Jan 15
According to Elon Musk (Tesla CEO). Tesla will offer to their mass-market an affordable car in approx. 3 years. This car will most likely be the Continue reading »
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Nov 21
Fortune has released its annual list of top people in business and the winner of the year 2013 is Tesla CEO Elon Musk. Here is the list of top 10: Continue reading »
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Nov 14
Famous Hollywood actor George Clooney had one of the first Tesla car (Tesla Roadster) and he was having constantly problems with it. Clooney was one of the first Tesla Roadster owners, but his car according to him got always stuck on the side of the road. He sold this Roadster last year and got for it $99,000 at charity auction. Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s respond via Twitter: Continue reading »
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Oct 23
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was at a new Tesla service in Munich and there he said that the Tesla team is considering building a full Android emulator into the console. This shouldn’t be hard given that the console already runs Linux. As you know, Tesla cars have 17-inch tablet-like display as the center console that runs Linux with custom software. Musk firstly wants to make Continue reading »
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Chrome,
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hydrogen fuel cells,
Linux,
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Oct 19
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has a new project. He wants to convert the Lotus from James Bond film (The Spy Who Loved Me) into a functioning submarine. Musk bought the Lotus from $989,000, because he was so thrilled as a child when he watched James Bond’s scene involving Lotus Esprit transforming into a submarine underwater. Continue reading »
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Lotus Esprit,
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Oct 05
Jalopnik first posted photos and videos of Wednesday’s accident in the Seattle-area when Tesla Model S caught on fire. Shortly after the accident, Tesla released a short statement, just claiming that the driver survived without injury. Musk yesterday explained that the cause of the accident appeared to be a piece of metal that fell off a semi-trailer and struck the Model S. According to him, the metal piece from a semi-trailer caused a powerful lever action as it went under the car and that only a force of 25 tons would’ve been strong enough to punch the 3-inch hole in the armor plate at the base of the Model S. Luckily, the flames didn’t enter the passenger compartment, because the fire started in the front battery section and was contained to that ares. Tesla’s shares are up 434% so far in 2013 despite this incident, when between Wednesday and Thursday stock slumped more than 10%. Continue reading »
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