GM and Chrysler may be shuttering dealerships around the country as we speak, but electric carmaker Tesla is doing just the opposite. The company plans to open seven new dealers in the U.S. and Europe by the end of this month. As it is, the company only has two dealerships in southern and northern California. [...]

Looks like even Jezza’s nay-saying about the Tesla Roadster’s on-track performance can’t keep the car’s buzz from growing. Our good oil barons friends over in the Middle East can’t get enough of the battery-powered ride – so much so that many have gone so far as to import their own since the car isn’t legally [...]

If you pre-ordered a Tesla Roadster recently, odds are you’re not in the greatest of moods these days. The company recently let loose a barrage of letters and phone calls to “locked in” buyers saying that they could lose their place in line unless they re-optioned their ride. Tesla has changed what constitutes “standard” equipment [...]

The boys and girls at Tesla have been plinking away on a new variant of the company’s Roadster for awhile now. What’d they come up with? A “sport” variant. Thanks to 284 horsepower (40 over stock) and super-sticky Yokohama A048 tires, the car’s 0-60 time gets clipped by .2 seconds, bringing the grand total to [...]

Ah yes. A little while back, our favorite hoons across the pond had their way with Tesla’s wonder child, the Roadster. It’s no secret that Jeremy Clarkson has his reservations where EV’s are concerned, and during his review the Tesla received a less-than-favorable evaluation. Tesla responded by saying some of the events portrayed in the [...]

By now, you’ve probably seen the proper thrashing Clarkson gave the Tesla Roadster in the latest episode of Top Gear. Seems the boys and girls at the little ‘lectric company that could have taken offense to some of the statements broadcast across jolly ole (and the interweb) and have responded via a tasteful letter to [...]

 
Man, shoulda called it “Jezza vs. Tesla.” Anyhow — Jezza — the man that says things like, “[T]he whole global warming theory is bonkers. A complete fairy story” goes one on one with the (current) poster child for sustainable driving, the all-electric Tesla Roadster. Er, more like goes one on two, as the first Roadster [...]

My dad used to tell me the most humiliating defeat he ever suffered while prowling the streets of Knoxville in his ’79 Mustang was at the hands of a beater Vega Wagon. He said the car had one tail light, four different color body panels and rusting steelies. When the sucker edged up to the [...]

It’s easy to think of Tesla Motors as just a bunch of Silicon Valley zillionaires that decided to bolt an electric drivetrain to a rebodied Lotus Elise. However, the company is dead set on proving themselves to be much more than that. Some proponents even see them as a cornerstone on which the future of [...]

I was working the day job yesterday, when a rather noticeable car silently pulled up to the curb out front. Respecting the pilot’s privacy, I laid low with the cell cam, but once Mr. DiCaprio discretely exited his Tesla Roadster, I snapped this pic. Can’t speak for all of us Fiends, but his was my [...]