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Tesla Repays DOE Loan (9 Years Early)
Apparently some people don’t like being beholden to others. At least that seems to be the case for Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors. On Wednesday (May 22), the high-end electric vehicle (EV) maker announced that it fully repaid the $451.8 million that it borrowed through the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing program, making it the first auto [...]
Tesla Showrooms: Coming to Shopping Malls
Tesla Motors (TSLA) is building on its strategy of exposing the pubic to its electric cars in high-end shopping malls with 10 new locations planned for fall 2012. The expansion brings the number of Tesla showrooms to 24 in North America and 34 worldwide. These aren’t your average car dealerships, they are more like interactive marketing [...]
In Focus: Top Electric Car Manufacturers
As consumer demand grows for more environmentally friendly vehicles, car manufacturers around the world are competing to be the biggest producer of electric vehicles. Nearly all of the well known manufacturers offer at least one electric or hybrid vehicle. Nissan has reached a major milestone that puts it far beyond the rest of the pack. [...]
Will Tesla Motors Change the World?
It’s a little bit mind-boggling to think that only a century ago, cars were just starting to become available to the average man. Fast forward to today and almost everyone in the modern world has a vehicle, if not two. Cars have become one of the most ubiquitous and important pieces of technology that we [...]
Tesla Announces the Model X
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ:TSLA) never lets me down. First they knocked my socks off with the Tesla Roadster. Proving to the world that electric cars were no longer “glorified golf carts,” Tesla delivered an all-electric sports car called the Roadster. And it can take you from zero to 60 in 3.7seconds. After the Roadster impressed, Tesla [...]