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January 29, 2021 |
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Fans and foes of electric vehicle maker Tesla are bombarding online sites with opinions on what’s right or wrong about its new steering wheel, a ‘yoke’ design for refreshed versions...
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November 14, 2019 |
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Tesla founder Elon Musk says the turmoil over Brexit was behind his decision to build the company’s next-generation electric car battery plant in Germany instead of Britain. The switch to...
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September 24, 2019 |
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By Daniel Oberhaus, of US website Wired Last April, Elon Musk promised that Tesla would soon be able to power its electric cars for more than 1 million miles (1.62m km) over the course of...
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September 11, 2018 |
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Jay Leno, host of US television show Jay Leno’s Garage, takes a spin in what will be the fastest production car ever made – that’s if it gets off the ground. It’s the new-generation...
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January 29, 2018 |
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Outspoken auto-industry veteran Bob Lutz has advised car collectors in the US to get hold of a Tesla Model S “while they’re still available” – an insinuation that the electric...
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July 21, 2017 |
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The picture above of me at the wheel of an electric Tesla Model S 100D sedan was taken the other day between Stockholm and Oslo, cities around 530km apart. I’m in Scandanavia to talk to...
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February 28, 2017 |
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Buy a Tesla and you get to use transit lanes – that’s the incentive the US electric carmaker wants city councils in New Zealand to put in place to hasten the adoption of zero-emission...
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January 16, 2017 |
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Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 is near Reno, Nevada, and occupies 1215 hectares (3000 acres). Gigafactory 1 itself takes up 510,000 square metres, roughly the same area 70-odd rugby fields...
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January 16, 2017 |
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Electric carmaker Tesla is about to step up production of lithium-ion battery cells at its ‘Gigafactory 1’ in the US state of Nevada for use in its Model 3 cars and home energy...
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November 21, 2016 |
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US electric carmaker Tesla has opened up its order book for right-hand drive New Zealand – and those buyers who pony up with the readies for the Model S sedan or Model X SUV can expect...