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Tesla battery woe

By editor, on June 4th, 2010%

Tesla have revealed in a recent SEC filing that its cars such as the Lotus Elise based Tesla Roadster will lose as much as 40 per cent of their nominal battery capacity after driving only 100,000 miles,as they start out…

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I got a Tesla for Christmas…

By editor, on December 30th, 2009%

…sadly only for the week of Christmas, borrowed it last Tuesday and giving it back tomorrow. I’m a member of Ecurie25 hence having the car, thought I’d share a few thoughts on it!

Picked it up and in the flesh…

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Tesla Crash

By editor, on October 26th, 2009%

Tesla crash aftermath

Doug (at Tesla Motors club) says that’s Cause of the crash apperas to be the Prius allegedly hitting the Roadster, pushing it under the Touareg, and Doug notes there a piece of the Roadster jammed under the rear bumper…

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250th Tesla delivered

By editor, on March 22nd, 2009%

Tesla has just celebrated the delivery of their 250th Lotus sorced Roadsterto Dr. Rob Wilder, an academic and entrepreneur from Encinitas, California.

Dr Wilder created the first Wall Street index for energy efficiency and zero-carbon solutions. He chose the colour…

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Lotus chairman – making an electric lotus

By editor, on January 3rd, 2009%

Michael Kimberley says “Don’t be surprised to see an electric Lotus shortly… it will become one of the showcases for the world of what you can do with electric vehicle technology.”

Not such a reach as Lotus make the Tesla…

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Tesla down to last $9 million

By editor, on November 3rd, 2008%

Tesla seem to be close to going down the pan – after delivering only 60 of the 1200 deposit taken orders they are struggling. With only 9 million dollars in the bank which is not even enough to pay back…

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Tesla Motors – restructuring and possible layoffs

By editor, on October 16th, 2008%

Tesla are still struggling to get the final version of the Tesla roadster out of the door – 40 odd cars have been delivered now but without the original spec 2 speed transmission so fail to meet anticipated performance figures.…

The Tesla is a Lotus Elise

By editor, on March 6th, 2008%

As Tesla degenerate into corp-speak and marketing bullshit rather than concentrate on producing decent cars they now seem to want to claim that the Tesla is not basically a lotus elise.

It’s made in Norfolk, at lotus.
It uses

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Tesla tranmission woe

By editor, on January 25th, 2008%

As I suggested a month back, the Lotus Elise based Tesla is going to launch with a bodged transmission – production has been announced (the first production car going to Tesla Chairman Elon Musk) begining in March 2008.

Instead…

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Begining of the end for Tesla?

By editor, on January 14th, 2008%

There appears to have been a huge staff cull over at Tesla, so far maps to the door have been handed to:

HR x2
Owner’s manuals Documentation
VP Manufacturing
Software development engineer
Firmware development engineer x2

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