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Tesla Motors Opens First Dealership in LA

At long last Tesla Motors has opened its first dealership in LA. The $109,000 all-electric sports car has just started shipping to the people who first preordered them. So you can certainly go test drive one in LA now (with more dealerships set to open in other cities in the coming months), but expect to wait 15 months to get one if you decide to place an order. We're not talking about Honda Civics here, after all. [CNN]

6:30 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Adam Frucci
4,395 views, 31 comments

Latest by austek: Tesla will soon have even better battery technology as described in this article from Technology Review.. A new lithium-ion battery from A123 Systems could help electric cars and hybrids come to dominate the roads. [www.technologyreview.com] more »

electric car

Fisker Karma Electric Car To Blast Out Fake Engine Sounds (Verdict: WHY?)

We already knew that the $80,000 Fisker Karma electric car may make it into production in 2009, complete with a whole bunch of lithium batteries and a small gas-powered engine (designed to work only in case of emergency). What we didn't know is that instead of being silent, the car will be fitted with speakers inside and out to blast fake engine sounds. And yes, it gets worse.

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11:06 AM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Kit Eaton
17,910 views, 87 comments

Latest by misterwight: I can't believe nobody's gone here yet...+ Watch video more »

auto

World's Ugliest Car Gets Unsurprisingly High Gas Mileage

Note to automakers: cars of the future are meant to be fierce. Sure, they may get the equivalent of 100mpg through electric efficiency, but they'd better look like they can decapitate onlookers during the morning commute. This new solar vehicle (that's still missing a sexy name) may be by the makers of champion solar race cars, but it looks like a jerky golf cart. Then again, any car capable of 44mph speeds for three hours at a time—that runs on nothing but the sun—has our ears perked. More »

8:52 AM on Mon Dec 31 2007
By Mark Wilson
8,935 views, 18 comments

Latest by godwhacker: good if you have a mile or two to work, and dont have to go on anything more than low traffic streets as for the rest of the world, try again swing and a miss more »

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Aptera Electric Three Wheeler Available for Pre-Order

We heard rumblings of the electric three-wheeled Aptera over a year ago but now the company has opened up an annoying and overwrought website soliciting "reservations," meaning you can plunk down $500 and get the right to buy either the all-electric or plug-in diesel hybrid model. The good news is, there's a working prototype with specs that are jaw-dropping. More »

3:51 PM on Thu Sep 27 2007
By Charlie White
42,272 views, 45 comments

Latest by dataland: Aptera Update! The folks over at Popular Mechanics were able to finagle an exclusive test drive and interview of the upcoming Aptera Typ-1. For those uninitiated, the Aptera Typ-1 is an all-electric plug in vehicle coming to market in 2009 for more »

green

Britain to Abolish Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040, Captain Planet Rejoices

In an effort to stop the Earth from becoming a barren wasteland, British Liberal Democrats announced plans to completely abolish gasoline- and diesel-powered cars by 2040. To aid them in their quest, the politicians proposed increasing Britain's car tax by £2000 (or roughly $4000) specifically for larger vehicles like 4x4s, while lower-emission vehicles would be taxed less or nothing at all. More »

7:40 PM on Mon Sep 17 2007
By ybaranovsky
3,645 views, 32 comments

cars

Tesla Whitestar Electric Sedan: 4 Doors, Half the Price of the Roadster

Tesla's plans for Whitestar, the sedan version of their electric roadster, are coming along nicely. Head honcho Elon Musk, just announced of a New Mexico factory that'll start construction no later than April 2007. The best part? The 4-door will not only haul more people, but will cost half of the $89,000 roadster. What performance remains after the car is fitted to a heavier chassis, and components are slashed out to lower the price, is yet to be disclosed. More »

6:21 PM on Mon Feb 19 2007
By Brian Lam
17,457 views, 21 comments

Latest by feirquin: JCOVE, you are very wrong about electric power regarding torque. You should look in to mining trucks and things of that nature. All the drive power to haul 360 tons 24 hours a day is produced by two more »

gadgets

Electric SUV to Rival Tesla Roadster in Speed, Range

That Tesla Roadster electric vehicle that can do zero-to-60 in four seconds may not be able to hold the crown for coolest and fastest production electric vehicle for long, especially when this crossover SUV comes into town. Our greasemonkey guru blog-brothers at Jalopnik tell us this Lotus-designed firebreather packs 644 horses, a top speed of 155mph and a 350-mile range on a charge. Those are some serious numbers, especially for an SUV. More »

12:40 PM on Tue Jan 30 2007
By Charlie White
3,799 views, 29 comments

gadgets

Tesla Roadster Electric: 0-60 in Four Seconds

Fellow bloggers from our greasemonkey brother site Jalopnik got a first peek tonight at the much-anticipated Tesla Roadster, an electric-powered road rocket that can travel from 0-60 in four seconds with a top speed of 130mph. Singing the body electric is a 182-kilowatt AC-induction motor, a rear-mounted power plant drawing its energy from 6800 lithium ion batteries. Even though that engine's barely audible, it's capable of rotating at an astonishing 13,500rpm before it even gets close to the redline. More »

10:16 PM on Wed Jul 19 2006
By Charlie White
37,995 views, 24 comments

Latest by unclep2k: I'm glad to see this car become available if for no other reason it draws attention to evolving electric car technology. It certainly is just a start, but if even half ways successful who knows where it might lead. There more »

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Electric Car Removed from Smithsonian, Replaced by SUV

Is it a case of bad timing, or is it a little fishy that just a week before the documentary critical of GM, Who Killed the Electric Car? is to be released that one of the few examples of the EV1 electric car in existence has been removed from the Smithsonian's Museum of American History by its curators? Prototypes of the EV1, called an "engineering marvel," were the only mass-produced electric vehicles ever to hit the highways and byways of the US, and the leased cars were inexplicably removed from circulation and destroyed by GM. More »

10:26 AM on Tue Jun 20 2006
By Charlie White
842 views, 6 comments

Latest by MrVent: Economic factors certainly play a role, but ideological factors and vision are also important. If Toyota had stopped investing in hybrids in the mid 90s because gas was cheap, the early cars were too pricey and they expected low volumes, they'd more »