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Largest Auto-Industry Employer In California: Electric-Car Maker Tesla Motors

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors is one of the youngest U.S. automakers, but has made a disproportionately large impact in the automotive media''s headlines over the last few years. It''s also, amazingly, become California''s biggest auto-industry employer--edging out even Toyota.

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The Day My Tesla Motor Fell Down …

CleanTechnica EVs

Before you start thinking I’m writing this piece to make Tesla short sellers happy, let me give you some background to the story. We are a group of three Tesla lovers — in fact, EV aficionados in general. In 2017, we bought a second-hand Tesla Model […]. I mean, literally fell down, damaging the steering gear.

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Is Tesla Motors A Carmaker.Or Really A Grid-Storage Company?

Green Car Reports

Many among the Detroit auto media were skeptical of Tesla Motors for years, correctly noting just how hard it is to start a car company and build a genuinely appealing product--electric car or not.

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Tesla Motors To Be Profitable Selling Electric Cars By April, It Says

Green Car Reports

Tesla Motors announced its fourth-quarter and full-year results late yesterday, and offered some good news to the company's shareholders. That would be the projection that Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will operate at a profit in the current quarter, which ends March 31. "We

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Will 100,000 Sign Petition For Tesla Motors Sales By Friday?

Green Car Reports

On June 5, a Tesla Motors fan mounted what seemed like another quixotic effort to support Tesla in selling its electric cars directly to buyers. The petition at WhiteHouse.gov that he or she launched required 100,000 people to sign it within a month, by Friday, July 5.

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Converting This 1977 Porsche 911 To Electric Yields 600 BHP From Tesla Motor

CleanTechnica EVs

“The drive unit was put on a dyno and got to 600 BHP, then it overheated the dyno!” ” Well, then it’s probably powerful enough. Kit Lacey of eDub Services in the UK is proud of his work converting an iconic 1977 Porsche 911. Some will call it sacrilege, but hey, the customer sold the original […].

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Petition For Tesla Motors Direct Sales Crosses 100,000 Signatures

Green Car Reports

The fans have spoken: Over 100,000 people have now signed a White House petition asking for Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] to be allowed to sell its cars directly in all fifty states. The petition.'