After earlier test drives up and down the East Coast last winter, the next obstacle for the Tesla Model S in its quest for acceptance was the task of setting up superchargers across the country, to enable the kind of American road trip everyone says they’re planning to take someday. Anyway, you can now drive cross-country in a Tesla, but you’ll just have to take a bit of a detour. [More]
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk: We Get Way Too Much Attention
By 11.21.13
Attention can be delightful, say when you have a new haircut or you’ve just finished the entire crossword by yourself in under three weeks and everyone (cat, roommate) cheers for you. But Tesla CEO Elon Musk definitely feels his company and its electric cars are getting way too much attention, the bad kind, after three car fires prompted the feds to open a probe into the Model S. [More]
Car Fires Prompt NHTSA To Open Official Probe Into Safety Of Tesla Model S
By 11.19.13
The smell of car batteries roasting in the flickering flames has reached the nose of he National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which aid it’s opened a formal probe into the safety of the Tesla Model S electric car after reports of two fires caused by cars hitting debris in the road. In other words, Elon Musk is probably not happy right now. [More]
Elon Musk Writes A Letter To Customers Explaining How That Tesla Caught On Fire
By 10.4.13
Listen, everyone: Elon Musk doesn’t want customers to be scared to buy a Tesla electric car just because of that whole “This Tesla is on fire” video. As such, the CEO of the company himself has issued an explanation of how it all went down, reassuring scared consumers that despite the fiery footage, “there should be absolutely zero doubt that it is safer to power a car with a battery than a large tank of highly flammable liquid.” [More]
Tesla Tripling Its Supercharger Station Network, Making Cross-Country Road Trips Possible
By 5.30.13
Ah, the Great American Road Trip! An open highway, stretching before you across the states, giant balls of yarn and mystical sights awaiting the moment you drive up to see just how awesome that one cornfield in Iowa actually is. In an effort to woo drivers willing, ready and able to cruise the 2,000+ miles from New York City to Los Angeles, Tesla is tripling the number of its supercharger stations across the country. [More]
Elon Musk Extra Cranky At NYT Tesla Review After Losing “Hundreds” Of Orders
By 2.26.13
As if he didn’t already have enough bees in his bonnet, Tesla’s Elon Musk is feeling extra crunchy at the New York Times review of his company’s electric car, claiming it caused the loss of a “few hundred” orders of the Tesla S. Those cancellations cost money, he says, and the company’s valuation has suffered by as much as $100 million. This, according to Musk. [More]
Oh Lordy, Here’s A Bunch Of Stuff About The Tesla/New York Times Holy War
By 2.14.13 — Updated: 2.26.13
This week has seen a declaration of war between a New York Times reporter who wrote a scathing review of the Tesla S electric car and its network of free superchargers and the company’s head honcho and “product architect” Elon Musk. Being your ever faithful servants, we thought you might like a easily-digestible recap of the recent finger-pointing activity. [More]
The Electric Car Gets Its Revenge
By 10.14.11
Last night I caught an advance screening of a new documentary, “Revenge of the Electric Car.” It’s by the same director who did “Who Killed The Electric Car?” except this story ends in triumph instead of tragedy. [More]
