Tesla has been busy getting its SuperCharger stations in place, having announced various plans and ambitions related to them over the course of this year. There’s good news for Model S owners located on the west coast, with Tesla SuperCharger stations now stretching all the way between Vancouver, Canada and San Diego, California in close […]
At a conference in Germany today, Tesla Motors‘ CEO Elon Musk has revealed some upcoming plans for the auto maker’s popular Model S: an Android emulator and Chrome browser. This will work alongside the car’s snazzy capacitive touch-based dashboard control system, swapping out the current browser for Google’s offering and opening up possibilities for developers. […]
The prolific Elon Musk, founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, has just revealed plans to take the company on a path towards developing and producing autonomous cars, putting it even more at odds not only with rival car makers, but even with technology giant Google, who also has similar plans. Tesla, however, has more reasonable […]
It would appear that the electric Tesla Model S has come up in California as a vehicle that’s not only striking the technology headlines, but the high-rolling sales market as well. According to a recent California New Car Dealers Association report for the first part of 2013, new-vehicle registrations have marked up the Tesla Model […]
There’s no better time than now for Microsoft to turn the way they do business on its head – who better to replace retiring CEO Steve Ballmer than entrepreneur extraordinaire Elon Musk? This man has successfully launched an all-electric vehicle, sent a privately-made, privately-powered space vehicle to the International Space Station, and is – as […]
The NHTSA ranks crash safety on a scale of one to five, with five stars being the best, one star being the worst. The Tesla Model S just scored 5.4 stars. Yes. It broke the scale.
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The Tesla Model S has achieved a new NHTSA safety record with 5-star ratings in every sub-category across the board. Other models that harbor the same title are small in number, representing about 1-percent of every car the agency tested. Furthermore, the overall score indicates another boasting point for Tesla – the Model S scored […]
Ah, the irony of a situation – an electric sports car actually ran and kissed a utility pole, and this particular accident resulted in a blackout in that area. The car in question? A Tesla Model S, whose driver has been charged with DUI, rammed his ride into a utility pole in Murfreesboro, TN, and that particular action of his ended up with the local power station experiencing a blackout for a few hours. The driver was subsequently sent to a nearby hospital, and thankfully, no one else was injured (other than a damaged car and a bruised ego on the driver’s part).
While cars hitting utility poles are nothing new, an electric car doing so is still relatively rare – like one of those rare Pokemons that you have been meaning to catch all this while, but never really got the chance to do so. After all, not many people know the inner workings of an electric car, and in the event of an accident, is it safe to approach the vehicle? Will one get electrocuted by accident? A local radio station claimed that utility workers knew how to fix the downed wires, but the emergency personnel had their task slowed down a wee but since first responders had to run a check on the Tesla website before contacting the company directly, so that they know how to turn off the ride to prevent any other untoward incidents.
Tesla Model S Crashed Into Utility Pole, Causes Blackout original content from Ubergizmo. 
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After a bit of a foot-in-mouth mention of a high-speed transit system between the two ends of the country earlier this year, Elon Musk is today ready to bring a bit more heat to the very real possibility of this Hyperloop system. In a release made through Tesla Motors, Musk suggests that this next-generation system […]
Tesla’s four-door Model S has been trickling into North American garages for a couple of years now, and it seems that production has ramped up enough to finally begin deliveries internationally. Starting today, Model S buyers across various ponds will begin to see stock appear. As seen above, the action is starting in Oslo, Norway, where that guy in the driver seat looks particularly charged up about the parade that awaits. Sorry. It seemed funnier in the moment.
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