Leave it to Elon Musk to continue to drive not only technological innovation but business model innovation. Today Elon and Tesla Motors have announced their … Read more…
Elon Musk appeared on The Colbert Report to talk about the variety of projects he has going on including Tesla and SpaceX. During that interview … Read more…
The market for alternative energy cars is not very broad at the moment. There’s much to be developed and even more to be understood. But … Read more…
CNN Money is reporting that Tesla has sent out emails to customers stating that the handsome Model X Crossover should be ready for delivery by early 2015. The prototypes should be out by end of this year with customers seeing their orders by early 2015. Those very beautiful Falcon-Wing doors will be a standard feature on the Model X as well as all-wheel drive. But Tesla did say third row seating would be an option, leaving some customers a little upset over that.
Real-Life Tony Stark, err, Elon Musk penned a blog post today titled “All Our Patent Are Belong To You” outlining Tesla Motor’s decision to open their patent portfolio to any automakers looking to create zero-emission vehicles. This is a huge revelation and potentially amazing news for the future of Electric Vechicles in the United States. Keep reading for more info.
We here at Techaeris are very enthusiastic about Tesla Motors, and the exciting things they are doing to further the expansion of electric cars. The Tesla Model S is right up at the top of our most-desired cars list – if you’re reading, we’d still love to review one, Tesla =) – and the design of the Tesla Model X is simply stunning. Unfortunately, it seems that Tesla is having a few issues with the Model X’s most prominent feature – the rear “Falcon Wing” doors.
Corporate security consultant Nitesh Dhanjani appeared at the Black Hat Asia security conference to report that Tesla’s cars can indeed by hacked. The vehicles can be located and unlocked by cracking a six character password using already known hacking techniques. According to The Hacker News, Dhanjani says there are no major vulnerabilities in the cars major core systems but rather the problem lies somewhere else.
Elon Musk and Tesla Motors have announced new safety additions to its Tesla Model S electric vehicle. New titanium underbody shields and aluminium deflector plates are now being installed on all Model S vehicles manufactured since March 6th 2014. If you recall, the Tesla Model S was in the news a couple of times due to battery fires which drew a lot of media attention. Elon Musk was quick to point out that his two Tesla incidents received more press than the 200,000 gasoline incidents in the US that same year.
It’s been an interesting journey for Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors. The company released their first electric car, the Tesla Roadster, which was based off of a Lotus vehicle. Then a few years later they released their original design the Tesla Model S. Then there have been those instances of Tesla S car fires sprouting up here and there.
The National Highway Traffic Administration is very interested in the two recent fires involving Tesla’s Model S vehicle. Both cars caught fire after the under … Read more…
