are coming later this year. As we reported at Tesla's recent schedule update, the Silicon Valley start up is currently planning a ...

AutoblogGreen pays a visit to the new Tesla Motors store 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tell me you wouldn't have tried the same thing? I found myself in Los Angeles for a quick visit late last week and realized I wasn't too far from the brand new Tesla Motors store. Having read about the opening night gala event and curious about the chic new sales space, I wanted to go check it ...

Judging the Tesla Roadster and Chevy Volt by different standards 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There has long been an interesting paradox in the realm of cars. For some peculiar reason, people who buy really expensive cars are willing to make more compromises to the foibles of the car and cut them more slack. How else to explain grief that owners of Italian exotics withstood for decades in ...

Tesla's European lessons 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As we saw with the Bono pic, Tesla Motors representatives took the Roadster to Europe for a little PR&R recently. Well, as Darryl Siry, Tesla's VP of sales, marketing, and service, writes in a new post about the company trip on the "feel" blog over on the Tesla Motors website, there wasn't as ...

VIDEO: Jason's big Tesla adventure 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

That's Jason at the wheel - Photos by CK Sample III Our old buddy Jason Calacanis is at again with Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster. He borrowed the Tesla Chairman's car for the weekend and Friday he took a bunch of his employees from Mahalo out for rides. Later he and someone named Conrad went out for a ...

Jason Calacanis borrows Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

That's Jason at the wheel - Photos by CK Sample III For those unfamiliar with the history of this site, a little background. AutoblogGreen and our elder sibling Autoblog are both part of the Weblogs Inc. network of blogs. Weblogs Inc. also includes sites like Engadget and its off-shoots, Joystiq, ...

Specs for Euro Tesla Roadster appear, preview of the final US spec? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tesla Motors reps have been hanging out in Europe this week giving test rides in the Roadster and trying drum up sales. The specs of the European car have now turned up online on the site of a Finnish Norwegian specialty car importer who is offering the Roadster. The motor is now listed as 300+hp ...

Bono + Monaco = Tesla in Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We know that the Tesla Roadster is headed to Europe. Part of getting ready for the European market means doing a little bit of promotion, and so Tesla Motors presented the Roadster at the Top Marques Monaco event this past weekend. Tesla's vice president of sales, marketing, and service, Darryl ...

Breaking: Tesla sues Fisker over electric car design 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

You know how it goes, when there's smoke... Tesla Motors is reportedly suing Fisker Automotive for stealing inside design ideas. As rumors indicated earlier this week, Henrik Fisker apparently was hired by Tesla to style their upcoming Whitestar sedan. The styling was not to Tesla's liking, either ...

Martin Eberhard talks up EVs, clean energy on Maui 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Way back in October 2006, while I was doing some research in Hawai'i, it hit me that the islands were the perfect place for a full-in electric car revolution. While the EV market hasn't produced the cars we'd like to see quite yet, it's still painfully obvious to me that powering a state full of ...

Car of the decade: Tesla Roadster or Porsche Cayenne? 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for a high-resolution gallery of the 2007 Toyota Prius Touring. The New York Times Wheel's Blog has posted an interesting question along with a lousy answer. The question is: what is the car of the decade? The writer goes on to suggest a few selections, namely the Tesla Roadster and the ...

Tesla's Ze'ev Drori says CARB should not become a "mockery" this Thursday 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

California Air Resources Board's important meeting that will decide on the fate of the Zero Emission Vehicle Program (aka the ZEV Mandate) takes place Thursday (background here and here). As one of the big players in the electric vehicle space, Tesla Motors certainly has an interest in how the vote ...

Tesla Roadster European plans speed up 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

It appears that our faithful readers from the old country will soon have a reason to bust out that sack full of euros stashed under their beds. Because of the falling value of the Yankee greenback in relation to the euro, Tesla has decided to move up their plans to sell its amazing electric sports ...

Tesla Roadster starts production today! 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the Roadster for a high-res gallery After building a couple of dozen prototypes over the last two years and a single previous production model last December, Tesla Motors officially started series production of their Roadster today. Production unit number 2 started making it's way down the ...

Busting some myths, Tesla VP debunks electric Elise meme 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

One of the most common beliefs about the Tesla Roadster is that it's an electric Lotus Elise. The reality is that the Roadster is a descendant of the Elise but, as Darryl Siry so forcefully documents on the Tesla blog, it's a very different car. The Tesla used the Elise as a starting point because ...

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