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Less than four months ago, Tesla Motors entered the Japanese market by shipping a dozen or so right-hand drive Signature Series Roadsters across the pond. The base Roadster, which starts at a rather shocking price of 12.8 million ...

By the time the ball drops in Times Square this New Year's Eve, chances are there will be more Chevrolet Volts on the road than Tesla Roadsters. Motor Trend Editor in Chief Angus MacKenzie writes in a new editorial that during the Tesla IPO road-show last June, CEO Elon Musk called his company a ...

Back in June, when Tesla CEO Elon Musk was out and about trying to convince investment bankers to buy the stock in his company at the initial offering price, one of the slides in his presentation deck showed some thumbnail images of the Model S and the currently planned follow-on models. Among ...

Tesla roared out of the gates this week as a publicly traded company, raising some $226 million – of which probably somewhere around $150-160 million is going into the corporate coffers. Of the 13.3 million shares sold, 11.1 ...

One of the advantages of being an automaker that produces nothing but plug-in vehicles is earning zero-emissions credits. It's long been thought that those credits could at some point become a valuable commodity. Back in 2007, when Phoenix Motorcars was still around, a big chunk of their business ...

As the Tag Heuer Tesla Roadster continues its world tour, it arrived in Moscow this week. Traditionally, the Russians reserve their most treasured public space, Red Square, for vehicles built with local inputs. Tesla, ...

As we mentioned last week, the first batch of a dozen Tesla Roadster has left the California coast on a ship headed to Japan. These are the first of 20 Signature Series Roadster Sport models for the Japanese market. The first Japanese customers should be taking delivery of their Roadsters early ...

There are now somewhere north of 1,000 Tesla Roadsters in the wild and the what might be the largest gathering of the electric sports cars occurred last weekend. Thirty customer-owned Roadsters and another four company-owned cars ...

Cracking into the Japanese market is a rarity for American automakers. Buyers in Japan typically turn to home-grown efforts from the many great automakers hailing from the nation such as Toyota, Honda, Nissan and Subaru. It's even more ...