Ford the Latest to Drop Battery Car Price
Ford becomes the latest automaker to slash pricing to try to boost sales of its slow-selling battery-car, the 2014 Focus Electric. TheDetroitBureau.com looks at the price cut on the Focus and a wide...
View ArticleTesla Market Capitalization Hits $15 Bil, Passes Fiat and Peugeot – Combined
There are plenty of folks who still don’t see much of a future for electric vehicles. Clearly, they aren’t the ones investing in Tesla Motors. The maker marked its debut on the NASDAQ100 index by...
View ArticleTesla Shares Drop after Negative Analyst Report
Tesla’s nearly idyllic existence got a jolt of reality yesterday as company’s stock dropped more than 14% after an analyst’s report claimed the stock was overvalued. It was the largest single-day drop...
View ArticleTesla Lands on GM’s Radar
General Motors has confirmed the company's Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson has commissioned a study of Tesla Motors, the upstart electric carmaker from Silicon Valley that has countered the generally weak...
View ArticleInvestors Plug Back in After Tesla Delivers Another Earnings Surprise
Plucky plug-based automaker Tesla Motors delivered another surprise with its second-quarter earnings announcements as it eked out a modest profit rather than the loss analysts had been forecasting....
View ArticleTesla’s Musk Believes Company will Double Model S Production
Elon Musk, Tesla's billionaire chief executive, recently told analysts he is confident the company can double production of the Model S next year even as it prepares to launch its new Model X electric...
View ArticleTesla Model S Gets Best NHTSA Safety Rating Ever
Already awash in accolades and kudos, Tesla's Model S sedan added another: it may be the safest car ever tested by NHTSA. Model S got a five-star rating overall – the highest rating possible – as well...
View ArticleTesla Motors Facing Difficult Fight for Name in China
Tesla faces a challenge in China as a squatter is sitting on the rights to the company's name. The owner also has a website featuring a bad mock up of the Model S provides information about the vehicle...
View ArticleTesla’s Elon Musk Sets off on an Excellent Adventure
Call it Elon's Excellent Adventure. Tesla founder Musk will head off on a 6-day, 3,200-mile cross-country journey with his 5 children in tow intending to dispel nagging range anxiety concerns about...
View ArticleGM Planning 200-Mile Battery-Car
GM is developing an affordable battery-electric vehicle that could get about 200 miles per charge, according to a top exec -- more than double what most battery-cars yield today. More from...
View ArticleTesla Fire Gives Chills to Investors
Roadway debris is tentatively catching the blame for a fire that seriously damaged a Tesla Model S being driven in a Seattle suburb – with that news, combined with new concerns about the...
View ArticleCadillac ELR to Go on Sale in January
Cadillac will introduce its first battery-car, the plug-in 2014 ELR, in January. Sharing the basic underpinnings of the more mainstream Chevrolet Volt, it will test the waters for more up-market...
View ArticleSecond Model S Catches Fire in Mexico
Just as Tesla seemed to be getting past the furor surrounding the Model S that caught fire in Seattle earlier this month, it appears the company will be dealing with a second fire as pictures of a...
View ArticleNew Battery Deal Could Boost Tesla Production
It’s been a rough month for Tesla, but despite a pair of fires and several downgrades by industry analysts, the California EV maker remains upbeat enough to ink a deal to substantially boost the number...
View ArticleCadillac Considers More Battery-Car Options
Even though its new plug-in hybrid, the Cadillac ELR, is still nearly two months from launch, the Detroit luxury maker is giving serious thought to adding more battery-based vehicles to its line-up,...
View ArticleTesla in the Black for Q3 – Sort Of
Did Tesla make money or go into the red for the third quarter? It depends on how you count. But, either way, investors again sold off the maker's shares, extending the recent slide for the...
View ArticleChevy Puts “Performance” Into New Spark EV
Who says a battery car has to be a stone pony? The Spark EV Tech Performance concept Chevrolet is showing at SEMA delivers more tire-spinning torque than a Ferrari 458. As TheDetroitBureau.com reports,...
View ArticleTesla’s 3rd Model S Fire Adds to Maker’s Woes
Tesla's troubles continue to mount with reports of a third Model S battery fire in a matter of just six weeks. That has contributed to the short-circuit in Tesla stock, now down nearly 30% from its...
View ArticleOwner Defends Tesla After Latest Fire
The owner whose Tesla caught fire last week defends the maker and insists he plans to buy another one of the electric vehicles – even though the third fire involving a Model S in six weeks has...
View ArticleBattery Pickups and Commercial Aircraft? Tesla’s Musk Exploring New Options
One thing that’s become obvious about South African-born billionaire Elon Musk: he is willing to spend his money on anything that interests him, from battery cars to rocket ships. And now, reports...
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