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Tesla Trips Limousine Service Approved In Portland, Will Use Model S Sedans

Green Car Reports

If you live in Portland, you''ll now be able to do so in the back of a Tesla Model S, thanks to Tesla Trips. The company, which normally organizes road trips around Oregon in the cars, applied back in April for a license to serve Portland as an executive limo service. The City of Portland has now.'

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Tesla Is Holding A National Career Day Event 10/9/21

CleanTechnica EVs

Tesla is hosting a National Career Day event across the U.S. Positions Tesla is hiring for include: Service technicians. Tesla advisors. The list of US and Canadian cities participating are as follows: United States: Bellevue, WA Portland, […]. and Canada to help connect applicants with an interview.

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Tesla Model 3 windshield survives intentional rock-throwing attack

Teslarati

Fortunately for a Tesla Model 3 owner in Portland, OR, the all-electric sedan’s windshield turned out to be sturdy enough to tank a moderately sized rock that was intentionally thrown by a person on the side of the road. The Tesla driver was evidently distressed at the incident, as the EV operator stopped and smashed his horn.

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Best-Selling Nissan In Portland: Leaf Electric Car--Due To Electric Highway?

Green Car Reports

We''ve already asked whether the Tesla Model S sells more units than the equivalent BMW, Audi or Mercedes--and now Nissan is outselling regular vehicles with its Leaf. Not Corollas or Ford Focus countrywide, of course--but apparently every other Nissan vehicle in March, in Portland, Oregon.

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Notes from the road: a guest post from Portland

Revenge of the Electric Car

As Portland, OR gears up for yet another screening of Revenge, local EV'er and filmmaker J Bills recounts the scene at the Portland premiere back in November: Here in Portland, we still talk about the last time Chris Paine rolled through town with a movie; an early screening of 2006’s seminal “Who Killed the Electric Car?”

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Tesla Semi makes a Super Bowl appearance

Teslarati

A Tesla Semi unit is in Glendale, Arizona, for Super Bowl LVII in an epic matchup between the Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs, with Frito Lay taking center stage as the company’s colors wrap the all-electric truck. A Tesla Semi was spotted in Glendale, and an image was posted to the r/TeslaMotors subreddit.

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Go Forth Electric Vehicle Showcase in Portland: lessons learned

Green Car Reports

Tesla attacked this problem head on, opening its stores in malls and other sites where potential future buyers could dip their toes in and start to learn about electric cars without being pressured to sign on the line. One of the challenges in getting car shoppers to consider plug-in electric vehicles is the education required.