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Tesla Model S featured more in films than any other EV

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Tesla began delivering its flagship vehicle to customers in 2012 and later became the first electric car to top the monthly new-car-sales ranking in any country. Some films where the Model S appeared include The Kingsman (2015), Fifty Shades of Grey (2015), and Entourage (2006). Teslarati is now on TikTok.

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must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Rio Tinto to take a position $1.4B in greener aluminum smelter, which might support EV output

Baua Electric

one thing that would support within the manufacturing of electrical cars. The corporate says the volume may just furnish enough quantity for 400,000 electrical automobiles, regardless that the full falls decrease of the 400,000-tonne smelter that was once pledged in 2006 by way of former proprietor Alcan Inc.

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Tesla’s Elon Musk hints that he’s working on a “Master Plan Part 3”

Teslarati

Written in 2006, Musk’s Master Plan, Part 1 discussed how the company intends to enter the affordable vehicle market by gradually evolving its lineup from expensive sports cars like the original Roadster to more affordable, mainstream vehicles like the Model 3. And it doesn’t even have to be limited to electric cars only.

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‘Revenge of the Electric Car’ documents return of the EV

Green Cars News

New film ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’, the sequel to the 2006 film ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ opens in selected theatres in the US from this Friday (October 21, 2011).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

Since the release of Who Killed the Electric Car? in 2006 and a steady stream of fan mail from all over the world, we can really sense a global community of electric car supporters who want to see all-electric vehicles replace the inefficient and costly gas-powered cars on the roads.

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Tesla’s Master Plan turns 15 years old: What Elon Musk’s company has achieved so far

Teslarati

Fifteen years ago today, on August 2nd, 2006, Co-Founder and CEO of what was then called “Tesla Motors” Elon Musk put out his top-secret Master Plan. Essentially, the cleverly titled document outlined what Musk envisioned for Tesla a few years before it would ever pump an electric vehicle off its production lines.

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