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2018 Tesla Model 3 Long Range: first drive review of 310-mile electric car

Green Car Reports

“The Tesla Model S was a moment. ” That pair of sentences perfectly summarized the several hours we spent last month with the 2018 Tesla Model 3 kindly loaned to us by reader Jeff Southern of Atlanta. The Model 3 is a product.”

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Six new electric cars coming for 2018 and 2019

Green Car Reports

The next couple of years promise to be quite interesting for electric cars. A minimum of six new models are expected in that time period, all promising ranges of 200 miles or more—which until a few months ago had been the exclusive province of Tesla Motors.

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Audi A9 e-tron electric car, Tesla Model S rival, to launch by 2020: report

Green Car Reports

The established German luxury carmakers are now taking Tesla Motors quite seriously, and are preparing a crop of electric cars to compete directly with its Model S and Model X. In 2018, Audi will launch an all-electric SUV based on the e-tron quattro concept unveiled at the 2015 Frankfurt Motor Show last year.

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Electric Cars Will Evolve Rapidly By 2018, Split Into Segments By Price

Green Car Reports

Electric car sales may be flat this year. The long-awaited, multiply-delayed Tesla Model X all-electric SUV should finally go into volume production next year, presumably giving Tesla Motors a major sales boost. DON'T MISS: GM Shows Chevy Bolt EV Electric-Car.

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Tesla says it will build 500K cars a year by end of 2018; can it?

Green Car Reports

When Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said two years ago that the electric-car maker planned to be building half a million cars a year by the end of 2020, it seemed an ambitious stretch goal. That means that.

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Tesla and China: why an obvious match isn't as simple as it seems

Green Car Reports

China is not just the world's largest overall new-car market, it's also now the largest market for plug-in electric cars. With its ambitious plan to build 500,000 electric cars per year beginning in 2018, it would seem to make sense that Tesla Motors would make China a priority.

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Tesla projects total 2016 sales of 80,000 to 90,000 electric cars

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors projects sales of 80,000 to 90,000 electric cars in 2016, and now believes it will produce 500,000 cars per year by 2018, rather than 2020. Tesla projects that it.

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