Elon Musk
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This past week, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO and founder Elon Musk has been in Europe where he helped inaugurate a final assembly plant for the Model S in the Dutch city of Tilburg and presented at a business council meeting in Germany alongside Sigmar Gabriel, the German Minister of Economy & Energy. It was during this presentation that he revealed Tesla was in talks with rival firms about the use of the company’s Supercharger network of rapid-charging stations. DON'T MISS: Watch The Tesla Model X SUV’s ‘Falcon’ Doors In Action: Video In the video above, filmed at...
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Elon Musk: Tesla Could Get 600-Mile Range by 2017
Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk said we can expect to see a Tesla with over a 600-mile range as soon as 2017, and that by 2020, the figure could climb to 725 miles. Currently, the highest range Tesla can go 300 miles between charges. CHECK OUT: Porsche Design Chief Talks About The Mission E...
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Elon Musk: Tesla Model X Starts Delivery Sept. 29, Costs $5k More Than Model S
Yesterday we got our first look at Tesla Motors’ [NSDQ:TSLA] highly anticipated Model X electric SUV thanks to some leaked shots taken from a special configurator set up for early bird customers that reserved the Model X Signature launch edition. The Signature cars are the first to come off...
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Believe The Hype: California Will Get Hyperloop Test Track
In 2013, Elon Musk—not content to simply impact the world via his disruptive companies Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] and SpaceX—made headlines when he released the idea for mass transit system called the Hyperloop. Simply put, the concept reads like a combination of train and pneumatic...
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Tesla's New Battery Can Power Your Home
Tesla unveils its new line of batteries for homes, businesses, and utilities.
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Elon Musk: Autonomous Cars May Lead To Driving Being Outlawed
Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] CEO Elon Musk has come out and stated what many opponents of autonomous cars may be secretly fearing: driving becoming outlawed. Musk made the comments at a conference held by tech company Nvidia on Tuesday. “In the distant future, I think people may outlaw driving...
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A new software update will make the Tesla Model S P85D even quicker.
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Is Elon Musk Aging In Reverse? Video Evidence From 1999 McLaren F1 Delivery
Elon Musk, space entrepreneur and Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] mastermind, has often been likened to a comic book superhero—most frequently, Iron Man—and in this video, we have yet more evidence to support the theory. Musk appears to be aging in reverse. While some would seek to benefit...
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Elon Musk Proposes Hyperloop Test Track In Texas
Elon Musk says he's considering building a test track for the Hyperloop tube-transport concept, possibly in Texas.
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Elon Musk Dismisses Tesla Challenges In Detroit, Talks Of Sales Growth
Elon Musk discussed a variety of topics during an appearance at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show.
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Engineers Continue Work On Elon Musk's Hyperloop
Engineers plan to build Elon Musk's Hyperloop transportation system.
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Elon Musk Talks Tesla Model X Details On European Tour
Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk discussed details of the company's lineup during a Q&A session with customers.
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If you're an automaker selling cars in China, doing so from outside the country is made much more difficult due to high import tariffs imposed at the border. But do so from within--as Tesla Motors is considering with its Model S electric sedan--and you skip those tariffs, allowing customers to buy your cars for a similar price they might anywhere else in the world. So while a Tesla Model S with an 85 kWh battery pack will cost around $121,000 when it goes on sale in China soon, Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] could feasibly sell it for the $80,000 or so should it decide to set up production within...
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High-Speed Hyperloop A Step Closer With New Company
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk cemented his image as a cross between Tony Stark, Steve Jobs and Hank Scorpio when he revealed his plans for Hyperloop back in August. The high-speed, pod-based transportation system is designed to take passengers from San Francisco to Los Angeles in just half an...
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Elon Musk Promises Autobahn-Tuned Model S: Video
Here in the U.S., Tesla Model S owners are likely to rarely reach the car’s 130 mph top speed, but in Germany, where the electric sedan has just been launched, this isn’t the case, thanks to the country’s unrestricted stretches of autobahn. The CEO of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA]...
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Elon Musk Is Buyer Of James Bond Lotus Submarine, Plans To Make It Electric
Not long ago, it was revealed that the Lotus Esprit submarine from the 1977 James Bond flick The Spy Who Loved Me was sold at auction for close to a million dollars. In case you’re unfamiliar with the movie, the car was converted into a mock submarine that is made to look like it's...
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Elon Musk Reveals Details On 800-MPH Hyperloop
After first dropping hints a year ago on a revolutionary form of transportation dubbed the Hyperloop, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, has now revealed the details behind the concept. Musk, one of few men in history to have ever established two completely unrelated billion dollar firms, could be on his way...
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Elon Musk Reveals Tesla's Future Plans, Promises Affordable ‘Gen 3’ Sedan In Late 2016
At its recent annual shareholder meeting held in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, Tesla’s CEO and co-founder Elon Musk revealed some insightful details about the company’s future plans and products. As we know, the next model from Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] will...
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Talk of an affordable electric car from Tesla dates back all the way to 2009, and we have no doubt the company’s CEO Elon Musk had envisaged launching such a model when he co-founded Tesla back in 2003. Now, with its federal loan out of the way and production of its award-winning Model S slowing ramping up, Tesla’s future model range is back in the spotlight. We already know that Tesla’s next model will be the Model X, a crossover based on the platform underpinning the Model S. The last we heard, the Model X will arrive in late 2014. Beyond this, we should see another sedan...
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Tesla Pays Back Government Loan--Nine Years Early
Tesla has confirmed it has paid off the entire loan awarded to it by the Department of Energy back in 2010--a full nine years ahead of schedule. The Californian startup wired the remaining $451 million amount yesterday. The original loan stood at $465 million, though with Tesla’s latest...
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Tesla Motors To Issue More Shares, CEO Elon Musk To Buy Some
You may never have heard of a "short squeeze," but Tesla is benefiting greatly from it right now. The stock of the Silicon Valley startup electric-car maker has soared in recent days after Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] announced its first-ever profitable quarter and plans to build and sell 21,000 Model...
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Tesla Model S May Get Battery Swapping Soon: Report
The 2013 Tesla Model S has received rave reviews, including the best score that Consumer Reports has given any car in six years. The stock of Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA] is on a roll, the company is delivering hundreds of its Model S all-electric luxury sport sedan every week, and it just turned in...
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Is Tesla Planning More Model S Variants?
On Monday Tesla [NASDQ:TSLA] came out with its third-quarter financial results, and while the company reported a loss of $110.8 million, this was almost entirely outweighed by the positives it also had to report about. One of those positives was news Tesla is planning more variants of its Model S...
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Tesla 'Supercharger' Fast-Charging System Has Landed
At the start of this year, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk made the bold promise his company would eventually launch a network of fast-charging systems to allow owners of electric cars to extend their driving range with a level of convenience at least approaching that of conventional combustion...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran