Infamous tuner Brabus has turned their eye towards the all-electric Tesla Roadster, tweaking the car’s exterior for a more sinister appeal. Aside from the matte-white paint scheme, the company installed a custom carbon fiber front lip and rear diffuser and swapped the stock wheels and tires for more aggressive bits. Here’s the really nifty bit. [...]

Shoulda maybe seen this one coming. Autoblog Sam’s been all over it from the start, but now brand new CEO Elon Musk has posted a blog. In it he discusses how the new economic realities of the past few weeks are forcing changes at the electric car company. First of all, they are laying some [...]

Looks that way. In a segment on CNBC, Phil LeBeau evidently got a good look at a handful of the company’s special projects, including a very Tesla-esque EV. How similar is the car to the Southern California plug-in? We don’t know what kind of electric motors this thing is running, but it’s body is sourced [...]

Contrary to earlier sentiments from the land of Tesla, Elon Musk (head honcho in those parts), has said that the all-electric company would consider cranking out an SUV based on the Model S platform. Just a short while back, a voice from Tesla marketing said no way no how to the idea of a high-riding [...]

Thanks to buckets and buckets of private cash and a barge worth of loan guarantees from Uncle Sam, Tesla has its eyes on building a new production facility in San Jose, California. And what do they plan to produce there, you ask? Definitely not SUV’s. More like a $60,000, four-door sedan. According to Autoblog, the [...]

There’s been a considerable amount of buzz surrounding plug-in electric vehicles on the interwebs lately, and there’s little guess as to why. While gas prices have dipped a bit in recent weeks, everyone knows they’re bound to continue their cumulonimbus climb soon enough. Electricity, on the other hand, is comparatively cheap. It’s readily available, and [...]

And it can handle hella more torque than the original two-speed tranny. The electric sports car company has partnered with Borg Warner of indestructible transmission fame, to produce a single speed gearbox they’re calling Powertrain 1.5. The single speed Borg Warner piece will allow engineers to bump engine torque from 211 lb-ft to 280 lb-ft. [...]

So says Autoblog Sam. And he would know. Or he would at least know Daryl Siry’s cell phone number. In fact, the first time I met Sam he was with Siry (Tesla’s Marketing Director) and in a Tesla Roadster. So when Jalopnik saw the Autocar.uk article they ran with it, cause they can’t get Mr. [...]

Looks like it. According to Jalopnik’s Andrew Stoy (and he’s quoting the UK’s Autocar) the Bay Area-based electric carmaker is going to build an SUV off the upcoming Model S platform. Just to refresh you, the Model S is to be a four door electric car that they had initially called WhiteStar. Like the Model [...]

This is pretty neat. For a long time now there have been doubts (to put it mildly) about the viability of the Tesla Roadster. Even Atuoblog Green had some fits about the truthiness of Telsa’s claimin’ that they were selling actual cars to actual people. And for a few months there it did indeed seem [...]