Porsche may not be the first name you think of when you think electric cars--Tesla, Nissan, Chevrolet, even Smart are more likely--but that may change, especially if you're into speed and handling. Porsche recently reaffirmed its promise of a year ago to build electric performance cars. A year ago...
Following last week’s shock announcement that Tesla is suing BBC’s Top Gear for libel and malicious falsehood stemming from a review of its all-electric Roadster... April 4, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
Electric car maker Tesla is suing U.K. hit TV show TopGear for libel and malicious falsehood, seeking to right the record about its Roadster electric sports car, which the... March 31, 2011 by Nelson Ireson
Back in 2008, the television show Top Gear ran a feature on the world's first mass-produced electric sports car. Enthusiastically praising the car's acceleration--though... March 30, 2011 by Lyndon Conrad Bell
Tesla is no stranger to lawsuits, having been on both the receiving end and acting as instigator in several nasty cases in the recent past. The Californian electric car... March 30, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
We sit just a handful of days from the opening of the press days at the 2011 Geneva Motor Show. Rapidly shaping up to be the blockbuster automotive event of the year, the... February 25, 2011 by Nelson Ireson
After spending an afternoon with the world's first volume produced electric sports car, it strikes me as something of a conundrum. On the one hand, I respect it for the... February 18, 2011 by Lyndon Conrad Bell
We've known since 2009 that Tesla has plans for a crossover and a minivan based on the Model S platform, but now it looks like the crossover, dubbed the Model X, may soon... February 3, 2011 by Nelson Ireson
Designing an effective car interior isn't easy. Car companies need to think about the design, the features, and the ergonomics. After all, you spend more time in there... January 31, 2011 by Antony Ingram
Recently our semi-captive hot shoe and photog Joe Nuxoll got access to Tesla's facilities for some alone time with the 2011 Roadster Sport. His lens presents your wildest... January 20, 2011 by Nelson Ireson
It goes without saying that certain things can be pretty distracting when you're driving - talking on a cell phone, kids kicking the back of your seat... What might be less... January 20, 2011 by Antony Ingram
The last we heard of Tesla’s upcoming Model S all-electric sedan was that the car was in an ‘Alpha’ build stage, where akin to the software industry the... January 10, 2011 by Viknesh Vijayenthiran
One of the coolest features of the Visteon C-Beyond technology demo car at this year's CES is the built-in social ridesharing service. Though that's still a hypothetical... January 7, 2011 by Nelson Ireson
Alpha and beta testing might sound strange to a car guy, but it's common lingo in the computer and software industry to denote pre-production stages of progress. The alpha... January 6, 2011 by Nelson Ireson
Raising capital to help pay for the development of a future vehicle is not a bad idea, and Tesla appears to be pulling it off well, generating 3,000 reservations for the... December 17, 2010 by Nelson Ireson
The German nutters at Brabus were the first to the scene with a tuned EV when they brought out the Brabus Tesla Roadster at the Essen Motor Show in 2008. Now they're... December 8, 2010 by Nelson Ireson