Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Always wanted to drive a Tesla Model S? The wonder car from Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will be offered for rental from Hertz in (very) select U.S. Right now, the Model S all-electric luxury sedan is only available at San Francisco and Los Angeles airports.' Well, now you can now rent one.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Tesla Motors unveiled its current prototype of the Model X electric crossover Tuesday night at its Los Angeles Design Studio. Tesla notes that the second motor enables more than all-weather, all-road capabilities: it increases torque by 50%.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2014

Tesla Motors is assisting Los Angeles police and fire departments in their investigation following the high-speed crash of a stolen Tesla Model S early Friday morning. The Tesla then collided with a light pole that.'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2011

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, unveiled the second-generation Toyota RAV4 EV demonstrator vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2010. Tesla Motors is supplying the battery and other related components. The RAV4 EV sold in 2012 will be a fully re-engineered RAV4 EV (Phase One vehicle).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2012

Toyota Motor Sales, U.S.A., revealed the all-new Toyota RAV4 EV at the 26 th annual Electric Vehicle Symposium (EVS26) in Los Angeles. The RAV4 EV—22 months in development—combines a Tesla Motors-designed and -produced battery and electric powertrain with Toyota’s most popular SUV model.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

Tesla’s vision of the Supercharger network in 2015. Tesla Motors announced an accelerated rollout of its Tesla Supercharger network, which delivers quick charging for Tesla Model S drivers over long distances (i.e., Click to enlarge. city-to-city travel), for free.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

When complete, the corridor will include four Tesla fast chargers loacated at Rabobank locations between San Francisco and Los Angeles (Salinas, Atascadero, Santa Maria and Goleta). San Francisco and Los Angeles each support local infrastructure for electric vehicles (EV). SolarCity and Rabobank, N.A.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2013

Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk released the preliminary design study for what he call “The Hyperloop”—a new high-speed electric transportation system targeted for the the specific case of high-traffic city pairs (e.g., San Francisco and Los Angeles) that are less than about 1500 km or 900 miles apart.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Starting next week, Tesla Motors will pilot a battery pack swap program with invited Model S owners. The selected owners will have the opportunity to swap their car’s battery at a custom-built facility located across the street from the Tesla Superchargers at Harris Ranch, CA.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2015 Lincoln MKC compact crossover launches a new EcoBoost engine, the 2015 Subaru Legacy Concept is revealed prior to its Los Angeles Auto Show debut, and three workers were burned in an accident yesterday at the Tesla Motors plant. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports: How Tesla may beef up the battery protection system in its Model S electric car, it may be that Dimethyl Ether is the latest alternative fuel for big trucks, and the 2015 Volkswagen E-Golf is shown before its Los Angeles Auto Show debut. Here''s how Tesla Motors may beef up its.'

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2012

It shows the 2012 Fisker Karma we road-tested three weeks ago parked in front of a Tesla Motors dealer in Los Angeles. First off, just to be clear, the photo above is NOT a dead Fisker. But while our Fisker was running fine that day, Consumer Reports was not so lucky this week.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

Less than a week after Tesla Motors [NASDAQ:TSLA] unveiled the prototype of its 2014 Model X Crossover SUV at an exclusive event in Los Angeles, the Californian electric automaker has called it the fastest selling Tesla ever.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

A team from Tesla has successfully set a new record for the fastest cross-country trip across the US in an electric car. To celebrate the completion of a coast to coast network of Superchargers, two Tesla Model S set off from the carmaker’s design studio in Hawthorne, Los Angeles last Friday (Januar[.]. Tesla Motors'

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA, unveiled the second-generation Toyota RAV4 EV demonstrator vehicle at the Los Angeles Auto Show. Tesla Motors is supplying the battery and other related components. officer, TMS. from one in Dallas or New York or London or Shanghai. as its core technology.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

One of the more eagerly awaited green vehicles at next week's 2010 Los Angeles Auto Show is the electric RAV4 crossover that Toyota will launch in partnership with Tesla Motors. Now we learn that the initial order is for little more than a test fleet of perhaps 2,000 vehicles, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 13, 2013

Tesla CEO and business entrepreneur, Elon Musk has finally revealed details of his often hinted-at Hyperloop transport idea; a sort of alternative rail system he envisages could take passengers from Los Angeles to San Francisco in just half an hour. Green credentials Tesla Motors'

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 4, 2016

Invitations are now being sent out for the eagerly awaited debut of the Tesla Model 3 electric car at the end of this month. Tesla will offer at least a look at the 200-mile, $35,000 electric car at the event, which will take place in Los Angeles March 31.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 1, 2015

The Los Angeles resident wanted a Tesla Model S, and his father even agreed to loan him the money for one. When searching for a car, most teenage drivers operate on a limited budget--one often imposed by their parents or the limits of their own savings.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

DECEMBER 1, 2008

My first sighting of smog-filled Los Angeles brought a sad thought to my mind. I came to Los Angeles for the L.A. Next day, the first order of business/pleasure was heading to the Tesla Store in West LA to test-drive the Tesla Roadster. This time, Tesla promised us the updated 1.5 drivetrain.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

A decade later, in the 2010s, the battery EV began an astounding reversal of fortune, thanks in no small part to the engineers at ACP, whose electric-drive technology informed the development of the Roadster, the car that launched Tesla Motors. General Motors’ Impact debuted at the 1990 Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 27, 2008

In my rear view mirror I watched a Los Angeles Sheriff’s car pull out of the Chevron and turn on both its blue and red flashing lights to pursue me down Ventura Boulevard. It had only been hours since I eased out of the Tesla dealership in West Los Angeles and already I had a date with the police. Complaints?

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

Policy (Update2) Share | Email | Print | A A A By Alan Ohnsman April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Honda Motor Co. , General Motors Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and startups Tesla Motors Inc. the only companyselling hydrogen-powered cars to U.S. drivers, may also developplug-in electric models as U.S. and Nissan MotorCo.,

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

Quality control (QC) service requests, when combined with normal service load, mean that Tesla service centers’ availability is often impaired. Tesla Motors Club forum even has a thread dedicated for service center wait times.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved funding of more than $20 million to support low carbon transportation projects; about half went to Tesla Motors. The new award recipients are: Tesla Motors, Inc. The company, based in Sylmar (Los Angeles County), has significant experience with BMS design and production.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

JULY 29, 2009

The team will then drive on to the Sheraton Hotel near Universal Studios in Los Angeles on July 29 th where they will be greeted by several other Tesla Motor Roadster owners to celebrate the completion of their cross country trek, before heading up the California coast to San Francisco.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

DECEMBER 16, 2009

09 from TweetDeck Exclusive Content on Facebook Become a fan of Tesla Motors on Facebook for exclusive content updates as the trip progresses. We’re driving Roadster #750 from Los Angeles to Detroit for this year’s North American International Auto Show to prove that the Roadster is tough, durable and range anxiety is for the weak.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley company that makes electric cars, says it has already sold 150 of its $109,000 Roadsters in the Bay Area. Despite such skepticism, Washington is putting considerable money into the effort, including billions of dollars in loans to Ford, Nissan and Tesla Motors.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

A perfect example is the licensing of AC Propulsion ’s core electric drive technology to Tesla Motors for use in their beautiful Tesla Roadster. We’ll know soon enough when we get the opportunity to see the debut of the all electric plug-in MINI E in November 2008 at the Los Angeles Auto Show.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 2, 2009

Steve Westly (left) with Jeremy Snyder, General Manager, Tesla Motors (c) 2009 Joe Galliani. He’s dealing with the Port of Long Beach which along with its neighbor the Port of Los Angeles are the largest stationary source of air pollution in Southern California. Having the world’s greatest car is nice.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

AUGUST 3, 2009

This time it would be with a Tesla Motors Roadster! Michael purchased a new white Tesla Roadster with the intention of making a cross-country trip that would be powered only by homegrown American electrons. The Tesla Motors roadster battery pack contains 6,831 Lithium-ion battery cells similar to those in a laptop computer.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

What I’ve heard is that Tesla Motors was able to R&d and produce a car that gets 300 miles per charge for the kind of money that the likes of GM spend on quarterly bonuses. April 18, 2009 7:41 am Link I hope Kent B. is eaten alive by aligators. The hell with the GMs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The turning point came when tiny Tesla Motors, a Silicon Valley start-up, announced in 2006 that it would produce a speedy electric sports car powered by those same laptop batteries. "The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Next ‘Better Place’ Is Australia New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain Tesla Motors to Build Battery Packs for Other Car Makers Previous post Group Says European Cap-and-Trade System Reduced Emissions Next post Cutting Costs With Solar Walls From 1 to 25 of 29 Comments 1 2 Next » 1.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Written by Josie Garthwaite 9 Comments Posted March 31st, 2009 at 5:00 am in Automotive Before unveiling the concept version of its Model S sedan, an $57,400 electric car that Tesla Motors wants to build using loans from the Department of Energy, the startup said the Model S battery would be designed to handle rapid charging.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Think of driving any vehicle in the hot Los Angeles summer time. Then he just about crapped in his pants when the friggin thing kept running out of a charge at the most inoportune time. To get the most mileage, one could not have the radio, the A/C, or the headlights on.

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