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Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California

Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California.....Cool! Just wish they were in the affordable for average Joe's income range! ]:)RE: Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in CaliforniaBut MY question is. . . DOES IT HAVE LEG/HEAD ROOM FOR ME? A 6'8" TALL MAN?!?!?!?!?!?!batteriesKeep your eye on battery technology. That's the...

Tags: Engineering, battery, Tesla Motors

Discussion threads 2008-07-14

Electric+dreams+for+Tesla+Motors

Electric+dreams+for+Tesla+MotorsNikola Tesla would not approve.Nikola Tesla would not be pleased with Tesla Motors' plan to market a hybrid gas&electric model because he would consider adding a gas motor a step backwards. Nikola Tesla always looked forward, never compromising the integrity of his work with regressive features. If and...

Tags: Nikola Tesla, Tesla Motors

Discussion threads 2008-02-09

Tesla Motors drives focus on green tech

Up-and-coming motor company promises a better environmentMartin Eberhard, CEO and co-founder of Tesla Motors, joins CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari to discuss the future of EV energy vision cars. The nascent car company manufactures the Tesla Roadster, which claims to go 0 to 60 mph in about four seconds and is...

Tags: Tesla Motors

Videos 2006-10-31

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Brrrrm! Brrrrm! Brammo makes a little noise.

American electric motorcycle maker, Brammo, has built in sound to its vehicle. The chips that manage the operation of this electric motorcycle will create sounds to let folks know you're there. There's a special sound for the acceleration from zero to 10 MPH. You can then customize your...

Tags: Cycle, Motorcycle, Brammo, Enertia, Valence, Chasis, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Engineering, Sales, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-07-17

Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?

Newly nationalized General Motors goes online...any greener?Tragic endIf GM had been allowed to conduct its affairs based on its own marketing expertise, I would have assumed it would do just fine, once the onerous union agreements were modified.Now, it appears to be doomed. The corporate management puppets are echoing...

Tags: Government, Engineering, NOW IT, Volt, General Motors Corp., battery

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Photos: Tesla S hits New York party scene

Electric car start-up Tesla Motors throws a shindig for owners and prospective buyers, and to celebrate its founder's appearance on the Letterman. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-04-30

Churchill Club: Uber Entrepreneur: An Evening with Elon Musk

In this episode of the Churchill Club podcast series, Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla Motors; CEO & CTO, SpaceX; Chairman, SolarCity, talks entrepreneurship.  By the age of 12 Elon Musk had sold his first commercial software, a space game called Blaster. Sixteen years later he sold his first company, Zip2, to...

Tags: Developer, Stock, Entrepreneur, CEO, Podcasts, Entrepreneurship, Internet, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-04-10

Does the future of GM include a tricked out Segway?

Does the future of GM include a tricked out Segway?FixedThanks for editing ;)RE: Does the future of GM include a tricked out Segway?[i]The P.U.M.A. prototype can go 25 mph to 35 mph on one charge.[/i]Did you mean 25 to 35 miles? If so, what is it's top speed?Looks very...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Segway, General Motors Corp., tricked-out

Discussion threads 2009-04-07

Is the Google Car next?

Larry and Sergey are putting their money where their mouth is when it comes to zero emission automobiles. The "Model S" is the latest from Tesla Motors, which hopes it will lead to mass-production of electric vehicles. Cars that "fill up" from the grid, and even...

Tags: Google Inc., Car, Garett Rogers

Blog posts 2009-03-29

See the new Tesla Model S

Click here for the ZDNet photo gallery of Tesla new "mid-priced sedan." It's the Model 3, launched today. It will sell for around $50K, compared to over $100K for their first, luxury model. Still Tesla faces a steep climb against mass-produced hybrids. Honda's Insight now sells...

Tags: Photograph, Web Site Development, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-03-27

GM makes headlines if not profits

GM makes headlines if not profitsThe Big ReasonThe real reason to go with non-gas/diesel technology is that we are currently exporting HUNDREDS of BILLIONS of dollars out of our economy and putting it into the hands of lunatics like Putin and Chavez. The automobile manufacturers fail to realize that...

Tags: Manufacturing, General Motors Corp., car

Discussion threads 2009-01-13

Can U.S. close the battery gap?

Can U.S. close the battery gap?Next step for batteries...I think the next step for these batteries is being able to recycle them in some way. If we can recycle them, more and more people will use them as a truly clean technology.RE: Can U.S. close the battery gap?Great article,...

Tags: Engineering, battery gap, battery

Discussion threads 2008-12-19

Car makers could learn from chip industry and unleash a wave of innovation

The single most important development in the chip industry was not a new technology it was a new business process. In 1987 Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company TSMC was formed, it was a chip company with a difference--it would make chips for other chip companies. This was...

Tags: Car, Chip, Hardware, Innovation, Manufacturing, Network Technology, Networking, Semiconductors, Tesla Roadster, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-12-03

Will Detroit run out of road?

In the next two weeks we'll see what chance there is for any of those on the waiting list to get their plug-in Chevy Volt, or whether there'll be a Chrysler 2010 model. On December 2, the automakers are to deliver their own plans for salvation to the Congress....

Tags: Automobile Company, Bush Adminisitration, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-30

Will General Motors go the way of Philco and Studebaker?

The battle in Washington is on: what, if anything, to do for, or with, the big American auto makers. That's "big" as in "big trouble." And the battle's outcome may have a huge effect on what the fleet of American-driven cars looks like in three to five years....

Tags: Car, Detroit, General Motors Corp., Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-11-13

Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand

No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he’s sworn into office point to the country’s economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...

Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Tesla plans San Jose manufacturing site for electric car

San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed has convinced green car maker Tesla Motors to build a proposed $250 million facility in north San Jose, adding approximately 1,000 clean-tech jobs to his community by 2010. The deal will be disclosed today during a press conference in California. The first...

Tags: Car, San Jose, Clean Technology, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed, Clean-tech Job, Mayor Reed, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-09-17

The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it already

The electric car is here, and your neighbor may be driving it alreadyTalk about Polution!!There's is no form of transportation MORE polluting than an electric car. Why people are so thrilled with them....They use power which is produce primarily by COAL!!!The coal-fired electricity has to be transmitted which costs...

Tags: car, electric car

Discussion threads 2008-08-06

Report: Tesla Motors delivering roadsters in California

Remember the 100% electric 2008 Tesla Roadster? You know, 0-60 mph in 3.9 seconds? A 13,000 rpm redline? And, of course, 220 miles per charge, thus costing about two cents per mile? According to a letter from the...

Tags: Production, California, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-07-14

Calling all auto engineers: this is an emergency

They're even talking about it on the radio now--can Detroit automakers survive? If you listened to this show on NPR the future of Chrysler is south of bleak. Ford and GM may just be bigger and have more blood to lose. The local Detroit paper's headline: auto sales...

Tags: Fuel Cell, Car, Automobile Company, Plug-in, Fuel Cells, Manufacturing, Emerging Technologies, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-07-02